HTC 10 India-Worth To Buy?

After month of Announcement HTC Finally Launched HTC 10 In India At Rs. 52,990.
So,It Worth To Buy?
So,Let's See Specifcation,Pros & Cons. Of HTC 10.

Features:-

• 5.2" QHD Super LCD 5 Screen(2560*1440)
• 2.2 GHz Qualcomm SnapDragon 820 CPU[64 Bit]
• 4 GB Ram
• 32 GB Interneal Storage.
• 2 TB[2048 GB] External Storage.
• 12MP (HTC UltraPixel™ 2 with 1.55μm pixel) Rear Camera.
• 5MP (1.34μm pixels) Front Camera.
• 3000 mAh Battery.
• FingerPrint Sensor,Gyro Sensor.

Pros:-

1. Good Design With Metal Body.
2. Good Specification.
3. 4K Recording.
4. 50% Charging In 30 Minutes
5. HTC BoomSound & Dolby Audio Available.

Cons:-

1. Very High Price.
2. Only 3000 mAh Battery.
3. May Be Heating Problem Due To Metal Body.
4. Good Alternative Flagship Available Like Samsung S7 & Samsung S7 Edge.

According To My Opinion  HTC 10 Is Not Worth To Buy Because At This Price Range
Samsung S7[BuyNow] & Samsung S7 Edge[BuyNow] Are Very Very Good Options.
Still,If You Are A HTC Fan Or Don't Wanna Use Samsung Then Definitely Buy It.

            

HTC One A9

The handset, which HTC claims is the best they've ever made, takes several cues from the design of previous products in the One line (although it also bears an obvious similarity to Apple's iPhones too). The handset features an all-metal body and sports a bezel-less 5-inch screen, with a resolution of 1080p.

On the software side, the company has collaborated closely with Google to make the One A9 the first non-Nexus phone to launch with Android 6.0 Marshmallow on day one, along with support for Android Pay and Now On-Tap. What’s more, any Android updates will be made available within 15 days of their release on the Nexus line.

On the hardware side, you can find the following under the hood:

• 5" full HD AMOLED display
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor
• 2 or 3 GB of RAM
• 16 or 32 GB of internal storage
• SD card storage support for up to 2TB
• 13MP rear camera with OIS
• UltraPixel front camera
• 2150mAh battery with QuickCharge 2.0
• Fingerprint sensor

HTC is also going the extra mile with the phone's warranty, offering a free replacement for any accidental damage for the first 12 months, free of charge. A boon to tinkerers and geeks, unlocking the bootloader will not void the warranty, a first in HTC’s history.

The handset is available in four colours and international availability starts in November. In the US, the phone can be preordered directly from HTC starting today - a discount price of $399.99 is applicable for the first 24 hours. For those who want to try the phone before buying, the company is also offering a 30-day trial period for online purchases.

HTC One users can now use CyanogenMod 10.1 Nightly build to permanently get rid of Sense UI

I know many users are frustrated with the HTC Sense UI.  It has been a matter of great debate regarding the form and the functionality.  It has its own uses but often becomes to much of a spoil sport for a true Android fan.  There are many third party launchers available in the Google Play Store which can remove the Sense UI but once you remove the launcher you are back to square one.  

How would you like to do away with the Sense UI completely from your HTC One.  Thanks to the active CyangenMod community, you can now do so.  Official nightly build of one of the most popular Android  ROMs are now available for download. 

And this build comes with stock-like Android 4.2.2 experience to the One, which is shipping out of the company with Android 4.1.  Bonus of course, is the huge amount of customisation you can do with your HTC One right from  the notification bar to navigation controls.

IF YOU HAVE A UNLOCKED HTC One you can find the links here on the XDA Developer page.   Please remember modding is not good without any experience so if you are not good at tinkering let it be.  Be sure to read the full tutorial before you start your tinkering process.

The Mod though, has its own share of bugs.  The In-call audio for outgoing calls are little bit iffy so you will need to enable 'touch sounds' to have audio in outgoing calls. The IR sensor does not work and Wi-Fi calling is not possible with the current mod.

Other bug are yet to be discovered so if you come up with one report the same to the XDA developers forum.  Please post in your comments about the mod and its bugs, if any.  Kindly read my this post for the Nightly builds for Samsung Galaxy S IV for Sprint and Verizon.

Vijay Prabhu

Both HTC One and BlackBerry Z10 fail to make grades

Both the phones were launched with much fanfare and both the phones are the proverbial last straw for the respective mobile manufacturers yet both have failed to make a dent in the world mobile market.  HTC One and BlackBerry Z 10 are going to be remembered for long time for being failures.  

The HTC One marketing team has acknowledged the slip in sales by hiking the marketing budget by 250 % for the next fiscal and going to ditch its once marquee tagline "Quietly Brilliant".  May be they have realised that instead of being quietly brilliant the phone has to be loud and brilliant.  Anyhow it has to make right kind of noises with the teenagers who are primary HTC One buyers.  

During past year the Taiwanese company has seen slippages in sales targets and that has affected its share price also.  The share price of the HTC corporation which was TWD630 a year ago in March 2012 is now languishing at TWD240.00.  The HTC One is a last ditch attempt from the company to regain the market share it had in 2011.  But so far the news is far from happy for the Taiwanese maker.   Its delivery schedule has also been hit by the issue of supply of Ultrapixel camera for HTC One and that in turn has hit it sales with the new buyers who have turned to Xperia Z or are waiting for Samsung S IV.

The HTC marketing team may sure hope to turn the clock back to 2011.  Blackberry too had pinned hopes on the BB10 operating system and the Z10 and Q10 phones from its stables which it released in February 2013.  But it is also facing problems both on delivery side and the sales.  Q10 is not going to be marketed in US as of yet and Z10 has failed to make an impact in the mobile arena.

The retailers in US have already announced that Z10 is a failure while despite cutting the price of Z10 in UK markets and giving deep discounts prior to its launch in US the sales are not that awe inspiring in UK.  Similar to HTC, Research In Motion the makers of Blackberry are also staring at the barrel in the stock markets.  The share price of RIM is languishing at $13.00 at the moment.

Both the devices are make or break for both the companies but as of yet they seem to be breaking the companies. Read the article on Gartner here to find out who came tops for Q1 2013.

Please post your comments on this article.

Vijay Prabhu