HTC ONE REVIEW
Last year HTC made three excellent phones: the One X, the One X+, and the Droid DNA. This year, it's focusing on a single dominant device: the HTC One. The Android market has changed radically in the past couple of years. Where we once had a spec war, with manufacturers racing to release ever-more powerful smartphones as quickly as possible, now it’s turning into a marketing battle and Samsung is winning by a mile. HTC, by comparison, isn’t doing so well. The company has learned some important lessons about not flooding the market with iterative designs, and the culmination of that is the aptly-named HTC One. It’s HTC’s flagship, the one device it’s putting all its weight behind. First impressions, thankfully, are great. The One is a gorgeous phone, and we think it wipes the floor with the Sony Xperia Z. The combination of metal rear, bevelled metal edges and edge-to-edge screen are class itself, and make the Xperia Z feel square and tacky, despite its glass rear. The HTC One's curved back also makes it comfortable to hold - a minor downside is that it's tricky to type when it’s lying flat on a desk. The HTC One is the new flagship smartphone from HTC that is a seriously impressive snartphone. It has a Full HD screen, quad-core processor, Ultrapixel camera and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with Sense. It's got a full HD screen crammed into 4.7-inches, which brings a 468ppi – well above what's needed for the eye to discern, and it does definitely bring sumptuous sharpness throughout the use of the phone. The HTC One wins out when it comes to web browsing performance. It has a quad-core 1.7GHz processor, and completed our Sunspider JavaScript benchmark in a super-fast 1,123ms. This is far faster than the 1,890ms we saw from the Xperia Z, but we think much of this is down to the speed of the Xperia Z's browser. For comparison, we ran the same test using the fast Dolphin browser, and the HTC One remained ahead of the Xperia Z with a score of 1,120ms compared to 1,357ms. The hardware underwhelms at times too; there's no expandable storage via micro SD card slot. Yes, 32GB (the smaller size) is a lot of space, but if you start loading your phone with HD movies (and bigass games) for a trip, you may start to feel the squeeze. Also, though we still have to test the U.S. version, we're still disappointed that the battery is only 2300mAh. That is security, and phone manufacturers still don't seem to get how important that is to people. I'd trade a few dozen PPI for a longer-lasting device any day.
SPECIFICATION & FEATURES
DISPLAY & SCREEN
| Type: | Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen |
| Display Protection: | --Contrast ratio: 1541:1 (nominal) / 2.504:1 (sunlight) --Corning Gorilla Glass 2 --HTC Sense UI v5 |
| Colors: | 16M colors |
| Technology: | S-LCD 3 |
| PLATFORM ANDROID: | Android™ with HTC Sense™ HTC BlinkFeed™ |
| Touchscreen: | Multi-touch |
| Size: | 4.7 inches |
| Resolution: | 1080 x 1920 pixels |
| Pixel density: | 468 ppi |
| Features: | Light sensor, Proximity sensor, Scratch-resistant glass |
BODY & DESIGN
| Device type: | Smart phone |
| Dimensions: | (5.41 x 2.69 x 0.37 inches) / (137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 mm ) |
| Weight: | (143 g) / (5.04 oz) |
GENERAL TECHNOLOGY
| 2G Network: | GSM 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz |
| 3G Network: | HSDPA 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1900 MHz, 2100 MHz |
| 4G Network: | LTE 800 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2600 MHz LTE 1800 MHz, 2600 MHz LTE 1900 MHz - for Sprint LTE 700 MHz, 850 MHz, 1700 MHz, 1900 MHz, 2100 MHz - for AT&T LTE 700 MHz, 1700 MHz, 2100 MHz - for T-Mobile |
| Data: | LTE, HSPA (unspecified), UMTS, EDGE, GPRS |
| Positioning: | GPS, A-GPS, Glonass |
| Navigation: | Yes |
| SIM: | Micro-SIM |
| Announced: | 19 February 2013 |
| Released: | February 2013, Available |
HARDWARE & MEMORY
| Processor: | Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 600, Quad core, 1700 MHz, Krait 300 |
| Graphics processor: | Adreno 320 |
| User data storage: | 26 GB |
| System memory: | 2048 MB RAM DDR2 |
| Built-in storage: | 32/64 GB storage available capacity varies 1 |
| Card slot: | No |
MULTIMEDIA & SOUND
| Alert types: | Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones |
| Sound quality: | --HTC BoomSound™ --Dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers --Studio-quality sound with Beats Audio™ --Sense Voice --Noise -82.7dB / Crosstalk -80.9dB |
| Audio formats supported: | --Playback: .aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma (Windows Media Audio 9) --Recording: .amr |
| Video formats supported: | --Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3) --Recording: .mp4 |
| Loudspeaker: | Yes (Voice 69dB / Noise 66dB / Ring 75dB) |
| Headphone: | Yes (Dolby Headphone sound enhancement) |
| 3.5mm jack: | Yes (Beats Audio sound enhancement) |
| Music player: Filter by: Features: | Yes Album, Artist, Playlists Album art cover, Background playback, Beats Audio |
| Radio: | Yes (FM radio) |
CAMERA
| Camera: | HTC UltraPixel Photo & Video Camera |
| Primary Camera quality: | 4 megapixels, 2688 x 1520 pixels |
| Flash: | LED flash |
| Aperture size: | F2.0 |
| Features: | --Back-illuminated sensor (BSI) --Auto focus --Optical image stabilization --Burst mode --Digital zoom --Geo tagging --High Dynamic Range mode (HDR) --Panorama --Scenes --Effects --Self-timer --simultaneous HD video and image recording --face and smile detection --Dedicated HTC ImageChip™ 2 --F2.0 aperture and 28 mm lens --Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) --Smart Flash: Five levels of flash automatically set by distance to subject --Front Camera: 2.1 MP, 880 wide angle lens with HDR capability --1080p Full HD video recording with HDR Video --HTC Zoe™ with Sequence Shot, Always Smile and Object Removal --Gallery with Video Highlights and HTC Share --Continuous shooting and VideoPic --Slow motion video recording with variable speed playback |
| Video: | 1920x1080 (1080p HD) (30 fps) |
| Features: | Optical image & video stabilization, High Dynamic Range mode (HDR), stereo sound rec, Video calling |
| Primary camera: | Yes (8 megapixels), 1/3'' sensor size, 2µm pixel size, BSI sensor |
| Secondary camera: | Yes (2.1 megapixels), 1080p@30fps, HDR |
CONNECTIVITY
| WLAN: | Wi-Fi 802.11 (a/ac/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot) |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, (v4.0 with A2DP) |
| USB: | Yes, microUSB v2.0 (MHL) |
| Connector: | Micro-USB |
| Features: | Mass storage device, USB charging |
| NFC: | Yes (Market dependent) |
| HDMI: | via microUSB |
| GPRS: | Yes |
| EDGE: | Yes |
| Speed: | HSPA+; LTE, Cat3, 50 Mbps UL, 100 Mbps DL |
| Other: | DLNA, MHL, Tethering, Computer sync, OTA sync, Infrared |
INTERNET
| Built-in Online services support: | YouTube (upload), Picasa |
APPS
| Applications: | Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk |
FEATURES
| OS: | Android OS, v4.1.2 (Jelly Bean), upgradable to v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) Sense 5.0 UI |
| Chipset: | Qualcomm APQ8064T Snapdragon 600 |
| CPU: | Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 |
| GPU: | Adreno 320 |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Gyroscope, proximity, compass, Ambient light sensor |
| Messaging: | SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email |
| Browser: | HTML5 |
| Phone Book: | Yes |
| Charging: | Charger |
| Call Records: | Yes |
| SMS: | Yes |
| MMS: | Yes |
| E-Mail: | Yes |
| Instant Messaging: | Yes |
| Predictive text input: | Yes, T9 input |
| Voice message: | Yes |
| Voice dialing: | Yes |
| Voice commands: | Yes |
| Voice recording: | Yes |
| Radio: | Stereo FM radio with RDS |
| GPS: | Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS + Internal GPS antenna Digital compass |
| Accessibility features: | Hearing aid compatibility: M3, T4 |
| Java: | Yes, via Java MIDP emulator |
| Colors: | Black, Silver, Red |
| Notifications: | Haptic feedback, Music ringtones (MP3), Polyphonic ringtones, Vibration, Flight mode, Silent mode, Speakerphone |
| Others: | --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
| Battery Type: | Non-removable Li-polymer battery |
| Capacity: | 2300 mAh battery |
| Stand-by time: | Up to 500 hours (2G), 20.8 days / Up to 480 hours (3G), 20 days |
| Talk time: | Up to 27 hours (2G) / Up to 18 hours (3G) |
| Battery life: | Endurance rating 48 hours |
HTC ONE PRICE
Price in USA $600
Price in UK £435
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