HTC to produce more iPhone 6s doppelgangers as the One A9 starts "different and fashionable" design phase

Did the new HTC One A9's design blow you away? It better have, for HTC apparently plans to extend the A9's iPhone-like styling to more of its high and mid-tier handsets. The information comes from Mr. Jack Tong, president of HTC North Asia. At the One A9's Taiwan launch event, he said that the new, "different and fashionable" design language presented by the One A9 will trickle to the company's high-end M series and mid-range Desire family.

HTC has faced (and unpersuasively defended) criticism for introducing a high profile smartphone that looks strikingly similar to the Apple iPhone 6s, echoing Samsung's original Galaxy S and its uncanny resemblance to the iPhone 3GS. Alas, HTC is no longer in a position to experiment. During its last fiscal quarter, the company experienced a net loss of roughly NT$4.48 billion ($138 million) and saw its revenue drop from NT$41.9 billion (~$1.29 billion) to NT$21.4 billion (~$658 million).