For those considering a new phone, you may be pleased to hear that the HTC 10 has been officially revealed.
The HTC 10 sports a 5.2 inch QHD display at 2560×1440. The display itself is a Super LCD5 display that has been reinforced with a curved edge made from Gorilla Glass. Inside the smartphone, you have a Snapdragon 820 and 4GB RAM. There are two variants, memory wise, a 32GB and 64GB one.
The HTC10 will also support up to a 2TB micro SD card. For the audio buffs out there, this new flagship device has HTC’s BoomSound, which is designed to improve your sound experience when using the device without speakers or headphones.
Battery wise, we’re looking at a 3,000 mAh battery, that HTC is claiming has up to 27 hours of life while connected to a 3G or 4G network. They are also touting that the device will have 19 days battery life on standby mode, and it will also be compatible with Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 3.0 technology.
What that actually means in practical terms is 50% battery life charged in 3o minutes.
As for the inbuilt cameras, below you can find a detailed breakdown of their individual specs for both front and rear facing.
Rear camera
- 12MP (HTC UltraPixel 2 with 1.55μm pixel)
- Laser Autofocus
- BSI sensor
- Optical Image Stabilization (OIS)
- F/1.8 aperture and 26mm focal length (80° wide angle)
- Dual tone LED flash
- Self-timer up to 10 seconds
- Face detection
- Pro mode with manual control and 12 bit RAW format support
- Auto-HDR
- Panorama
- Continuous shooting up to 8 FPS
- Zoe capture
- Hyperlapse
- Slow motion video (720P at 120FPS)
- 4K video recording with Hi-Res audio
- Video Pic
Front camera
- 5MP (1.34μm pixels)
- Autofocus
- BSI sensor
- Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS)
- F/1.8 aperture and 23mm focal length (86° wide angle)
- Live make-up
- Auto selfie (smile selfie, still selfie)
- Voice selfie
- Self-timer up to 10 seconds
- Auto-HDR
- Full HD 1080p video recording
The SIM card is a nanoSIM and the device will have a type C USB port, Bluetooth 4.2 chip and an 802.11ac Wi-Fi adapter. For those of you wondering about colour variants, you have four options: Carbon Grey, Glacier Silver, Topaz Gold, and Camellia Red. Price is quite high at $700, so this is definitely a phone to consider for your contract.
