Taiwanese mobile device manufacturer HTC acquired its smartphone division in 2017. Google for $1.1 billion sold it. Since then, it has tried to return to the old days with mid and high-end devices such as Desire 20 Pro and U12 Plus, but it could not make a sound.
It turned out that HTC, which continues its activities in certain markets with low-end smartphones, does not give up hope in the mobile sector. According to the news of the German site WinFuture, the company’s General Manager for the Asia-Pacific Region, Charles Huang, announced that they will announce a high-end smartphone in April.
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HTC is coming with a Metaverse-focused phone
The rising star of the last period, Metaverse was already in the center of attention of HTC. In fact, the CEO of the company, Cher Wang, has developed a ‘safe virtual world’ where both children and adults can spend time. open source Viverse platform introduced for the first time at Mobile World Congress 2022.
According to the statement of Charles Huang, HTC’s General Manager for Asia-Pacific Region, the smartphone, which is expected to be introduced in April, will work integrated with Viverse. In other words, HTC is on its new flagship. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) seems to focus on technology.
Unfortunately, there is no concrete information about the screen, processor, camera and other technical features of the new HTC smartphone, whose model name is not yet known. But in order to be competitive, it is expected to have the most powerful chipset on the Qualcomm or MediaTek side. Everything that is curious will become clear in April.
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