Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “HTC 10 Impressions!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is the brand new htc 10. first impressions as a new flagship smartphone, it’s a hardware and software package that i think is pretty promising. So this is what we’re working with here. First of all, this is definitely htc. So full unibody metal jacket again from top to bottom, and it gives it that premium feel we’re used to, and you only really hear about premium feel when there’s usually either glass or metal involved, samsung being the one that likes to use a lot of glass htc.
For the metal lovers – and it feels good in the hand like a solid chunk of metal should – and they got a lot of the little things right too, i like the button placement. The ridged power button on the side below the volume buttons is nice for identifying it and, of course, htc heard we like chamfers, so they gave us a chamfer like no other all the way around the back of this device. Nice big shiny beveled edge, but the sides are also still flat. So it’s pretty easy to hold and around the front you have a 5.2 inch, quad hd display and then capacitive buttons surrounding a fingerprint sensor, slash home button in the chin. Pretty common look right now and the glass sort of wraps around the front as one big sheet of slightly curved edges, so it’s definitely a pretty high end feel and on the inside it is high.
End too, like i said it’s a flagship, so you have a snapdragon 820 chip, four gigabytes of ram and a 3 000 milliamp hour battery plus you do have expandable storage again in the form of a micro sd card slot, there’s also a usb type c port. At the bottom and now you’re probably wondering since this is an htc phone, what’s good with the speakers like, is there no massive stereo front facing speaker? No, you do not have that, but you still have a system that htc is calling boom sound, which is a stereo speaker system of a woofer on the bottom for the lower frequencies and a smaller front-facing speaker up top for the higher frequencies, and they work in Tandem uh. I thought this was an interesting solution to a problem that i’m not really sure anyone actually had, but so far it sounds decent again.
It’S no stereo front-facing pair, but it sounds pretty good now the camera. This is also something htc has clearly been struggling with for a little bit this year again on paper, it’s pretty promising, it’s rocking a 12 megapixel camera with an f 1.8 aperture and ois and pretty large pixels 1.55 microns. So it’s a big enough sensor for them to call it an ultra pixel 2 camera and it should be pretty quick with laser, auto focus and a fast camera app and yeah. This is definitely something i’m going to be testing pretty often for the full review. I have high hopes for it, but yeah right now it seems solid and the front camera is a 5-megapixel wide-angle, shooter again with f 1.8 and with ois again as well. So you can get those super sturdy, selfies and then htc did something i really like in a software department.
First of all, it’s definitely an overall cleaner version of htc’s skin. On top of android, it’s more vanilla. It has this more material design. Look with a lot of the stock apps and the settings etc, and then they worked with google on this phone to reduce the number of duplicate apps that you get out the box that do the same thing. I’Ve talked about this on previous phones samsung in particular, they’ll have like two apps installed on every phone to do pretty much everything: two email, apps, two texting apps two web browsing apps, two of everything and google already makes most of their stock apps from nexus phones Available in the play store, so what htc did was essentially remove any duplicate app that they don’t need that google already makes so the default calculator app on this phone is the google calculator the default calendar? Is google calendar when you’re taking photos with the camera and then you go to view them the default gallery? App is google photos, so i think it’s awesome that they worked with google to pull this off. I’M sure carriers will still find a way in the us to mess this up with all their pre-installed bloatware.
But i like this step, so bravo htc now you might be thinking htc if you’re just going to go all googly on us. Why not just go full nexus? Well, they still offer their own stuff with this software as well, so some fun custom launcher layout stuff. You get personal audio profiles with the super high-end 24-bit dac in this phone, which is dope and some battery optimization. On top of quick charge, 3.0 and even apple airplay, audio streaming right out the box native support, that’s definitely a first on an android phone, so yeah htc 10, like i said, is a pretty promising package.
I will be testing, of course, all this stuff, including the higher end, headphones that come in the box for the full review, so definitely stay tuned for that and we’ll figure out. If this really is the phone to save htc. Thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one, peace .