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HTC 10: The Features, Review, Specs, Price and all you need to know

HTC Phones in Nigeria are one of trending Android mobile phones in Nigeria mobile market today.

HTC android devices are unique in a world of their own, beautiful designs with astonishing performances.

This in turn makes the HTC phone brand ranked among the top Android smartphones in the world today.

HTC as an android phone manufacturer (OEM) have a very strong software backup and top-notched hardware to produce some of the world’s best smart phones and devices.

The HTC 10 was released a while ago and comes with all the features you would expect on a smart phone of this budget range.

The hardware was really top-notched as it lets all games and app run so smoothly. I was quite impressed with it after installing the flashshare app that I used in pimping the HTC 10 device to taste.

Introducing HTC 10

Design and build quality

 

After the release of the HTC One M8 and HTC One M9, the company is now releasing the “One M” brand and is calling this device the “HTC 10.” The brands’ trademark explosive speaker grills are no more.

These changes left HTC significantly sinked the vertical bezels on this device, these resulting to a 5.1-inch phone which isn’t preposterously tall like past models were.

 

Performance

 

The device specs sheet is outlined below and looks really amazing for the budget range. It bags 2.15GHz Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, and standard fast storage.

The Snapdragon 820 drops the ARM Cortex CPU build that was present in the Snapdragon 810 and switches to Qualcomm’s new 64-bit Kryo cores.

 

The strength of 10

 

The HTC 10 is more of what you’re looking for in a flagship phone. Unsurpassed performance. Great 24-bit Hi-Res sound and also the world’s first Optical Image Stabilization in both rear and secondary cameras.

CAMERA

 

The camera of HTC 10 has been tagged as Next generation camera

HTC 10 comes across with what may well be the highest smartphone camera in this present generation.

Having innovations such as the world’s first OIS front and back, 12 million UltraPixels, faster laser autofocus and more. The device has been awarded a DxOMark score of 88 for camera quality. One of the highest scores today.

HTC 10 Review in Full

Taiwan may not be popular as a tech enclined country like China but
at least they have great smartphone companies like HTC to make boast
with.

Of recent HTC had announced its plans to release the HTC 10
smartphone which is expected to ship latter this month.

Anyway, we got
our hands on the specs of the New HTC 10 and it might interest you to
know that the handset runs on the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

THE DESIGN AND DISPLAY

At
a dimension of 145.9 x 71.9 x 9 mm (5.74 x 2.83 x 0.35 in) and a weight
of 161g (5.68 oz) , the new HTC 10 is a light smartphone that should
fit into any small purse or handbag.

Thankfully, the new HTC 10
crams in a full capacity touchscreen of 5.2 inch with a resolution of
1440 x 2560 pixels (~565 ppi pixel density).

There is also a supper
efficient conning Gorilla Glass 4 which ensures that you will have no
scratch on the screen of your smartphone.

CAMERA

The HTC 10
may not win a camera contest but at least one can expect to make do with
a 12MP shooter on the rear. Selfie lovers also has a 5MP front camera
for Selfie and video calling.

Other features on the camera
department includes a 1/2.3” sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size,
geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama.

HARDWARE

The
HTC 10 will obviously catch the attention of hard gamers. The handset
packs a Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 chipset along with a dual core
CPU clocking a a speed of 2.15 GHZ.

The handset also packs the latest
Adreno 530 for a snappy gaming experience.

MEMORY

The new
HTC 10 comes in two variants. The first crams in a 32GB omboard storage
while the other comes with a 64GB storage. Interestingly, both variants
can get additional storage space via a micro-SD card of up to 200GB.

The latest HTC 10 packs a decent 4GBB RAM for fluid multitasking and much more.

BATTERY

The
new HTC comes packed with a non-removable 3000mAh battery which
delivers a standby power of up to 456 hours on 3G and up to 27 hours of
talk time on 3G.

HTC 10 Full Specification

Network Technology GSM / CDMA / HSPA / LTE
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2 (dual-SIM model only)
CDMA 800 / 1900 – USA
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 – EMEA
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100 – USA
4G bands LTE band 1(2100), 3(1800), 5(850), 7(2600), 8(900), 20(800), 28(700), 38(2600), 40(2300), 41(2500) – EMEA
LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 12(700), 13(700), 17(700), 20(800), 28(700), 29(700), 30(2300) – USA
Speed HSPA, LTE Cat9 450/50 Mbps, EV-DO Rev.A 3.1 Mbps
GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Launch Announced 2016, April
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2016, May
Body Dimensions 145.9 x 71.9 x 9 mm (5.74 x 2.83 x 0.35 in)
Weight 161 g (5.68 oz)
SIM Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)
Display Type Super LCD5 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.2 inches (~71.1% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels (~565 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 4
– HTC Sense UI
Platform OS Android OS, v6.0.1 (Marshmallow)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820
CPU Dual-core 2.15 GHz Kryo & dual-core 1.6 GHz Kryo
GPU Adreno 530
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 200 GB (dedicated slot)
Internal 32/64 GB, 4 GB RAM
Camera Primary 12 MP, f/1.8, 26mm, OIS, laser autofocus, dual-LED (dual tone) flash
Features 1/2.3” sensor size, 1.55µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
Video 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps, HDR, stereo sound rec.
Secondary 5 MP, f/1.8, 23mm, OIS, autofocus, 1.34 µm pixel size, 1080p, HDR
Sound Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes, dual speakers
3.5mm jack Yes
– Hi-Res audio
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.2, A2DP, apt-X
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS/ BDS (region dependent)
NFC Yes
Radio No
USB v3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

Features

Sensors Fingerprint, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser HTML5
Java No
-Fast battery charging: 50% in 30 min (Quick Charge 3.0)
– Google Drive (100 GB cloud storage)
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
– XviD/MP/H.264/WMV player
– MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/FLAC player
– Document editor
– Photo/video editor
Battery

Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery
Stand-by
Up to 456 h (3G)
Talk time
Up to 27 h (3G)

Misc
Colors
Carbon Gray, Topaz Gold, Glacier Silver

Price

HTC 10 droid is a bit pricey at about $720. It can be bought from HTC outlets, dealers and most online shopping malls. It goes for about N140,000 in Nigeria.

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