By Salvador Rodriguez Los Angeles Times

10:58 a.m. EST, January 30, 2013

HTC sent out media invitations Tuesday to a press event set to take place on Feb. 19 where the company is widely expected to announce its next flagship phone.

The event is scheduled for a 10 a.m. EDT and will take place in New York City.

The invite says "Save the date" and features a generic photo of a person on a street.

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HTC is expected to announce an Android phone called the M7 at the event. The rumored phone is said to have a 4.7-inch screen and a powerful 1.7GHz quad-core processor.

The Taiwanese company was originally expected to announce the device at the Mobile World Congress, which starts Feb. 25, but it looks like HTC has scheduled its own event ahead of the conference so that its news can stand out.

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