HTC ONE MAX REVIEW

  

HTC launched its phablet smartphone in India namely One MAX which is priced @ 58990. It is available in silver shade.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The desigh is very good and feels premium. It. has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and an alluminium rear n sides with plastic strips on top n botttom of the rear making it durable. It is slim at 10.3mm and weighs 217gms. It has a 5.9 inch 16M FULL HD Super LCD 3 capacitive touchscreen with resolution 1920X1080 having 373ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display are very good. It uses HTC's Sense 5.5 User Interface.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES

It has a 16GB/32GB internal storage and is expandable upto 64 GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps which are very good. It also has HTC's Boom sound integrated with front stereo speakers. On-board connectivitie's such as 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE), WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS & GLONASS, NFC and USB & USB OTG support are standard. But also has IR(Infrared) Port.

CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 4 MP (1/3 inch sensor size) Ultra pixel Rear Camera with autofocus & LED which features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Face detection,etc. The camera clarity is good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps & HD 720p@60fps 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 on Android (OS) 4.3 jelly bean out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (APQ8064) processor running a quad core at 1.7 GHZ with 2 GB RAM and an Adreno 320 GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smoothly and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 12155.
ANTUTU : 26890.
NENAMARK 2 : 61 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a non-removable Li-Pro 3300 MAH Battery. The battery life is Excellent which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 11:20H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 13:20H.
TALKTIME : upto 24H(2G) / upto 22:30H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 790H(2G) / upto 750H(3G).

PROS
*Excellent build quality.
*Great display and viewing angles.
*Excellent performance.
*Pretty good camera & Great video recording clarity.
*Excellent battery life.
*Finger print sensor.
*Excellent loudspeaker.

CONS
*Big even for a phablet.
*Camera lacks OIS (Optical Image Stabilization) and no dedicated camera key.
*Non-removable battery.
*Could have had snapdragon 800 with adreno 320 GPU.
*Fingerprint scanner software could have been better.
*Pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.9/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.