HTC released the new flagship Android phone HTC One in the early morning of February 20, Beijing time. This time, HTC One brings many keywords, including a 4.7 inch 1080P screen, Snapdragon 600 processor, "UltraPixel" technology camera, "BoomSound" dual speakers, and an all metal integrated body. This article will analyze the characteristics of this new flagship.

screen

In recent years, the screen of mobile phones has developed by leaps and bounds. Since the introduction of the "retina" level screen of the iPhone, the screen ppi of mobile phones has been constantly refreshed rapidly. From Apple's 326ppi, to the 342ppi of Xiaomi 2, to this year's blowout 441ppi mobile phones, every screen upgrade has brought more shocking visual experience to consumers. This time, the HTC One brings an unprecedented 467ppi ultra fine screen with a 4.7 inch 1920 * 1080 resolution. Although many people say that 1080P is not necessary below 5 inches, 720P is enough. However, the development of 1080P technology is the trend of the times. It will be more enjoyable to use this screen for video and game applications.

SoC

HTC One uses the new Snapdragon 600 processor, which is the second mobile phone to use this processor after the Korean version of LG Optimus G Pro. The Snapdragon 600 uses a new krait 300 core with a frequency of 1.7 GHz. The GPU is still Adreno 320. The official claim is that the efficiency of the Snapdragon 600 is 40% higher than that of the Snapdragon S4 Pro (the common APQ8064). We know that the high load caused by 1080P resolution puts great pressure on APQ8064. Please refer to these articles for details:

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However, judging from the scores of some current field trials, it seems that the GPU of Snapdragon 600 has not been greatly improved. This result is disappointing. For 1080P, the current priority of SoC is to improve the graphics processing ability, and it is not very useful to blindly make contributions to the CPU. Snapdragon 600 undoubtedly has great advantages over APQ8064 in CPU computing, but in daily applications, the processing power of APQ8064 on HTC Butterfly is fully enough, so the improvement of CPU may not bring much change to the user's experience, and we are looking forward to a leap in GPU performance. Of course, at this stage, it is only part of the score. The real strength of the Snapdragon 600 still depends on the actual test of the real machine.

camera

The camera used by HTC One this time is quite unique, called "UltraPixel" camera. The camera's parameters are 4.3 million pixels at the rear, F2.0 large aperture, and OIS anti shake support. 2.1 million pixels in front, F2.0 aperture, 88 degrees wide angle. In terms of parameters, the most puzzling thing is the rear 4.2 million pixels. In fact, its design has a lot of implications.

HTC One will focus on the camera brand, aiming to compete with Lumia 920 with Pureview technology in terms of mobile phone photography. The size of its photosensitive element is 1/3 inch, and each pixel can reach 2 µ m pixel size, while the general 1300W pixel camera is only 1.1 µ m pixel size. The sensitivity of the new HTC One will be 300% higher than that of the ordinary mobile phone camera. In fact, when taking a picture, three layers of 4.3 million pixels are taken at the same time and superimposed, which makes the HTC One perform well in low light shooting, but it also reduces the camera pixels of the HTC One to the "non mainstream level" of 4 million, which can be called the lowest flagship of pixels. In addition, HTC One is also equipped with an optical image stabilization system (OIS) based on a multi axis gyroscope to improve photographic performance. With strong weak light imaging capability and OIS, HTC One will also be greatly enhanced in video shooting.

In addition to UltraPixel, the improvement of HTC One's shooting function also includes: this model also has the video HDR function. The HTC Zoe dynamic album function attached can capture 5 photos before pressing the shutter, and 15 photos after pressing the shutter. Users can select the best one from a group of photos, or use it for animation processing. If this is not satisfactory, HTC One can also record 3 seconds of video clips while shooting.

Of course, UltraPixel technology and OIS anti shake are very attractive for those with photography foundation, and we are also looking forward to the imaging ability of HTC One. But for ordinary users, hearing the 4.3 megapixel camera, they may feel that it is completely "off stream".

speaker

It seems that the speakers of previous mobile phones can not play any tricks, and the more extreme ones are like Four cores of glory This kind of dual speaker design, but the speaker design of HTC One is really rare. HTC calls it "BoomSound". The speakers of HTC One are on the upper and lower sides of the front of the body, and one of the speakers is even integrated with the earpiece. The speakers on both sides of the body designed in this way will bring more shocking sound effects than the speakers on the back of ordinary mobile phones. Compared with a single speaker placed on the back of a common mobile phone, this speaker design will bring a lot of improvement to the audio experience of games and videos.

Integrated airframe

The design of HTC One's fuselage is also very exquisite. The compact fuselage with all metal integration undoubtedly adds a lot to HTC One's fuselage. The body of HTC One is made by precision CNC processing, and each shell requires up to 200 minutes of processing time. However, according to past experience, some mobile phones with metal body will have some problems in terms of heating and signal, which will be verified in the real machine test in March.

Sense

In addition to the excellent design of hardware, HTC One is also unambiguous in software. The new Sense brings a more innovative operating experience. It adds the BlinkFeed interface, bringing unique operating methods for applications like Flipboard.

summary

From the perspective of hardware and software, HTC One is undoubtedly HTC's sincere work, but it is not impeccable. To cope with the power consumption of 1080P and high-frequency quad core processors, only 2300mAh batteries are slightly insufficient. In addition, the equivalent price of HTC One is as high as 5400 yuan, which also makes many users flinch from HTC One. For its own product, HTC Butterfly has only been on the market for more than two months, and its flagship position was immediately replaced by HTC One. This strategy also makes HTC Butterfly's positioning very awkward, and it is easy to cause "fraternity". The first direct competitor of HTC One may be the highly acclaimed Galaxy S4, which is rumored to be released in March 2013. If this is the case, it will have a great impact on HTC One.

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