HTC unveiled its latest flagship smartphone - the HTC 10 - that comes with an improved camera and battery. The HTC 10 tries to strike a balance between image resolution and individual pixel size with its 12 megapixel rear camera, which is the same as the latest iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfie camera — to 5 megapixels, matching the rival devices. It also joins its rivals in letting the screen serve as a front-facing flash. The HTC 10 phone is expected to be available in late April. The phone comes with 3 GB RAM, 32 GB internal storage, and a 3000mAh battery that is claimed to last up to two days. The company has not announced the pricing. Here's the HTC 10 in photos:
With the HTC 10, the Taiwanese company is promising to undo the past wrongs in the cameras of its previous flagship phones. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution in the M8 and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light (what HTC called Ultrapixel). But the resulting 4 megapixel images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. To fix the issue, in its next flagship - the M9 - HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20-megapixel camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. In the HTC 10, the company attempts to strike a balance with larger individual pixels (1.55µm), but not as large as before and a 12 megapixel sensor in its camera coupled with a ƒ/1.8 lens. HTC accepts that in the imaging performance in the M9 was not up to the kind of spec of what they really like to see in a flagship. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfi...