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The HTC One A9s is not an upgrade, it's just cheaper than the One A9

By Cookie Monster - on 2 Sep 2016, 4:00am

The HTC One A9s is not an upgrade, it's just cheaper than the One A9

 The HTC One A9s. <br> Image source: HTC

HTC's playbook for the smartphone market just got more puzzling with the release of the One A9s. While some of you may think that the One A9s is an upgrade over the one-year-old One A9, you're wrong. 

The One A9s may have the same display size at 5-inches, but its resolution is downgraded to HD (1,280 x 720 pixels) from Full-HD (1,920 x 1080 pixels) on the One A9. HTC also swapped out the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset on the One A9 and replaced it with a MediaTek Helio P10 octa-core processor. Optical image stabilization is absent on the One A9s and the 13-megapixel rear camera has a smaller aperture of f/2.2. 

Other specs include a 7.99mm chassis which weighs 149.8g, a fingerprint sensor, a 2,300mAh battery, storage options of 16GB with 2GB RAM and 32GB with 3GB RAM, NFC, Bluetooth 4.2, nano-SIM card support and microSD support up to 2TB. HTC reportedly stated that it will be priced lower than the One A9. 

Source: HTC via PhoneArena

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