The new HTC One smartphone is set to debut with a slew of impressive hardware and battery hungry features, as well as a large Full HD display. Smartphone shoppers these days often times have to settle for less than excellent battery performance, as a trade-off for the power-hungry high-tech applications and operations their handsets are capable of. Recently a third-party battery endurance test by PhoneArena pitted the soon to arrive HTC One against the iPhone 5, Galaxy S III and Nexus 4 smartphones.
The handset improves battery performance over previous HTC offerings by employing a sealed 2,300 mA cell, and a full charge provided 8.5 hours of video playback and 16.0 hours of talk time. That talk time compared to 15.3 hours on the Nexus 4, a respectable 11.6 hours on the Samsung Galaxy S III and just 8.0 hours on the iPhone 5. The industry standard is 8.0 hours of talk time from a single battery charge, and the HTC One’s 8.5 hours of video playback is also better than the 6.0 hours of video playback delivered by the average smartphone.
That is some exceptional battery performance by a handset with a juice-hungry display and powerful quad core processor, and the camera package on the HTC One is also very demanding on its battery. The handset boasts the new pixel camera technology on its rear facing 2.0 UltraPixel camera, and that rear snapper is capable of simultaneously capturing HD video and images. That camera also performs excellently in low light situations, with the built-in LED flash, back illuminated sensor (BSI), and f/2.0 lens.
Video is captured at the rate of 1,080P HD, and can then be viewed on the large 4.7 inch 1,080p Full HD display. That Super LCD 3 screen delivers an overall resolution of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels, offered at the incredibly high pixel density of 468 ppi. That display is protected by a layer of Gorilla Glass 2, and the HTC One is powered by the Snapdragon 600, a quad-core chip, which is up to 40% more powerful than the Snapdragon S4 Pro.
Android’s Jelly Bean 4.1 OS is running the phone, an Adreno 320 GPU handles all graphics processing, and the handset delivers a full 2.0 GB RAM memory. The phone will be released in both 32 and 64 GB models, and up front is a 2.1 megapixel camera offering video call and video chat support. The HTC One will deliver the exclusive Beats Audio sound package, comes out-of-the-box with a pre-installed YouTube video player, and offers NFC wireless support.
