The One A9 comes with a “bead-blasted” hairline metal chassis, etched buttons, and a dual-tone finish available in a Carbon Gray, Opal Silver, Topaz Gold and Deep Garnet. This time around, the company even outfitted its newest midranger with optical image stabilization for the camera, and a fingerprint scanner, adding to its standard BoomSound set of stereo speakers, ready to fend off the majority of midrangers, including the Chinese darlings.
To sum it up for an “introductory” $400 preorder price, you are getting the premium design feel you see in the slideshow below, 1080p AMOLED display, 13 MP OIS camera, BoomSound stereo speakers, a dedicated audio DAC, finger scanner, and 32 GB of internal storage, not to mention that there is a microSD slot for expansion.