HTC One Max with Finger Print Scanner Spotted at Chinese Telecom Certifications Site, Tipped to Debut on 17 October

A snapshot of the rumoured HTC One Max smartphone featuring a finger-print scanner has been spotted at the Chinese government owned telecommunication certifications agency.

Dutch based technology blog, Mobileaks, dug up a slew of pictures of the rumoured HTC phablet (codenamed HTC 809d) from Tenaa (Telecommunication Equipment Certifications Center), a Chinese government body similar to the US-based FCC (Federal Communication Commission). Among the four pictures, one of them picturing the back panel of the HTC handset shows a distinguishable square space below the camera module which many beileve it to be the finger-print scanner. [To view the rumoured HTC One Max images, click here]

Just hours after the report went viral, Chinese online seller ePrice revealed that HTC One Max will apparently launch on 17 October (or a week after) with a base price of 23,900 TWD (Taiwan New Dollar), approximately ₹50,400 in terms of Indian currency. However, there are no specific reports about the regions which would get the shipments in the first phase. Since the Taiwanese company is yet make a statement on these speculations, it is premature to say that the rumoured phablet will make its debut next month.

HTC One Max reportedly sports a 5.9-inch super LCD 3 screen with full HD 1920x1080p resolution and runs on the new Android v4.3 Jelly Bean OS along with the HTC's custom UI Sense v5.5.

Apart from the finger-print scanner and the sumptuous battery capacity of 3300 mAh, HTC One Max is said to pack pretty much the same specifications as seen in the original HTC One. The phablet variant is expected sport an 'UltraPixel' camera (rear side), 2.1-megapixel secondary camera on the front, 2GB RAM, 32GB inbuilt memory and 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor.

Rumoured specifications of HTC One Max: