HTC hope to have a better year in which we find ourselves having launched a new flagship that for now has not thrown anyone back. The only thing is the high price, but it can be understood so as not to get off the high-end that Samsung and other companies present. At least you haven't encountered those issues that the HTC One M9 brought with it and that overheating from the first review of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810.
Now it is HTC when it presents a new terminal, after meeting the HTC Desire 830 yesterday, who will continue to carry the ending One so that we do not forget about it with the HTC One S9. A terminal that will follow what happened with the HTC 10 without risking too much and what it is to present a smartphone that meets perfectly. Now is the time not to gamble at all and bring smartphones that work quite well. It is in this HTC One S9 where it mounts a MediaTek Helio chip, something that many users may not like, but that will help the price of this terminal fly not very high, precisely 499 euros.
The HTC One S9
This new HTC phone follows the stipulations at the moment with a wide variety of smartphones that carry a metal finish. An HTC One S9 that has a 5-inch LCD screen and the resolution goes completely from QHD to stay with FHD (1920 x 1080). The pixel density is 441.
The specific processor is the HTC Helio X10 octa-core 64-bit which will be in charge of giving all the chicha to this phone which is accompanied by a 2 GB RAM memory and a memory that is left with nothing more than 16 GB of internal storage. Although yes, you can use a micro SD card of up to 2 TB capacity. We still cannot get to know why a € 499 phone no longer goes to 32GB of internal memory.
With regard to photography, with this phone we will have a 13 MP camera with optical image stabilization and F / 2.0 aperture. On the front we spend up to 4 MP with that ultra-pixel sensor that is still present in the terminals of the Taiwanese manufacturer.
Finally, we end up with a capacity in the 2.840 mAh battery and Android 6.0 Marshmallow as the OS version. It also gives option to LTE, Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and a Dolby stereo speaker system.
HTC One S9 Specifications
- 5-inch LCD screen with FullHD resolution
- Eight-core Helio X10 chip
- RAM memory of 2 GB
- 16GB internal memory plus micro SD slot up to 2TB
- 13 MP rear camera with OIS and f / 2.0 aperture
- 4 MP Ultrapixel front camera
- Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Sense Custom Layer
- Connectivity: LTE, Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth 4.1
- Battery 2.840 mAh
We are talking about a terminal of € 499 in which the internal memory is only 16GB when it almost seems that if a terminal exceeds € 500 it should have 32GB or, at least, an option to access that termination. Another negative point is the Mediatek chip that can also leave a little cold when we see that there are terminals, such as the Xiaomi Mi 5, that include it without major problems.
At such an important time where the smartphone market continues to falter with figures that lead us to greater interest in phones that are around € 150-300, launching such a terminal can be worrying for the Taiwanese manufacturer. And it is that the problem already comes from the HTC 10 when raising its price, because if it were the case that this manufacturer adjusts the prices in some terminal to compete against others of the mid-range, surely that the sales of its flagship will be they would see harm. So you have no choice but gamble with a terminal that calls mid-range but that is at € 499.