Just like its predecessors, HTC 10 sports an attractive aluminium design. I bought my Carbon Grey HTC 10 a month ago for S$930 from Mobyshop, which imported the phone from Taiwan. With the HTC 10 this year, the Taiwanese company hopes to make its way back up to the upper echelon of smartphone manufacturers.Īs a preamble, I would like to inform readers that the HTC 10 has yet to officially arrive in Singapore. In the photo of both red and yellow flowers, the camera overexposed heavily, and while there’s some depth separating the different colored flowers, they all lack detail, and colors bleed into each other pretty heavily.Once a powerhouse among smartphone manufacturers, HTC has had a disastrous 2015, with its sales plummeting in the wake of the badly received HTC One M9 and other questionable marketing decisions. There’s a very obvious difference between shots - the photo of only yellow flowers ended up a bit darker than in person, but the focal flower remained crisp in the shot, with a good amount of bokeh behind it. This is where you’re going to start noticing some wonky things going on with the exposure though, most noticeably in my flower shots below.
The good news is that there’s surprisingly little digital noise, and the sensor takes in more light than others of the same aperture, despite it not utilizing the Ultrapixel design that’s since moved to the front camera.
My only major annoyance here is that the camera rarely manages to focus on closer objects, so macro shooters may want to look elsewhere.Ĭouldn’t get it to focus on the hummingbird in the forefront.Īs it gets later in the day (about 9 PM in the gallery below), the sensor still manages to hold its own quite well, especially given the pretty average f/2.2 aperture.
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The M9+ did seem to struggle a bit initially, but an out-of-the-box software update aimed specifically at improving camera performance seems to have made a significant difference for the better in that regard. Overall, I was able to take some reasonably good photos, with a fair amount of detail and more true to life colors than other HTC phones I’ve used in the past.Īn issue that’s plagued nearly every HTC phone of recent history is wild exposure mishandling phones like the One M9 had trouble balancing conflicting light sources and the result was either a harshly blown out photo, or a dark shot devoid of any detail or color. It was a good time to explore the range of the camera, since the day shifted from bright and sunny to rainy and back, giving me some varying lighting to shoot in. I brought the M9+ to an outdoor art gallery downtown with a friend, and experimented with the 20MP Toshiba sensor. Pay them a visit at, and tell them that Pocketnow sent you! Photo samples Our HTC One M9+ review unit was sent to us courtesy of dbrand, maker of high-precision vinyl skins for phones, tablets, and more. So is this finally the HTC phone to buy for a great camera? But we’ve had our hands on the One M9+, an incremental step up from its current flagship smartphone the One M9, which combines the 20MP lens with the depth sensor into an amalgamation of the past three years of HTC’s imaging technology. Again, it didn’t go over so well, so this year the company retraced its steps and put a new and improved 20MP shooter into its M9 … can you guess? Yeah, it flopped this time, too. Last year, HTC pushed forward with its unique Ultrapixel design, and added a depth sensor above for artificial bokeh and other effects. What began as a bold idea in 2013 with the One M7’s Ultrapixel technology, a statement against the megapixel race in favor of “larger” pixels for pulling in more light, ended in bad execution in the form of an underwhelming 4MP sensor. HTC hasn’t exactly carried a reputation for great cameras in recent years.
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