Photo shows HTC One smartphone with two camera lenses

A photo has appeared online of what would be the successor to the HTC One. The photo shows a device with the design of the HTC One, but has a second camera lens. This is presumably to enable focusing and editing of photos afterwards.

The successor to the HTC One has, as the image of twitterer HTCFamily correct, same design as the current One. The image shows the same unibody aluminum design with thin plastic lines through which antennas can pick up signals. A small difference is the placement of the second microphone: it is no longer on the left on the back, but on the right.

The second camera lens can be used to perceive depth in photos. HTC will probably not use that to make 3D images, but to store information about depth. On the basis of this, a photo can be focused afterwards. It also makes image editing easier: the depth information allows the software to determine which objects can be seen where on the image. The fact that the aperture is smaller seems to indicate that the second camera lens is not primarily intended for taking photos.

In addition to the camera lenses on the back, the successor to the One would also have a front camera for selfies with a resolution of five megapixels. Previously, Huawei already put a 5MP camera on the front of a smartphone with its Ascend P6.

It is the first time that a photo has surfaced from the smartphone. Earlier it was rumored that the device has two camera lenses on the back. The phone would also have a slightly larger screen than the current One without making the device much larger as a whole: HTC would exchange the capacitive buttons for onscreen buttons. With thinner bezels on the sides, the current housing could accommodate the larger screen.

The screen would keep the same full HD resolution. The phone would run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, a quad-core soc with four Krait cores at 2.2 GHz and Adreno 330 GPU. The phone would be unveiled in a few weeks and hit stores in a few months.