HTC, after a long silence, have finally uploaded a poster on their official Facebook account hinting towards a new product launch. The poster reads 6.11, which is the date set for the launch in Taiwan. Officially nothing has come forward as of now other than the date of launch, that is 11th of June, but there are some speculations regarding this new upcoming device.
Notably, HTC U19e phone appeared in the official HTC survey hinting its arrival this month. Also, the “e” letter printed in the poster. So we believe HTC’s upcoming smartphone will probably be called HTC U19e.
Just a few days ago two mysterious HTC devices popped up on GeekBench’s benchmarking website, and anyone of these two devices might probably be the device launching on 11th June. The two devices are named and modelled on GeekBench’s website as HTC 2Q7A100 and HTC 2Q741, along with revealing some of their essential specifications.
The HTC 2Q7A100 comes equipped with the Snapdragon 710 Soc clocked at 1.7 GHz, along with 6 GB of RAM running on Android pie OS. This device also got listed on AnTuTu’s website and even got the NCC certification in Taiwan.
As per the design schematics on the NCC certification site, the phone comes with a Full HD+ resolution display with an aspect ratio of 18:9. Apart from showing phone’s schematics, the NCC listing reveals that the HTC 2Q7A100 will support Taiwan 4G full frequency band, NFC, Bluetooth & Wi-Fi. Another key specification as per AnTuTu is that the device comes with 128GB of onboard storage. This device scored an AnTuTu score of 169,617, which is what we can expect from a 710 powered device.
As for the HTC 2Q741, very few things have come forward. As for the SoC, we have the cheaper and less capable MediaTek Helio P35 octa-core processor clocked at 2.30GHz. For RAM, we have the same footprint of 6GB, but the internal storage for this device is not yet known. Similar to the previous device, this device also runs on Android Pie out of the box.
Now the question that remains is whether we will see the Snapdragon-powered HTC or the MediaTek powered HTC on June 11 in Taiwan? And more importantly, will HTC get the pricing right for this upcoming device? The answers to these questions are something we will figure out only after the launch.
