HTC DESIRE EYE REVIEW

HTC launched its flagship desire series of android smartphone namely Desire EYE in India which is priced @ 36,900/-. It is available is White, Red 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 great in hands. It is slim at 8.5 mm and weighs 154gms. It has 5.2 inch FULL HD IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display of resolution 1920 x 1080 with 424ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Excellent. It runs on HTC's Sense 6.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITES

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 Excellent overall. Daytime the images are Excellent 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 Excellent overall. Daytime the video clarity is Excellent and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been better. It also has a 13MP front camera with autofocus and dual led flash for selfe's which does 1080p video with HDR and clarity is Excellent overall.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.4 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 SOC (MSM8974AC) processor running a quad core at 2.5 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture)with 2GB RAM and Adreno 330 (550 MHZ single Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking very well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT :25150.

ANTUTU : 40296.

NENAMARK 2 : 59.6fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 2400 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below. It also supports Qualcomm's fast charging technology which changes upto 60% in 30 min. 

BROWSING : upto 10:10H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 10:30H.

TALKTIME : upto 20H(2G) / upto 18H(3G).

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

PROS

*Great build quality.

*Great display and viewing angle.

*Excellent Performance.

*Great camera & video recording clarity and excellent front camera.
*Excellent Loudspeaker with Boom sound speakers.
*USB OTG & NFC. 

*Very good battery life.
*IP57 certified Dust and water resistant.

CONS

*Non removable battery.
*No IR Blaster.
*No OIS (Optical Image Stabalization) for the camera.

*No dedicated camera key.

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.