HTC has come out on its official Weibo account to post a picture teasing what looks to be a smartphone of some kind. Notably, September 6th would put the announcement during IFA, so the date seems a bit more than plausibly real. Also, HTC has been saying since the flop that was the HTC One M9 that it was planning to try and take at least one more stab at the smartphone market...

HTC's CEO Cher Wang having promised a new "hero product" in October, and most recently, images of what is purportedly an "HTC One A9"  (otherwise known as "Aero") leaked out. There's no way to know if that image is genuine, but if it is, it's definitely an unashamed copy of Apple's iPhone 6. It does, however, match up with another image leaked purporting to show the A9. I guess we're only a few days away from knowing the truth.

Here's the tease:

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