After alleged specs for HTC’s next flagship smartphone surfaced a few days ago, including the codename Hima for the project, Twitter tipster @upleaks is back with information on several other devices HTC is working on. The devices include several variants in the Hima line of smartphones along with a new generation Butterfly smartphone for the Japanese market and a new HTC branded tablet.
The Hima devices include a listing for an Hima Ultra and an Hima Ace smartphone. The Hima Ultra is suspected of being an up-sized version of the “base” Hima smartphone. It appears the device is intended to make it to at least AT&T and Verizon in the U.S. market along with other markets around the globe. It would not be surprising to see it available on all major carriers.
The HTC Buttterfly 3 should be the next generation of HTC’s Butterfly line of devices. These have been Japan market only smartphones thus far and we would not expect that to change this time around. For now at least, it looks like the Butterfly 3 is headed for KDDI in Japan. The Butterfly devices historically have mirrored HTC’s flagship devices available in the rest of the world, sometimes besting them in terms of hardware.
Finally, HTC appears to be planning to bring their own branded tablet to market in 2015. Indications are the tablet will be based on the Nexus 9 that HTC is producing for Google. While some minor hardware upgrades may be in the cards, the biggest change is suspected to be the inclusion of HTC’s Sense UI on top of the Android Lollipop operating system.
source: @upleaks
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