HTC may relaunch the One M9 with a MediaTek chipset
"When in doubt, launch a new One M9 version" is probably HTC's motto. This isn’t official mind you, but a poster on ePrice claims that the embattled company is looking to relaunch the One M9 with a MediaTek chipset.
Allegedly the other specs will be the same – 5" 1080p screen, 20MP camera, 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage stereo speakers and presumably no fingerprint sensor.
Except the sizzling Snapdragon 810 will be swapped out for a MediaTek Helio X10 (octa-core CPU at 2.2Ghz) or Helio X20 (ten-core at 2.5GHz with two A72 cores).
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We'd consider this rumor unlikely, though in 2015 HTC has launched several variations of the M9 and even last year's M8 (not that competing makers aren’t guilty of launching many [model name] [extra adjective] phones).
But if the rumor is true, where does that leave the HTC One M9+, which has a better screen (5.2" QHD), a fingerprint reader and an octa-core CPU on a MediaTek chipset? And existing S810-powered M9 users? Well, maybe the rumor is just that – a rumor.
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- Anonymous
- 19 Aug 2015
- mTn
Perhaps he's a cook :-) Though I suspect that e.g. people in the northern regions of Europe, North America and Siberia would welcome these 2015 flagship smartphones. :) Big screen and hot, Oh yeah!
- Anonymous
- 19 Aug 2015
- mTn
Mediatek's bad reputation is 2-fold. To devs because Mediatek isn't open with their code. To European customers due to no-GLONASS support and hence have worse GPS reception than competing SoC's. I do believe that latter has been fixed in ...
- anon cward
- 15 Aug 2015
- 7jV
but the real life usage and benchmark shows it overheats like a frying pan. so why are you lieing ?