HTC One M10 preorders start - Specs, features, price revealed before April release date

The HTC One M10 (aka HTC 10) is heavily pegged to be announced on April 12, but the smartphone has already been listed for preorders on a Romanian online retailer site, and is also found listed on the GFXBench benchmarking site.

QuickMobile, a retailer site from Romania has begun taking preorders before the official release of the HTC One M10 with a price tag of 3,300 LEI (AU$1088). It shows the smartphone in three color options, gray, silver and gold. The entire specifications and features of the HTC One M10 has been also revealed by QuickMobile, which is also providing a free selfie stick to customers who preorder the device.

Even though a lot of speculated information about the 2016 HTC flagship smartphone have surfaced in the past, the recent listing of the smartphone on GFXBench has confirmed what the rumour mill has been claiming about the HTC One M10.

The GFXBench listing of the HTC 10 shows that the smartphone will be coming with a 5.1-inch screen. It will support Quad HD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels on its Super LCD 5 technology driven display panel, and will deliver a pixel count of 576 ppi.

Previous rumours suggested the HTC One M10 would be available in three variants. One model will be powered by Snapdragon 652 SoC with features like 32 GB storage and 3 GB of RAM. Another variant will feature Snapdragon 820 SoC along with 32 GB of storage and 3 GB of RAM. An advanced variant of HTC One M10 will be powered by Snapdragon 820 and come with 128 GB of storage and 4 GB of RAM.

The device will arrive with a 12 MP rear camera and a 5 MP front-facing camera. It is expected to carry other features like USB Type-C, fingerprint scanner and 3000 mAh battery. The GFXBench listing has revealed that it will also include a pedometer.

Tagged by HTC in an official teaser as the “smoothest and fastest Android phone” ever, the specs and features of the M10 smartphone does sound promising as the recent listing of the smartphone on AnTuTu has revealed that it delivers better performance than the Galaxy S7, LG G5 and iPhone 6S.