HTC 10 With 5.2-inch QHD Display, Snapdragon 820 SoC, 12MP Camera Launched at $699 (theverge.com)

Dan Seifert, writing for The Verge: HTC is today formally announcing the 10, its flagship smartphone for 2016. The HTC 10 follows last year's M9 and blends the design of the M series with the A9 that came last fall. HTC says it spent 12 months designing this phone and integrated feedback from its customers throughout the development process. The 10 has everything you might expect from a flagship Android phone in 2016. There's a 5.2-inch, quad HD Super LCD 5 display that HTC says displays 30 percent more color than last year's phone. The screen is covered in Gorilla Glass with curved edges that blend into the phone's metal frame. You'll be able to find out if that's enough for HTC to compete when the phone ships next month for $699. One interesting feature, which separates HTC 10 from many other Android flagship smartphones, is support for AirPlay. The feature enables the smartphone to stream media content to an Apple TV.

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From TFS:

The 10 has everything you might expect from a flagship Android phone in 2016.

I read TFA, and I didn't see anything about cordless charging. That is a feature I not only expect, but require from a "flagship Android phone." Without it, what I expect is that the charging connector will become unusable like it has in every non-cordless-charging phone I've owned. And which, since the advent of cordless charging, is now only a (very) bad memory.

(delighted user of a Galaxy S7 w/cordless charging here. Thanks, Samsung.)