HTC 10

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Design

HTC really surprised when launching the HTC One M7 metal with beautiful designs, different from competitive products from rivals. After 4 years spent 4 product generation, HTC 10 is still the same basic: sturdy metal body and better finishing. This year, HTC has removed most of the plastic out of the HTC 10 and retained only two antenna strips top/bottom.

HTC 10’s overall design is not too new but still maintain personality traits from generation old One. The most obvious new feature on HTC’s design for 10 years is on the road back to the deep cut and large beveled, creating robust and refreshed features for the product. This design seems it fits more male users, the design is not neutral as Samsung Galaxy S7 and Apple iPhone 6s.

A more significant change in the design of the HTC 10 is positioned external speakers BoomSound has to change. Dual speakers are no longer located in the front as the previous One-line machines, instead the second speaker was put to the bottom. This change affects sound quality worthy of the speakers to BoomSound, factors used to be appreciated in the high-end models of HTC. In addition, HTC 10 is no longer infrared sensors to control peripheral devices as One M8 and M9 .

In terms of finishing, the details on the sophisticated cutting machines and the joints do not have any gaps yet, worthy of a complete quality premium products. At the front, the hem of the screen is also quite compact at a rate display / chassis is 71.1%, lower than the Galaxy S7 (72.1%), but a little more compact LG G5 (70.1% ). In particular, the navigation keys (Back, Home and Multitasking) was taken out of the screen HTC, do not consume display area like One M8 and M9.

HTC 10 supports Type-C connector prevailing on superior product line, with the fingerprint sensor 360 degrees in front and also slot despite monolithic metal design. With the beveled back, the machine easy to hold but still slightly slippery hands by using metal materials.

Screen

HTC 10 using screen Super LCD5 (actually IPS LCD) size 5.2 inch QHD resolution (2K – 2560 x 1440 pixels) with a very high density of pixels, 565 ppi. Although the LCD IPS panel, but HTC has introduced two different color modes including modes and brilliant color mode sRGB standard. Color mode is selected manufacturer default mode is brilliant, color display looks clear, fresh and lively that otherwise may read parameters AMOLED screen this is great.

When measured in default mode, the screen of the HTC 10 shows black and contrast are good, the maximum brightness is also quite high. However, due to the bright color correction, eye flattering easy to understand is the basic color in this mode is different from the standard color AMOLED screen like the Galaxy S7 or HTC One A9 recently. If you prefer standard screen color display can be switched over basic sRGB mode, but also noted that the lighter color will clear.

HTC 10’s screen viewing angle slightly shiny to look at from different angles and at this point, the product of HTC slightly inferior Galaxy S7 and iPhone 6s.

Overall, HTC 10 has greatly improved the display quality compared to the M8 and M9 One generation old, especially the quality of contrast, the ability to display deep blacks and high resolution.

Sound

Overall, the sound, HTC 10 dual speakers BoomSound still capable of playing music. In actual experience, we see the dual speakers BoomSound on the HTC 10 no longer as dramatic as the older generation. Stereo effects are not guaranteed by the speaker above the inferior quality than the bottom, causing distorted sound. However, to be fair, the loudspeaker of HTC 10 smaller than the HTC One predecessor units, even when compared with other high-end smartphone from the company today as Galaxy S7 or iPhone 6s, the HTC 10 still brings quality better.

Hi-Res headphones do not come more impressive, comes less than a headset LG V10. Headphones for sound dark, opaque, lacks detail, bass encroachment, all sounds just stick all together, too narrow soundstage. However, HTC 10 ‘s sound quality through headphones plug when the quality is different. Sounds in favor bright, richly detailed, fond of simplicity and balance. With such sound, HTC 10 smartphone  is good quality music player, can be folded into the current top smartphones, LG V10 par with and better than the iPhone 6s or Galaxy S7.

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Software

From the One A9, HTC has started simplifying software customization Sense 7 is based on the original Android 6 in the direction of Google. This continues to be the Taiwanese phone maker applicable on HTC 10. On this product, HTC use Google applications and the company’s own applications also redesigned flat Material Design language to create consistency.

Previously, HTC has many functions duplicate applications, such as photo viewing applications always have two of Google and HTC applications, browsers also that . But now the situation was no longer available. HTC 10 only a Google image viewer application, while the Chrome browser is the default and only. Even the HTC Music app also uses Google apps always, although this application is still limited, the application is not really a professional player which is equal to the investment in hardware for audio HTC 10.

However, HTC has put on its characteristic features such as aggregated news reader application BlinkFeed and gesture controls, such as double-tap to wake up the screen, swipe up to unlock or swipe left to stay on the main screen while the screen is off. In addition, the company also provides warehousing theme for users to change the interface, including custom themes for comfortable placement of app icons on the screen. This feature can be used for young people would like, but probably not suitable for those who use the telephone service of daily work.

Thanks to the simplicity of the interface and the number of pre-installed applications, HTC 10’s interface reaches looks airy, light and very smooth operation.

Performance

HTC 10 genuine sale with the most advanced version uses Snapdragon 820 processor quad-core (2 Core 2.15GHz and 2 core 1.6GHz ) integrated Adreno 530 graphics processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of internal memory and an external memory card slot. This phone also has another version uses 652 Snapdragon processor and 3GB of RAM. These are the configuration parameters on the most advanced smartphones today.

Try to measure the performance of software CPU is Geekbench 3.0, single-core Kryo performance point of Snapdragon 820 impressive, the highest in current smartphones. Point single-core performance is very important factor for common user experience. However, points are not high-performance multi-core Snapdragon 820 by only 4 cores, lower than the more cores the processor as the Exynos 8890 on Galaxy S7 edge or Kirin 955 on Huawei P9.

On GFXBench benchmarking software GPU, Adreno 530 on HTC 10 also scored the best graphics processor today. At full-HD resolution, the machine achieved the ability to handle up to 46 frames / second and 29 frames / second at the native resolution of the monitor (2K), both higher than the Galaxy S7 edge.

HTC 10 also scores very high on performance evaluation software overall AnTuTu 6, equal Galaxy S7 but little lower than LG G5, the product also uses HTC Snapdragon 820. The reason 10 scores lower performance LG G5 same hardware configuration may be due to the experience we are using the test version of the software from HTC, not the commercial version.

In actual use, the HTC 10 are processed fast, smooth with very little latency from opening apps, play heavy games like Asphalt 8, Nova 3 or switch multitasking. With intensive tasks, HTC 10 also has application acceleration mode by reducing the screen resolution down to Full-HD 2K. This helps improve battery life at the same time significantly increasing the number of frames smoothly moving higher each second.

Camera

This innovative feature is very strong on the HTC 10. HTC continues to bring back to the camera in the back but UltraPixel increase to 12MP resolution, not as previously 4-5MP. The factors affecting the ability to capture sunlight are improved. Both the sensor size, pixel size and aperture of the lens are large (1 / 2.3 “, 1:55 micron and f / 1.8) compared with the main camera on the HTC One M9 (1 / 2.4”, 1.12 micron and f / 2.2). The main camera is capable of optical stabilization and laser autofocus. At the front, the HTC 10 also uses the camera UltraPixel 5MP resolution, with optical image stabilization, point size and large open gate (1:34 micron, f / 1.8).

Quality, HTC 10 shooting speed and very fast autofocus. VnReview had all comparable in quality shooting from behind and front camera of HTC 10 with other products such as Galaxy S7 edge, iPhone 6s and Xperia Z5. Overall, the photos from the camera of HTC 10 with the best details on the smartphone today, even very sharp edges. Neutral colors, similar to the iPhone 6s naturally, not bold and flattering eyes as Galaxy S7 / S7 edge. It also handles well the light situation or backlit difference, creating contrast picture balance between light and dark areas. However when shooting in low light, the machine is not very good, usually darker picture of competitive products and sometimes blinded by the lights. If improvements are bit on the low-light shooting capability of HTC 10 smartphones will certainly be the best camera the moment.

Meanwhile, the front camera on the HTC 10 for really impressive quality, natural images, high detail in low light conditions including, especially regenerating bright white color, pink is very suitable for people Asia. Talking about the HTC 10 take a selfie photo image quality better than the Galaxy S7 edge, iPhone 6s and Xperia Z5.

Conclude

Nothing to complain much. Finishing machine with good quality, refreshed design; the screen is much improved; speakerphone bit worse than its predecessor generation but the sound through headphones to a new level; Software lightweight, transient trend like Google’s original Nexus machines; performance fast enough done all the work we wanted to do on the phone and the camera is also greatly improved, no longer the weak point of the HTC versus competitors anymore.

However, the problem with HTC 10 is the current price pretty high. Meanwhile, many smartphones at lower prices now also have the performance, the camera, the perfect … not much inferior. Therefore, we can say that HTC 10 is excellent products, avoid a lot of weaknesses on the older generation, but the current price would be a barrier to many HTC lovers, especially those who have financial carefully consider before shopping.