I’m writing this as a HTC fanboy, and never before I felt so disappointed with the company’s smartphone annoucement today.
HTC is barely a name in the smartphone market today and it has clearly fall behind its competitors, so much that they have decided to announce the HTC U20 5G to just catch up with the rest and its downright underwhelming.
Although to be fair, the U20 5G is the company’s first 5G smartphone that’s powered by a not-so-powerful but OK Snapdragon 765G chipset, along with 8GB RAM and 256GB of storage, a 6.8-inch FHD+ LCD display, a familiar 48MP+8MP+2MP+2MP quad-camera system and 5000mAh batttery, which will set you back for NT$18,990 (RM2,739).
Really HTC? After almost two years and you are making a come back flagship model that resembles an OPPO phone on the back and a Honor 20 on the front, yet asking for that ridiculous price?
To be frank, I probably won’t be so mad if HTC have it sold under the Desire family, but on a side note, the company has also announced the Desire 20 Pro along it, and by all means its no ‘pro’ device either, it is a 6.5-inch device packed with a Snapdragon 665 chipset mated to 6GB RAM and 128GB storage, which will set you back for NT$8,990 (RM1,296).
Thankfully, none of these devices are coming to the Malaysian market.
I’m chill now, don’t worry.