Reviews Of The Year

One of the screen is on the case in anything. 4.7 inches and a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels yield a pixel density of about 468 ppi - at a normal viewing distance so far beyond the point at which the human eye can perceive individual pixels. The brightness of ambient light, at just under 500 candela / m in the very good range. Also the color of the LCD display is much better than some of the Xperia Z. If you look at the screen from an angle, it is only minimally darker while leaving colors and contrasts almost completely preserved.

Next to the display reaps the inflated by Beats Audio Sound of One praise. Above and below the display sits in each case a wide, even front radiating speakers. Together they provide a sound quality that we have never heard of any smartphone: music and voices coming clear, loud and powerful sound from the speakers. The reason might be that the One, the HTC Beats Audio sound profile also activated when a headset is connected. Speaking: After a long time the manufacturer has been backing a decent in-ear headset with verhedderungssicherem flat cable. The plugs sit convey good and a very good sound in the ears. In sound loud, clear and enormous bass-strong. Who is the bass too much, can turn Beats Audio.

HTC Android 4.1.2 installed on the One. In addition, the completely redesigned UI Sense 5.0 comes with flashing feed. The default home screen consists of three parts. At the top is emblazoned along with the HTC Clock weather widget. Including various tiles with the latest news and Twitter and Facebook messages are arranged. But only if you want to. Social networking integration muffle not have an account and can only news websites from the as yet limited offer pool view. In addition to flashing Feed screen HTC allowed four more home screens, each of which can be set as the home screen. Who does not like the flashing feed, so it can "hide", by specifying a different home screen as a start screen. Another new feature is the arrangement of the buttons below the display. Right we find the home button, which opens to double tap the Recent Apps and prolonged pressure on Google Now. Links from the HTC logo is the back button. A long press on one of the normal homescreen widget opens the index. The App Drawer shows either 3x4 or 4x5 app icons on a page. There you can also create folders and sort the apps alphabetically or randomly. In the bottom bar always appears, can also be created folder. Among the pre-installed apps we find Tune-in radio, a solid music player and a TV App. With this setup the One than any TV remote control, because the on-off switch also serves as an infrared transmitter. That works fine in the test with a Sony TV. Sense 5 everything seems to operate in all, something leaner and sometimes a bit awkward. After a short orientation, the UI does a good job, pure Android 4.2 but we would have preferred.

Inside the One very diligent work of the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 of. This new CPU shows how to run an Android phone to: the performance is smooth, fast and smoothly at all times. Even top phones like the Nexus One, the 4 or X + come because not approach to the One. The quad-core clocked at 1.7 GHz and is supported by 2 GB of RAM. Accordingly fall of the benchmark tests. In the somewhat outdated, graphics-rich quadrant test makes the One leaves the competition far behind, and the current Geekbench it is even slightly ahead of the Samsung Nexus Tablet 10th

When the camera dares HTC experiment. Rather than cram more and more pixels onto the sensor, the Taiwanese limit at constant sensor size to four megapixels. Each pixel is thus a larger area for light collection available, combined with an optical image stabilizer and a wide aperture, this should also be in low light conditions to ensure that the One always can absorb low-noise and bright images. In practice, we first that four megapixels are four megapixels, no matter how they are called. The images of the HTC cam thus fall from small and are only a very limited zoom or beschneidbar. Distant details are not visible in the pictures. Moreover, delights us with the clippers but - in unzoomed state - quite sharp, color fidelity and nice bright images. Even in low light or complete darkness with flash, keep the noise in check, the colors remain true and the brightness up. The "ultra-pixel" camera revolutionized nothing, but gives a thoroughly decent quality. Also, the image stabilizer is clean. A side effect of the low resolution image: The file size of the photos in an average of only 1.3 MByte.

As a special feature, we want to mention Zoe. One can summarize the 3-second videos and images to a longer and aufpimpen highlight video with special effects. An Instagram for videos, so to speak. This just created clips, you can then upload to the Website Zoe share. The One snaps and also filmed in HDR mode, these shots look a bit better than other smartphones with HDR camera, but are far from the level of a real camera. Normal full-HD movie recording act very sharp contrast, true colors and fluid, like our test video shows.

This one comes with a permanently installed 2200 mAh battery. The call duration at maximum transmission power creates one less than eight hours, the battery is completely exhausted after three hours fully charged. The online runtime at full screen brightness at just under six hours in the good range. When the power save mode, it extended in the test for a full hour. Moreover, our review unit was in daily use by almost two full days without being charged must.

The One transmits its booming sound at least a little bit on the phone and service. To mobile and fixed network side the One sounds very good, loud and always understandable. On mobile phone side, the responsibility is also as clear and noise-free, that we are in silent phases ask whether the connection is still alive. The rejection of ambient noise works well. In speakerphone mode, it sounds from the big speakers blechig easy, but very loud and easy to understand. The caller on the other end, however, the bill pays for the loud sound One: The caller is hard to understand, sounds dull and far too quiet.

If it still may be a bit larger, we recommend the Sony Xperia Z. The Full HD screen of the smartphone from Japan is no less than 5 inches, while the waterproof housing is designed to send more angular. Therefore, the Z is not quite as smooth in the hand, like the HTC one. Moreover, it is not quite as smooth, but also provides a very good performance. Both phones operate at a high level. Z for the Xperia you currently pay at least 575 euros in online trading, so a few euros less than for one that is currently pre-order starting at 600 Euro.

Remember, in the 80s, a manufacturer decided to go two huge speakers in a portable audio player. Roaring street music was born.

Okay, so, now thirty years ago, the ghetto blaster was a rebellious social practice, there is no reason to use full power of the speakers of a laptop in transit. Quality is often poor and living in society requires us to respect the calm of our citizens. That said, since the smartphone is equipped with a portable powerful audio with powerful speakers and of poor quality, the hearing impairment is within the reach of everyone.

It's a shame, because the feature, used correctly allows misuses a smartphone rather interesting: share music with friends in remote places, traveling for example, to listen to his creations groups, watch videos in bed without the need for headphones ... short, there is the idea. And HTC, with its One, apparently it pushed this idea further. Sure, we have not been able to test the device on our side, but the first tests that come on the web are pretty positive that side: the BoomSound developed by Beats Audio is far from purely shame that marketing Beats headphones are.

This time HTC can use the plug-in built-in speakers to the smartphone, which can reproduce sound much deeper, treated beforehand. On the following video, a tour blog CNet, the difference between the raw sound and the effect sound is obvious. We regret that the writer just did not selected songs where the bass is more punchy expressed or movies a little dramatic. We will not fail to do our part.