Great news for those wanting to get their hands on a HTC 10 because pre-orders of the device will start to ship out starting from next week. This was confirmed by an HTC employee on his Twitter account.

Jeff Gordon Confirms That HTC 10 Pre-Orders Will Begin To Ship Out Starting Next Week

Senior Global Online Communications Manager at HTC Corporation, Jeff Gordon managed to tweet out that the company will start to ship out pre-orders of HTC 10 from next week. Details are currently scarce at the moment, since the executive did not give us an exact date, but we do know that it is going to be for the unlocked model.

@Eak1570 Unlocked HTC 10 begins shipping in the US next week.

— Jeff Gordon (@urbanstrata) April 29, 2016

Coming to the hardware of the flagship smartphone, HTC 10 features a 5.2-inch QHD display (2560 x 1440), and sports a Super LCD5 display that has been reinforced with a curved edge Gorilla Glass. Powered by a Snapdragon 820 and 4GB or RAM, the smartphone comes in two internal storage variants: a 32GB one and a 64GB one, with a storage expansion slot that is able to accommodate a 2TB MicroSD card. One thing that HTC has capitalized upon is the speaker quality of its devices.

That being said, HTC 10 features the company’s BoomSound audio profile, that improves the overall sound experience when you want to get down to using it for entertainment purposes without using headphones or earphones. Additionally, the device sports a 3,000mAh cell underneath its unibody chassis. Despite featuring a 3,000mAh battery, HTC states that you can get up to up to 27 hours while being connected to the 3G and 4G networks.

On top of that, you can also experience up to 19 days of standby time while connected to the same networks. There is also a power saving mode that will allow you to rake battery life up to 2 whole days and guess what? HTC 10 is compatible with Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 technology thanks to the bundling of a compatible charger. With this, you will be able to increase the battery life up to 50 percent in just 30 minutes.

The phone accommodates a nanoSIM card and sports a Type-C USB port, Bluetooth 4.2 chip and an 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter. HTC 10 will ship in four colors: Carbon Grey, Glacier Silver, Topaz Gold, and Camellia Red, and they’ll come in two versions with different Qualcomm Snapdragon processors depending on the market.

Has HTC finally made a phone that is worthy to duke it out with the big guns of the Android smartphone family? Let us know your thoughts right away.

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