HTC One review: beautiful mobile, powerful, good battery life, not yet sophisticated

 

One is the phone that HTC put a lot of hope, it's the start of a whole newgeneration of phone company, abandoned shell polycarbonate monolithic aluminum shell to move as well as focus on simplifying all sports the user. One is expected to be selling genuine mid May for about $ 16 million. One is a good product, fast machines, beautiful screen, excellent design, but it's still there disadvantages to overcome.



Design

 One who admittedly is a nice phone, even if you are an anti-fan of HTC. The highlight of this product comes from the balance between the elements, especially in the front. The top and bottom of the machine opposite each other in a balanced way through a screen in the middle of creating sympathy with us right from the first glance.

 

However, the front One is not perfect, there are still quite lost as part of the top and bottom speakers, who will find it a bit picky a little ungainly compared to the rest. In addition, compared with the premium product in 2013, the One is slightly larger frame around the screen. In fact, like One small design is difficult because the aluminum frame of the machine must be thick enough to protect the machine because aluminum is soft metal

  

Unlike the previous reach appreciation of most users, the back One is not really impressive. There are plenty of us who do not feel satisfied with horizontal and vertical lines running body weight divided into three spaces by the One. With his back is designed with a pretty, no impression there's nothing to laugh at.

Although the physical size almost equal (left and right edges of thinner S4) but does hold you One will find this product more compact. This is because HTC has used the beveled edges on four sides of the stick to help our hands. Of course, to understand this you have to hold 2 machines on hand to feel but we can not be considered parameters and judge.

There is one drawback that I want to mention at this contour is quite strong and it feels slightly uncomfortable grip. Although HTC has tried to make it softer penis with a pair of individual pieces as I said above but it still does not fully mitigate this situation.

Need a bit of aluminum repeat of One, it is not easily scratched as the iPhone 5, at least for the silver they are spending. You are currently spent in black let her know

 

Fabrication

This is the part you should not read if not too difficult, it is just a supplement for those who prefer to learn about manufacturing skills as well as the small details of the product.

HTC One published using unibody design, but the skills you learn will see HTC's words a bit melodramatic. Even when viewed from the outside, not yet need to open the machine we will see One assembled from multiple pieces together, it has a metal frame inside the plastic edging, HTC has pressed the piece of wall (part speakers on the front and bottom, the camera on the back and bottom) with glue to form a complete design without screws. The snails do not use for more seamless product but will also make it difficult to open the machine, it will have to use a heat gun to melt the glue off the machine.

 

If everything just stops there, nothing worth mentioning also that we are using, not many people are interested in removing the machine or not, the problem here is that HTC has not experienced well crafted plastic and aluminum combined. If reading HTC One of iFixit tear down you will see the plastic border around the aluminum frame of the product becomes lava when it is difficult to remove and attach back. Moreover, with the use of glue so the product will still reveal the thin slot in the coupling location (the speaker or the screen and the bottom pieces in the machine), you can see with your eyes usually if you look closely.

 

 An additional issue is that HTC phones they manufacture sophisticated despite the use of plastic materials is more expensive aluminum. This is shown very clearly when looking at the little details get SIM slot or headphone jack, it will be quite disgusting sores when you spend more. Nokia Lumia 920 or iPhone are not suffering from this condition, 920, the hard plastic used in the integrated iPhone to a small metal frame inside. Unfortunately for HTC, they used plastic as the 920 but it is kind of soft plastic. Also, if you purchase a One silver, use caution because of its resin border vulnerable stained after a period of use.

  

As mentioned, this does not affect the use of our, it's just a section dedicated to those hard.Note: Pictures you see are taken with Macro tube, normally, it is not so obvious.Display:If you say that HTC One screen is the best screen on the phone now, maybe they were right, not a better product at the moment One, even if it is on the Sharp IGZO SH930W or new style SuperAMOLED Galaxy S4.So HTC One monitor how well? With the iPhone's Retina machine or 720p, you still see the outline of symbols, especially the public sector lost focus due to the pixel density is not dense enough to reconstruct these curves perfectly (said it was understandable that aliasing). On One, you do not realize this, all details are incredibly sharp display.If there is only One definition is different than other products such as Xperia Z FullHD but the excellence of it coming from the color, saturation, clarity of the screen ... It can be said in this array One did not lose anyone, the screen is very, very standard base color and almost have nothing to belittle. You do not ever like HTC One X because it's bright colors, you can see that the situation is much improved on the One X + and now is One. One color on extremely neutral, the blue green, white to white, red to red and not mixed together. Once a week for One finished, I see my iPhone 5 screen yellowish.Only a single point screen One proved inferior to other products on display as well as the fact that it does not IGZO phone with curved glass that still feels flat, slightly flattened flat.LoudspeakerHTC Handsfree BoomSound is strong emphasis on the One. Instead of setting an S4 rear speakers as the volume will be reduced or bottom when laid as iPhone 5, HTC One place to bring speakers in the front, completely towards the user while listening to music or watching movies. Moreover, not only one but there is One to 2 speakers. With this equipment, the speaker of One really big, much bigger than its size. Moreover, HTC controls on One very good speakers, the sound is less distorted and totally acceptable for this size. Indeed, not a speaker phone quality and magnitude as One, even when your phone is the Chinese "big mouth" anymore.

 

Strength:
HTC One use Snapdragon chip 600, one of the most powerful chip. Its power exceeds that of course Snapdragon S4 Pro last year. Currently, only 600 Snapdragon loser's Exynos chip 8 Octa on Galaxy S4. Of course, this difference can only be displayed when you run the benchmark program, actually they are not much different.

Software:
HTC Sense 5.0 overall change on One, it's not complicated, too much trouble, and features like the old days anymore simple as possible. There are some good changes, there are some good changes, but it's not yet truly welcome when HTC accept new ones. Samsung, LG and Sony has continued development based interface, the HTC interface is nearly as old as from the beginning. It would be better if HTC allows users to choose default Android interface Sense 5.0, or in the process of setting up the machine, similar to the way in which Sharp is done.

There was a point in his hate of HTC Android phones (One X, One X +, One ...) is that they have removed the menu key. In essence it from Android 4.0, the Google has warned off and replaced by the menu key on the virtual keyboard action bar, but a large number of software which is typical stubborn Facebook still does not follow, as a result, you will spend a part of the screen to display only the bottom of this key, very annoying. Fortunately, we can install the software that allows the back to hold down the menu key or use the simulator kernel tbalden the menu key variables HTC logo. In fact, the kernel is just tbalden simulator as part of One screen menu keys but it is still better than using the long stick as a present. If you do not use Facebook personally do not care about it much, because most of the other software use virtual menu.

On One, HTC is also equipped with a number of useful features such as extended block messages or blocked calls or backup the entire phone to dropbox ... Overall the extras are of One practical application is not innocuous as a few other manufacturers.

Camera:
We will not say much about the camera One again, you can refer to a number of topic below. Note that HTC has released an update to Camera One shot better in daylight. In the following weeks, we will be comparing all One camera with Lumia 920, Galaxy S4 and Sony Xperia Z. The special features of this camera will also appear in a separate post next week.

Battery and temperature: HTC's Android phones have never known about the battery but One possibility is an exception, you can use it to dinner without having to charge mid-day as the iPhone. Serious test of 4 consecutive days with four different conditions:

    Open 3G but constantly connect to WiFi networks
    Open 3G, WiFi off, just browsing with 3G
    Using a combination of 3G and WiFi.
    Combine the two and enable battery saving mode.
In this test all 4 days (each day a condition as above), the screen brightness to self-select machine environment, time use (screen on) about 2-3 hours each day, always connect Bluetooth Pebble Smart Watch continuity with the living machine is more than 12 hours, more than enough for a day's work we. Particularly when the trigger mode to save battery (automatically disconnect data after computer sleep a short time), the battery is 34% after 15 hours.
Regarding temperature, by using aluminum shell that One pretty hot when spent. If only message is not normally a problem but if you use 3G to surf the One hot after about 7-10 minutes of use. This is a common drawback of the phone is metal shell, so I do not complain much

Conclusion:
What do you need in a phone? Beautiful, strong, good camera, long battery life, the One will meet all requirements. Its weakness is not really outstanding camera when shooting the day with Android OS 4.1 is quite old compared to the current 4.2 and 4.3/5.0 in particular will be released in June next. If accepted this drawback, I think One would be a pretty perfect choice at this point.

Strengths:

     Very nice design
     Great screen
     Snapdragon 600
     Camera Ultrapixel excellent shooting night
     Sense 5 was more simple
     The battery used is a

Weaknesses:

     Premium materials but manufactured incomplete
     Android 4.1
     hot
     Camera not a good day