HTC 10 is almost a product that ham sausage fans have been looking forward to for a long time. HTC has not made a big move for a long time. This time, they brought HTC 10 back to people's attention. Among the phones before HTC 10, the One series of phones always had some small problems, such as One M7 There is a very good camera, but the pixels are only 4 million. You can't bear to cut the photos taken, One M8 It is also 4 million pixels. What's worse, they even changed the optical anti shake from M8 It has been removed from the mobile phone. For a flagship mobile phone, this is a bit unreasonable. M9 Although it has done well in all aspects, it is still not enough. Even though it has a larger camera sensor, the photos taken are still a bit mediocre, and the fuselage is very hot, which is due to the use of early Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor As a result, users even M9 Give up and go far away.
Parameter list
All metal integrated fuselage
HTC Boom Sound speaker
5.2 inch Super LCD 52560 x 1440 (565ppi)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad core processor, 2 x 2.15GHz Kyro core&2 x 1.6GHz Kyro w core, GPU Adreno 530
HTC Sense UI 8.0 based on Android 6.0.1
12 megapixel main camera, f/1.8 aperture, Ultrapixel sensor, optical anti shake, dual color temperature flash, support 2160P@30fps And 1080P@60fps Video recording, 5 megapixel front camera (with optical anti shake)
32GB built-in storage space, supporting up to 2TB microSD card expansion
3000 mAh non removable battery
fingerprint identification
foible
Will HTC 10 bring about qualitative changes this time? In terms of various parameters, this phone is more like a flagship phone than ever before. It has a better camera, front camera optical anti shake, good body workmanship, strong performance, HiFi audio and Boom Sound, all of which make HTC seem to be able to pull back the city this time.
appearance
The box of HTC 10 is very simple. After opening the box, the phone lies flat on the top and pulls out the phone. Below it are some accessories. There is a charging head and a USB Type-C data cable that can be plugged in front and back. This charging head is a bit special. It supports Qualcomm Fast Charge 3.0. It can fill half of the power in less than half an hour. This performance is very good.
The design of this mobile phone is very beautiful. The large chamfer and trimming make the back fit the palm of the hand very well. It is very comfortable to hold the mobile phone, and at the same time, it makes the whole mobile phone look very sharp. Maybe you don't think it is a good grip machine, but as long as you touch it, you will change your outlook. The radian on the back of the phone is large, which makes it look thick, but in fact it is not.
There is no infrared device on HTC 10 now, and it can no longer be used to control home appliances. It has been used for so many years, but now it is a pity that it has been removed. However, it is possible that users do not know how to use this infrared function.
A 3.5mm headphone interface is located in the center of the top of the fuselage. HTC 10 has a new function - supporting high-definition audio system, which can be adjusted in 16 bit and 24 bit audio, giving you a better listening experience. All the buttons on the phone are on the right side of the phone. The volume button is on the top, and a textured power button is beside it. It feels very good. We have a good impression of these buttons. They are very firm. Even if you put them in your pants pocket, they will not cause you to press them by mistake. You need to press them a little harder. The key feedback is very fast. However, I think the layout is a bit strange, and you often press them by mistake, but it's good to get used to it.
(Volume key and power key)
(headphone connector)
Look at the bottom of the phone. The small hole on the left is a microphone, and the middle is a USB Type-C interface that supports fast charging 3.0, as well as the speaker on the right. The hole of this speaker is larger than that on other phones. When you pick up the phone, the first thing you see is the huge front camera, and the long hole next to it is the call receiver, At the same time, it can also be used as the second speaker, namely Boom Sound. Above the earpiece are common LED message lights, light sensors and distance sensors.
(conspicuous front camera)
(At the bottom of the fuselage, there are microphones, USB Type-C connectors, and speakers. The return key and multi task key cannot be seen under the rest screen.)
Press the power key and you will see a beautiful 5.2 inch 2K Super LCD screen. This is the first time that HTC has equipped a QHD resolution screen for its mobile phone. The Home key on the mobile phone is also a fingerprint sensor. After pressing, the phone can wake up in the resting screen state, but it is not a physical key, but a capacitive touch key. Right, HTC didn't print its logo on the front of the phone this time, which is more concise. On the back of the phone, you can see that HTC's black font logo is printed on the dark gray body. Another good thing is that HTC has not printed the specific body model on the back of the phone, which looks simple and fresh. We like this design very much.
(Simple logo)
On the HTC logo is an Ultra Pixel 2 (super pixel) camera with 12 million pixels. On the right side of the camera is a dual color temperature flash and laser focusing. If you look closely, you can also find a noise reduction microphone, which is also used to capture audio during video recording. If you cover your finger at the laser focus when taking a picture, the system will remind you to keep your finger as far away from the laser focus as possible, which is a bit annoying.
HTC officially launched an Ice View protective case for purchase, which is similar to the Dot View protective case matching the M9. The Ice View can be easily fitted onto the HTC 10. The back of the protective case is made of plastic, while the front is transparent. The body will become much thicker after wearing it, but it can protect the phone in all directions.
(Ice View protective shell)
In terms of functionality, double clicking the Ice View protective case in the rest screen status can quickly view the time and date. In addition, you can also open the camera, music player and view the call record. Like Dot View, Ice View protective case allows you to perform many operations without waking up your phone, such as taking photos and dialing. However, this case will make the phone screen a little dirty. However, we still recommend HTC 10 users to buy this case because it can provide many convenient operations.
screen
In those days, HTC Butterfly was the first screen to use 1080P resolution. After generations of updates, HTC finally used a 2560 x 1440 resolution screen on its flagship mobile phone. At the same time, the size of the screen was also larger than that of the predecessors. The edge transition of the screen glass was also 2.5D. The glass was from Corning's fourth generation gorilla glass. The performance was satisfactory in all aspects, but the information displayed could not be seen clearly when the sun shone directly on the screen. It seemed that its brightness was not high enough to cope with this situation. The HTC 10 is good at displaying black, and the contrast performance is also excellent, 1543:1. Although the outdoor visibility of the HTC 10 is not too bad, it is inferior to other flagship phones, mainly because of the lower maximum brightness and the serious light reflection on the screen.
HTC has two screen display modes, namely "sRGB" and "Vivid". The color displayed in sRGB mode is more accurate. Both modes support the free adjustment of color temperature, which can be adjusted to a value consistent with your own perception. In the "bright" mode, HTC 10 can give you a great viewing experience. The color is very bright, but not too saturated.
HTC 10 uses the nanoSIM card and supports microSD card expansion. The SD card and SIM card are located in different places, so no matter which one you want to replace, it will not affect your use.
(Replacement of SIM card or SD card will not affect anything)
In terms of connectivity, HTC 10 supports Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi a/b/g/n/ac 2.4, 5GHz, NFC, etc. Unfortunately, HTC 10 does not have infrared and FM radio functions. It is understandable to remove the infrared sensor, but I think most consumers would be dissatisfied without FM radio functions.
Let's say something good. The USB Type-C interface on the phone supports the DisplayPort function, which can be used for TV output. In addition, HTC 10 also supports Apple's AirPlay, which is rare for Android phones. We have only seen some Xiaomi products with this function.
Battery life
Compared with the 2840 mAh battery on the One M9, the battery capacity of the HTC 10 is slightly larger, at 3000 mAh. In addition, with the battery optimization function on the Android 6.0 system, it is believed that it can offset the additional power consumption caused by the 2K screen.
In terms of endurance test, HTC 10 can only say that its performance is satisfactory. The call test performance is 20.42 hours, the video playback and web browsing test performance is 8.42 hours and 9.08 hours, and the standby test performance is 66 hours, which is much inferior to the 80 hours of Galaxy S7 (Exynos processor version). One hour of talking, one hour of video playing, and one hour of web browsing should last a day after fully charging.
(66 hours of standby time; 20.42 hours of 3G calls; 9.08 hours of web browsing; 8.42 hours of video playback)
HTC 10 supports fast charging 3.0, so don't worry about the battery life. After a few minutes of charging, you may be able to talk for several hours. Since the Type-C interface is not very popular, you may also have to wear one to avoid emergencies. We emptied the battery capacity to 0%, and then connected the fast charge 3.0 to charge it. In 30 minutes, we just charged 50% of the battery.
system
HTC's Sense system has done a lot of subtraction now. The official claims that today's system is light and no longer bloated. HTC has removed many redundant software such as HTC Internet, Fun Fit, Scribble and Polaris Office, and now it is replaced by Chrome, Google Fit, Google Keep and Google Docs.
Under the unlocking interface, you can unlock the phone by gently swiping up. Of course, you can also use fingerprints. Under the rest screen status, just put your finger on the Home key to wake up the phone and unlock it. Under the lock screen interface, there is an App shortcut button. Press and hold the upward swipe to unlock and open the app immediately.
(Lock screen interface and main interface)
The Sense UI can also freely change the system theme. There are many themes to choose from in the launcher menu. Some themes also support the Freeplay mode. You can place plug-ins, icons, etc. anywhere on the main interface without having to place them in order. You can even overlap icons on another icon, just like on Windows.
(System theme)
In the secondary menu, all pre installed software will be placed on a separate page, while other newly downloaded software will be placed on another page. You can also arrange apps according to letters and recent use. There is also a shortcut menu of Play Store on the secondary menu. Click it to quickly enter the app store and search options, so that you can find the one you want to use in the vast sea of apps.
As always, you can quickly access the BlinkFeed on the main interface. The difference is that there is no news source for the BlinkFeed on HTC 10. You need to add it manually. Although you can use it to get news, we don't think HTC needs to force it into the main interface. Users can download relevant software if they want.
（BlinkFeed）
On HTC 10, you can use Google's Now On Tap. Long press the Home key to activate this function. Long pressing the "multi task" button on the phone can act as the menu key in the app, but since almost every app now has a menu bar, this function may not be useful.
Now HTC Sense is not as personalized as before. Many places, such as settings and notification centers, are more similar to native Android. HTC just adds some home features in some places, However, the benefits brought by this are obvious. Generally speaking, major UI changes will cause the system to run slowly and take longer to obtain system updates. Small changes such as Sense 8.0 will not cause the system to run slowly while delivering their own brands. Why not kill two birds with one stone?
We found that HTC 10 always wakes up the screen accidentally, because we have turned on the function of "Touching the Home key to wake up the screen". As long as any part of your body touches the Home key, the screen will wake up, for example, your wrist or arm and other parts will wake up the phone unexpectedly. Also, if you turn on the double click screen to wake up your phone, this will often happen, especially when I take my phone to jog, the phone will always light up the screen for no reason, but fortunately you can turn off this function in the settings.
Another point needs to be mentioned. Generally speaking, when the mobile phone receives a notice, you can slide the notice message and unlock the mobile phone to directly enter the app of the message. This is not the case for HTC 10. You need to double-click the notice message in the lock screen interface and unlock it to open the app. This is particularly brainy, which is quite different from the logic of native Android.
The actual available space of our 32GB version is 23.17GB. It seems that the system and pre installed software use up a lot of storage space, and the pre installed software eats up about 770MB of space. However, you can still use microSD card for expansion.
performance
HTC 10 is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 quad core processor, two Kyro 2.15GHz cores and two Kyro 1.6GHz cores. The GPU is Adreno 530 with 4GB memory. The core of Kryo architecture is indeed a performance monster, and it is also one of the best processors on the market. Now let's look at some performance tests.
(GeekBench 3 * single core test, the higher the value, the better)
(GeekBench 3 * multi-core test, the higher the value, the better)
(The higher the value of AnTuTu 6 *, the better)
(Basemark OS 2.0 * The higher the value, the better)
(GFX3.0 Manhattan * 1080P offscreen, the higher the value, the better)
(GFX3.1 Manhattan * 1080P offscreen, the higher the value, the better)
(GFX3.1 Car screen * offscreen, the higher the value, the better)
(GFX3.0 Manhattan * 1080P onscreen, the higher the value, the better)
(GFX3.1 Car screen * onscreen, the higher the value, the better)
(The higher the value of Basemark X *, the better)
HTC 10 performs very well in terms of performance. It should be the same for a mobile phone that uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor. I believe that this mobile phone should have no problem serving you for several years. It is very familiar for HTC 10 to open apps, play games and switch multi tasks.
HTC 10 uses the common eMMC 5.1 NAND flash memory. Compared with Samsung's UFS 2.1 NAND, eMMC 5.1 is much slower in reading and writing speed Galaxy S7 Edge as well as LG G5 Both use UFS flash memory. In order to understand the difference between these three mobile phones, we used AndroBench to test them in four ways: continuous reading, continuous writing, random reading and random writing.
(The higher the continuous reading * value, the better)
(The higher the continuous writing * value, the better)
(Random reading * The higher the value, the better)
(Random writing * The higher the value, the better)
Don't get me wrong. HTC 10 is still fast in daily use. We just want to give users a clear reference standard.
BoomSound and Multimedia
HTC 10 also has BoomSound, but this time, instead of placing both speakers on the front of the fuselage, one of the speakers was moved to the bottom of the fuselage. This should be to place the Home key integrated with fingerprint recognition under the screen, which also helps to keep the fuselage size within a suitable range, and improve the overall aesthetic feeling.
The speaker on the top of the screen is also a receiver. The speaker performs well. For a mobile phone, I believe most users will be satisfied with its speaker. Whenever you play music with HTC 10, the notification center will display the audio mode you are using now. There are two modes - cinema mode and music mode. The cinema mode is more suitable for watching videos or playing games, while the music mode, as its name implies, is more suitable for listening to music, regardless of which mode you use, BoomSound speakers won't let you down.
camera
HTC's mobile phone camera has been walking on a bumpy road. In the era of 13 million pixels as the mainstream, HTC One M7 has adopted a 4 million pixel camera with a larger pixel size. It was thought that users would prefer phones with larger pixel size rather than just high pixels, but the sales situation shows that users do not think so. Strangely, HTC did not learn a lesson but continued to One M8 This camera is used on the, and dual cameras are also added, so users do not pay for it. stay HTC One M9 At last, the mainstream 20 megapixel camera was used, but the quality of the photos taken did not stand out in the market.
This time, HTC 10 is equipped with a 12 megapixel camera, officially called UltraPixel 2.0. Earliest One M7 as well as One M8 The UltraPixel camera on HTC 10 has a single pixel size of 2 µ m, but only 4 million pixels. Now the single pixel size on HTC 10 is 1.55 µ m, and the total number of pixels has reached 12 million. In terms of hardware parameters, HTC 10 uses Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P For the same sensor as above, the size of the camera sensor is 1/2.3 ". The HTC 10 has optical anti shake but the two Nexus phones do not. The aperture size is f/1.8, and there is a dual color temperature flash.
Like Nexus mobile phones, HTC 10 also has laser focusing, and the camera can be opened quickly, but it is still faster than Galaxy S7 Edge The S7 Edge can open the camera quickly by double clicking the Home button, HTC 10 But there is no such shortcut. The camera's operation interface is very simple. There are only three buttons on the top, flash and HDR, and there is a secondary menu button between them. Here you can switch between various shooting modes: slow motion, delayed photography, expert mode, panorama and Zoe motion shooting. In Zoe mode, the camera will record 3 seconds of high-definition video after pressing the shutter key, In fact, this is very similar to the iPhone Live Photo, but HTC is the first mobile phone to launch this function. As early as 2013, we saw Zoe dynamic photography on One M7, and we thought it was a very interesting function at that time.
(Camera shooting interface)
The camera provides an expert mode, in which you can manually adjust the parameters of the camera, or even take photos in RAW format. The default photo shooting format of the expert mode is RAW, and you can set it to JPG. The expert mode is highly playable, and you can adjust the white balance ISO、 Shutter speed, etc.
Now let's take a look at some samples
(The above is the sample taken by HTC 10)
The samples taken by HTC 10 are very good in any light environment, but sometimes HTC 10 does not perform well in tolerance. When the light shines from the rear of the shooting object, HTC 10 performs mediocrely. In low light environment, the image noise taken by HTC 10 is much less than that of Galaxy S7 Edge. Although the sample brightness of S7 Edge is higher, the cost is that there will be a lot of noise.
Here are some comparisons
（HTC 10）
（Galaxy S7 Edge）
(HTC 10, flash not turned on)
(Galaxy S7 Edge, flash not turned on)
(HTC 10, turn on flash)
(Galaxy S7 Edge, flash on)
The samples taken with HDR are very tolerant. You can see that the brightness of the sky and the overexposed parts of clouds has decreased a lot. We suggest that you turn on the automatic HDR function for a long time, so that you can take some better samples in many cases.
(HTC 10, close HDR)
(HTC 10, open HDR)
(HTC 10, close HDR)
(HTC 10, open HDR)
(The front camera performs equally well, and HTC even equips it with optical anti shake)
HTC 10 can record 720P, 1080P and 4K videos, with the bit rate of 55Mbps for 4K videos and 20Mbps for 1080P videos. The front camera can only record 1080P video at most.
summary
The HTC 10 combines the advantages of the previous generation of flagship computers and is integrated into this mobile phone. Its powerful performance, beautiful appearance design and excellent hardware, as well as the improvement of shooting level, fast and accurate fingerprint recognition and impressive BoomSound sound effect, all make HTC 10 a strong competitor this year, HTC fans should be very happy this time. They can safely upgrade to this HTC 10, but it also has shortcomings. Although the endurance performance is not too bad, we still think there is still much room for improvement.
HTC 10 Test Report
The fuselage is firm, and will not cause the fuselage to sag when falling, only some scratches.
Beautiful 5.2 inch QHD display screen, good appearance and display mode for adjustment, but outdoor visibility is slightly worse than other flagship phones.
With a 66 hour standby time, there is still much room for improvement in terms of endurance.
Sometimes the screen wakes up due to accidental contact with the fingerprint sensor; Fingerprint recognition is fast.
HTC has done a lot of subtraction on Sense 8.0. The system is not bloated, and there is not much pre installed software.
The processor is very powerful, but if it runs at full load, it will cause serious heating of the mobile phone.
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