HTC brings the end of April with "Prime Edition Camera" stripped-down version of the One M9

Only the aluminum unibody and 5-inch full HD display have remained unchanged compared to the M9. The remaining components replaced and partly slimmed HTC. The Prime Camera Edition comes the end of April for 429 euros in the trade, which is currently even have cheaper M9. HTC has its smartphone -Portfolio extended to the One M9 (Prime Camera Edition), which all too much has not apart from the name similarity, the unibody aluminum casing and the 5-inch Full HD display with the One M9 in common. It will be available from the end of April in Germany for a suggested retail price of 429 Euro exclusively at Media Markt and Saturn. Thus, it costs 320 euros less than the One M9 to its launch. The latter is now online but already available for around 410 Euro. This price is expected to fall again when expected on April 19, the successor to HTC 10 is presented.

 

The equipment has been updated, but partially replaced by less powerful components. So HTC installed instead of the 20-megapixel main camera of the One M9 in prime Camera Edition, a 13-megapixel model with f / 2.2 aperture and optical image stabilizer. The latter is to recognize and compensate within 0,125 milliseconds unintentional hand movements, so even in low light sharp images are possible. In the front sitting with two smartphones, a high-intensity ultra-pixel camera with f / 2.0 aperture and wide-angle lens to be particularly well suited for self-portraits. Tools for image editing HTC delivers also with. The "Dynamic Sensing Engine" to automatically correct color tones throughout the image area. In Pro mode, users can edit photos in RAW format and adjust shooting settings such as exposure levels or white balance manually.

When the CPU is in contrast to a year ago featured One M9 MediaTek 64-bit SoC Helio X10, its eight cores no longer Qualcomm's octa-core chip Snapdragon 810 with 2 GHz and Adreno 430 GPU to use, but also clocked at 2 GHz. The One M9 (Prime Camera Edition) offers instead of 3 GB has only 2 GB of DDR3 RAM and the internal memory falls almost half the size of 16 GB as the One M9. After all, it can be by means of microSD card but still expanding (theoretically up to 2 TB).

Android 6.0 Marshmallow is preinstalled at the One M9 (Prime Camera Edition), which complements HTC as the One M9 to version 7 of its surface sense. The Sense homescreen shows apps depending on the current location of the user, or about work-related applications in the office or at home games. HTC Blink Feed represents social media updates or the latest news on demand on the home screen. And with HTC Themes, the surface design can automatically tune to a freely selectable background image.

As the One M9 comes the new model with two front stereo speakers, support the HTCs BoomSound technology. The communication options are slightly cropped compared Instead LTE Cat 9 with up to 450 Mbit / s in download provides the One M9 Prime Camera Edition only LTE Cat 4 with up to 150 MBit / s. The other connection options are identical and include UMTS with HSPA + (up to 42 Mbit / s), Bluetooth 4.1, dual-band WLAN IEEE 802.11ac and GPS and NFC. In an infrared sensor buyers need unlike the One M9 without.

With dimensions of 14.5 times 7 times 0.96 centimeters and a weight of 158 grams, the Prime Edition Camera is just as big and heavy as the One M9. has on the battery capacity of 2840 mAh is also not changed. One charge is sufficient according to the manufacturer in the 3G operation for up to 13 hours of talk time and 658 hours standby.