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HTC is hard at work on its next flagship phone, the U12 Plus, and now we’ve gotten our first good look at what the phone will look like, courtesy of a leak from Evan Blass over at VentureBeat. It’s hard to tell from the pictures if this is the same phone as the rumored U12 prototype that HTC showed off at a 5G event in Taiwan or if this is a different model.

The phone looks more or less like a major flagship smartphone in 2018 should — big, reduced bezel display, dual-camera system, and what seems to be similar design cues from the U12 Plus’s predecessors, the U11 and U11 Plus. Although, as my colleague Chris Welch points out, good luck not seeing the surprised robot face that the cameras, flash, and fingerprint sensor make on the back…

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