HTC One M8 Spotted With Twin Camera Sensors

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HTC One M8 Spotted With Twin Camera Sensors

Rumors have been circulating for some time surrounding HTC’s next flagship phone, the successor to the almost year-old HTC One. However the rumors were almost confirmed with the courtesy of an image of the hardware of the purported “HTC M8” posted on Twitter by Russian site HTCFamily.ru. The shot shows a design very similar to last year’s HTC One, the M7, with a one major, intriguing difference — dual rear-facing cameras.

New Delhi: It’s no secret that a successor to the HTC One smartphone is on the way - it is currently known as the HTC M8 but could arrive as the HTC One 2 or HTC One+. Up to know, however, there have been few glimpses of what it will look like. That all changed last night when a tweeted picture potentially revealed the new handset, complete with two rear camera sensors.

The tweet, which came from Russian HTC rumors site HTCFamily.ru, shows a visually similar handset to the HTC One, albeit with a second camera sensor above the main rear camera and a twin LED flash. Otherwise it appears to retain the aluminium unibody chassis and overall dimensions of the HTC One.

The second camera sensor could be used to add Lytro-like refocussing abilities to the handset. Toshiba announced a light field smartphone sensor which would be capable of these effects earlier this year, but there’s currently no indication whether it has made its way inside the new HTC handset.

It’s also unclear from the images whether the twin LED flash will simply provide brighter illumination for low-light photography, or will use different coloured LEDs for more accurate images like Apple’s iPhone 5s.

HTC has naturally remained silent on these latest leaks, but we likely won’t have long to wait to discover their authenticity; with Mobile World Congress just a few weeks away, HTC will either reveal all in Barcelona, or make the announcement in March.

Coming to the other features of the smartphone, according to the rumors, the HTC M8 will come with ‘at least’ a 5-inch screen with the same 1080 x 1920 pixel resolution. Pixel peepers might complain, and point out that others like Samsung, are said to have a sharper, Quad HD (1440 x 2560-pixel) displays.

Speaking of performance, the M8 is also expected to feature the Snapdragon 800 system chip, but in a more powerful than the currently used one variation - the MSM8974AB. That AB add-on is what signifies the upgrade and it results in higher clocks, faster memory bandwidth and more capable graphics.