Whether or not you get the One E9 in your corner of the globe is up in the air. The E8 made it to the US through Sprint, but there's no guarantees that its successor will make the same leap. Also, it's not certain just when HTC will pull the trigger. The company recently teased more big news in mid-to-late March, but there's no guarantee that it was referring to the E9.

Update: Our sister site in China spotted the HTC One E9's specs on the same regulator's site. If accurate, the incoming model will indeed have a QHD 2,660 x 1,440 screen, an unspecified 2GHz octa-core chip (probably this MediaTek model), 3GB of RAM, 32GB memory with MicroSD support and a 20-megapixel rear camera. It'll be interesting to see how HTC markets (and prices) the One E9, which we can now see is far from a poor-man's M9.