HTC One X9 Release Date: Premium Mid-Ranger Launches Officially in China
HTC's latest premium midrange offering has officially hit the Chinese market, just a couple of days before Christmas day. The HTC One X9 was launched alongside Samsung's Galaxy A9.
The phone was announced in China on Wednesday, Dec. 23, reports Android Police. It is also listed on HTC China's official website.
The HTC One X9 features a unibody metal design. It has been described to resemble Apple's iPhone from the back but looks like a Samsung phone from the front with its glass face, according to The Verge.
HTC is bringing back its back-lit capacitive Android buttons and its Boomsound speakers on this device. The buttons are located at the bottom of the phone, thus leaving space for the HTC's speakers in the front.
The phone has a 5.5-inch 1,080p IPS LCD screen. It is powered by an octa-core MediaTek X10 chipset running its Android HTC Sense. A 3,000 mAh battery sustains the gadget.
It has 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage that can be expanded to 2 TB through a microSD card slot.
It sports a 13-megapixel main camera with optical stabilization and dual-tone flash, as well as an UltraPixel front camera. It also offers dual Nano SIM card slots.
The HTC One X9 also offers regular UMTX 3G (850/900/1900/2100), along with China Mobile's TD-SCDMA 3G (1900/2000) and dual-mode LTE (FDD bands 1/3/5/7/8/28; TDD bands 38/39/40/41).
The HTC One X9 is available for consumers in China at the moment and is listed at a price of 2,399 yuan (roughly $370) off-contract. At this price point, the X9 is HTC's most affordable hero device yet and competes with similarly priced devices from Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo.
HTC has made no announcements as to the phone's release date, if ever, in other regions.
