I am back with fresh news on some of the mobiles we have
available now and for now I just have one of them I would like to tell you
about. It’s the HTC. Sorry I have not posted much or anything on the HTC prior
to this but come on, a man has to have his preferences. But my preferences I
would say now were biased because my eyes were averted from the mobile giants
until some of the specs of this phone caught my eye. As you have seen from my
previous post the grandness of the sony
xperia Z2, HTC had to bring something more competitive than the HTC one to
the market and I think they did by making an upgrade to that version. And this
upgrade is known as the HTC one (M8).
My regular way of commencing my posts, the SIZE. The phone
has a length of 14.64cm, breadth of 7.06cm and width of 0.94cm but weighs about
160g. That’s quite heavy right? But you can’t blame the mobile giants, as they
have done what other smart phone producers have been to scared to dabble into
by making the whole casing of the phone metallic.
Yes the HTC one m8 comes in
an aluminum casing which I guess added to the bulk of the phone hence the weight
and also given the phone some protection. Pushing further, it has a 5inches
display screen with 1440 X 2560 pixels which doesn’t hurt the eyes even at
optimum brightness and enhances gaming, browsing the web and movie watching
with its multi-touch touch screen and it front positioned speaker.
It has 4MP duo primary camera. And when I mean duo camera, I
mean it comes with two back cameras. Ok that is surely weird you would say. But
both the cameras are used for image stabilization and focus. Yes both the
cameras snap at the same time as one is used for to stabilize the image and blot
out other pixel noises while the other focuses on a particular part of the
picture to your choice coming out pretty bright. You see its not a waste but
4MP is rather small I would say and don’t you think so too? Among other things,
the camera has face detection, exposure compensation, white balance presets,
burst mode, macro mode and duel LED flash. Also the front facing
camera(secondary) is 5 megapixels in photography units. That’s more than other
mobiles but not enough compensation on the shortcomings of the primary camera.
That done, we would now go to the internals of the phone. As
you all would know that all new phones of 2014 comes equipped with the android
4.4 kitkat operating system, this one is not an exception as it does too. The
RAM is about 2GB which is also impressive but I expected much better looking at
all its shortages(2GB is not a big deal, an additional 0.5GB wouldn’t have
hurt, would it?). Its built in storage is 32GB of which 24GB is available to
the user and it has an expandable memory of up to 128GB with a qualcomm
snapdragon 801 system chip.
All other miscellaneous features of the phone are present
such as usb port, ear plugs port, volume and power buttons. But finally, HTC
blessed it a bit (just a teensy lil
bit) but upgrading the battery life as the phone has a standby time of 20.7
days in 3G mode.
Pros
- Big screen with a high
resolution display.
- Though I didn’t mention
but it has fast mobile data support of 4G.
- Metallic casing finish.
Cons
- Battery cannot be replaced
by the user.
- The primary camera
strength.
The prices stated below were correct as at the time of this
post and changes might have occurred but you can click the link to see the
current prices in the stores stated below.
Slot: N113,000.00
Konga: N113,000.00
Belle-Vista: N102,000.00
Jumia:
N127,000.00
