A Mobile Phone Shop Displaying HTC Smartphones In Taipei
Customers look at HTC smartphones in a mobile phone shop in Taipei in this July 30, 2013 file photo. Reuters/Pichi Chuang

HTC is gearing up to unleash its 2015 flagship, the HTC One M9, on March 1. Fresh rumours claim that HTC it will be launched alongside another flagship device, the HTC One M9 Plus. Compubench has revealed benchmarked specs of two HTC devices with codenames 0PK71 and 0PJA1. It is suspected that these codenames belong to the HTC One M9 and the HTC One M9 Plus, respectively.

According to the Compubench leaks, the HTC One M9 Plus will come with 5.1-inch display that supports quad HD resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. The device will not be powered by Snapdragon 810 chipset, but rather it will be driven by MediaTek MT6795 chipset. It includes a 64-bit processor that contains eight cores of Cortex A-53 and a PowerVR G6200 Rogue graphics. The chipset is supported by 3 GB of RAM.

The inbuilt storage of the device is 32 GB. The Compubench leak reveals that out of 32 GB storage, 23 GB space will be available to the user. There is a 20 MP camera located on the rear side of the device. It supports 4K video shooting and on the front, there is 13 MP selfie camera. The device will be shipped with Android 5.0 Lollipop OS.

Phone Arena claims that it pitted the benchmark results of the Media-Tek chipset powered HTC One M9 Plus against the benchmark results of Snapdragon 805 chipset powered Galaxy Note 4 phablet. It was found that the HTC One M9 Plus failed to compete with 2014 flagship phablet from Samsung. According to Phone Arena, since the HTC One M9 Plus has not been released officially, the benchmark belongs to the prototype model of the device. It may receive vital performance upgrades before it is made available to the general public. Rumours claim that the Snapdragon 810 edition powered HTC One M9 will be aimed towards Western markets whereas the MediaTek variant will be released to Asian markets.

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