HTC ONE REVIEW

HTC launched another android flagship smartphone namely HTC one in India which is priced @ 42990/-. It is available in Black and Silver shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone very good compared to previous devices. It uses corning gorilla glass 2 front and an aluminium body on the back making it durable. It is slim at 9.3mm and weighs 143gms. The display is a 4.7 inch 16M FULL HD Super LCD-3 capacitive touchscreen with 469ppi. The viewing angles and the sunlight legibility of this display is very good. It uses HTC's Sense 5.0 User Interface.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has a 32GB/64GB internal storage options and is not further expandable. The device features its on dedicated multimedia apps which are very good. It has a beats audio sound enhancement and HTC's Boom Sound integrated with front stereo speakers. On-board connectivity's such as 2G, 3G, 4G(LTE), WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS & GLONASS, NFC and USB are standard and also has an IR (Infrared) port.

CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES 
It has a 4 MP Ultra pixel Rear Camera with autofocus & led which features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Face detection, Optical image stabilization (OIS) etc. The camera clarity is pretty good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization & stereo sound having bit-rate 17-19 Mbps in MP4 format. The video recording clarity is great. It has a 2.1 MP Front camera which does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android(OS) 4.1.2 jelly bean out of the box with a planned upgrade to 4.2 jelly bean. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (APQ8064T) processor running a quad core at 1.7 GHZ with 2 GB RAM and an Adreno 320 GPU. The performance is very good which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smoothly and there is no lag in at all.
QUADRANT : 11746.
ANTUTU : 22678.
NENAMARK 2 : 61 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a non-removable Li-Pro 2300 MAH Battery. The battery life is pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 10:05H.
VIDEO PLAYBACK: upto 10:10H.  
TALK TIME : upto 12:30H(2G) / upto 13:45H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 500H(3G).

PROS
*Excellent build quality.
*Great display and viewing angles.
*Pretty good camera & great video recording clarity.
*Excellent loudspeaker.
*IR blaster.
*Beats audio enhancements.

CONS
*Non-removable battery.
*No microSD slot just one storage option. 
*Power key placing could have been better.
*Bit Pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.3/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.






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