The prospect of cheaper, plastic HTC M8 Ace is appealing for many on a limited budget, but HTC is hoping to bring even more excitement to its high-end range with the HTC M8 Prime. While last year’s HTC One max came across of cumbersome and dull, a new rumor suggests that the HTC M8 Prime will overshadow the company’s main flagship smartphone.
The new rumor claims the HTC M8 Prime announced or released in September, equipped with a 5.5-inch WQHD (2560×1440 pixels) display, a 2.3 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 (APQ8084) SoC, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage and support for Category 6 LTE. The HTC M8 Prime is also expected to feature an upgraded DuoCamera which sports a 5 UltraPixel sensor accompanied by a secondary 18 megapixel depth sensor.
It’s OK; we’ll give you a second to catch your breath.
We knew HTC would use the Qualcomm 805 and adopt WQHD displays eventually, but we’re astonished to hear that HTC would be changing up the sensors used in the DuoCamera this quickly. Pairing a 5 UltraPixel sensor and 18 megapixel depth sensor together should result in dramatically improved image quality and may go a long ways in silencing those who have criticized HTC’s imaging approach. Since the HTC M8 Prime would have quite a few more megapixels to work with, the Duo Camera may get more features similar to that dual-sensor camera from Corephotonics which we highlighted earlier in the year.
Source: Ssin Liao, via PhoneArena
evleaks tweeted “The coolest M8 Prime feature isn’t even on the spec sheet…”
Sounds interesting..! Although I wonder if this will replace the htc one max or be a all new category.. 5.5″ would still be pretty big considering the boomsound speakers.
I’ll be right pissed if they go ahead with this.Not long bought the M8 and its being superseded already! Grrr!
Sony & Samsung are gearing to do this as well, HTC has to stay competitive.
HTC M8 Prime is a phablet, not a Flagship. Had you seen HTC One MAX size? It won’t be everyone that will like it.
It’s like say you had buy a S4 and got angry when Galaxy Note 3 came out. Everyone knows on Q3 or Q4 they launch their phablet one…
I like the aggressive appraoch htc is taking.
16GB internal storage?? What the heck is this about?
I’m hearing it will support 1TB of storage from Techno Buffalo
I hope they stay with these specs, even though they’re rumors right now.
So, still need to pay for earset? How nice HTC. Flagship M8 doesn’t included earset. How about M9?
5.5 comon go and buy tablet. Make it phone portable in hand. Phablet wested
Depends on user
Agreed remove bezels not size increment