HTC One Max test: Equipment: Big Screen - ABC Online

tablets and smartphones are growing together. Literally, referred to in the form of so-called Tabphones, as phablets, Phonelets or Smartlets. They want to bring the relatively large touch screen tablet with the portability and the phone features of smart phones under one roof – which is close to the quadrature of the circle. How successful the result is depends largely on how much the manufacturer was able to drive the compression. And since the HTC One Max is neither particularly good nor particularly bad because: The display measures just 73 x 130 millimeters and thus comes to a diagonal of 149 millimeters respectively 5.85 inches. The dimensions of the housing are just 83 x 165 mm with a thickness of 10.0 millimeters predominantly – a real whopper so. There are therefore good 69 percent of the front of the display surface, a value that is eight percent above the average of all tested in the last twelve months smartphones. Also, the ratio of screen to total ranks by seven percent over the current agent. Or in other words, the developers have wasted no place, but make no new Miniaturisierungsrekorde to

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Brilliant display

The resolution is like the HTC One Full HD, so 1920 x 1080 pixels. Due to the 58 percent larger screen goes to the same extent the sharpness in the knee: Instead of Topwertes of 346 pixels per square millimeter (472 ppi) it is now 219 (376 ppi). Thus, the pixel density but is still a whopping 19 percent higher than the current average. Together with the exquisite as always with HTC LCD 3-Panel that results in a high quality screen. Thanks to the so-called “dual domain” technology, the viewing angle stability is instead optimized for two on only one axle, which is noticeable in practice by the fact that the representation from any vantage point is outstanding readable in any position.

fast CPU

The processor remained the same as the One, so the Snapdragon 600 with four cores à 1.7 gigahertz. Prior to most interested parties had hoped that it would be the more powerful variant, the Snapdragon 800, was installed among other things in the Sony Xperia Z and Z1 Ultra, as well as in G2 and LG. Even so, the One Max cuts excels in the benchmarks: the results are usually 2-55 percent above the average, rarely including how the graphics test 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which is four percent lower. In the overall ranking of twelve of the best known benchmarks the One Max ranks 27 percent above the average and ranked 9th The colleagues with Snapdragon 800 land at 60 to 70 percent of it – but at the level you can feel at best differences in graphically complex games. This is not something Otto normal user would have to worry, even if they will use their device extensively about in multitasking mode. A very good result!

Lush battery

Tabphones provides the power supply an even bigger problem than in smartphones already – the compulsion to save mass, inevitably leads to compromises. So the question is just how painful they fail. When Max One HTC has prevented with a 3,300 mAh thick, unfortunately, non-removable battery, but still is slightly undersized compared to the size of the display, the hungriest power guzzlers. Seven percent below the mean is this relation. In runtime test in the video playback with maximum display brightness in flight mode, however, the respondent suggests surprisingly well: the levels of 416 minutes mean 13 percent above average. If one also considers the giant screen of the One Max, this performance is even 73 percent above the average! If that’s still not enough, you can upgrade with the optional “Power Jacket” a further 1,200 mAh: The clip-on cover also serves as protection for the display and frame. The suggested retail price is just under 90 euros, will be available there in 2013.

memory expandable

maximum good news waving from the store front: the memory of the One and One Mini Had not expand, so the back of the One Max can be opened and then gives way to free up the slots for micro-SIM and Micro SD card. Maximum chips are digested with 64 gigabytes internal summarizes the One Max 16 gigabytes of which still 10.1 gigabytes are freely available from the factory. The 32-gigabyte version is not provided on the current state of knowledge for the German market, but is expected in the face of an estimated € 100 more in the recommended retail price and not really interesting. Especially since apps can now also with HTC again move to the SD card – if technically possible, some programs of the system must necessarily remain in the internal memory. Everything so well internally with 16 gigabytes Apart from HTC donated another 50 gigabytes of cloud storage for two years, but no longer as before with Dropbox, but now on Google Drive.