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When one goes on HTC’s whole. It will decide the future of the entire company, which had to leave in the last two years neat feathers. The Taiwanese prove pleasing courage with a new housing construction, a new user interface, the waiver of the megapixel race – and many interesting solutions in detail. Is that enough to make the HTC one the best Android Smartphone ever?

housing

The HTC one is available in two versions: with a black or silver aluminum case. After my experience with the iPhone 5, I would immediately recommend to the silver model, because my iPhone saw after a few weeks of fully completed. Small scratches that can flake off the paint, silver shine through.

inquiry told us the product manager from HTC that the black casing is not to be scratched as that of the iPhone 5 In fact, our test unit looks after a few weeks still look like fresh out of the box. But who does not just experience, treated his phone like a raw egg, but should simply pick up the silver Model: There just are not as scratches fall to

. scratches in the metal: How the iPhone 5 also flashes the HTC One silver aluminum beneath the black surface. Although the silver model also scratched, but the damage is not so clearly visible.While the front

is almost completely covered by a glass sheet is bent back. At the highest point in the middle of the unit rises 9.3 millimeters in height, on the sides, it is 4 to 5 millimeters thick. This trick ensures that the One looks much slimmer than it actually is.

A nice detail: The back is made completely of metal. The plastic elements HTC like installed to earlier models in the upper and lower portion of the casing in order to hide the antennas such that one does not have. In return, a few thin plastic insulators pass through the metal that we find in a similar way to the frame of the iPhone 4, 4S and 5. The plastic is the same height as the metal. If we touch a finger over the case, we notice no edges. Our colleagues from c’t had here by the way not so lucky: In their test device there is a noticeable difference in height, which provides a sharp edge. Our advice at this point: Anyone who buys a one, should immediately make the business the finger test. There must be no sharp edges on the back. In that case, we would require a different model or make use of the right of return for online orders.

A small scratches in the plastic frame is not a problem: The material is colored. Traces are therefore hardly visible.

The edge between the top and bottom of the case is the way, not of metal but of polycarbonate. What may seem a little daunting at first glance, does not interfere in practice, because the metal to cover the frame on both sides. Only the left and right of the display screen is still a thin strip of plastic to light. The black model HTC has practically the plastic not painted, but dyed. Scratches thus stand-out white not flashy, but they are barely visible.

One sitting on the top of the jack (left) and on-off switch. The latter is made of black plastic, while the rocker switch is made to the volume control on the right side of metal. The reason for the plastic insert: Beyond lie infrared diodes, thanks to which the HTC one is for universal remote control. The necessary software is installed – more on that later

.Incidentally, the position of the on / off button

growing screen sizes leads on Samsung devices as smart: there the button always sits on the right edge and is relatively easy to reach. When HTC One we have to reach around to turn it on. Too bad the buttons below the display does not activate the device, but that is just the way usual touch keys.

is the slot for the micro SIM on the left side. Another slot for a memory card does not exist, is also missing the opportunity to open the case to replace the battery. The HTC one measures 13.7 times 6.8 inches and takes 143 grams on the scale.

HTC One in hands-on: aluminum housing and great display

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display

On the front sits the 4.7-inch display. This is a SLCD3 with full-HD resolution. In this diagonal which means a pixel density of 468 pixels per record-inch (ppi). By comparison, the iPhone 5 comes with its already very sharp Retina display “just” to 326 ppi

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In practice, the display leaves a great impression. The black levels are very good and do not change when we look at the side of the corners at the screen – this is the usual weakness in LCDs. The colors are strong and accurate.

in the laboratory can convince us display. The average brightness is 408 cd / m² – so we can see what the display even in direct sunlight. Moreover, the value is higher than most competitors. The Sony Xperia Z comes to 365 cd / m², the Lumia 920 to 394 cd / m² and the Galaxy S3 at 230 cd / m². Only the iPhone 5 lights a little brighter with 456 cd / m² – and the BlackBerry Z10 shoots in this category with 700 cd / m² from the bird. Gratifying beyond is still the uniform brightness: annoying stains are not here. The colors are strong and look more natural, as is often the case with Super AMOLED displays. The bottom line is that at least part of the display of the HTC one to talk to the top class among the current top-class smart phones. To be fair, however, we must say at this point that the test of the Samsung Galaxy S4 only still pending.

Deep blacks, bright colors , strong lighting: The Full HD LCD can be seen.

the display panel have two sensor buttons for Home and Back found their place on the glass surface. A third button for a menu or task manager there is no longer between the buttons emblazoned the HTC logo. Who wants to change applications directly, have to make do with a double-tap on the Home icon. In practice, this works quite well, and millions of iPhone users that also. Living

camera

hardly a feature of the HTC one was made as a vortex as the camera. Ultra-megapixel place – what is there behind it? The answer is simple: Ultra pixels are actually just megapixels. But a lot fewer pixels must share the same space on the large image sensor with HTC. The four million pixels of HTC are one, each for himself, much larger than the pixels of the usual 8-to-13-megapixel phones. A large pixel captures more light and “looks” better – especially in the dark. That is the theory.

HTC One of the photos in the dark are actually much better than the usual shots of smartphones in practice. They move roughly on a par with the Nokia Lumia 920, one of the best camera smartphone. If you compare photos of the one shot in daylight with higher resolution images cell phone cameras, is in the current top-class competition set a better reproduction of detail. Here, the larger number of pixels is noticeable – but only considered if you increase the recordings. On Facebook & Co., the difference is hardly noticeable. 4 Ultra-megapixel or are ultimately still double full HD resolution.

Pretty photos, but when the colors of the HTC one holds something back – they are fairly neutral, while iPhone 5 and Lumia 920 clearly provide peppigere results. What one likes is a matter of taste.

Has HTC promised so much to us? We do not find. Although the image quality itself is not revolutionary, but the lower resolution brings a different benefit: When taking a picture, the less data one has to process – and can thus take pictures much faster. Is the feature called Zoe enabled smartphone 20 4-megapixel photos and a viersekündiges Full HD video begins with a press of the shutter at a time. With this mass of image data are finally possible tricks, which have nothing to offer other manufacturers.

The most visually impressive purpose are the so-called highlight videos. This HTC One schnipselt from the events of a day automatically together 30-second clips of remarkable quality. The results are somewhat reminiscent of an Instagram for videos. But you need yourself to see what the HTC one has upgraded from a short trip to New York:

also the HTC one above the other places on request more photos to wegzuretuschieren moving objects – for example, to drunken tourist who stumbles just in the background through the holiday photo with the family. In addition, the mass of images also ensures a high probability to have exactly captured the right moment. It also automatically activated pre-recording feature Ask help. Is the camera app started, the HTC one takes on continuously. Of the approximately four seconds to land on the memory card, already has a roughly played before pressing the shutter button.

We have set ourselves apart elsewhere already detailed with HTC Zoe. Who cares about the image quality in detail, we also put our story compared to the heart, in the HTC one we confront the Lumia 920 and the iPhone fifth Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to perform the detailed measurements in the camera lab. A bug in the firmware prevents the setting of exact ISO values. HTC has announced plans to bring a fix on the way. Once this has arrived on our one, we will publish a detailed camera test and bring this product to the latest build. Maybe it has hitherto indeed already a Samsung Galaxy S4 made in our editorial.

bottom line here so we have a great camera. There remains only one point of criticism: In a smartphone that puts so much value on the camera, an explicit key for the trigger would be really appropriate

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sound

Bääääm! Much more we can not say to the stereo speakers of the HTC one. In each case a driver is mounted above and below the display. Thus, the otherwise frequent, additional speakers accounted for the back.

Strong: The HTC one has top and bottom, a speaker.

According to HTC, the One in the reproduction of sound to be four times louder than the iPhone 5 If we stretch the devices in a test stand and measure vile decibel numbers, the result would probably far away from the fourfold value. But the Taiwanese make use of a superb tricks: The fact that both speakers are mounted on the front, the user is irradiated directly. On the iPhone 5, for example, the speaker sits at the bottom – and sends the sound waves away from the viewer

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This gives us the HTC one actually unbeatably good sound. In comparison with other recent devices, it definitely has occupied the top place in the listening test.

Software

HTC Flashing Feed: In the new homescreen to find especially messages from the social networks. The Program Journal adapts to the preferences of the user – at least in theory. In practice, there are, at least in the German speaking countries, too little suggestions. unusual and sometimes Annoying: Here in the main menu of the Gallery app running seemingly confused Facebook photo galleries a of friends.

on our test device running Android in version 4.1.2 – and that’s not the whole current version. After all, the differences to the new 4.2 are not relevant in practice. Great new features such as support for multiple users are only relevant for tablets, and the wireless transmission of content on a TV screen via Miracast is in need of a larger selection of compatible devices already been impractical. An update to the new version to come.

Exciting

the HTC’s own Sense interface in version 5 The most striking feature is the almost complete abandonment of the traditional Android home screens. The reason: Studies of HTC had revealed that as many as 35 percent of all users use only one homescreen and three gigantic 80 percent or less. And, although the principle of widgets is really awesome, they are rarely used in practice: many users are overwhelmed them obviously

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It’s also easier to get the HTC developers thought and built a new home. You should provide the buyers what they want to see when they pull her cell phone out of his pocket. Visually reminiscent of the flashing feed called interface at first sight a little of the tiles of Windows Phone, but not reference the individual elements on apps, but on news or other content on the Internet.

What emerges here, the user defined via its preferences and what is received via the social networks. In addition, for example, calendar entries appear on this page, or TV tips when the remote is set up and Programmzeitschriftenapp.

a tap on the menu icon in the middle of the lower section shows the well-known app drawer where appear the logos of all installed applications. The user can specify via the grid, how many of the little icons to be visible at the same time, change their position and for the first time at this point icons using drag-and-drop over each other and thus create folders.

Who wipes from right to left on the home screen, get to see the only classic Android homescreen. By default, there is only the Google search widget here. As usual the home screen but can adapt and with other icons and widgets – and who may not waive the typical Android look even more homescreen pages can add and fill as before with elements

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test like feed us blink, but let it run a lot of content from social networks. We would have preferred to see more news and fewer posts from countless distant friends. So far, no weight can be set. With us, Facebook is then flown back from the feed – then it was better. But that is a matter of taste. Also the TV tips were very helpful. During our test, the current Simpsons episode is only once daily appeared on Pro Sieben.

Facebook is already quite deeply embedded in the system. Who, for example, opening the Gallery app to access their photos, does not see his pictures here on the top level. They hide under your own photos or camera shots, and at the same level with these two menu items to find all the albums from your Facebook friends. This unfortunately can not switch off without removing the entire Facebook account.

Speaking of TV Tips: The remote is another novelty of the HTC one. The idea is awesome, but the execution looks very American. You first select his place of residence and then the cable operator to then be flooded with literally all channel information. Trying uninteresting, foreign language or unavailable stations such as pay-TV, remove failed for lack of patience: The list is incredibly long, and each program will be deselected. Groups for Sky & Co. there is not unfortunately. In addition, the adaptation of the program locations inside the unit is not provided.

Thus all that remains to us from the remote control app, the base function. Instead of typing in the program magazine mighty cool on the photo of the Simpsons, so I have to select the program via virtual keypad. The gratifying work well in practice and goes quickly into flesh and blood. And maybe HTC fits the full functionality indeed sometime in the typical German-room furniture at.

power

Powerful Power: The HTC one puts into the performance benchmarks toward record levels.

Inside the new Snapdragon 600 operates with four cores and 1.7 GHz. There are 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal memory. This equipment provides decent thrust.

The GLBenchmark and the processor test program Coremark the One is far ahead of its competitors. Also in the SunSpider browser benchmark results can be seen more than.

In practice, this means that stuttering or pauses of software and hardware a thing of the past all the time. All games run smoothly and quickly launch apps. And above all, compared to most current Android smartphones that one has so many power reserves that it will be a very decent phone in two years

.However

: The first benchmark results suggest that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will be even faster. After all, his 600 runs with Snapdragon 1.9 GHz -., And thus simply a bit faster than the 1.7GHz chip in the HTC One quick

battery

LiPo battery inside has a capacity of 2300 mAh. According to the manufacturer’s enough for a 26-hour period via GSM phone or almost 18 hours via UMTS, and for about 18 days of standby operation.

the times when viewing the video in the practice test are slightly below average. At a screen brightness of 200 cd / m², which is about half the maximum illumination, the One battery lasts nearly 7 hours and 45 minutes. While surfing the internet via WLAN, it is a good 10 hours. Thus, the One is located in the section of its competitors.

Features

The mobile module supports quad-band GSM, HSPA with up to 42 Mbit / s downstream, as well as tri-band LTE. In LTE, the HTC one supports the most common in Germany frequencies 800 and 2600 MHz, 1800 MHz also. In addition, wireless standards such as Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi, and GPS, Glonass and NFC are available.

Further technical data are given in the following table.

Specifications: HTC One

Manufacturer	HTC
device	One
display	4.7 inch LCD
resolution	1920 × 1080, 468 ppi
processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Quad Core 1.7 GHz
Memory	2 GB
internal memory	32 GB
memory card slot	no
SIM card slot	Micro SIM
camera	4 megapixels
image sensor	1/3 “BSI
Photo light	yes
front camera	2.1 megapixels
GSM	Quad Band
HSPA	up to 42.2 Mbit / s
LTE	800/1800/2600 MHz, up to 100 Mbit / s
NFC	yes
GPS	yes
Bluetooth	4.0
wireless	802.11 a / ac / b / g / n
connections	micro-USB with MHL, 3.5-millimeter jack, IR-diode as a universal remote control with on-off switch
Operating System	Android 4.1.2
Battery	2300 mAh LiPo
battery life	1061 to 1574 min talk time 442-479 hours standby time according to manufacturer
Dimensions	13.7 × 6.8 × 0.9 cm
Weight	143 grams
MSRP	about 670 €
sale	about Mid-March 2013

Conclusion

The HTC one is currently THE Android smartphone. Hardware: top, software: top, performance: top – who is on the search for hooks, may find the average and non-removable battery disturbing, the lack of memory card slot, or the fact that the software side a lot to be not one hundred percent on the German market oriented seems.

Overall

HTC is clearly on the right track. Focusing on a really decent smartphone instead of many, difficult differentiable models, has done well. This one shows what can make a company driven by technology – if you let them. The smaller hooks could be, apart from the battery fix through software updates. Now, the manufacturer only has to prove that he takes this issue seriously themselves.

nutshell: The HTC one can currently match any other Android smartphone. It is the measure of all things. If the Galaxy S4 comes in just two weeks on the market, the competition is catching up. But who values ??good workmanship, quality materials and heavy metal, occurs also in the near future not the past one.

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