HTC is expected to launch fewer phones in 2018 as it is speculated to focus more on advertising. The recent layoffs and selling off a portion of its smartphone making division to Google also hints that the company will not announce many phones this year. In the previous year, HTC had launched U11 in the first half of 2017. At the end of the year, it had announced the U11+ flagship. Fresh information revealed by popular tipster Evan Blass states that the upcoming HTC flagship that is codenamed as Imagine would arriving in the market as U12+. This suggests that the company may not launch the U12 phone this year.

Blass claims that the U12+ will be coming with a 6-inch LCD screen that will support WQHD+ resolution. The top bezel will be housing 8-megapixel dual front-facing cameras. The backside of the phone is also expected to a dual camera setup featuring a 16-megapixel sensor and a 12-megapixel sensor. The dual rear cameras will be arranged horizontally above the LED flash and fingerprint reader.

The HTC U12+ will receive power from Snapdragon 845 chipset. Its 64 GB and 128 GB storage variants are expected to include 6 GB of RAM. Both the models will also feature a microSD card slot. It will be fueled by 3,420mAh battery. The U12+ will be equipped with second-generation Edge Sense pressure-sensitive frame and it will come preloaded with Android Oreo. Here is a fresh render of the phone shared by the tipster.

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Blass had previously claimed that the U12+ would be launching in late April. Fresh information shared by him states that the development of the U12+ had met with a minor hurdle recently because of which its arrival has been delayed to early May. Apart from the U12+ flagship, the Taiwanese company will be bringing Desire 12 and Desire 12+ budget-friendly phones to the market in the near future.

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In the previous month, leaked information had revealed that the HTC Desire 12 that is codenamed as Breeze is the upcoming entry-level phone from the company. Today, Android Headlines has carried an exclusive report that reveals entire specs of an HTC phone called Desire 12 Plus. According to the publication, its source has revealed that the handset is internally called Breeze Plus. The entire specifications of the phone have also been leaked.

The HTC Desire 12 Plus will be sporting a full screen design like Desire 12. It will be coming with a 5.99-inch TFT display that will produce HD resolution of 720 x 1440 pixels. The screen will deliver an aspect ratio of 18:9 and a pixel density of 268ppi.

The Snapdragon 450 that includes a 1.8 GHz octa-core processor will be powering the mid-range phone. The SoC is backed by 3 GB of RAM. It will have a native storage of 32 GB, but it will provide users with an available space of 23.5 GB. For additional storage, it will feature a microSD card slot.

It will be having a rear camera of 13-megapixel and a front-facing snapper of 8-megapixel. The back camera is expected to feature a Back-Illuminate Sensor (BIS) for snapping better images in dim-light conditions. The selfie camera is expected to arrive with Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS).

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The device will be fueled by 2,965mAh battery that will take around 2 hours and 10 minutes to charge completely. The handset is pegged to support for 5V/1.5A charging. The SoC of the phone supports Quick Charge 3.0 technology, but there is no confirmation whether the rapid charging. The battery of the phone will be delivering up to 26 hours of talk time, 74 hoursof continuous music playback and 522 hours of standby time.

The handset measures of 158.24 x 76.54 x 8.39mm and it weighs 155.01 grams. It will be supporting GSM bands like 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 and LTE bands like 1, 3, 5,7, 8, 20 and 40.

The Desire 12 and Desire 12 Plus are expected to sport the same design. However, the Desire 12 would be coming with a smaller HD+ display of 5.5 inches. Also, it will be featuring lower configuration chipset, cameras and battery.  It is likely that HTC may announce the Desire 12 duo in spring this year.

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HTC is set to join the 18:9 full-screen trend with the HTC U12 but apart from the flagship U12, the company is also working on a budget model with such design. According to popular tipster Evan Blass earlier this month, HTC will launch a new entry-level model soon which goes by the codename Breeze. The tipster had revealed the specs of the device back then but didn’t mention the moniker it would adopt at launch. Evan Blass has now revealed in a new tweet that the entry-level device will be called HTC Desire 12.

The most notable feature of the HTC Breeze is the full-screen design it brings to entry-level models. The device is said to pack a 5.5-inch display with an 18:9 aspect ratio. The device is also expected to pack a MediaTek System-on-Chip backed by 2GB of RAM while there will be 16GB of internal storage.

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On the camera aspect, the Desire 12 is expected to pack a 13MP rear camera while for selfies, there will be a 5MP shooter. Keeping the lights up will be a 2730mAh battery among other features. The device is also expected to come at an affordable price which would reflect its budget specs. No word yet on when the Desire 12 would hit the market.

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