Leak: This is HTC’s iPhone

BGR (Boy Genius Report) ^ | Oct 15, 2015 at 9:18 AM | By Zach Epstein

[Swordmaker]

Samsung created a top secret 132-page document to show its engineers how to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel, and the company still never managed to pull off anything that was anywhere near as shameless as the iPhone ripoff HTC is about to unveil. Seriously… just look at this thing.

We’ve seen a number of leaked images of the upcoming HTC One A9 in the past, but the clearest pictures yet were just accidentally published by European wireless carrier Orange. HTC is already in deep trouble following its One M9 flop, but this phone may very well get the struggling smartphone maker sued into oblivion.

Look at it:

Here’s the back:

But wait, it gets better — look at the side view:

It even has the same slightly protruding camera lens surrounded by the same polished metal ring! Is this really happening?

Here’s the phone in white:

Some Android fans have argued that HTC made phones that included this basic design with plastic antenna lines before Apple. To them, we say this: stop being ridiculous. HTC’s aluminum One phones have had a unique design identity since the One M7. The shape was completely different, the design elements were completely different, and the back contoured to the hand.

This is an iPhone. Look at the shape of the handset. Look at the way the glass curves down on the front to meet the aluminum housing. And look at that housing! It’s shameless and shocking, but perhaps that’s exactly what HTC was going for.

HTC is a lost company right now. The One M9 is a great smartphone, but it was a horrible mistake on HTC’s part. To release a minor iterative update in the midst of a downward spiral was simply insane. HTC is up against giants that spend more on marketing in a year than it could afford in a decade. Minor updates with minimal visibility compared to rival phones do nothing to further this company’s cause.

At this point we’re not sure what might further HTC’s cause, but we would be very surprised if a mid-range iPhone 6 powered by Android turned out to be the answer.

It really is a shame because HTC is a terrific company with tons of talent and design chops that served it just fine without copying Apple. We sincerely hope HTC finds its way soon though, because the alternative would be a tremendous loss for the industry.

[Swordmaker]

HTC seems to be hankering for a patent infringement lawsuit from Apple by making a knock-off iPhone look-alike that is even more of a look-alike than the Samsung copy that resulted in an almost $1 billion judgement (later reduced to about $830 million) for a design patent infringement which is still wending its way through the appeals process. Samsung has lost at every appeal, so it can't be they think they have some magic bullet to avoid the same fate. — PING!

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[Inyo-Mono]

I don’t get it. Don’t all smart phones look the same?

[avenir]

“I don’t get it. Don’t all smart phones look the same?”

Practically speaking—shut up in their protective cases—YES.

There are some notable exceptions, such as the wood cases from Grovemade or the aluminum “Slit” from Squair, but they ain’t cheap. Most people want cheap, so most iPhones are hidden in UGLY.

[SoFloFreeper]

Our family enjoys HTC products. Speakers in the front make it nicer to listen to music/watch video. Decent cameras, too.

[minnesota_bound]

My LG G3 looks like the one above.

[dila813]

“how to copy the iPhone pixel by pixel” .... lol

Bell created the basic phone design, everything since then is a copy... way to silly a post.

Apple is about orginal as a chinese knockoff in this regard.

[Swordmaker]

I don’t get it. Don’t all smart phones look the same?

They do now, since Apple showed the phone manufacturers what they should look like, but they should not look EXACTLY like an iPhone.

Cell phones before the introduction of the iPhone (left), Cell Phones after the introduction of the iPhone (Right)

[battousai]

You mean Samsung is copying those iPhones which are just now catching up to the capabilities and speed of 2 year old Samsungs...apple fanboys, so silly ;)

[Swordmaker]

You mean Samsung is copying those iPhones which are just now catching up to the capabilities and speed of 2 year old Samsungs...apple fanboys, so silly ;)

REALLY?

Bench marks of the iPhone 6S:

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Who needs octa-core CPUs and 4GB of RAM? iPhone 6s is the fastest phone on the planet
By Yoni Heisler—BGR (Boy Genius Report)—Sep 28, 2015

The iPhone 6s is an absolute beast. With a blazing fast A9 processor and 2GB of RAM under the hood, not to mention Apple’s world-class integration of software and hardware, real world performance on the iPhone 6s has once again left competitors in the dust. Just a few days ago we highlighted how the iPhone 6s, in initial Geekbench 3 testing,  absolutely destroyed the Galaxy S6 and other top Android handsets.

Now, in preliminary benchmark results compiled Joshua Ho of AnandTech, it’s clear that Apple’s new iPhones have set a new bar for performance across the smartphone industry.

Now seeing as how browsing the web is one of the more common smartphone activities, let’s start with a few of AnandTech’s web browsing benchmarks.

“Regardless of whether an OEM is optimizing specifically for these benchmarks,” Ho writes, “it’s hard to ignore just how well Apple has optimized Safari and the dual core Twister CPUs as they’ve effectively set new records for these benchmarks in mobile.”

With respect to graphics performance, the iPhone 6s is just as impressive, coming in second only to the Microsoft Surface Pro 3.

One slight blemish worth mentioning is that battery life on the iPhone 6s Plus is slightly lower than it was on the iPhone 6 Plus, a fact attributable to the 6s’ smaller battery.

All in all, Ho’s initial impressions from his preliminary round of testing are overwhelmingly positive. Make sure to hit the source link below for the full run down of all of AnandTech’s benchmark tests which are both extremely detailed and exhaustive.

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iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Preliminary Results
by Joshua Ho—Anandtech—September 28, 2015

OK, that's enough of that. . .

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And, still more:

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Dual-core iPhone 6s obliterates Galaxy S6, Note 5 and other top Android phones in performance tests
By Chris Smith—BGR (Boy Genius Report)—Sep 23, 2015

The first iPhone 6s benchmarks have emerged from a lucky buyer who received her handset a few days before the official September 25th launch date. The Geekbench 3 tests showed the Apple’s new flagship is significantly faster than last year’s iPhone 6. Even more impressive is the fact that the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus have almost the same scores as this year’s Retina MacBook laptops, both in single-core and multi-core tests.

An iPhone 6s review further shows that the iPhone 6s handsets indeed have stellar performance, obliterating top competitors, including the Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 5, and other flagship Android handsets from the competition.

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Reviewing the iPhone 6s models, Apple blogger Jon Gruber used Geekbench 3 benchmark software to test them, obtaining the same scores. According to Gruber, the iPhone 6s got a 2500 in single-core tests and 4340 in multi-core tests – that’s 1.6x and 1.5x faster than the iPhone 6, respectively.

Gruber also noted that the iPhone 6s is in a class of its own, at least when it comes to single-core performance.

“In terms of single-core performance, there isn’t a single Android phone that beats the two-year-old iPhone 5S,” he said. “Android devices fare better in multi-core benchmarks, because they have more cores (some have eight, many have four — the iPhones 6S still have only two cores), but single-core performance is a better measure for the sort of things you can feel while using a device.”

“Apple is literally years ahead of the industry,” he added. “Even if you don’t agree that single-core performance is the more meaningful benchmark, you can’t deny that iPhone benchmarks don’t look anything like the benchmarks for high-end Android devices.”

Gruber posted the following image that lists Geekbench 3 single-core average scores for this year’s most popular Android devices, including smartphones and tablets. Notably absent, though, is the recently released Galaxy Note 5, but MobileSyrup‘s iPhone 6s review does list Geekbench 3 tests for the new Samsung phablet, and the Note 5 can’t even beat the iPhone 6 in single-core tests (second image below).

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I could go on with test report after test report. . . all showing the iPhones blowing the Android phones, including all up-to-date Samsung phones away.

Android fanboys, so silly. . . when hoist on their own petards.

[spetznaz]

Whoa! That's quite interesting, and responds using data (which I like since I can use it to answer questions from others).

By the way, you work for Apple, right?

[newfreep]

I love my LG G3...and it still has higher screen resolution than “Thimmy the Proud Homo” latest.

[ziravan]

HTC is the reason why I now own my first IPhone.

On my last day at Disney World in Sept, 2014, HTC sent an automatic update to my One X that turned it into a brick. Every picture taken - gone - along with everything else.

Sprint couldn’t access the phone again. An outside recovery expert couldnt. The phone went into a reboot loop everytime it was reset.

Sprint offered to send me another OneX. Why the hell would they think I would trust that phone again?? I refused. They refused to offer me another product. One customer service agent accused me of trying to cheat my way to a better phone earlier than when my contract allowed when I suggested they replace it with an IPhone.

Really?

Verizon was more than happy to take my business AND provide me an IPhone.

I was a loyal HTC customer until last year. That OneX was my 4th HTC phone. I was a loyal Sprint customer until then, having been a custoner for more than 14 years.

HTC is the reason why I now own my first IPhone. I’m typing this on my first IPad. Windows 8 is why I own it.

[Gaffer]

All the data....the data, the examples and the benchmarks.....ooooooh!

I just got an iPhone 6S + and from using it for two days, here’s a “benchmark”.

I’d like to get hold of that stupid ergonomics engineer/team that said “let’s move the button from the top to the right side so it can be used with the right thumb - much easier”...They stopped there. They left the “down volume” button directly across from it, and now to turn it off one has to make a conscious effort to reposition the fingers on the left away from the volume buttons.

This could have been fixed with a setup option to lock ALL the level functions, but apparently none of that whole team even used the phone enough to find out it’s a problem - they let you lock level on everything else but main level.(BTW, I Googled this, and it IS a problem many people have). I’d kick those idiots in the butt if I could.

Second, my other complaint is size and ability to hold it. I came from a 4S and with its rectangular box shape, it was easier to hold without a case. This phone HAS to have some sort of case. Right now I have the thing in the original box until the case I ordered comes.

Functionality? It has some new bells and whistles, but I’m not that impressed over a 4S, frankly.

[Swordmaker]

By the way, you work for Apple, right?

I work for Apple, wrong. I'm a semi-retired, cross-platform, business consultant with only a few favorite clients left.

I'm an ex-CEO, current author, ex-editor, and ex-publisher. . . now doing what I like. Educated as an Economist. . . and for one of my clients, I manage the dental office for one of the top dental implantologists in the world. At that office, they use primarily Apple Macs to do all the work including 3D CAT scanning radiography and CADCAM design of the dental implants from those 3D models. They use one Virtual Machine Windows install on a Mac to access an online Windows program called Trojan—appropriately enough I think, since that's the only time they're required to use any computer prophylaxis, LOL!—which allows them to access any patient's dental insurance plans and how much they've used during the year.

I just spent the last couple weeks upgrading many of the Macs there to newer models because we discovered that although the seven year old Intel Core2Duo processor iMacs which were listed as being compatible to run OS X.10.5 Yosemite with the latest version of MacPractice Dental 5.2 (MacPractice won't approve OS X.11 El Capitan yet), the provider was overly optimistic.

The older iMacs with the Core2Duo processors can run Yosemite just fine, and it does most things in MacPractice 5.1 also OK, but add any of the optional modules and WHOOPS! Not-so-OK! Like opening the scheduling module and getting the calendar grid with no appointments listed! That makes it VERY hard to tell a patient when her next appointment is. . . Especially when the entire app freezes and requires, Mike, the receptionist, to force quit, re-log on, and try again.

Four of their iMacs, two MacBook Airs for chair side, and their Mac mini SERVER were all Core2Duos. . . several thousand dollars later (I love spending other people's money), and a lot of my time (I also love billing at my rates!), they've upgraded those older machines to refurbed (same warranty as new but at 15% off new pricing) Mac Intel i5s , and the server to a brand new loaded Mac mini i7, which will arrive on the 21st. That's the only one I'll have to revert from OS X.11 El Capitan to OS X.10 Yosemite for compatibility. Yay! More billing!

[dennisw]

Apple’s been stealing from the Koreans and Nips for years, then getting stacked California courts to win the ensuing lawsuits for Apple. So now HTC is returning the favor. And if the Cupertino criminals cabal somehow gets this HTC clone banned in America...then HTC will be happy to sell it worldwide.

Sure, its a sad day for Apple corporate profits, mostly stashed overseas btw, but turnabout is fair play and the Koreans are going full karate on their nemesis.

[Swordmaker]

I’d like to get hold of that stupid ergonomics engineer/team that said “let’s move the button from the top to the right side so it can be used with the right thumb - much easier”...They stopped there. They left the “down volume” button directly across from it, and now to turn it off one has to make a conscious effort to reposition the fingers on the left away from the volume buttons.

I have to agree with you on the button reposition thing. I am never certain which way the iPhone is in my pocket, so trying to use the button to silence a ring in my pocket can be problematic. Half the time the iPhone is facing front, half back, so I have only a fifty-fifty chance of pushing the right button. I much preferred it on top. Holding it, I've learned to know and just rock my thumb, not squeeze.

[Gaffer]

I like iPhones in general. They revolutionized personal communications. But that can go too far. I really, really think they blew it on the button thing. It took me one day of use and another day searching for a way around it in “setup”, and there is none.

Frankly, if I’d have been aware of the problem and found another make/model that didn’t have the problem, I’d have gone with it.

I will say this. I have to keep and use the phone now, but if they have not corrected this problem by the next model, that model won’t be on my replace list.

[Crucial]

You sure like to get in the tall weeds, don’t you? Lol

[Swordmaker]

Apple’s been stealing from the Koreans and Nips for years, then getting stacked California courts to win the ensuing lawsuits for Apple. So now HTC is returning the favor. And if the Cupertino criminals cabal somehow gets this HTC clone banned in America...then HTC will be happy to sell it worldwide.

More delusional lies from Baron Dennis Won Munchausen! Right, stacked California courts. . . Federal courts you mean with a Korean American Judge, one Judge Lucy Koh, who sided with Samsung every chance she got! Right. . . A judge whose decision to not slap an injunction on the sale of the infringing products was TWICE slapped down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and FOUR YEARS TOO LATE, she finally does, after the products have exhausted their sales potential and milked the infringed patent for all the profits they could! That kind of "California" court???

The SMOKING GUN Samsung 132 page internal memo from management to Samsung's engineering and design department instructing them on how to COPY the APPLE IPHONE!