This could be our first look at the HTC One M9

The HTC One M8 is a great phone, so great that it’s our smartphone of the year. We’ve already heard some rumours about HTC’s follow-up, including word that it might not even be called the HTC One M9. Now we have a glimpse of what the phone might look like.

Nowhereelese.fr claims to have got its hands on the phone’s front panel, and from the looks of things the phone will have a different design than the One M8 and M7, as well as being slightly larger. Nowhereelse.fr claims that the screen is 5.2-inches, making it slightly larger than the 5-inch display in the One M8.

The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed that this contradicts the previous specs that have leaked, which claimed the phone would have a 5.5-inch display. That’s the thing about rumours, you can’t be sure that they haven’t just been made up.

In any case, we’ll keep you up to date if we hear anything else. Chances are we’ll be hearing an awful lot more about the phone before its rumoured launch date in March.