HTC’s One A9 arriving with Marshmallow’s sweetness on October 20th

As the world is busy welcoming the new Nexus 6P and the Nexus 5X, HTC has decided to make a weak attempt at stealing Google’s thunder by sending out invites for the launch of the HTC One A9.

HTC’s Senior Global Online Communications Manager Jeff Gordon casually mentioned in one of his tweets today that HTC was going to launch the next Aero (or Hero) device on October 20th.

“Meanwhile, if you want an ALL NEW smartphone running Marshmallow out of the box, see what we have on Oct. 20 at http://t.co/JicQSdENvd!” – Jeff Gordon

The link redirects us to HTC’s website where you can find an invite to the phone’s virtual launch. You can watch the livestream at 12:00 noon ET time (New York City), 5:00 pm BST (London), 9:30 pm IST (New Delhi) and 12:00 pm CST (Taipei) on October 20th.

While the invite doesn’t say much, it can be confirmed that the HTC A9 will be the first non-Nexus smartphone to run Android Marshmallow. If previous leaks are anything to go by, the handset will feature a Quad HD (1440 x 2560 pixels) display, a first of its kind deca-core MediaTek Helio X20 processor backed with 4GB of RAM and an improved rear-facing camera with support for RAW photography.

Source: HTC

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