No, HTC's not dead, and it's making a new phone

Everyone’s been wondering where HTC has been all these years. The company hasn’t launched a flagship phone since 2018, and even that phone wasn’t the best on the market. However, the company is not backing down just yet, as there’s word that it could be working on a new smartphone called the HTC U23 Pro.

Much of the world has moved on from HTC, as the company has had a hard fall from grace. It was a titan in the early 2010s being one of the first companies to give its phones a full metal unibody and front-facing speakers. However, towards the end of that decade, its popularity waned and other Android manufacturers like Samsung and Motorola left it in the dust.

Now, HTC seems to be a shell of its former self. Its smartphone releases are few and far apart, and none of them have done anything to recapture the audience that once touted their phones.

However, HTC might be making the HTC U23 Pro

This is all leaked information, so you’ll want to take it with a grain of salt. A new Geekbench listing (via Phone Arena) popped up, and it shows us what looks to be a new HTC Flagship in the works. What’s notable about this listing is that it uses the “U” moniker that HTC used for its previous Flagship phones. Since this is a Geekbench listing, we don’t have too much information on the exact specs.

The name of the phone is listed as the HTC U23 Pro, and it will use an Octa-Core SoC. All we know about the SoC is that it’s going to have a base frequency of 1.8 GHz, and 1 core is capable of 2.4 GHz. There’s no word about the storage, but the listing says that it will have 11.09GB of RAM. This points to 12GB of RAM.

Other than that, there’s not much more to glean from this listing. If the phone already made it to Geekbench, then there’s a chance that it’s pretty far in production.

If HTC plans to launch this phone this year, then, depending on the launch date, it could have some stiff competition. This phone could very well go up against the Nothing Phone (2), the iPhone 15, or the Pixel 8 phones. HTC is going to have to find a way to make the U23 Pro stick out amongst the competition if it wants to reclaim some of its former glory.