HTC has given people a number of great phones in the past. But since last year, the Chinese company got a little slow in the mobile market. But, HTC is not ready to give up and is coming up with new phones which are much better in specs and features than the previous models. Overall, it can be said that the company plans on rectifying the past mistakes to bring in new and more capable phones. Among these the HTC 10 Evo was recently launched in other markets. With its upcoming launch in the Indian market, fans are ready to enter another phone to their list of the most wanted devices. That said, we will take a look at what the HTC 10 Evo specs are capable of.
Design and Display:
10 Evo is coming up in the country with its single slot Nano-SIM body weighing at 174 g. With dimensions 152.6 x 77.3 x 8.1 mm, the phone is packed with Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on the display which is also IP57 certified. That means, the phone is water resistant up to 1 meter for 30 minutes.
Taking a look at the display the device offers Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen display with 16 M colours. The screen offered is 5.5 inches with 1440 x 2560 pixels. A pixel density of ~534 ppi gives the device ones of the most beautiful and saturated colours. With ~70.2% screen-to-body ratio, the HTC 10 Evo looks great in the hands for sure. Available colours for the device are silver and black.
Performance:
HTC 10 Evo’s performance comes into play with the powerful Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810 chipset. The CPU runs eight cores clocked at 4×1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 and 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A57. A decent Adreno 430 GPU processor module is also there to offer great graphics rendering for the device. All these processing power units make the device pretty fast and lag free. Users will love the multitasking on this device thanks to the high-end chipsets.
Software:
Luckily, the device comes with Android v7.0 (Nougat) out-of-the-box. With the latest Android OS in the device first hand, it truly shows how brilliant this device is going to be once used. Moreover, HTC will have frequent updates for its software as well as the OS.
Camera and Storage:
A high-end flagship device from any smartphone developers needs to have a brilliant camera with it. Which is why HTC, also needs to provide a great camera for a phone that has potential. The 10 Evo features a 16 MP primary camera with f/2.0 aperture and phase detection autofocus mode. Besides that, it also has OIS mode as well as dual-LED flash to support night photo-shoot. Further features of the camera are supported by touch focus, face detection, geo-tagging, panorama, and auto-HDR.
Recording of videos with the main camera is great on the device. Users will be able to shoot 4K@30fps (24-bit/192kHz audio) and 720p@120fps. Video and photo quality on the device is great to look at. Even the camera takes pictures pretty fast. On top of that, there is an 8 MP secondary camera for selfies as well. This one has an f/2.4 aperture that can take photos at 1080p with auto-HDR. Now that is brilliant!
Storage on the device is decent with 32 GB of internal storage as well as an expandable slot for up to 256 GB. Besides that, the processing power is backed up with 3 GB of RAM as well.
Battery and Connectivity:
To offer the necessary juice for the device, the HTC 10 Evo is provided with a 3,200mAh li-polymer battery that keeps the smartphone working for up to 23 Hours on 4G network and up to 23 Hours on 3G. It additionally highlights Quick, v2.0 fast charging that ensures faster refilling of the battery. In the connectivity features, the gadget offers Wi-Fi 802.11, 4G SIM, a/c/b/g/n/n 5GHz, mobile hotspot, A-GPS, Glonass Bluetooth v4.1, and sort C USB. For security, a unique fingerprint sensor is also provided in the front of the device below the display. Other sensors accompanying the device are – accelerometer, compass, gyroscope, and proximity sensor.
Final Verdict:
Either users will love HTC phones or they will not. The ones who do understand how great this phone is going to be. Testing the phone, we found out that it works great, feels great! But, how users will respond to the device will be seen once it comes out in the country. With so many facilities offered, we still think of why HTC stuck with 3 GB of RAM and not 4? Maybe, that much is enough for the powerful processor it runs under the hood. That said, lets welcome the device and see if it saves HTC’s hanging image among the people. The 10 Evo price in India is said to be around Rs.39990, and for more information, checkout 91mobiles.com.