HTC Desire A55 With 3GB RAM and QHD Display Tipped to Launch This Month

HTC has reportedly cancelled the rumoured lite variant of the upcoming One (M9), called the HTC Hima Ace, and is instead replacing it with a high-end Desire series device called the HTC Desire A55 that is scheduled to launch this month.

According to @Upleaks, the tipster who in December also reported about the Hima Ace, HTC is preparing a high-end smartphone codenamed HTC A55, which will be a Desire series smartphone to replace the anticipated lite variant of the upcoming flagship HTC One (M9). The HTC A55 is also claimed to come in two variants - the single-SIM A55#UL variant for the EMEA market and the dual-SIM A55#DTUL model for Asia - and arrive in February.

On Friday, the tipster had first tweeted the specifications of the HTC A55, and then in a follow-up tweet suggested that the smartphone will replace the HTC Hima Ace.

The tipped specifications of the HTC Desire A55 include a 5.5-inch Quad-HD (1440x2560 pixels) display; an octa-core 64-bit MediaTek MT6795 chipset clocked at 2.0GHz; 3GB of RAM; 32GB of built-in storage; a 20-megapixel rear camera; a 13-megapixel or 4 UltraPixel front camera; BoomSound speakers; Bluetooth 4.1; a battery with a capacity lower than 3000mAh, and HTC Sense 7.0 on top of Android 5.0 Lollipop. The three colour options suggested by the tipster are - White Rose Gold, Gray, and Brown Gold.

To remind you, HTC has a pre-MWC event scheduled on March 1 in Barcelona, where it is expected to unveil its next flagship smartphone, the much-rumoured HTC One (M9) aka HTC Hima. This indicates the HTC Desire A55 may also be unveiled at the same event, rather than in February.