HTC 10

- HTC is a company that in recent years has seen hefty ups and downs. Was to convince the formerly one of the toppers in the Android segment, lately the company succeed but not to consumers. With the new HTC 10 hopes to catch up.

Hardware

The HTC 10 design has been kept quite simple. It is a sober looking phone, with a metal shell with the back of a 12 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization in the middle. The image sensor uses what HTC ultra pixels' calls. That simply means that the pixels are larger and therefore absorb more light, which makes for better performance in low light. That appears to be correct in practice: even inside the camera performs very well.

At the front below the screen is the present home button, which also acts as a fingerprint sensor (which does properly). Nice detail is that the standby button on the side ridges, making it easy on your feel can distinguish the volume buttons above. The screen has a resolution of 1440 by 2560 pixels: nice sharp so.

Under the hood is also a powerful Snapdragon 820 chip available, along with 4GB of RAM. It delivers excellent performance. There is standard in 32GB of storage memory, although this can be expanded with a microSD memory card with up to 200GB. Enough memory for music and movies so.

The complete list of specifications can be found here.

Software

Manufacturers of Android phones have a habit of making their own version of the Google operating system with all frills where nobody really asked for. In the past, HTC also guilty of this, but with the HTC 10, the company withheld is hefty. According to him, the extent possible in cooperation with Google ensured that no apps with dual functionality on the phone and that seems largely succeeded in his. There are also a number of pre-installed apps, but they are almost all easy to remove if you prefer.

Noteworthy is the Boost + app, which allows the phone should remain fast on the long term. The app ensures that the background not take another application's memory or processing power. Or indeed effective in the long run, I could not look long review period during the week, but Boost + proved to be very active with the curb of other applications.

Unique

No Android device without gimmick, you would say, though HTC is also in this area is retained. 10 has very decent speakers (which HTC is still touting among the wacky name BoomSound), making it indeed no punishment without headphones to listen to music. Not that it's better, but for example when performing household chores is a great way to create background music.

Conclusion

HTC 10 (€ 749) is an excellent, no-nonsense Android phone. Powerful hardware, a very good camera and an austere version of Android make sure the company can be proud of its latest flagship. Good choice for people who want no gimmicks.