HTC One Smart phone complete Review with Video 2013

The HTC One strides mightily ahead of the rest of the Taiwanese phone maker's range, confidently surveying its foes on the smart phone battlefield. With a 4.7-inch Full HD screen, a blisteringly powerful quad-core chip, a metal chassis and the latest version of its Sense interface, it's not a misplaced sense of confidence.

Those are some impressive specs, but with all the top-end phones packing similarly potent components, is it going to be enough to keep HTC's head above the water? With Samsung's Galaxy S4 imminent, it's likely to have a fight on its hands.

The One was due to go on sale in the next couple of weeks, but HTC has already confirmed it's having supply issues, so we may have to wait a while longer. It also hasn't officially named its price yet, but we're strongly expecting it to be around the £500 mark


At the speed smartphones are evolving, a bad year can cause all sorts of trouble and HTC had to learn it the hard way. Fortunately, the financial trouble seems to have had no impact on the company's ability to produce excellent smartphones, as the HTC One is here to prove.
Arguably one of the most exciting pieces of smartphone design in recent times, the HTC One is also properly powered and flaunts a screen that should please even the most demanding eyes. It also brings an overdue redesign of the Sense UI and a new camera that takes a completely new approach to mobile photography.


Key features

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support; 3G with HSPA; LTE
• 4.7" 16M-color 1080p Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen with 469ppi pixel density
• Android OS v4.1.2 Jelly Bean with Sense UI 5.0
• Quad-core 1.7 GHz Krait 300 CPU, 2 GB RAM, Adreno 320 GPU; Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset
• 4 MP autofocus "UltraPixel" camera with 1/3" sensor size, 2µm pixel size; LED flash
• 1080p video recording @ 30fps with HDR mode, continuous autofocus and stereo sound
• HTC Zoe
• 2.1 MP front-facing camera, 1080p video recording
• Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct and DLNA; Wireless TV out
• GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS
• 32/64GB of built-in storage
• MHL-enabled microUSB port
• Bluetooth v4.0
• NFC
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
• Aluminum unibody
• Front-mounted stereo speakers with BoomSound tech
• Class-leading audio output

Main disadvantages

• 4MP camera has disappointing performance in good lighting conditions
• Non-expandable storage
• Awkwardly-placed and uncomfortable power button
• Sense UI still lacks connectivity toggles in notification area
• Non user-replaceable battery
• Poor video and audio codec support out of box

The One is a tempting package indeed and even though it will take HTC a while to get out of the slump, this is certainly a confident step in the right direction. With proven performers in both the computing and screen departments, it's only the low camera resolution that will potentially raise doubt. HTC say the extra-large "ultrapixels" are worth the sacrifice though, and we are as keen as you are to find out if that