The new HTC One M9 smarphone is displayed during the Mobile World Congress
The new HTC One M9 smarphone is displayed during the Mobile World CongressREUTERS/Gustau Nacarino

If you are wondering what to gift your mother for Mother's Day 2016, here is something that may help, especially if your mom loves smartphones or needs a replacement. HTC is selling its HTC One A9 and HTC One M9 at a good discounted price as part of the Mother's Day celebrations. The deal ends on Sunday.

Mother's Day, celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year, falls on May 8 this time.

As part of the Mother's Day deal, HTC is selling the unlocked and Sprint version of HTC One A9 (garnet colour) for $389 against the original price of $499, and the unlocked version of HTC One M9 (pink colour) for $399 against the original price of $649.

The deal is limited to the United States. According to HTC USA, a customer can buy up to 10 of each smartphone and "all purchases must ship to a valid shipping address in the 50 United States and the District of Columbia."

HTC One A9 specifications

The device sports a 5-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with 1,080x1,920 pixels (441 ppi pixel density), measures 145.8x70.8x7.3 mm in dimension and weighs 143 g. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor, runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with HTC Sense, and comes packed with a 16/32GB internal memory (expandable up to 200GB via microSD card) and a 2/3GB RAM. The device also has a 13MP main camera with f/2.0 aperture, autofocus, dual-LED and OIS (optical image stabilisation), a 4MP front-snapper with f/2.0 aperture, 27mm, 1/3" sensor size and 2µm pixel size, and a non-removable Li-Ion 2,150mAh battery.

HTC One M9 specifications

The HTC One M9 measures 144.6x69.7x9.6 mm in dimension, weighs 157 g and sports a 5-inch Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen with a 1,080x1,920 pixels (441 ppi pixel density).

Under the hood, it has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor, an Adreno 430 GPU, an Android 6.0 Marshmallow (upgraded via OTA) with HTC Sense UI 7.0, a 32GB internal memory (expandable up to 200GB), and a 3GB RAM.

The smartphone has a 20MP main camera with f/2.2, 1/2.4" sensor size and 1.2 µm pixel size, a 4MP front-snapper with f/2.0, 27mm, 1/3" sensor size and 2µm pixel size, and a non-removable Li-Po 2,840mAh battery.