HTC One V - Review

Not long ago , HTC unveiled it's new One series and they hit us with 3 of them (sony did that too with their NXT series) namely , One V , One S and their current flagship One X .
Htc one v is just a level ahead of the entry level smartphones as it comes with pre-installed android 4 . Even Sony Xperia S is struggling to get that !

DESIGN__________________________________________________________________________

Htc one v has a familiar design that of htc ridge . The bottom panel of the phone is directed upwards in a curvy way , a little like the old telephones , but it looks cool . All the corners are rounded just like the phones in htc one category of smartphones . It is quite a slim phone at 9.24 mm with a 3.7 inch screen .
The back of the phone has a matt rubbery surface which doesn't let scratches to pile up like in metal or plastic body phones , smart move by htc . The phone comes in 2 colours - jupiter rock and gun grey

SCREEN AND DISPLAY___________________________________________________________

This phone has 3.7 inch super lcd 2 screen with corning gorilla glass . The display resolution of the phone is not as good as that of sony xperia u but not bad either . Sony xperia u has 280 ppi , htc one v has 252 ppi which matches nokia lumia 710 .
The screen resolution is 800 x 480 pixels which is like the least bar of what a smartphone's display has to be.   The responsiveness of the screen is not as good as xperia u or other higher-end smartphones .

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE________________________________________________________

Htc one v has 1 Ghz single core processor which is not up to the mark but gets the job done . It has 512 MB of RAM . There is not camera shutter button on the right side of the phone which is a disappointment .
It has only 4GB of internal memory , another issue , yet resolved by the holy microSD card slot of compatibility upto 32 GB .


The biggest upside of the phone is that it comes pre-installed with android 4 , so no need to wait for ICS update like sony has done to their nxt series buyers . HTC Sense 4.0 is the latest UI by htc and they put it in this one . Htc sense 4 won't turn up many people as it does not amuse people .

A bonus for those who need more space apart from internal and external memory is the free 2 year subscription of Dropbox , the online cloud service which is very helpful in stroring data from anywhere as a backup .

CAMERA ______________________________________________________________________

The phone is packed with a 5mp camera which is good enough to take pics in outdoors as well as indoors . Using this phone's camera is a fun experience because of its different available shooting/capturing modes.
It also has an LED flash . It shoots videos at 1280 x 720 resolution which really nice .

Other cool features of the camera include Auto Focus , BSI sensor , Geo tagging , Continuous shooting and some more . But , but , but , you have to do it without the feel of a camera i.e. the camera button on the body is missing .

PROs_______________________                       CONS__________________________

1. Android 4 comes pre-installed                            1. No Camera button

2. 3.7 inch screen is good                                       2. A little costlier

3. Slim phone                                                         3. Single core processor 

4. MicroSD card slot                                              4. Sony xperia u narrows one v out                                             

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