A new leak today contains the clearest screenshots yet of the upcoming HTC “hero product” due out this fall. The handset (codenamed “Aero”) is expected to be sold under the name HTC One A9, and will come in up to six colors, according to tech journalist Evan Blass on Twitter. The horizontal stripe design, though it was an HTC hallmark back in the day, brings to mind Apple design post-iPhone 6. (The colors do, too.) Assuming the leaked screenshot reflects current marketing materials, HTC may even go so far as to ape Apple’s color-naming scheme — replacing space gray with carbon gray and keeping rose gold as is. Aero was first seen in leaked screenshots last month.
This is our best look yet at HTC’s iPhone clone, the One A9
Not space gray, but carbon gray
Not space gray, but carbon gray


HTC Aero. Also: Intro - https://t.co/tu4JtfFgQN Branding - https://t.co/7KROIOrrIp Specs - https://t.co/I3AHAKpRs1 pic.twitter.com/cFYtDgJYc8
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) September 23, 2015 HTC CEO Cher Wang, who took over for former chief executive Peter Chou in March, promised a new HTC flagship later this year to help the Taiwanese manufacturer revive its struggling sales amid layoffs and high-level talent departures. HTC announced plans in August to cut 15 percent of its worldwide workforce as it tries to increase sales while dabbling in new markets like virtual reality. Though the company’s One line of devices have received generally solid marks from critics, they’ve failed to reach the level of the success needed to pull HTC out of its financial rut, putting weighty expectations on the Aero and its Cupertino-esque design.
Most Popular
- Sam Altman addresses RAM comments: People should ‘put as much as they want in their computers’
- Anker’s new window-mounted camera monitors the outside of your home from within it
- Those Jeff Bezos hair transplant photos are very fake
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old
- Bambu’s nine-nozzle H3C foretells the future of 3D printing









