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Rumor: HTC One M10 will feature Snapdragon 820 and MTK models, to launch at dedicated event

byNick Gray
January 21, 2016
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Following yesterday’s news that HTC has pushed the launch date of the HTC One M10 to March, @LlabTooFeR share some new information regarding HTC’s 2016 flagship smartphone. Two separate Tweets reveal that the HTC One M10 will not be running Android 6.1 at launch. Instead, the phone will be running Android 6.0.1 with Sense 8.0_GP when the phone is unveiled at a “dedicated event.” HTC is also working on two different variants of the HTC One M10 which will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 for the American and European markets and a MediaTek SoC (exact chip is still unknown at this point) for the Chinese and South-East Asian markets.

There are many who will be disappointed if they have to wait until April to buy the HTC One M10 after it is unveiled in March, but we’d rather wait a few extra weeks to ensure that the final product is perfect before it is released. It may actually be a smart move for HTC. With Samsung planning ot release at least three variants of the Samsung Galaxy S7 during or around Mobile World Congress, the unveiling of the M10 would simply get lost in the noise. A dedicated press event would allow HTC to control the media cycle around the phone’s unveiling and give the phone a shot at pulling in new customers.

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Nick Gray
Tech enthusiast, Android user and founder of the first HTC blog – Nick Gray has been blogging about HTC phones before most people knew what a smartphone even was. Over the years Nick has owned and tested dozens HTC devices and is constantly flashing new ROMs to his Android phones.
5 comments

  1. With the M8 finally having the long waited android update I am feeling less and less the “upgrade bug” since I´m pretty satisfied still with my smartphone. This never happened to me when I had Samsung phones. Do you feel the same?
    The only thing I miss is KitKat´s great battery life, I was hoping for the update to improve things but the battery is still draining fast during the day…

    Cheers

    1. For a phone that’s nearly two years old, that kind of battery drain is expected. Lithium Ion batteries lose 15% of their capacity every 200 cycles. With most people going through a single cycle every day and a half, the One M8 would be left with only 65% of its original charge after two years.

      The doze feature in Android 6.0 will help keep the phone keep a charge when it’s not used for a long period of time, but it likely will never kick in if you’re a heavy user. I know a few people who typically get two full days of battery life on the One M8 (they only use it as a phone) who are now reporting nearly three days of battery life after the update. It all depends on how you use the phone. Since I’m a heavy user, I have not noticed any real difference in battery life with the Android Marshmallow update.

      1. Your right, my battery is not like it used to but the battery drain started the moment I updated to Lollipop, not now. This was back on January 2015.

        1. What do your battery stats indicate?

          I have an M7, since launch, running custom ROM, and facebook app uninstalled. I’m a light user, so battery life for me has been fine. Even on medium usage, I’m more than half charged by end of day.

          I want to upgrade to, but I was leery of the M9, and the A9 didn’t wow me enough to keep it over my M7. I’m hoping the M10 gets most everything right-er.

  2. Was hoping HTC would release a larger screen version of the M10. I guess that won’t happen. Ever.

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