HTC One A9 Smartphone: A Midrange iPhone 6 Clone

[alex davies]

HTC announced its latest flagship smartphone, the Snapdragon 617-powered HTC One A9. We went hands-on.

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[jimmysmitty]

The front looks more like a Galaxy more than an iPhone, with the same shaped front button.

 

[floppyedonkey]

Looks like time for HTC to die off, nothing compelling coming from that camp any more.

 

[apertotes]

Wow! So, first Apple copies HTC with the iPhone 6, and now it is HTC who is copying Apple? It had been months since I had read an article as biased as this one.

 

[captaincharisma]

so what if it looks like an iphone? HTC is just offering an iphone 6S with a better OS

 

[wkwilley2]

If someone was holding it and had the logo obscured with their fingers, then yeah, it looks like an iphone, from the front, it looks nothing like an iphone.

 

[GPUEnthusiast]

Now, now. Let's not be so dystopian..
First of all, great review by Mr. Davies as always.
HTC is stuck in the same rut that Archos was stuck in, in the mid 2000s. Archos had one of the first and best MP3 players with a touch screen. They also had one of the first video MP4 players which had 100GB of storage, a massive amount for the time. Yet now, they are delegated to making cheap low end budget Android smartphones and some feature phones.

The difference is, I believe HTC will be able to get a grip and innovate. The Vive VR Headset that they are making for Valve already shows a large amount of hope, and for all intents and purposes, the HTC One M7 and One M8 were great flagships, on par with the S4 and S5, and Xperia Z2 and Z3 that they competed with. The biggest failings of the One M9 was the piss poor camera, and blistering fully clocked Snapdragon 810 chipset.

 

[targetdrone]

The front looks more like a Galaxy more than an iPhone, with the same shaped front button.
Well the S6 is a high end iPhone clone. The HTC is a mid-range clone

 

[jimmysmitty]

The front looks more like a Galaxy more than an iPhone, with the same shaped front button.
Well the S6 is a high end iPhone clone. The HTC is a mid-range clone

I am not talking about the S6. It looks like a S4 from the front. Samsung has used the same front button for most of their Galaxy phones.

 

[cknobman]

$400 for a slow processor, small non removable battery, and a (more than likely) underwhelming camera?

Yeah this thing will sell like hotcakes

 

[fudoka711]

Really displeased with the lack of stereo front facing speakers.

The ones on the original M7 still beat any other smartphone's speakers to date.

 

[dstarr3]

Well, Samsung doesn't do SD card slots and they encrypt their bootloaders so you can't root. They clearly don't want my business. So, I hope HTC or LG stays legit.

 

[sharksman]

I am sorry, I don't see where the "iPhone clone" claim came from. The front looks nothing like iApple's toy and the design language of the back place follows most of the past direction except now it is flat.
Or does iApple now have a patent on "flat rears" as well?
This smells like intentional mild controversial clickbait. Shame on you Alex Davies

 

[thundervore]

So no front facing stereo speakers, on screen buttons with all that bezel and no USB C connection? HTC are you trying to piss off your future and current customers looking to upgrade?

Kudos for 2TB MicroSD storage though

 

[Sunderas]

Average phone for a very hefty price tag.