HTC has caught everyone on the hop in revealing a new mid-range smartphone for the mid-range market.
The company hasn’t long announced its new HTC 10 flagship, but it’s followed up quickly with a quiet mid-range launch. First spotted on HTC’s German website (via 9to5Google), the company has now officially unveiled the HTC One S9.
The HTC One S9 looks a little bit like the HTC One A9 from the front (in other words, it’s quite iPhone 6-like), and the HTC One M9 from the back. This means that it looks, to all intents and purposes, like a premium phone.
However, the phone’s specs are decidedly middle-of-the-road. We’re talking a 5-inch 1080p display, a 2GHz MediaTek® Helio X10 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a 13-megapixel rear camera with an f/2.0 aperture. One notable point here is that the camera comes with OIS, which is rare on a mid-range phone.
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There’s NFC and microSD support, and the One S9 also comes equipped with a pair of stereo BoomSound speakers. But there’s no fingerprint scanner.
Which is all well and good, but the HTC One S9 isn’t exactly what you’d call cheap. At €499 (around £387), it’s more expensive than the likes of the Nexus 5X and even the Moto X Style.
Next, take a look at our HTC 10 hands-on:
Like the look of the HTC One S9, or is it too pricey? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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