We were already talking at the time about this peculiar camera that was yesterday presented by HTC at the event held in New York and that accompanied the HTC Desire EYE.
The HTC RE camera is a device shaped like a periscope that includes a 16 MP camera with 1 / 2.3 CMOS sensor and f / 2.8 wide angle. As one of its important features is the video recording arrives with 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second as well as 4x slow motion video.
HTC RE hardware
The HTC RE camera has the IP57 standard which gives it water resistance and it has an 820mAh battery, which will allow up to 1200 16-megapixel photos to be taken. The lens has an f / 2.8 aperture and goes up to 146 degrees. Its weight is 65.5 grams.
Regarding the storage of this amount of photos and videos, they can be stored on an included 8GB microSD card, although the memory size can be increased by another micro SD that reaches 128GB.
This HTC camera has two buttons, one on the top, at the top of the neck, which is the same trigger, while the other is located on the side to record slow motion video.
Software and updates
As for the RE updates, HTC has said that it will be releasing them to bring improvements to this new camera Go Pro.
And to be able to control device settings, share images and video, and use the phone as a secondary viewer, HTC has created an app for this device to be installed on smartphones.
The HTC RE app will be compatible with Android 4.3 or higher devices and the Taiwanese company says it plans to offer an iOS app as well. The way the app will connect will be through the Bluetooth connection.
HTC's proposal with RE
The photographic capabilities of the different devices that HTC has launched in recent years have been high quality incorporating its UltraPixel sensor and a Duo Camera setup on the HTC One M8.
The appearance of this tube-shaped chamber is a continuation of these efforts by the Taiwanese company for offering the best possible photographs from its different terminals.
HTC RE has an official price of € 229 and it will come in four different colors. Now it remains to be seen what impact this curious camera from HTC will have, which aims to become an additional accessory for any user who has an Android device.
Other similar accessory: Sony QX30 / QX1
Although this one from Sony has a higher quality lens, it is available as something similar to the HTC RE at least in terms of power. manage it from our own smartphone to be able to take better photos or videos in another way.
QX1 has a price of € 450 and it has a 20.1 MP APS-C Exmor CMOS sensor. It is characterized by being able to replace the lens with a mounting system which enables you to play with the zoom, wide angle and portrait options as you could do with an SLR and DSLR camera. And if you do not want to go at that price there is the QX30, its younger brother, for € 300.
Although it is not as versatile as the HTC RE, it distances itself mainly for its quality in photography.