A few days ago HTC announced the new HTC One M9 and the next day they launched a giveaway for fans in the US to win new One series phone before it is available in stores. At the big MWC event in Barcelona, HTC told us the phone would be available sometime later in March and optimistically I assumed around March 15th.
While excitedly signing up for a chance to win the HTC One M9 thanks to HTC’s giveaway going on now, I browsed through the full terms looking for more nuggets to chew on while waiting for the phone to be available to the public.
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The terms of the giveaway offer us insight to the approximate retail value (ARV) although they say the real price could change depending on where you are in the world and what the deal of the week is from your local carrier. For now the ARV is listed at $599 until further notice. This is without a doubt the best metal phone you can buy for the price.
The release date is a little less obvious so we’ll explain how we came to the conclusion that HTC has revealed the release date to us in addition to the price. For starters the title of the giveaway is “Win the HTC One M9 before you can buy it”. Then we noticed the giveaway states that the deadline is March 24th and the five winners will be selected the next day. So based off those dates we would pin March 26th as the possible day that fans can pickup the HTC One M9 from a carrier.
We don’t know the official release so we’re just playing off of a hunch and we’ll keep you up to date when HTC makes an announcement.
The release date would be interesting as it would be exactly identical to last year. Here in the UK they have confirmed that it will be the 31st of March.