HTC ONE E8 REVIEW

HTC launched high end desire series android smartphone namely One E8 in India which is priced @ 36,900/-. It is available is White, Red, Black and Blue shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is Great. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a polycarbonate unibody back and feels  good in hands. It is slim at 9.9mm and weighs 149gms. It has 5 inch FULL HD Super LCD 3 display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 441 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on HTC's Sense 6.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as Zoe camera app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n, Wifi Dual-band, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 .But has NFC & lacks IR blaster.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and  led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is very good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images and clarity is quite good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-17 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is great overall. Daytime the video clarity is Very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video with HDR and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 (MSM8974AC) processor running a quad core at 2.5 GHZ (Cortex A15) with 2GB RAM and Adreno 330 (550 MHZ single Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT :23950.

ANTUTU : 37246.

NENAMARK 2 : 59.5fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 2600 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 10:10H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 11:20H.

TALKTIME : upto 18H(2G) / upto 17H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 450H(2G) / upto 430H(3G).

PROS

*Great build quality.

*Excellent display and viewing angle.

*Excellent Performance.

*Very good camera and great video recording clarity.
*Excellent Loudspeaker with Boom sound speakers.
*USB OTG & IR Blaster but also optinal NFC 

*Very good battery life.

CONS

*Non removable battery.
*Display is bit reflective hampering sunlight legibility with respect to competition.
*No IR Blaster.

*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.3/10.

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