The rumor came from the popular HTC developer LlabTooFer, who has been quite accurate in the past.
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In a status update on Twitter earlier today, LlabTooFeR, a source that provided us with reliable HTC-related information in the past, said that he expects to see two variants of the HTC One M10.
The grapevine also purports the HTC One M10 to have a Snapdragon 820 CPU under the hood. Not only that, but it appears that the M10 is not going to be ready for prime time by the usual time-frame near Mobile World Congress (the biggest mobile event of the year, held in Barcelona every February). The smartphone is expected to hit the market in April.
There’s no guarantee that the One M10 will help HTC’s flailing smartphone business, but the fact that the phone’s launch has not been scrapped is great news for the Android ecosystem.
Other than this leak, not much is known about the HTC One M10, apart from its internal code name, “Perfume”.
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According to a report by GSM Arena, the tech firm chose to delay its launch as management was not satisfied and have yet to finalise the design of the device. And you can’t help but recall the hilarity surrounding the past couple of HTC One launches, where we essentially saw full reviews of devices before HTC had ever officially announced them. The scanner will be integrated in the Home button similar to HTC One A9. Now, in addition to all this, the leaked information also claims that the phone will sport a 3,000mAh battery on the inside, and that the camera cutout on the back will be round, unlike the one we’ve seen in the One M9. Reports also suggest it could pack Qualcomm’s latest processor, the Snapdragon 820, and sport a 23-megapixel rear camera.
