HTC One M10 design leaked in photo

[Quis89]

Ummmm you must be new to HTC. Everything Apple has done metal build wise and where the antennas are located on the iPhone came directly from the HTC M7. Seriously...HTC wasn't wasting time making phones made out of fragile glass, they went metal and everyone copied them. Facepalm..

What do past devices have anything to do with what you said? THIS PHONE is not any more "beautiful" than the current Apple offerings. So again...they won't be dropping the mic on an iPhone user.

 

[Aquila]

this one is actually substantially worse than the current apple offering - (obviously IMO, etc, etc)

 

[James E1]

New teaser. Not much to it though.

https://youtu.be/5x-9FVTZUsY

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[trsbbs]

That was my point - to show there's no correlation for the speakers to sales and to show how unimportant they are in the market, yet people keep going on and on about front facing speakers, as if they're some incredibly important feature - they're really not.

I believe the best overall position for a fingerprint scanner would be on the front below the screen. That is the most convenient for people to use to wakeup/unlock their phone from resting position. I haven't seen a phone with a FPS on the front and dual front facing speakers. I don't think the FPS is misplaced, I think at the front is where it is best placed. I currently own a Nexus 6P and while it has an excellent FPS, it's in a position which I have grown to become tired of, to the point where I just use my swipe pattern. Sure not everyone would agree with me and some may still prefer the FPS on the back, and that's fine.

Second, if the FPS is going to be on the front, it makes sense to pair it with the home button as well, otherwise you run into that awkward situation with the A9 where it has a FPS on the front (which doubles as a home button) but then a software home button directly above that. While I like software on-screen buttons, I don't think they're the best solution. I recently moved my mum to a Nexus device, she's constantly lost when the nav buttons disappears and she never knows when they'll appear or when they'll disappear, or how to bring them back. For us who are into phones and know the ins and outs of them - it makes sense to use, but for people who aren't into tech and just want to use a phone, I don't think disappearing nav buttons are a good thing and having to explain to someone how to get to the home screen is not intuitive design. I have a Pixel C and iPad, and honestly, having a dedicated home button that is always there and doesn't vanish is handy to have. Sure a physical home button goes against Google's direction, but I think Google needs a redirection of Android.

But at the end of the day these are just opinions. I may find A, B and C things annoying others may find them great choices. Every company has to weigh up what's useful, what's not so useful and what will provide the most benefits for most users. Unfortunately, it seems that front facing speakers have fallen to the wayside.

No great stereo speakers, no sale. Period. Thats what brought me to HTC!

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

I have to admit I was disappointed the M10 doesn't have stereo speakers. I bought the M7, M8, and M9 because of the stereo speakers. I will probably still buy the M10 because I don't know of any other phones that have the same specs as the M10 and have stereo speakers.

Yeah when we get into the dual speaker realm, it seems like a dying breed now. The Nexus 6P has it, as far as I'm aware Sony is continuing with it, and Motorola have in in their high-end flagships, outside of that I don't know of other phones that have it.

It is a nice feature, but if the choice is a mutually exclusive one; front facing speakers or front facing fingerprint scanner, I'd go with the fingerprint scanner. More useful and functional to me.

It would be shame to see dual front speakers go, but if they go for something that (in my opinion) is more useful, then I'm for it.

Also, saw this mockup on XDA:



Looks like the M7 - which looks awesome. Hoping the back does look like that.

 

[neo905]

Yeah when we get into the dual speaker realm, it seems like a dying breed now. The Nexus 6P has it, as far as I'm aware Sony is continuing with it, and Motorola have in in their high-end flagships, outside of that I don't know of other phones that have it.

It is a nice feature, but if the choice is a mutually exclusive one; front facing speakers or front facing fingerprint scanner, I'd go with the fingerprint scanner. More useful and functional to me.

It would be shame to see dual front speakers go, but if they go for something that (in my opinion) is more useful, then I'm for it.

Also, saw this mockup on XDA:

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Looks like the M7 - which looks awesome. Hoping the back does look like that.

Yet another tease. lol.

 

[I Can Be Your Hero]

Evleaks saying the phone will drop the 'One M' in it's name and just be called HTC 10: https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/705625168937267200

Not sure how I feel about it. The name is about as irrelevant as it gets, but just the company name then a number sounds kinda strange. I guess I'm used to a company-brand-model nomenclature like Apple iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy S7 or whatever.

Then again, the M doesn't mean anything, and I think 10 is their 10th flagship or something like that?

Well, whatever. HTC 10 is it.

 

[Bearcats98]

Names just don't bother me. I am guessing marketing proves it does. If it does what its supposed to and looks like it should (in my brain) then I would even buy it named "Perfume".

Been playing with a co-workers S7 non-edge. Pretty smooth however uses 9GB for OS and carrier bloat. (yikes!). HTC has to bring it with a fantastic experience. I wont miss boomsound because I have never had it. However I was kinda looking forward to it. And have to see what screen looks like against the S7 (I think is probably the cream of the crop currently) and how they deploy that silly bio-metric crud on the front. ;-)

 

[jens Van Keer]

And suddently no one wants wireless charging on the 'htc 10'?

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[Bearcats98]

Wireless charging is neither here nor there for me. I won't buy it because its there...won't "not" buy it because its missing. I have wireless on my DNA and don't use it.

I keep phones a long time and need the battery to last a long time. I am at 3+ years now; granted it is time to get a new one because I have had to turn off most features to keep from living on a charger. Heat is the enemy and wireless charging is a double whammy. Heat from wireless field and heat from charging. It doesn't bother me to hook my phone up onto a wire to charge.

 

[mwake4goten]

I am upset that no more stereo loudspeaker but also no IR blaster too. But if they can get hi quality audiophile DAC and amp, get the fingerprint scanner working well and increase battery performance further then I'm happy. I really do hope that if we lose stereo speakers then HTC can put better audiophile quality hardware like like LG V10 phone.

 

[Bearcats98]

Yes, if they ditch the speakers for a scanner; that scanner better work as good as that one phone out there. And I am not referring to Samsung. ;-)

 

[Aquila]

Yes, if they ditch the speakers for a scanner; that scanner better work as good as that one phone out there. And I am not referring to Samsung. ;-)

The Nexus?

 

[jens Van Keer]

I know I could care less about wireless charging because you can't use the phone while charging and it's pretty easy to plug in a charging cable.

Good point on that

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[I Can Be Your Hero]

Big HTC 10 leaks. Live shots and render: HTC 10 reportedly shown off in new leaks | Android Central




I really like the design. Glad it's got USB type C, like the chamfer edged back, the whole device looks clean.

Looking forward to seeing the software and how large the battery is.

 

[neo905]

Big HTC 10 leaks. Live shots and render: HTC 10 reportedly shown off in new leaks | Android Central

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I really like the design. Glad it's got USB type C, like the chamfer edged back, the whole device looks clean.

Looking forward to seeing the software and how large the battery is.

The fact that they didn't do that two tone gold already is an improvement. I much prefer this clean silver look.

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[Aquila]

Yeah the back/sides of this design look pretty good.

 

[lindseybp]

Looks pretty nice. But waiting until May seems like a long time. Heck at that point I will probably wait and check out the Sony X Performance before buying since it should be released soon after.

 

[Runell A]

The back definitely screams HTC's design language.... But the front... Just doesn't excite me at all. I'm all for the fingerprint scanner, but with the phone looking "thicker" on the sides and what looks like a power button on the side, why not slap the fps on the side like SONY did with the Z5? This way you can incorporate boomsound and keep that design language?

I don't know, the front just doesn't do it for me. Especially after owning the M7, M8 and the M9 which I thought all looked nice and a refinement over the other

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[James E1]

It does have Boomsound, just in a different speaker layout.

Check out @OnLeaks's Tweet: https://twitter.com/OnLeaks/status/705783207191552000?s=09

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