HTC One M9 Hima specs rumors: HTC teases fans with new flagship phone

Smartphone manufacturer HTC Corporation is keeping techies hanging on the cliff for the release of its new flagship phone, and if it's going to release more than one. No solid information about the highly-anticipated HTC One M9 Hima has been released from HTC itself, but contrasting reports have been leaked, causing further confusion.

A tweet by China-based leaker @Upleaks revealed the phone's unconfirmed specifications, launch date, and other tidbits. It also hinted that HTC One M9 and Hima might be two different smartphones.

It previously tweeted that the smartphone will sport 3GB of ram, 20.7MP main camera and 13MP front camera or 4MP UltraPixel, 2840mAh of battery, Android 5.0 Lollipop, HTC Sense 7, and 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. It will also have a 5-inch full HD display with a 1920x1080 screen resolution, and will come in three colors: gray, silver, and gold.

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However, Chinese website My Drivers released the M9's alleged specs via PhoneArena, which is very different from Upleaks' version.

The report said that the smartphone will instead be packed with a 16MP camera with optical image stabilization (OIS), 3500mAh battery, a 5.5-inch Quad High Definition (QHD) unit with 2560x1440 resolution, stereo speakers with Bose tech, 3GB of ram, and a Snapdragon 805 processor.

HTC is known to release its phones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from March 2 to 5 of 2015, but this time, HTC might take a different course. Although it will not launch M9 (or Hima) at the MWC, circulating reports have suggested that sometime in March 2015, the smartphone will finally see the light of day with its own event. 

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The leaker further added that Hima is already in testing at carrier lab, ready to come to all major carriers in the US.

HTC has not released an official statement confirming or denying these rumors.

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