Review : HTC One Max

HTC One Max Reviews

HTC One Max - Although at the beginning of its emergence was criticized, in fact large smartphone (phablet) quite well received by the market. So do not be surprised if HTC released the One Max, which has a base foundation of the HTC One.

Specification

Snapdragon 600 quad-core 1.7 GHz with Adreno 320 GPU

2GB RAM

5.9 inch Super LCD3 screen with full HD resolution of 1920x1080 pixels

4 Megapixel camera, with technology UltraPixel

battery 3300mAh

With a shape similar to the HTC One, HTC One Max wrapped premium materials by using aluminum, with stereo loudspeakers BoomSound on the front. One feature that does not exist in the One, but is present in One Max is a fingerprint recognition feature, as well as the external memory slot micro SD. Fingerprint sensor is placed in a '' box '' under the camera on the back phablet. How this phablet overall performance?

Design

By using HTC base that uses premium materials, HTC Max automatically using the same material with the HTC One. The design is very elegant, sounds a bit complicated and not simple, so it looks very high-tech. Feels quite heavy, but reasonable considering the screen is also very large, especially body material is used instead of plastic.

Part black screen and on the silver underneath, while the flanks using plastic material with a matte finish. Be careful with the side of the plastic doff this, because if exposed to dirt so it is quite difficult to clean. While the rear cover both aluminum. The material is made to hold it feels very premium feel. Moreover arch on the back makes a more comfortable grip impression, although the size of the HTC One Max is quite large. Which is a little wedge is the side that is quite stiff.

But it comes to finishing, the rear cover on HTC One Max is able to be opened, unlike the unibody HTC. Impact, sometimes if you close it less fit, the cover portion would rather gaping. Mechanism to open the back cover itself is made possible by a sliding button on the left side of the phone. Unfortunately, although the back can be opened, the battery remains in place, can not be replaced easily.

Below the screen there is a button touch the back, the HTC logo and Home, is unique because it is usually the Home in the middle. At the top of the screen there proximity sensor, light sensor and front camera, also one of the stereo loudspeaker entitled BoomSound, top down, so the stereo effect will be felt when watching videos with landscape position. At the top there is a small light speakers as LED marker incoming notification. On the right side there are volume buttons. The lock button on the HTC One moves from the top (sharing function with an infrared port) to the right side. Infrared port at the top is maintained, along with 3.5 mm audio jack, while underneath there is a micro USB.

Screen

Using Super LCD3 1080p resolution as the HTC One, HTC One Max screen quality was amazing, and became one of the best compared to other high-end smartphones, let alone its size was large (5.9 inches). Problem sharpness, with a pixel density of 373 ppi more it's been more than enough. Characteristics screen itself is similar to the HTC One and One X, with a slightly yellowish white color, but not too intrusive and still natural. The angle of vision is very perfect, no symptoms foggy when viewed from the oblique viewing angle. Contrast and black level was very good.

Interface

Have the same screen resolution, and the Sense UI interface which has now reached Sense 5.5, making the interface HTC Max overall the same as the HTC One. Moreover tend no special features that take advantage of large screen smartphone developed by HTC (eg dual window). Zoom promoting good aesthetic and still have a smooth performance without lag, especially supported by the Project Butter on Android 4.3 and upper-class hardware in it.

From the lockscreen, there is a new security system that you can use the fingerprint recognition. Unlike the similar features of Apple's so-called Touch ID where the sensor is on the Home button below the screen, the HTC location of the sensor in the back, right under the camera. As the lock on the LG G2, first you might have trouble fumble location of this sensor. Moreover, it is located at the bottom of the camera, the texture is similar to a fingerprint sensor. How to unlock any different, if in the iPhone 5S quite put your finger on the sensor, then the HTC One Max, your fingers should be shifted downward to open the screen, so it is relatively more difficult. This phone can store up to 3 pieces of fingerprints. Each fingerprint can be used as the Quick Launch for applications in cell phones, quite practical. When inserting the input fingerprint, you can choose what kind of finger you use, so that the phone easier to read your fingerprint. There is a backup in the form of passwords, so you do not worry if you happen finger can not be used.

There are 5 pieces in lockscreen shortcut icons. If you use a fingerprint security system, only the camera that can be accessed without having to enter your fingerprint. If you then get out of the camera, the phone immediately ask your fingerprint. Also of course there are other security systems for lockscreen that can be used, such as slides, pins, passwords and pattern.

Ways to to Recent Apps somewhat unique, because if the home touch buttons below the screen while you press the hold, which is open is Google Now, while the Recent Apps to just tap the Home button twice. By default homescreen only 3 pages only, the maximum can be added to 5 pages. Leftmost page has been set only for BlinkFeed, but this time if you feel not need it, this feature can be turned off. You do this by holding a blank space on the screen, it opens the settings menu Home. From there is no option to turn off BlinkFeed. BlinkFeed HTC is one of the heritage features of the HTC One.

With BlinkFeed feature the user can set up their social networking accounts, news or desired feed to keep updated on the home screen by selecting a particular country content as you like, so that users will not miss the latest news or updates from friends on social networks. Everything will be displayed in the main page of HTC mobile phone screen. From BlinkFeed You can update status to your Facebook and Twitter accounts. In general, this BlinkFeed functions similar to Flipboard app, though of course much simpler and not many features. While it looks similar to the Live Tile in Windows Phone 8.

At the bottom of the screen there are shortcuts Phone, Message, Browser and Camera, but you can add more access, and thus constitute a folder. In Drawer applications, widgets Weather persists, at the top (if discroll down disappears). Existing applications can be organized alphabetically, Most Recent, and of course the custom settings up to you. While on the right there is Searching, shortcuts PlayStore and Settings. You can hide the application from the main menu. The standard size of shortcuts there are 4 x 4, app icons. For display, this time a black background app drawer only.

In the notification bar almost no customization, only the owner and a few toggle display the default Android 4.3 as fast setting for brightness, Settings, WiFi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, power saver, auto rotate, mobile data, fingerprint scans, do not disturb and Wifi hotspot.

Camera

As One, One Max was using a 4 megapixel camera with Ultra Pixel technology. With a pixel size, light that enters the sensor claimed far more, up to 300% more than conventional sensors. Resolution used is quite unique. If most of the smartphone has a maximum resolution with an aspect ratio of 4: 3, in the HTC One just resolution of 16: 9 are privileged with the greatest resolution 2688x1520 pixels. For a ratio of 4: 3 resolution is only 2048x1520 pixels only. Another one is a square aspect ratio (1: 1) 1520x1520 pixels. Virtual button camera and video recorder are now in the same viewfinder, especially now that the maximum resolution has the same aspect ratio with a maximum video resolution, the more flexible switching between camera and video.

The interface itself is quite clear and intuitive. On the left side, in the middle there ZOE. Zoe is a combination of video and images, which can be made using the HTC One with the touch of a button zoe Mode. When the user touches the icon, the phone will be ready to record HD video with images, both of which will be combined in a collage with a duration of 3 seconds. You can edit, add frames, adjust effects and others. The results are in .mp4 format

There are a lot of special effects such as vignette, cubism, tilt shift focus and others. Besides its features is the Scene, HDR, Sweep panorama, Night Mode, Self Timer, Crop (resolution and aspect ratio), face detection, auto smile and geotagging, video quality settings, the duration of the reviews, image adjustment settings, ISO, white balance , grid and auto upload. To take photos you can choose to use a virtual button or perform touch to capture. Nature continues autofocus camera, if you want to focus on a specific object stay touching objects on the screen. When recording video, continuous AF remains valid, but you can lock it. Maximum own video up to 1080p. There are 4 video recording modes: Normal (1080p 30fps), Slow Motion Video, Fast HD (720p 60fps) and HDR (Full HD).

With only 4MP resolution of course many people are somewhat leery with the images of the HTC One and One Max. But apparently the result is relatively good, although in terms of sharpness is less than 13MP 41MP especially. But if you only intend to upload to social media, or simply viewed on a monitor with a resolution of Full HD or 2K (horizontal lines of pixels 2000s) was the picture still looks sharp. On the condition of the room the picture is steady, you can see for yourself, photo action figures all in makeshift lighting conditions. Outside the room, the color came out very striking, but not excessive. Catching capacity including more extensive than any other smartphone cameras both main camera and front camera is also a distinct advantage.

There are three types of video recording speed to choose from: full HD (1920x1080 pixels) 30 fps, 60 fps HD 1280x720 pixels and WVGA (768x432 pixels) slow motion. In addition there is a video with the HDR +. For video recording results are not much different from the picture, has a stable framerate and bitrate. 1080p video produces a file of 76MB in the duration of 30 seconds, with a very high bitrate, 21k kbps.

Other

HTC does not have an integrated video player application, so if you want to enjoy your videos through the Gallery application should default, unless you install a third-party video player application. Facebook integration on HTC gallery is very deep, the photographs that appear in the feeds from your Facebook account join belonging, of course, after you login. Look at the gallery was advanced but also simple, similar to the look BlinkFeed, using the rectangle as a thumbnail. The photos can be seen by Album (folder), Events and photo shoot location. Furthermore, images can be shared, highlighted, and edited using a simple editor. Slideshows can also be created, moved, copied, printed and seen details.

The lack of native applications for the least impact on the video player video format that can be played by HTC One Max. 1080p .mp4 file format can be played smoothly, but for .mkv halting. .mov Files even illegible. Subtitle .srt format can be read by the phone. Regulation is quite a lot, you could choose subtitle manually, mengubahkarakter color, opacity, background subtitle, can even change the effect that appears when the subtitles appear on the screen. With stereo loudspeaker and toned, video viewing experience more enjoyable, because in landscape mode, the speaker should really plays the stereo speakers on your TV.

There are two kinds of built-in music player, Google Play Music and music player made by HTC. In addition to other entertainment there either Analog FM Radio and Internet-based radio, TuneIn Radio. For the FM radio of course you need a headset as an antenna support. The songs on the music player on the HTC One Max divided by artist, album, playlist, genre, podcast and folders. Album art, artist photos and lyrics can be updated automatically, of course can be set to update when using any WiFi network to save your data. Unfortunately there is no equalizer settings at all, especially Beats Audio mode has disappeared. Loudspeaker stereo sound output via topnotch, taut yet clear, although the bass is not as clear as the speakers on the tablet upscale. But compared to HTC stereo loudspeaker, speaker Max One more shrill. Output sound via headset including standard and natural. File .flac, .m4a and .mp3 be read by the default music player.

HTC Max has two web browser and Chrome the default. Default browser is able to open up to 16 tabs. Interestingly, you can enable the flash player. Performance is very good, watch Youtube Full HD video directly in the browser does not weigh the relative performance of the browser, just certainly use this desktop version Youtube does not fit in a small touch screen. The features in the browser is a standard feature that also exist in other Android smartphones such as: incognito, desktop view, bookmarks and general settings such as privacy, security, accessibility checkers.

Connectivity

• GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 850/2100, a micro SIM
• Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth 4.0
• NFC
• Infrared (for remote TV)
• Micro USB to HDMI capability via MHL

Benchmark Results

Antutu: 26 834 points

Quadrant Standard: 12 087 points

NenaMark2: 61.3 frames per second

Multitouch Tester: up to 10 touch

SunSpider: 780.5 ms

Battery Life

Test screenshots: Within 3 hours 28 minutes are required for screenshots in this review (almost all of the features used) reduced battery 32 percent, a relatively nice and durable.

Tests play video: Within 1 hour play .mp4 videos Full HD 1080p resolution, brightness level of 50 percent, a full volume via the headset, battery decreased by 8 percent, relatively nice and durable.

Excess

• Design relatively good
• Build quality and top grade materials
• The screen is bright, sharp and unsightly
• Stereo Loudspeaker BoomSound
• Sensor fingerprint recognition
• The camera either indoor or outdoor satisfactory
• Battery life is satisfactory, there is an increased very much compared to the HTC One
• There is a Micro SD slot

Shortage

• The battery is not removable
• The processor used is not the highest caste today
• Only 4MP camera resolution

Conclusion

Although the price is not yet known, but from the benchmark price for this seems to be the price of the HTC One Max will be relatively expensive. HTC One Max relatively superior in terms of design and materials are very premium. However offal (Snapdragon 600) is no longer the highest caste, although perceived performance on HTC One Max remain qualified. The camera is relatively good either indoor or outdoor conditions, although haya 4MP resolution. Do not forget, for the multimedia business, HTC Max comes titled BoomSound stereo loudspeaker, which is rarely present in the smartphone.