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You'd be forgiven for thinking that HTC only made VR headsets nowadays, such is
the anticipation
for its first Steam VR, room-scale headset, the Vive. But HTC's roots are in phones, and for those who are fans of the company's famously attractive unibody metal designs and finger-friendly five-inch screens, the company has something special on the way.
The HTC 10—or HTC One M10, depending on who you ask—has been the subject of numerous leaks since HTC sent out its cryptic teaser image at tail end of this year's Mobile World Congress. But, thanks to serial leakers
@OnLeaks
and
@evleaks
on Twitter, that teaser image isn't so cryptic any more. @evleaks has posted supposed renders of the HTC 10, showing a unique bevelled edge on the rear of the phone, which matches up with the earlier teaser image.
As you'd expect from HTC, the rear of the phone appears to be all metal, along with a centrally placed camera module. Besides the module is an LED flash, along with what might be the apparatus for laser autofocus, similar to the system used in the likes of the Nexus 6P, LG G5, and HTC's own (Taiwan-only) HTC One M9+ Aurora Edition.
The front of HTC 10 takes cues from
the A9
, ditching the company's signature Boomsound speakers in favour of a simpler fascia with rounded edges and a rectangular fingerprint scanner at the bottom.
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If the leaks prove legitimate—and at this point, it's
highly
likely that these renders are the real deal—then the HTC 10 could mark a return to form for the company after a string of good, but not great phones. Prototype specs, which come from @OnLeaks, list a 5.15-inch 2560×1440 display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, Adreno 530 GPU, 4GB RAM, a 12MP camera, and USB Type-C port, making the phone competitive with the other flagship phones unveiled at MWC, including
the Samsung Galaxy S7
and
LG G5
.
Further leaked renders show the phone may be available in various colour options too, including black on white, white, gold, and black. @evleaks claims the HTC 10 will be released (or at least announced) on April 19 in New York, thanks to the date and location shown in the renders. That one might be a bit of stretch—and here's hoping that the phone gets a debut here in the UK as well as the US—but if it does prove true, HTC will have something of an uphill battle ahead of it.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 will have had a good month on the market by that point, and the LG G5 is said to arrive before then too. Besides that, there's the question of whether consumers are still willing to pay a premium price for anything that isn't an iPhone, particularly with the ever-growing amount of cheaper Chinese phones entering the market that
almost match the flagships spec-for-spec
, and come in at nearly half the price.
