HTC One A9 review: Not the winner this company needs

After the year HTC has had, you almost can’t help but feel bad for them. Don’t. The Taiwanese phone maker can’t take your pity to the bank, so it sequestered itself behind closed doors and tried to build a new smartphone that would excite people the way the last-gen One M9 simply couldn’t. The end result is the One A9, a “flagship” smartphone that traded some of the One series’ signature features for a divisive design and a seemingly mid-range brain. If this were any other company, I’d have written it off already. The thing is, HTC jumped straight into the big leagues with the One M7 two years ago and I so want it to make a comeback with another brilliant smartphone. Sadly, though, the One A9 seems not to be that device.Slideshow-335127



