A lot’s been said lately about HTC’s next move after the One M8. There’s all that M8 Prime stuff, sure, but as far as a more direct follow-up is concerned, the rumors have been coalescing into two distinct paths. One of them’s been talking about a mass market phone that could be essentially the M8 in a plastic body, the so-called M8 Ace. The other’s been focusing on a new model in HTC’s Butterfly family of devices, again sticking with largely M8 hardware and going with a plastic build. Whether we’re hearing about the same thing from two different sources here, we can’t say, and we may be looking at very similar devices but intended for different markets. In any case, the Butterfly-sequel rumors picked up earlier this week as we heard the codename B2 assigned to this handset. Today we add to that name a potential render, with the release of what may be the first pic of the B2.
Right away, we see big similarities to the Butterfly S, with the same black-and-red styling and those stereo Boomsound speakers. The front-facing camera moves over to the right, matching the layout on the M8 itself, and we see the disappearance of the old capacitive Android buttons, just like we’d expect from this generation.
Unfortunately, we don’t get a corresponding rear render, which is a shame because we’ve got unanswered questions about the camera situation on this phone, and specifically whether it might eschew the M8′s Duo Camera setup in favor of a single 13MP sensor.
Source: @evleaks
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