HTC One: Review - International Business Times Italy

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Model : One

Output : May 10, 2013

Price : 699 €

HTC One is a jewel . This is the first impression in the eyes once you open the box and admired the sought after form factor of the house Taiwanese.

Into HTC was in difficulties, needed a device that raised you fully society, in particular its image.

With Into One seems to want to start from scratch, presenting to the public a magnificent product from an aesthetic but also represents the top performance on the market.

Into HTC One is equipped with a large screen 4.7 inches S-LCD 3 with Gorilla Glass 2 and a full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, with a density of 468 pixels: iPhone 5 with its Retina Display stands at 326 ppi. What HTC One, with respect to the display of iPhone 5, is on another planet.

Into The colors are amazing, although black is less intense than a AMOLED. Everything else is on the highest level that you want to play the last game or you want to navigate to a web page, use is amazing, even outdoors where the light does not stop to see the contents on the display (it goes a little ‘worse with the energy saving option, but this is obvious).

Into The company must surely something to Apple, since it uses the same approach, that is, a body made of anodized aluminum with polycarbonate finishes.

Into What is known holding the device is its solidity in the video above shows the painstaking production process that leads to the finished product.

Into The procedure is called Zero Gap and allows you to assemble a smartphone with no moving parts, much stronger than usual.

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Into The aesthetic is combined with functionality: HTC One is in fact a smartphone thin , the back is curved in fact at the center and thinner at the sides: in this way the designers have succeeded in including all the features and at the same time presenting a product aesthetically appealing and sinuous, thanks to its rounded corners. At the bottom on the front there are two touch-sensitive buttons, one to go back, the other serves as the Home Button. But the thing that is most surprising are the two speakers BoomSound , which guarantee a stereo sound of high quality.

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Into On the left side there is the classic accommodation for micro-SIM , while on the right the volume control in the lower housing micro USB for charging and the power button at the top and stand by, which also serves as the IR port, and how to use HTC On TV remote control. The back is very compact, with the HTC logo in plain view in the center, four megapixel camera with LED flash and logo BeatsAudio. You read that right, four megapixels. Means that it is less powerful than, for example, Samsung Galaxy S4, which is equipped with a 13-megapixel? No, not at all.

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Into First of all, it is to specify one thing: more megapixels does not mean better pictures: HTC has therefore coined the term UltraPixel , which characterizes the camera on the HTC One. The basic idea is to use a larger sensor by 1/3 of an inch in area, with the ability to capture 330% more light than the other smartphone. The result, both in the pictures in the video (in HD at 1080p and 30 fps, is truly amazing. Here’s an example:

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Into HTC One takes pictures from 2688 x 1520 pixels : it is not an SLR, we are talking about completely different products, but still snaps photos egregious to be shared on social networks or for daily use and “On the road”. A good camera, even if you zoom the image taken will tend to show a little ‘more noise because of the “few” megapixels. There are also advanced features such as white balance, face detection and macro mode, the possibilities are endless. One of the advanced features, introduced for the first time, HTC is called Zoe , that is, the ability to take 20 consecutive shots, which are sequenced and displayed in the form of short videos.

Into As for the software, we find Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean , of course upgradeable to version 4.2, with some customizations adopted by HTC compared to other Android smartphones, both “pure” (as Nexus 4 ), which does not. First of all, the user interface Sense 5 , which provides only the back button and the Home. To view recent applications just double clicking the home button, one will automatically prolonged Google Now. But the real news software, truly, very comfortable, is called BlinkFeed , a feature that we find in their own home where they check all the news to which we are members, status updates and news Facebook Twitter , blogs and more. Around the web that we follow on a single screen sliding oh so comfortable.

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The power is at home here : HTC One comes with a Snapdragon processor 600 (APQ8064T) quad-core CPU with 1.7 GHz and GPU Adreno 320 with 2GB of RAM, one of the most powerful on the market. The slowing down of any operation, therefore, are reduced almost to zero. And the battery? With all this power the battery of 2,300 mAh (non-removable) is put to the test. Through our testing, we found that it definitely comes at the end of the day, and for a smartphone of this magnitude is a good result. Here is a summary of the features.

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Into Ultimately HTC One can be considered as one of the best high-end smartphones on the market . Surely most powerful of the iPhone 5 (being also released months later), aesthetically better than Galaxy S4 (let’s face it, the aluminum wins hands down on the plastic), with a form factor and outstanding landscaped under the software side. A potential buyer who wants the best and wants to orient themselves on the high-end handsets, it should definitely choose this terminal. The best.

Rating: 9.5 out of 10