HTC One M9 Price, Release Date, Specs and Features

HTC at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain, announced the all-new HTC One M9. While it might look a good bit like its predecessor (why mess with a good thing, right?) there's still a lot going on here.

The phone is slightly smaller and easier to hold. The rear Ultra Pixel camera has been swapped out for a more traditional 20MP shooter. Sense 7 gives you so many new ways to share and edit photos, and it's easier to do now as well.
Boom Sound is back, of course, and this time Dolby is on board to help with the audio lifting.
So we'd love for the HTC One M9 to have more juice. We don't think two days of battery life should be unrealistic, after all the HTC One M8 and a number of other phones can already comfortably make it into a second day, they just need a bit of a boost to make it to the end of the day.

 HTC One M9 specs

SYSTEM	Android 5.0.2 Lollipop + HTC Sense 7
DISPLAY	5-inch LCD, 1,920 x 1,080 Pixel, 441 ppi
PROCESSOR	Qualcomm Snapdragon 810, Octa-Core, 4 x 2.0 GHz + 4 x 1.5 GHz
RAM	3 GB
INTERNAL STORAGE	32 GB + microSD
BATTERY	2,840 mAh
CAMERA	20 MP (rear), HTC UltraPixel (front)
CONNECTIVITY	USB 2.0, WLAN (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4 & 5 GHz), LTE CAT6, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, CIR, HDMI MHL 3.0
DIMENSIONS	144.6 x 69.7 x 9.61 mm
WEIGHT	157 grams

Water and dust resistance: Another way to keep it protected is with dust and water resistance. We don't need to be able to take it swimming, but knowing that it could survive a spill or a bit of rain would certainly be reassuring and now that Samsung and Sony are both water and dust proofing their phones there's little excuse for HTC not to do the same.

More of a health and fitness focus: The world is going health and fitness mad, or at least that's what many of the latest smartphones and smart watches would lead you to believe. HTC though doesn't seem so interested and we can't help but feel that it's missing a trick, especially if the market for fitness focused tech continues to grow. Sure a heart rate monitor and UV sensor are hardly essential components of a smartphone, but we wouldn't say no to them and we'd also be quite happy to see more of a focus on fitness software from HTC, rather than it relying on third party solutions, as HTC has done with the M8 by simply including the Fitbit app. Apple has Health, Samsung has S Health, HTC needs something.

Lots of power: It's reached the point where almost every high end phone and a fair few lower end ones feel fast and powerful, so we don't really need a lot more power in the HTC One M9. But specs sell and while HTC's flagships are always powerful they're not always quite as powerful as the competition, at least on paper. So next year we hope that changes. Impress us HTC, put in an octa-core Snapdragon 810 with 6GB of RAM, or at least make sure your phone is a match for the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Sony Xperia Z4.

More storage: HTC wisely added a microSD card slot to the M8, but we'd still love more internal storage. Apple now offers 128GB iPhones, so why can't an Android phone do the same? And more specifically why can't HTC? Do that while still including microSD support and we could be looking at a phone with 256GB of combined storage, which is far more than most people are ever likely to need, but we'd rather have too much than too little.

Category 6 LTE: 4G is taking off in a big way, but while current phones are equipped to support the fastest speeds we're likely to get in most places right now, they're not particularly future-proofed. That's why we'd like to see HTC put Category 6 LTE support in the HTC One M9.That would theoretically allow it to reach download speeds of around 300Mbps, which is double what most current handsets can manage and should make it a viable handset right up until 5G arrive

HTC One M9 price: The HTC One M9 price will be set at 749 Euros carrier unlocked, but we are yet to receive UK or US pricing details. The latest rumors suggest a 649 USD price tag, but we will update this page as soon as we know more. While every network will get the One M9 in Gold/Silver and Gun Metal colors, EE will initially be the only network to also have the One M9 in gold. The One M9 will be released in Europe around March 31. At launch, it will be available in two colors: gunmetal gray and silver with a gold frame at the back. Eventually, the all-gold edition is also expected to become widely available.