Android fans around the world are anxiously to see what some of the favorite manufacturers are going to announce at the Mobile World Congress 2015. Both HTC and Samsung are expected to unveil their new flagships in the first week of March. HTC has already teased its March 1st event where the HTC One M9 will likely be announced. Some purported design details of this smartphone have surfaced online today.
An unnamed tipster tells HTCSource that the HTC One M9 isn’t going to have the black bar that housed the HTC logo on One M8 and One M7. The plastic speaker panels that were used to hide the BoomSound speaker chamber and amp along the tap and bottom are said to be slightly taller than that on the HTC One M8.
These speaker panels will take up space that was previously used by the black bar and the HTC logo will apparently move to the bottom speaker panel. The edge-to-edge glass panel believed to cover the HTC One M9 is said to enclose the speaker panels within itself.
Only cutouts in this glass panel will be for speaker grills that cover 50 percent of the phone’s bottom and top edges with a 45 degree cut, a design element we have previously seen on the Nexus 9, which is a HTC-manufactured tablet.
This tipster says that these changes contribute to make the HTC One M9’s design “slicker” and “more refined” than the HTC One M8.
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