From DailyTech: For those miffed at HTC Corp.'s (TPE:2498) decision to snub quad-HD (QHD) (aka "2K") display technology with its flagship HTC One M9 (codename: "HTC Hima"), the HTC One E9+ (codename: "HTC A55") may be the device you were hoping for.
The E9+ was quietly announced via HTC's Chinese language website.
With a 5.5-inch display, the E9 Plus is bigger than the HTC One M9. It's big enough you could call it a phablet, although some will view it more as a "large smartphone". The star of the show is a new QHD screen. The body is a little less premium with a hybrid plastic/metal design, versus the all metal two-tone diamond cut unibody of the One M9. The processor is more powerful, but less power efficient.
The HTC E9+ is driven by a MediaTek, Inc. (TPE:2454) system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6795M. This is a 64-bit instruction width design utilizing four ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) Cortex-A53 cores and 4x Cortex-A57 cores which can clock up to 2 GHz. Speeds are controlled by MediaTek's CorePilot technology. Graphics are provided by the onboard PowerVR G6200 "Rogue" GPU from Imagination Technologies plc. (LON:IMG). The Mediatek chip is built on a 28 nm process.
In other words, expect the HTC One E9+ to pack more processing power than the HTC One M9, but some of that power will be eaten up by the cost of rendering for the higher-resolution screen. Additionally expect inferior battery life to the HTC One M9
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