HTC has officially outed its new One X9 smartphone.
The Asian manufacturer has chose Christmas Eve to
announce its new One X9 is coming to take on the affordable yet powerful
handset manufacturers like Huawei and Xiaomi. But it won't be in time to get
one for a Christmas pressie.
The HTC One X9 will pack a 5.50-inch
touchscreen display with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 1920 pixels at a PPI of
401 pixels per inch. Behind that, powering the handset, is an
octa-core MediaTek X10 processor backed by 3GB of RAM. The
phone packs 32GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 2000GB via a
microSD card.
The HTC One X9 runs Android and is powered by a 3000mAh non
removable battery. It measures 153.90 x 75.90 x 7.90 (height x width x
thickness) and weighs 170.00 grams. In
combination with that efficient eight-core Cortex A53 chipset that should eek
out plenty of life.
The rear camera on the X9 is a 13-megapixel f/2.0
snapper with optical image stabilisation and dual-tone flash plus RAW support.
In the front is 5-megapixel front shooter an UltraPixel f/2.0 selfie snapper. Also on the
front are dual BoomSound speakers.
The HTC One X9 will run Android 6.0 Marshmallow and
will cost 2,399 yuan which is about £250. A release date has not yet been
announced, nor has where the phone will be available to buy.
The HTC One X9 is a dual SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts two
Nano-SIM. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3G, 4G. Sensors
on the phone include Proximity sensor, Ambient light sensor, Accelerometer, and
Gyroscope.
About HTC
Founded in 1997 as a laptop manufacturer,
Taiwan-based HTC soon began making smartphones based on Windows Mobile and
Brew. It released the first commercial Android smartphone, the HTC Dream, in
2008, and is today a manufacturer of both Android and Windows based
smartphones. HTC re-entered the tablet market with the Google Nexus 9 in 2014.
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