More holes than Swiss cheese. Yet more HTC One M9 shots emerge

There’s always a fine line just before a big phone launch. For a start, we never know if..

a) The leaks are made “accidentally on purpose” to increase the hype around the phone.

b) If the phone we’re seeing here is actually a dummy, prototype or perhaps a concept design someone made for an earlier handset.

More holes than Swiss cheese. Yet more HTC One M9 shots emerge

Here’s some more shots (to add to these) of the next top-end HTC phone (apparently) that we’ll see unveiled (maybe) at the HTC event in Barcelona. These clearer shots, handed over in the dead of night by a man in a dark coat to Phandroid.com, show that the design of the HTC One handsets really isn’t going to change a great deal in this new version. Now, if this is the real final design and we’re not just being led up the garden path, it could be a good or a bad thing depending which side of that (garden?) fence you’re sitting on. Personally, I know of a couple of people who have upgraded their HTC One M7 to an M8, only to go and sell the M8 on eBay and keep on using the older M7 – just because it’s well built and hasn’t really aged a great deal.

More holes than Swiss cheese. Yet more HTC One M9 shots emerge

So, what can we tell from these latest M9 shots? Well, it’s definitely the back that’s changed the most, with a square camera assembly and a slight shift of the power and volume buttons from the previous model. The specs are now also pretty much confirmed – an octa-core Snapdragon 810 CPU with the Adreno 430 GPU, 3GB RAM, Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and the HTC Sense 7.0 UI, a 5″ 1080p display, 20.7 megapixel rear camera and the HTC UltraPixel selfie camera.

Announcement coming in just a few weeks from now and, don’t forget, we’ll have the biggest team ever in Barcelona to give you the most all-conquering converge you’ve ever seen.. baby.