Thursday, October 22, 2015

HTC One A9 Officially Released, "iPhone" Sense Android

HTC One A9 (GSM Arena)

Having long been rumors, HTC finally actually released a new Android-based smartphone. Taiwanese company has just introduced a new member of the family One, A9.



In terms of design, the HTC One A9 comes with an aluminum body, similar to the previous One series. At first glance, the choice of materials make this device does look charming.

HTC claims One A9 of the initial design. However, it can not be denied, this smartphone has a shape that is very similar to Apple's iPhone 6.

Indeed, there are some differences, especially in terms of laying the camera lens and the physical buttons. However, the rounded corners and the lines at the back of this device really makes it very similar to the iPhone 6.

Because of the similarity, there is one foreign media to call HTC One A9 as "iPhone 6s with Android operating system". What do you think?

HTC One A9 (middle) juxtaposed with iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus (The Verge)

In terms of specifications, the HTC One A9 comes with AMOLED screen berbentang 5 inch Full HD resolution (1080p).

As KompasTekno summarized from GSM Arena, Wednesday (21/10/2015), this is the first smartphone comes with a Snapdragon SoC octa-core 617 made by Qualcomm. The chipset consists of the Cortex-A53 quad-core 1.5 GHz, Cortex-A53 quad-core 1.2 GHz and Adreno 405 GPU.

Other specifications, One A9 equipped with 2 or 3 GB RAM, 13 megapixel camera with the ability OIS, ultrapixel 4 megapixel front camera, media 16 or 32 GB of storage, and a 2,150 mAh battery.

This device was already using the fingerprint scanner sensor. The sensor is placed on the physical buttons located on the front, just below the screen. The button can also function as "Home".

In terms of software, the HTC One A9 will be the first to come with Android version 6.0 Marshmallow, beyond the artificial Google Nexus device.

Later, One A9 will be offered in four colors, namely Opal Silver, Carbon Grey, Deep Garnet and Topaz Gold.

These devices will be released in early November on a few specific market with a starting price of 399 US dollars. Not yet known whether this product will go into the country market or not.

Source: GSM Arena/KOMPAS.com
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