'It's time to shake things up in the smartphone space,' Mike Woodward,
President of HTC America said while launching the HTC One in New York on
Tuesday.
In a mobile technology world dominated by Samsung and
Apple, the race for the third spot has become even tougher with various
major mobile companies such as Nokia, BlackBerry, HTC, LG and Sony
joining the race. For long, Nokia had been the choice of the people.
However, in the world of smartphones, it has fallen behind the two even
with the launched of its Lumia series failing to regain the status it
once had.
Making the comeback tougher for Nokia is the arrival of
HTC, the Taiwanese mobile company, in the world. China’s Huawei and ZTE
have also joined the race making it even tougher.
However, since
its arrival on the scene, HTC has been performing absolutely well and
its latest launched, the HTC One or simply called the One, is pitted
against Samsung’s Galaxy S3 and Apple’s iPhone 5 by the company and the
market pundits.
But will the HTC One be a competition for the top two, namely, Samsung and Apple in the smartphone world?
That
is for the company and the consumer to answer. Nevertheless, here’s
looking at some of the important features of HTC One that could set it
up against Samsung Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5.
BlinkFeed:
The
HTC One features a BlinkFeed. This feature replaces icons on the home
screen with a personalised stream of news articles, social networking
updates, photos and video much like the Windows phones used by the Nokia
Lumia series. These tiles get updated automatically with information
and news from social networking sites and other news sites.
Processor:
Apple
has its own operating system and Samsung runs on Google’s Android
supporting the Android v4.0 (ICS) OS. HTC One runs on Android 4.1.2 and
the 4.2.2 update is already said to be in the process.
However,
what the company feels that its latest processor - the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 600 chipset utilizing a quad-core 1.7GHz Krait 300 processor,
Adreno 320 graphics and 2GB of RAM will make it tough for Samsung
Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5.
Camera:
The camera is
an interesting feature of the HTC One considering that it comes with a 4
MP camera compared to the 8 MP, LED Flash cameras of both the Samsung
Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5. But wait there. It’s not the end.
The
Ultrapixels is what the company calls it. It is larger than the
ordinary pixels found in cameras and tends to take up more space on the
sensor thus giving a better quality picture. The company says that with
the HTC UltraPixel Camera, users will be able to shoot vivid,
true-to-life images with a wide range of colors. With the UltraPixel,
HTC claims it captures significantly more light than most 8 or 13
megapixel cameras.
Hardware:
HTC One is made of aluminium.
"That's
how it all starts," Thomas Chien, one of HTC's vice-presidents of
design, is quoted by BBC as he picks up a solid piece of aluminium. Like
Apple’s iPhone, it is a metal designed body packed and finished to
perfection.
While iPhone 5 comes with a dimension of 23.8 x 58.6 x
7.6 mm weighing 112 gms, Galaxy S3 comes with a dimension of 136.6 x
70.6 x 8.6 mm weighing 133 gm.
But the HTC One, HTC One with a
dimension of 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 mm and weighing around 143 grams is the
thickest and heaviest of the three.
Screen Resolution:
This section is where HTC claims it sets itself apart from Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S3.
Galaxy
S3 boasts of a 4.8 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display
with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, 306 ppi pixel density and Gorilla
Glass 2 protection. The iPhone 5 also boasts of a 4 inch LED-backlit IPS
capacitive touchscreen display with 1136 x 640 pixel resolution, 326
ppi pixel density and Gorilla Glass protection along with oleophobic
coating.
Not to be left behind, the HTC One comes with a 4.7 inch
screen with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. And this is what sets it
apart, it claims.
The 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution is about 468
pixels per inch (ppi) making it the most clear and powerful screen
compared to iPhone 5 which has a screen resolution of 326 ppi.
So,
with features that the HTC Corporation considers superior than those
many found in other smartphones, will the HTC One stand up to the
Samsung Galaxy S3 and Apple iPhone 5?
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