MWC 2015: We're live at HTC's big One M9 launch in Barcelona

16.09 One M9 has been announced: simple elegant curves, width feels 'effortless' in your hands, and the phone is almost entirely made of metal.

16.08 New products bring design brilliance, apparently. We're going to get a story about it. It's a video of stuff that started with 'inner truth' and 'universal brilliance'.

16.07 He was just a warm up for the big dog: Chou in the house!

16.06: We just saw the advert for the new HTC phone. It was totally One M9. Robert Downey Jr narrated it. Phil Blair, president of EMEA, is on stage. Talking about Utopia in Progress.

16.03 Still nothing happened. Apart from me finding out this blog decided to go off the site for a few minutes. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED.

16.00 OK, it should have started by now. I'm going to leave soon if nothing happens. Oh, wait, boomy man is here. He's giving us emergency exit instructions. Health and safety can never be too strongly hammered home.

15.59: One minute to go. The boomy mic man hasn't been on in while to tell us to sit down. Hope he's OK.

15.58: I've listened to Belfast by Orbital 49,000 times since I walked in. HTC's choice, not mine. I'm standing at the back like I'm tending the bar. It's the only way to get internet.

You're welcome.

15.55: Probably should talk phones at some point. The HTC One M9, as you've probably seen all over the internet, is going to be a very similar device to the One M8 apparently. Metal and screens and Lollipop and all that. Will we see the wearable that's been apparently developed with Under Armour too?

Who knows. Let's all ask Anna Kendrick.

15.54: Just a cheeky reminder to berate me for the awful coverage over on @superbeav... or @techradar if you want to complain directly to the bosses.

15.51: Not that she says anything relevant to phones. She's just funny.

15.49: Alright players, it's game time. HTC's big announcement (let's be honest, if it's NOT the One M9 then HTC has staged the biggest troll in the history of all internet) is ten minutes away... let's all take a moment to take a look at what Anna Kendrick has been tweeting.

HTC is helping to kick of proceedings at MWC today with the big launch of its next flagship, the HTC One M9.

Following months of leaks and rumours, we're expecting big things from the company's new handset. It certainly has big shoes to fill in the wake of the M8. Ridiculously, stupidly big shoes.

Hope are also high for HTC's first wearable, which is rumoured to be debuting in Barcelona alongside the M9. Will it bring HTC's brilliant design to a market that's still trying to prove its value.

Keep eyes on this page as we'll be updating with all the news as it breaks...

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