Review: HTC 10

HTC recently launched their new flagship the HTC 10 and for now at least it will be exclusive to Three Ireland with a price of €679 off contract or from €129 on contract. The new phone keeps the all metal body and carries over many design elements from the previous HTC One models which is not a bad thing at all.

The new phone is very powerful with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Quad-core chipset and features 32GB of storage and 4GB of RAM, there is also the option to add external SD cards up to 2TB.

However with the HTC 10 being so similar to past models and with it only really being an upgrade in terms of processing power and optics, is that enough to make people want to shell out that kind of money, find out in my full video review below.

The HTC 10 has a 5.2 inch, Quad HD (2560 x 1440 pixels, 564 pixels per inch) Super LCD 5 with curvededge Gorilla Glass which looks beautiful. The rear camera is a 12MP HTC UltraPixel 2 (1.55µm pixel size) with Laser autofocus, BSI sensor and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). It also has an f/1.8 aperture, a 26mm focal length and a Dual tone LED flash with 4K video recording.

Despite the specifications looking great on paper the HTC 10 was sometimes hit and miss when it came to the main camera, during the day it was great and at night it could be too but more often not despite the larger pixels and OIS. Check out a gallery of shots below:

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To sum up the HTC 10, it’s a really nice phone with a good camera and good battery life, it’s expensive so what it is a worthy purchase do try and get it on an upgrade if you