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Posted on 23/07/2013 German Luigi
After some initial delays, the expected HTC One is now on sale here in Italy for more than 3 months, and has already seen a substantial sold out at most of the centers operator and specialty retailers. The latest top of the range of the consortium Taiwanese then collected a moderate commercial success and many were the reasons that have been able to conquer the audience. First of all, the beauty undisputed that this terminal has, also because of the choice of materials on average above the quality standards of the other terminals Android. Then invariably the sober character of the interface HTC Sense, cha for many years produces a certain charm of a consumer even willing to download themes that emulate the appeal on your phone, and lastly of course the goodness of the technical specifications, always fi rst choice and in line with the new members of the category. How then to contradict those who choose HTC One , now one of the few top smartphone with Android operating system that has simplified the terms and conveniently reacted to the expectations of the users bored by the two years of “better” and ” more “then the other members of the market. The flamboyant and multifunctional TouchWiz last Samsung Galaxy , in fact, it may be a bit overloaded with options and components, which are likely to collapse the usability along with the yearnings of the consumer alone still does not know recognize the right size of a man by one SmartDevice. The convenience, reliability and grace are very difficult to balance the elements within a single product, especially when there are too many variables available and it is hard to manage the flood of possibilities and combinations. The commercial strategy Samsung did not bat an eyel id to this point, but we wonder what would happen if next year the essence and philosophy of the original Galaxy were once again perpetuated, with the same system, same widgets, same design and many new features and conjunctions. Dare say a confused jumble in the eyes of a user uninterested maybe the last cutting edge technology, but a priceless “ultimate technology” for the usual geek-hungry hardware, inches, and performance.
HTC One is certainly not the revolution we’ve all been waiting for, nor the true concept of human companion that underlies the advertising campaigns of nearly every smartphone presented throughout the year, but from here on will definitely start the route that will lead us back experience we accidentally disseminated by the introduction of the first mobile dual-heart: the priceless and excellent essence.
Into Palace in mirrors Into  From every point of view, from the front, from the back lines and edges you appreciate unique, original and catalytic. You never stop to observe a minimum if you are fans of the sector, and this may well be an advantage for a product that there is next at any time of the day, even and especially in the most brutal situations. The aluminum body is not the same unibody adopted by the old Flyer or Sensation, and this one has a profile much slimmer and lighter, 143 g of , with intervals in glacial white to color on silver sides and the rear, which otherwise would have seemed too stretched. There is talk of a height of nearly 14 cm, mainly due to the ratio of the display in 16:9 and the choice to mount the two powerful stereo speakers right next to the screen, in order to make the ‘multimedia experience even more exciting. The glass Corning Gorilla Glass 2 , extends up the edges, and include them in the fine grinding that goes on aluminum plates front and rear. The grip is very strong thanks to the return of the profile and the back curve already observed on One SV, however in this case we believe that placing the ignition key / unlock right on the top edge instead of on the right side, to interfere not just the handling with one hand, a field for which also the absence of the option key capacitive coupling between the physical controls below the display may be a problem with the vast distances of the virtual controls that appear at the top of the screen.
ergonomic has done a great job for balancing the weight and in this way the terminal struggle to get out of hand, even if we have to recognize how prolonged contact there has returned the same feeling of unio n between the palm and the shell mid-proven model One SV-range, is certainly due to screen size, of nearly an inch higher with 4.7 “ for L ‘ HTC One , is little less than for the choice of materials, which compared to plastic, can cause some overheating too much on the palm and also a certain feeling of irritation on the toes due to friction of grinding metal.
The hardware anyway sports a powerful quad- core Snapdragon 600 1.7 Ghz, with 2GB of DDR2 RAM, 32 or 64GB of internal storage space can not be expanded, Super LCD display Full HD 3, NFC, camera system with Ultrapixel Image 2 and HTC chip with optical aperture and 28mm, a secondary camera with 2.1 megapixel camera with HDR capabilities and ultrangolare, optimization and amplification beatsaudio HTC BoomSound external speakers. The battery is 2300mAh . Into HTC Sense 5 Into  Accomplished sign in with your Google Account, and any other type of online service, such as Flickr, LinkedIn, Istantgram, Facebook, synchronization port Featured on the homescreen BlinkFeed a series of news, updates, messages, also linked to pre-selected topics of current events, lyfestile, sports, travel, like a great almanac instant that keeps us constantly at the center of our favorite activities . This can be said to be the centerpiece of the new HTC Sense interface 5 , an experience you want to have very little to do with choices, options, and the countless possibilities that sometimes confuse the user in a normal SmartDeviceMonitor, and instead want to focus on the content and sharing, quality of service and elegance to be simple. Scrolling through the other panels of canvas and each menu item is extremely formal, at least in the default setting, but strangely this model lacks the customization of the interface profiles to quickly swap backgrounds and widgets, and there is only the possibility of change the appearance of the lock screen with some useful widgets, further evidence of the inclination assumed business from the terminal, with little information on the screen, only those strictly necessary.
We must consider, however, that sometimes the excessive purification of submenu had led to omissions in the list of programs and commands somewhat questionable before updating to version 4.2.2 of Android. The more it was just worsening the already mentioned lack of capacitive button option, which only rarely and for a few applications could be replaced by continuous pressing back. In most cases however it was displayed on the screen at the top, among a few other virtual controls programs, or down on the display, on a dark band that evaded plus thick enough pixels to the horizontal resolution becomes 1776×1080. The aim would be to make use of the phone moved to the most high-end, between the commands in the app, without having to resort to the capacitive buttons for often do not hang your thumb constantly, following the will of Google, but unfortunately this practice is still simply inevitable and becomes quite uncomfortable on a phone of almost 5 “; see two buttons back then, a virtual one above and the other below the physical, with options moved to the other side and the home button at the other corner again, it could also annoy someone, who would be inclined to choose the most conservative layout of keys on the Samsung Galaxy.
With the new update, it was possible to change the setting by turning the odd long press on the home button also to recall the options, and let Slide your finger from the home button upwards to switch to Google Now. Another solution is the strange layout of the controls in the virtual application drawer (the drawer) in which to sort or search for the app you have to necessarily go back to the top of the column of icons to reveal the search buttons, quick purchase on Play Store and finally the option key, otherwise unusable: the continuous pressing physical or back home in fact, it simply returns to the previous homescreen.
The newest update to version Android 4.2.2 has fortunately also dammed other unpleasant bugs that might otherwise seriously affect our final judgment during the first day trial. now, in fact, also HTC One has the shortcuts from the notifications, folding in new control panel by pressing the key that first drew just options, or pull-down menu directly from the two-finger scrolling from top to bottom and home screens can finally be moved and rearranged by classic menu to preview that is activat ed with the pinch to zoom. E ‘to be considered less important than the lack of a repository for managing files or voice for the options for the developer aspects but always in line with the need to make available the terminal to anyone plus easily replaceable with other app’s Play Store, such as the excellent ASTRO File Manager or circumvented by simple tricks to discover (from Settings -> About -> Software Information -> Other, 5 consecutive tap on the item number to re-build options of the developer.) We recognize in any case some slight drop in frame rate of animations, pretty basic to be honest, an issue that we believe more than anything else related to ‘unripe version of the launcher. Into Some filings in most Into  With an operating system free enough to be granted an in-depth customization of the terminal, even if the manufacturer does not have the possibility and if the new interface HTC Sense 5 does not be to our liking, it would not be never be a real deterrent to the purchase of HTC One . This smartphone is in its way a gem, and knows how to perform each task in the best way, while showing in more austere and less attractive the other proposals today in the window. If this is a virtue or a defect, you will always determine this, but we will testify about the absolute efficiency of each sub-technical and practical. The phone , alternates to the call list and contacts with the convenient slide side, the audio call is really great, definitely thanks to the automatic volume control that detects the background noise with the environmental Sense technology Voice and also the very high-performance microphones together with the elongated design, give us the impression of talking to a real phone, (such as those 80 years), with a warm sound, grip, and distant light years from the last “slaps” Plastic current generation smartphone. Having praised much the same feature for the smallest SV One , we can not help but observe how the keyboard on this virtual model does not have a predictive system equally valid. At times, in fact, tends to be inaccurate and too invasive with your corrections, reticent to store words and visually ambiguous in conveying suggestions. We too found a bug in Polaris Office which does not allow you to insert a tiny apostrophe before and see the maximum size the text as you type. The phone reception is g ood, but not exceptional: other phones in some cases have shown greater sensitivity. L ‘ HSDPA is very fast with the Flash Player active, and the browser adapts in real time the text of web pages, despite the resolution of Full HD screen will slow down the reformatting than seen on One SV . The inbox is tidy and punctual, as you would expect from a terminal of this range, more suitable layout of the controls and of mailboxes that can be managed directly from the options at the top left. We can not say that the phone has never locked: once it was restarted by itself without warning and crashed into another also the launcher. Autonomy is not sorry but even enthusiastic: if you use it often, it keeps active data traffic, and especially taking some pictures, you do not arrive late in the evening. Into “High Tech Computer” If you entertainment and leisure that a top smartphone makes you think, HTC One will certainly not disappoint your expectations. The hardware and software of this model can actually offer something more and amaze the user with features which until a few years ago were not provided even on a PC. The smart scene mode HTC Zoe was really moving, both for the quality of the digital image processing and video clips, which are processed in a few seconds after shooting, and automatically stored in albums and events, both for the ease with which even the impromptu moments of our lives, even those foolish and poorly recorded, can be transformed into art in motion, with montages and music quite matched. A striking example occurred during a shoot of two subjects in the swing. The movie clips were automatically alternated with other photos related to the same event between close-ups, zooming, panning, stop frame, with the music of the Rolling Stones and a final video highlights, error ended up in the gallery, that revealed the swings empty still moving. Many are visual themes and music to choose from for personalization, but surely always have a director secret that mounts to the best flight of the day is just amazing. Photographing in an instant with how Zoe and bring back a 3 second-movie set to shoot, to mention also the sound atmosphere, it can be very exciting, although in this case the focus is not invariably results in exceptional, alternatively for more creative you can always add more filters and effects to the classic mode, with change of course in night scene and HDR . In general, the photographs enjoy great uniformity for every circumstance, an excellent yield of the dark scenes in particular, using a sensor with pixels in double size, but unfortunately you experience loss of fine detail and a yield somewhat plasticky of the flesh, for which it is not advisable to use the correction for anti-sh ine too, do not flatten the faces. More efficient than other phones on the front facing room, which is activated by sliding your finger from right to left in the app camera, enhanced by an increased field of view and with less optical deformations. With regard to the use of multimedia content directly from the terminal, one can not but pay tribute to the excellent work done on the screen and the audio system, both among the best on the scene, especially the last one. The screen is a Super IPS LCD of the third generation, and we can say that blacks will start to seriously undermine the territory of the Super Amoled impassable, although it is not yet possible to create total darkness, which remains slightly hazy on this model, and as the maximum brightness can not come to us under the direct rays of the sun. But the three-dimensionality of the framework is there and it is really natural, without resorting to visual artifacts in the exaltation of range, typic al of Korean products. The sound system is very enveloping even without the use of headphones and you can enjoy now an amazing definition especially with movies and video games, although we would have expected even more power in listening to music. It is interesting to note that at last on a high-end smartphones have been introduced video plugin for the audio player, with the effects of three-dimensional scene.
May prove very useful application integrated TV, a handy guide to the programs aired that is tuned directly with your TV decoder or any brand or manager, to take control via the infrared transmitter located under the power button, which turns the HTC One in a sophisticated remote control.
the field of gaming, unfortunately little work has been done by the developers for the new Qualcomm processor, and in fact, the performance does not differ much from those of the device last year. N.O.V.A. 3 Wild Blood or Pitfall not surprising in frame rate, as well as R eal Racing 3, where the resolution of Full HD screen sacrifices some of the fluidity and anti alias, introducing many ladders on the profiles of the polygons. An exception is made by the Securities SEGA , with Virtua Tennis shows explicitly that the Snapdragon logo during the first loading, and Crazy Taxi that runs much more casual than others, although not reaching exactly the 60fps of the legendary Dreamcast version. It then found incompatible with Jet Set Radio and rendering errors of explosions in After Burner Climax. The GPU Adreno 320 has not redeemed with even more boost emulation of PSX titles and arcade, showing noticeable drops in frame rate here and no appreciable change compared to the past. Question whether or not optimization, GPU Mali 400 two years ago surprised us so much more about Samsung Exynos processor and now the best choice for the most demanding gamer and iOS remains its chips Imagination Technol ogies, at least waiting to try to close a device based on Nvidia Tegra 4. | 
MoDaCo Switch has arrived, just as promised by the creator, Paul O’Brien . Paul had told us a few days ago, that the ROM was ready to be released in Beta and it would come within a couple of days. Into And so it was! From now on, anyone who wants to, they can use MoDaCo Switch on your HTC One way to switch from Sense to Android Stock , and vice versa, so easy and immediate. 
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Recently, HTC has partnered with CHT to launch the Desire 600 and start distribute in August the recent Desire 500 with TWM. Also in August, to enrich the offer of midrange dedicated to the Taiwanese market, will also help HTC One mini. 
