HTC's One M8 is slowly fading into the backdrop with the recent releases of several new flagship smartphones, making this a popular time period for concept designs for its successor to begin popping up.
A new offering from designer Fabrizio D'Onofrio blends premium HTC design with some equally enticing specs, including a Quad-HD display (1440 x 2560 pixels) packing sapphire glass. The 7mm-thin aluminum and titanium body also features a 12-megapixel rear Duo camera with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), a 5.1-megapixel front-facing shooter, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 64-bit processor, 3GB of RAM and a 3500mAh battery. D'Onofrio also suggested the device come with BoomSound+ speakers and storage options starting at 32GB and running up to 128GB.
Check out the concept's photo gallery via Concept-Phones and let us know what you think with a comment.
Trusted leaker @evleaks previously reported that HTC is planning on launching the One M9 and M9 Prime in early 2015, with the M9 serving as the direct follow-up to the M8 and the M9 Prime packing the rumored specs improvements tied to the M8 Prime, plus whatever else HTC comes up with.
However, @evleaks does make the interesting claim that the M9 Prime would release before the M9, ExpertReviews notes.
Evleaks was also the first to report that the M8 Prime was "suspended indefinitely" a few months ago.
The premium variant of the current flagship smartphone was previously tipped by @evleaks via a 360-degree animation, showing off its alleged 5.5-inch display (up from the One M8's 5-inch display) and protruding camera lens.
According to the evleaks tweets, the One M8 Prime (now the M9 Prime) will be waterproof and designed from an "exotic material: composite of aluminum and liquid silicone," with specs including a high speed Cat. 6 LTE radio, a quad-core Snapdragon 805 SoC clocked at 2.5GHz, a USB 3.0 port, a 5.5-inch QHD resolution screen and 3GB of RAM, BGR reports.
