The younger ones won’t remember it, but at the dawn of the smartphone age HTC managed to become the most relevant manufacturer in the Android mobile market. The HTC Dream was actually the first Android-powered smartphone to hit the market, to the point where it was unofficially called the Google Phone. The collaboration between the two technology companies was continuous over time (until it was actually bought by Google), but after playing a very useful role mainly between 2008 and 2012, it gradually fell behind until it ended up being practically irrelevant. . This story is not new or unique, in fact we have seen it with many other manufacturers.

In an attempt to recover at least some of its previous success, HTC announced in March 2022 that it was going to create the first smartphone for the Metaverse, a proposal that was actually born mortally wounded by relying on the concept as a failure. the way the Metaverse is today. However, after some previous launch, they ended up closing this bet with what is the top of the line in their catalog so far, HTC U23 Pro which was launched last year.

At that time, the company decided on a mid-ranger with a device that could be improved in some aspects, and now we know that HTC tries again, this time with the HTC U24 Pro, a smartphone that retains the most notable features of the U23 Pro while potentially correcting some of its faults. The information is not official, so changes could still happen, but due to its origin, we can trust that it is reliable.

One of the most reprehensible points of the previous generation was the decision for the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC, which already had a more current version at the time. Fortunately, in this case, it looks like the tech company has decided to take a double leap, so the HTC U24 Pro will be built on Snapdragon 7 Gen 3, which will accompany 12 gigabytes of RAM. Its face will be a 6.5-inch screen with FullHD+ resolution (1,080 x 2,436 pixels with a density of 480 dpi) and, as expected, it will come with Android 14.

So we are talking about medium, medium, which, if it manages to hit the market with a competitive price, and forgets the oddities like betting on the Metaverse, may regain some of its lost prominence. Not much, of course, but it starts somewhere.