Not looking good this year for flagship phones with Qualcomm 810 eg Xperia Z4. LG G4. 64bit chips even Samsung galaxy s6's suffering from not as good battery life.
2015 phones from hell
Why not use the same chip from last year HTC? I don't understand the need to upgrade the chip if you have one that works already? This is what bothers me about HTC. No, we didn't really change the design but we did manage to mess up the camera and battery life. What happened to why change what works? I do not have time for silly games with companies. Then people on here feed into their bull crap. If the phone was great enough not to change on the outside, why screw with the chip that worked well for you last year?
From the specs I saw the S model doesn't have OIS. But maybe it will include PSR unlike the M9. It would be funny as hell if the 13MP camera and battery life on the M8S out performs the M9. I think this may be the case. People were saying if the camera on the M9 was not as huge the low light pictures might be better.
If this phone comes to the US I would pick one up over the M9. As long as the speed doesn't change from my M8.
Like how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop? The world may never know.....