for me like probably many of you HTC
made my first Android phone I mean check this out this is me with the 1 M7 so
shiny and exciting and then I like probably many of you was disappointed by
HTC by their complacency their pricing
their customer service their build quality basically insert reason not to
care anymore here the 1 M9 era marked a particularly rough patch in the
Taiwanese company's history with investors valuing it at less than the
cash it had in the bank I mean what I
mean what but more recently there's been good news too the HTC VI is the VR
headset to get if that tall guy I hang around with is to be believed he's not
dying but HTC's Core Business is mobile
phones and that thing is not a phone so
are they ready to give up and just make computer peripherals from now on
apparently not meet the HT
C10 to celebrate the launch of their Nitro plus radon rx480 Sapphire is
giving some of them away learn more and enter the giveaway at the link in the
video description the 10 like every other
Flagship smartphone right now packs a Snapdragon 820 CPU paired with an adreno
53 GPU so performance should be pretty
much right in there with everyone else assuming that the overheating issues
that the 1m9 demonstrated in our water cooled phones video haven't made a
reappearance and it looks like we're in okay shape here the iPhone 6s is the
golden standard and doesn't throttle in my geek bch repeatedly test at all but I
consider anything around a 10 to 15% reduction in performance during
continuous heavy use to be very good the
10 Falls well short of that Mark a
surprise given its ample thickness but it isn't something that I noticed day
today and at least it doesn't cut in half like its predecessor also packed
into the 10's aluminum frame is 4 gigs of lpddr4 RAM 32 or in some regions
apparently 64 gigs of storage and a non- removable 3,000 mAh battery that saw me
through every day during my time with the device features that have become
shockingly standard fair in recent times I mean
it's not a knock against the 10 it's a good thing it just doesn't help it stand
apart let's get then to what does the
screen is a subtly curved Corning Gorilla Glass topped 5.2 in super LCD 5
affair with a pixel count of 2560 x440
making it a solid choice for use in a VR viewer like Google cardboard if you're
into that sort of thing nothing about its viewing angles
antireflectivity colors popped out and in fact while I didn't notice this in
daily use next to the Galaxy S7 and the iPhone 6s it's display has a noticeable
pink cast something that neither switching from Vivid to srgb color mode
nor adjusting color temperature helped with so okay then that was a lie the
screen wasn't a differentiating point below the screen is a capactive home
button with a quick and accurate integrated fingerprint sensor flanked by
two Hardware capacitive buttons for last application and back that I wish could
be swapped like on the OnePlus 3 but that I otherwise can't complain about
the chin bar size on the 10 was actually just perfect for me to type totally
naturally above the screen is an optically stabilized 5 megapixel selfie
camera that does a little more noise reduction postprocessing than I would
personally like but otherwise generated very good results Apple really has some
catching up to do with their next generation selfie Cam and then finally
an exceptional feature gone is boom
sound dual front-facing speakers but
here is actually a replacement that I can't believe no one else thought of the
earpiece speaker doubles as a loudspeaker that combined with the
surprisingly directional bottom firing speaker that handles more of the mid and
low frequencies delivers an exceptionally balanced listening
experience ice work HTC also on the
bottom of the 10 is some dents from me dropping it oops the main microphone and
a USB 3.1 gen 1 type-c shaped Port more
on that in a moment but this is another pretty sweet feature with the fast file
transfer feature enabled I was able to saturate the 100 and 150 megabyte right
and read speeds respectively of the internal storage moving videos to and
from a computer this is great for offloading photos and videos or loading
media onto your device before a trip
unfortunately it doesn't seem like you can set it to work this way by default
for reasons that are Beyond me but that I think may have to do with the USB
type-c shaped Port not having been
implemented in accordance with the USB type-c standard qualcom Quick Charge 3.0
variable voltage fast charging prevents
QC 3.0 Chargers from operating at the
same time that data transfer is taking place which makes oneplus's Dash charge
a 4 amp 5vt fast charging method look
good for reasons that go beyond keeping the phone cooler during charging h on
the left of the device is a Micro SD slot for expandable storage awesome and
on the right is the SIM tray the volume rocker and a lock button that thanks to
the textured top is easy to differentiate both in pocket and without
the headphone jack is on top in the middle and if it sounds ridiculous the
first time you plug it in you're like what is all this bass in my music turn
off the Dolby enhancement in the settings menu you're welcome and then at
the rear is a noise cancelling microphone dual tone flash laser
autofocus and 12 megapix rear camera
whose lower megapixel count hurts under
ideal well-lit conditions but who conservative d noising postprocessing
Optical image stabilization and larger light scooping pixels deliver some of
the best low light performance I've seen
these images were taken under identical lighting conditions with the S7 the 6s
and the 10 check out how well you can read that text with the 10 and I'd say
for the most part camera control is a really strong point too autofocus is
laser Qui all the usual shooting modes like 4K video Raw Stills or slow-mo are
there plus it's got this neat hyperlapse mode that folks are going to have a lot
of fun with and the pro sliders all show
up on screen at the same time making it really fast to adjust when manually
shooting I just wish it was a little faster to open personally I mean the app
itself launches as quickly as anyone else but HTC's implementation of gesture
control isn't the best I've seen the two swipes down to open the camera is a
little flaky and only works when the screen scen is off and this is a
criticism of everyone not just HTC but
why can't I reconfigure whichever gestures I want to do whatever stuff I
want anyway I still like the scent skin
including blink feed and it's pretty close to stock Android now so at this
point all that's left is for me to drop
the phone and deliver my conclusion it feels like every other reviewer in the
world is declaring it to be a hit a clinic on how to make a smartphone or
some other variation of the second coming but I didn't come twice or even
once for that matter though it should be noted that that is not because the HTC1
is a bad phone it actually remarkably
doesn't seem to do anything wrong it's
just because it also doesn't push the Innovation envelope in any way that's
meaningful to me personally the better speaker experience is going to win over
some buyers for sure but I'm more partial to the
waterproofness of the S7 and the pressure sensitive screen and lightning
fast performance including Wave 2 AC Wireless I wish everyone else would
Implement that of the iPhone 6s maybe
the problem though is that phones are just kind of mature now the last
remaining huge gap in smartphone functionality that Apple enjoyed the
camera has mostly been closed by the Koreans the Chinese and now the
Taiwanese to the point where I feel like a phone isn't so much stand out good as
stand out bad with anything else being
good but maybe that in itself is a good thing maybe the fact that a solid phone
that performs well and feels good in the hand in spite of its thicker design
doesn't excite me anymore is just good for buyers because that's what the HTC1
is I personally still prefer the S7 but
you might not and it's good to have choice
and you know what other choice is good for consumers the choice of where to put
your dbrand skin do you want to put it on a laptop do you want to put it on a
phone do you want to put it on a game console or a game controller well that's
up to you and you've got more choices too if you head over to dbrand.com we've
got that Linked In the video description you can use their fantastic configurator
to configure your device whether it's uh
the you know touchpad of a laptop versus the bottom or the top of it or whether
it's the back of a phone versus the sides of a phone you can configure
pretty much any surface on the device with any color and any finish you want
and you can preview it in real time so you'll know before you get it that it's
going to a fit great on your device
because all dbrand skins are Precision cut and B represent your personal style
whether your personal style is tasteful or clown likee I won't judge so again
that's the link to dbrand.com in the video
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