The famous HTC One – after 1 Month review

 

HTC One – Silver

HTC has done a very incredible job on doing their smartphone business. They are very innovative in building a smartphone software, especially in Android Platform. I’ve been using HTC Smartphone for about 2 years ago, My first device with HTC was HTC Sensation (original version) which has a very intuitive HTC Sense inside. On 2013, HTC has shown us the best mobile smartphone code name HTC M7 called HTC One with HTC Sense 5 inside.

 

 

HTC One Black and Silver

The design of the metallic One is very sleek, the built quality made of aluminium is awesome to hold and show-off. It fits neatly in the hand without being too slippery, and at 143g with a 4.7-inch 1080p 468ppi display, it’s a pleasure to use. The underlying 1.7GHz Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM deliver smooth performance; I benchmarked it with Geekbench 2 at 2,735. There’s no expandable microSD memory slot built into the One, but the 32GB of internal storage feels more than enough for me.

 

HTC One equipped with android Jelly Bean version 4.1.2 out of the box and about 2 weeks ago, they have upgraded the device to Android Jelly Bean version 4.2.2 with several improvement. 2,300 mAh of battery capacity has incredibly shown a big impact for HTC One battery life since I can get enough juice for more than 13 hours average. GSM Arena Battery Test has published the test for your further review and categorized the smartphone is one of the top achiever on the market. 48h Endurance rating with almost 10hours of battery life for web browsing and video playback is very acceptable for me. It shows that HTC has improved their battery quality to balance the performance index of this phone. I myself get this phone fully charged on 6 AM and it usually need to be recharged when I got home at 8 PM.

HTC One Endurance Rating

HTC’s done a few controversial things with the One. Its use of a 4MP camera with larger pixel sensor sites (f 2.0) and correlating ‘Zoe’ software works better than you might expect, especially in low light. Where it does suffer a little is if you want to digitally crop or blow up your photos, because they’re still only 4MP images they can lose out against other camera options. Low light camera is very useful in taking an indoor picture and we usually take pictures in low light condition especially night and indoors, right? The 4MP is worth having since smartphone pictures are meant to be uploaded in social media like instagram, path, facebook, twitter, etc. I myself very appreciate the 4MP pictures with large pixel sensor which produce a higher quality pictures compared to other smartphones which marked themselves as 8MP or even the Sony‘s 13MP camera.

Sense 5 on the other hand is a strange, strange beast. I understand that to differentiate from other manufacturers, Android device creators make their own skins. As a Windows Phone user, I find it utterly crazy… however that is the nature of Android. What I can’t understand is how tossing in different user interfaces on top of Android is helping users. The HTC One now comes with two completely different Music applications installed. HTC’s BlinkFeed, on the other hand, gives you a Flipboard-style home screen, where we could find the news on certain area. While you can’t uninstall it, you can at least set your home screen to other screens instead. There’s no menu button, which means it either pops up virtually in some apps, or relies on a double tap of the home button on others. On recent update, The home button has more function with some gestures, 4 functions!!,  like double tap : 9 recent apps, single tap : home, swipe-up : google now, hold 3 sec : menu. The idea of having this kind of gesture tap is very intuitive since they have only 2 buttons.

HTC One has embedded the beats audio line for audio quality. The beast screamed louder than any other smartphone with the best sound clarity. The 2 front-facing speaker called Boomsound has been a very remarkable for me to enjoy the music. I can hardly find any other phone that will beat this phone in this area, beats audio also make a huge impact on tuning the music style which boost the bass quality.

 

Thanks for it, I now have the best smartphone, It completes me now. I can only say it satisfy my personal needs. The current HTC flagship of 2013 has the best smartphone compared to others. While others may think it was not good enough, but me, myself and I have fallen in love with the design, built quality, camera, boomsound, thin design, and the most beautiful screen it has which beats others down. No phone are better right now in the market for me other than HTC One. You should see, hold, feel, experience and try all the features yourself to get the best out of it.

HTC One (M7) Specification details :

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	4G Network	LTE 800 / 1800 / 2600 LTE 1800 / 2600 LTE 1900 – for Sprint
		LTE 700 / 850 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100 – for AT&T LTE 700 / 1700 / 2100 – for T-Mobile
	SIM	Micro-SIM
	Announced	2013, February
	Status	Available. Released 2013, March

BODY	Dimensions	137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 mm (5.41 x 2.69 x 0.37 in)
	Weight	143 g (5.04 oz)

DISPLAY	Type	Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	1080 x 1920 pixels, 4.7 inches (~469 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass 2
		– HTC Sense UI v5

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes, with stereo speakers, built-in amplifiers
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		– Beats Audio sound enhancement

MEMORY	Card slot	No
	Internal	32/64 GB, 2 GB RAM

DATA	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	Speed	HSPA+; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/ac/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
	NFC	Yes (Market dependent)
	Infrared port	Yes
	USB	Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL)

CAMERA	Primary	4 MP, 2688 x 1520 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
	Features	1/3” sensor size, 2µm pixel size, simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, optical image stabilization
	Video	Yes, 1080p@30fps, 720p@60fps, HDR, stereo sound rec., video stabilization, check quality
	Secondary	Yes, 2.1 MP, 1080p@30fps, HDR

FEATURES	OS	Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
	Chipset	Qualcomm APQ8064T Snapdragon 600
	CPU	Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300
	GPU	Adreno 320
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
	Browser	HTML5
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
	Colors	Black, Silver, Red
		– SNS integration – Dropbox (25 GB storage) – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic – TV-out (via MHL A/V link) – DivX/XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player – MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/FLAC player – Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk – Organizer – Document viewer/editor – Photo viewer/editor – Voice memo/dial/commands – Predictive text input

BATTERY		Non-removable Li-Po 2300 mAh battery
	Stand-by	Up to 500 h (2G) / Up to 480 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 27 h (2G) / Up to 18 h (3G)

MISC	SAR US	1.26 W/kg (head)     0.69 W/kg (body)
	SAR EU	0.86 W/kg (head)     0.36 W/kg (body)
	Price group

TESTS	Display	Contrast ratio: 1541:1 (nominal) / 2.504:1 (sunlight)
	Loudspeaker	Voice 69dB / Noise 66dB / Ring 75dB
	Audio quality	Noise -82.7dB / Crosstalk -80.9dB
	Camera	Photo / Video
	Battery life	Endurance rating 48h