HTC News & Updates: Vive-Branded Smartphone Shows Up in Official Video

HTC might be preparing a Vive-branded smartphone for its January 12 event. This speculation comes from a recently leaked promotional video that shows how the Taiwanese company wants to encourage individual styling for its handsets.

News arrived when the famous leakster Evan Blass took to twitter to share HTC's promotional clip, where it points out how most of today's handsets fail to make that impact or connect with their users. The video after that shows how HTC is experimenting on different colours, materials and finishes to give its handsets an individual style that would match their owners' preference.

According to 9To5Google, it's clear in from the video that HTC wants to make phones that are not just featuring a single solid colour. The company also desires to design phone bodies with chemicals, super fibers and litmus to make them unique and ensure that the handsets also function as a tool of self-expression.

However, promo clip mainly focuses on this designing technology, the last couple of seconds from the video hint at the existence of an HTC Vive smartphone. In the final seconds, three smartphones could be seen lying flat on the surface. One of the units noticeably has antenna lines on all four sides.

The HTC Vive name and the Vive logo can then be seen printed horizontally in the middle of the device's back. Making this clue even more obvious is how a hand chooses to grab the Vive phone and not the other two units in the frame.

The brief appearance of the Vive-branded smartphone in the promo clip also suggests that HTC wants to make the most out of the popularity of its virtual reality headset. However, it still not clear on what this Vive-branding could really mean for the handset.

HTC is holding a special event on Jan. 12. Accordingly, the company is going to unveil the HTC Ocean at the event. A newly leaked video of the handset is currently making rounds on the internet related to Ocean phone, and it shows the intuitive controls of the sides of the HTC Ocean, which is expected to debut as the HTC U Ultra.