A new HTC smartphone with model number 2Q7A100 has been spotted on Geekbench benchmarking platform. The key specs of the phone that have appeared through its Geekbench listing reveals that it is an upcoming high-end phone from the Taiwanese company.
The HTC 2Q7A100 runs on the latest Android 9 Pie OS. The smartphone is driven by Snapdragon 710 which was next best SoC chipset after the Snapdragon 855 until the recent launch of Snapdragon 730. The SoC is supported by 6 GB of RAM.
There is no information available on the identity of the smartphone. It remains to be seen whether it will end up as a Desire series smartphone or a U series phone. At the end of 2018, HTC had said that it will only launch high-end and mid-range phones in 2019. Hence, it appears that HTC 2Q7A100 could be the company’s first major phone for this year. Even though the phone has appeared on Geekbench, it could be couple of weeks away from launch. The rumor mill is expected to leak more information on it the coming days.
In related news, HTC has recently confirmed that it will be releasing confirmed that it will be rolling out Android 9 Pie update for three smartphones such as HTC U11, HTC U11+ and HTC U12+. The software update for these phones will be released in this quarter. Apart from these phones, HTC has already released Android 9 Pie update to HTC U11 Life Android One edition in November 2018.
