HTC V1 Review.

HTC V1 Review.

HTC one is like small brother of the other HTC One series. It is a quite good looking and decent Smartphone. Its sights are firmly set on the android midrange.

PHTC V1

At first Sight I was Much surprised to see that Its outer look and I was completely in love with the look of that smartphone. It has a feel like HTC legend of old, but aside from a distinctive little curve at the bottom, It is a very different phone encased in a black casing,(like our review sample, supplied by 3, though it’s also available in grey or brown)metal and rubberised plastic, it has more processing power, a better (and bigger) screen, improved sound and of course the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and HTC 4.0 interface.

Design and Its Outer look:

It is a smaller than the other two smartphone of HTC One series, which is certainly a appeal to some to buy it. It has a long screen of 3.7 inches which is a quite good size and it is near same to Iphone 4G screen size after all, but the recent trend of the smartphone i.e wide screen like movie viewer are at the Top End of the smartphones market, Actually it looks quite petite. Still it provides a resoultion od 480×800 Pixales which looks very sharp and clear, like other HTC sensitive too.

As all of the HTC one series it also have a touch sensitive strip beneath the screen with standard android buttons, i.e Home , back, recent apps etc.

Performance:

It has a single core 1 GHz Processor with 512MHz RAM. It seems that it is quite far away from its elder brothers i.e HTC One X’s processor is quad core of 1.5GHz and perhaps due to busy OS it still take much time in open apps skimming through menus and browsing online. It delivered a fairly modest AnTuTu performance benchmark score of 2,599, putting it behind the LG Optimus L7 and Huawei Ascend G300.

It may have the latest version of HTC’s Sense interface, with its easy charm and handy widgets, but that doesn’t mean it’s the same version that you’ll find on the pricier HTCs. This pared-down version eschews some of the more powerful phones’ 3D graphics on the menu for instance. But while it looks a little flatter, it makes sense in terms of performance.

Cameras:

The lack of a front-facing camera means you don’t get Ice Cream Sandwich’s rather gimmicky Face Unlock feature either — no great loss — and there are less widgets and apps preloaded. While these cuts might drop the HTC One V from the very highest level, it’s still a very well-specced and capable phone, and compares well with other midrangers like the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus or the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray.

The five-megapixel camera comes with autofocus, a “smart” LED flash and a BSI sensor for enhancing low-light pics. It also has face detection and auto smile capture, which is supposed to take a snap as soon as it focuses on a smile — which seemed to work quite well, and understood the difference between a live subject and a photograph.

HTC has added a new image processing chip to its One series cameras, which has helped to raise it out of the photo doldrums but while picture quality isn’t bad, seeming to avoid the excessive colour saturation saw on the One S, it’s certainly not exceptional. It has 720p HD video recording capability though and while it’s not full HD, it does a decent enough job

Memory, sound and battery :

The 4GB of onboard memory is beefed up by a supplied 2GB microSD card, and you can of course add your own up to 32GB. Like its brethren, the One V also comes with a Dropbox deal offering 25GB of online storage for two years and you can use this to automatically sync any of your pics.

The One V also comes with Beats Audio technology, which means you get some seriously beefed up bass when you switch the audio processing on. Unfortunately, this time round you don’t get the distinctive BA headphones.

Battery-wise it held up pretty well, delivering a full day of fairly heavy use comfortably.

Conclusions:

Unlike most of the midrange android phones it provide the latest android ice cream sandwich straight out of the box. Add to the quality casing, beautiful interface, fine screen and an OK camera, and despite its rather sluggardly processor, you’ve got yourself a gem of a handset.

Specifications:

• Software : Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich
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• Processor : 1GHz Cortex-A5 Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon
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• Memory slot : microSD
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• Display : 3.7in capacitive touch screen, 800×480 pixels
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• Connectivity : Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v3.0
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• Ports : Micro USB, 3.5mm headphone jack
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• Camera : 5 megapixel with LED Flash, digital zoom, autofocus,geo-tagging, BSI sensor
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• Video
  •  playback : MP4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid
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• Audio playback : 3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv, .avi
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• Radio : Yes
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• Battery : Li-ion 1500mAh
• Size : 120x60x9mm
• Weight : 115g