The hero of this review was the HTC Desire EYE – the flagship model in the line of Desire c two 13-megapixel camera and an excellent software for recording and processing of photo and video. The advantages of new items should also include a 5.2-inch display and class dynamics. About the price of the device and my impressions of it, read the review.

Design and body

Let’s start from afar – a general perception of design and case HTC Desire EYE, and then quickly move on to the camera.

This tube – closed monoblock polycarbonate. Closed it in the literal sense of the word. The smartphone is not afraid to dive into the water to a depth of 1 meter, which undoubtedly has one of its virtues.

Even with a relatively-small dimensions smooth contours the body good “hold” the phone in his hand. Material non-slip, comfortable soft-touch. At the ends, in place of red, blue can be, and the place of the white back cover – blue. The colors are bright, so I tend to think that externally Desire EYE – it’s still a youth smartphone, as it is not cool.

Inflection by weight not. Claimed 154 grams of added confidence and reliability of the design, especially when take pictures with one hand. Assembly at the highest level, materials fit tightly. The only thing that can be a bit annoying – the dust that collects on the speaker grilles.

Of sharp and straight lines in design – only the frame of the display, and of the dynamics of oblong, emits a nice sound. But subjectively, on the One M8 sound better. However, the bass still discourage pleasant shiver palm when playing your favorite track, and paired with cool headphones – a delight! And not the least merit of this technology HTC BoomSound.

If we ignore the location of functional elements, a power button, volume and camera placed on the right side. Left – slots for nano-SIM and microSD card. Audio jack placed on the top, and microUSB port on the bottom.

Well, HTC Desire EYE looks boldly sounds quickly, clearly shows up and running quickly. On the last two points in more detail.

Screen

Screen size – 5.2 inches with a resolution of Full HD. Picture juicy and contrast. Especially nice to look at it in high definition movies and play hard on the chart or arcade shooters. Floor display has oleophobic layer that easily cleaned fingerprints. Top screen is protected by glass Gorilla Glass 3.

The hardware part of

For performance Desire EYE meets 4-core processor from Qualcomm (Snapdragon 801, 2.3 GHz), which is complemented by 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory. Out of the box the user can use about 10 GB, the rest takes the operating system shell and pre-installed applications. You can expand the storage memory cards up to 128 GB. USB-OTG is also relevant and supported.

Tube works on Android 4.4.4, which is complemented by the user interface HTC Sense 6.0, detailed consideration in the review of HTC One M8, and opportunities Motion Launch. Recently a kind of simplified access to unlock and manage smartphone. The device understands and responds when you take it in hand and spend a certain way on the screen. The screenshots below in greater detail the options Motion Launch.

Well, again, HTC Desire EYE looks boldly sounds playfully shows bright, fast and takes on all of its price tag.

Camera

He does this through the 13-megapixel front and rear camera with HTC UltraPixel. On each side of two flashes. Photos are clear with good detail and color reproduction, and not only during the day, but also indoors in low light.

The front camera on its characteristics give odds to many major photomodule devices middle price segment. Judge for yourself: 13 megapixel BSI-matrix with recording Full HD video, wide-angle lens with an aperture of f / 2.2 mode and HDR.

The main camera is equipped with more advanced 13 megapixel photo module with BSI-matrix, aperture f / 2.0 lens with a 28mm auto focus, zoom, support for HDR, and the ability to record video in Full HD 1080p. Software includes modes of accelerated and delayed recording, as well as a full set of manual settings ISO, white balance, etc.

But technology equipment, and a highlight was PhotoChances Desire EYE software HTC EYE Experience. It is worth to highlight the following:

– Avtoselfi and voice self. Smiled and said “cheese” – photo ready.

– Insert the face – cut yourself out of a photo or video taken with the front camera and insert it into the frame, made basic.

– Quick Makeup – edit photos while shooting.

– Photo Kiosk – do four pictures in a row and as a result the picture of the photo booth.

– Morphing or combining images – choose from a gallery of photos, and then the person with whom it should be merged

– Group video calling – the application automatically tracks the faces of the video chat, up to four people at a time. When this function is “Screen Sharing” allows to show interlocutors display of your smartphone in real time.

– And finally – double shooting that allows you to take pictures or shoot video at the same time the main and front cameras.

In words, little understood, and screenshots do not show, so check out our video review – everything shown in the examples available.

Battery

Virtually all working moments evaluated left to talk about how tenacious HTC Desire EYE.

Inside the battery is 2400 mAh. When stated above capabilities, and continuous use of the camera for more than one day a smartphone I have never stayed. And here’s why. The smartphone is only one radio, Bluetooth I used rarely, but it was always turned on Wi-Fi, and the brightness was at maximum. Management regime was as follows – for half an hour a day phone calls, an hour of music on headphones, an hour of video in Full HD, the same number in the game Asphalt 8, half an hour by mail and the Internet, and about 20-30 minutes at the camera. Before going to sleep was no more than 10% charge.

Mode economical battery consumption and even extreme, imposes restrictions on the functionality present.

Findings

In summary, I would say that the HTC Desire EYE paired with applications HTC EYE Experience – this is a big and exciting world of human integration, camera, and social networking. With such a desire by photo shoot, process and post photos and videos has grown significantly. However, not only because it will have to pay a lot of 450-500 USD

In addition to high-quality mobile photography, whether it’s on the main front or 13 megapixel camera, the handset offers a decent screen, sound and performance, as well as bright waterproof housing. In my opinion, direct competitors HTC Desire EYE not. And it’s not so much the hardware filling as progressive software to work with cameras.

pros:

• Excellent camera and applications for processing the captured images and video;
• Bright design;
• Waterproof casing;
• Quality sound through the speaker and headphones.

cons:

• Average autonomy;
• No black palette enclosures (subjectively).

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We look at the smartphone HTC Desire EYE, which has a top-end performance, attractive design, as well as 13 megapixel front camera with flash.

In November 2014, HTC held a presentation of its flagship smartphone in a line of Desire. EYE his name is no accident – if you look at the front panel, you will notice a big sharp eye in the form of 13 megapixel front camera. Rich review photo smartphone supported by a special software called EYE Experience. The good news is that this is not only a middling one classroom killerfichey and quality unit with top performance and nice appearance.

Design

Stylish, trendy, youth. You will not find strict lines and classic colors. Color combinations that are available in the EYE – blue and cyan, and red and white. The last option looks just bombezno. A nice bonus to a lovely appearance – moisture and dust protection standard IPX7, which allows you to immerse your smartphone into the water to a depth of 1 m to 30 minutes. At the same time, all the necessary connectors are always open.

On the front panel at the top of the chamber and in addition to the double flare is a microphone for video recording as well as light sensors and proximity. Not be immediately noticed, but between two bright accents the top and bottom placed HTC stereo speakers. In EYE did not change their standard accommodation despite the large eye of the camera. The sound is excellent, volume, loud and juicy. The only drawback may be called what speakers are slightly lower frames on the front panel, so expect that they will collect dust.

The left side of the unit are connectors for nano-SIM card and a card microSD, supports up to 128 GB. On the right side at the bottom is a hardware camera button, it was a sin not to install such devices PhotoChances. At the level of the finger is the lock button. Yes, you read that right, lock button in the smartphone HTC is at your finger, it happens. It is located just above the volume rocker.

At the top end can be found only a headphone jack, and the bottom – microUSB-input for charging and Elementary microphone. The back cover is made of plastic, smooth, practical and comfortable. In the left corner is located another 13 megapixel camera with dual flash, near the microphone. Centered applied logo HTC, and at the bottom the service information.

Assembling the smartphone is not perfect, but most likely it is a problem of a separate sample in my machine from time to time you can stumble upon a small crunching, but overall smartphone shot down tightly.

Ergonomics

HTC smartphones are not the most compact on the market, it is true, but to accuse the company in a futile use of space is unlikely to succeed. Desire EYE more than the flagship One M8, even more than the 5.5 “LG G3, but it has its own reasons. I do not know how strange it sounds, but it such dimensions “to face.” He very generously proportioned and rounded sides, so it lies in the hand perfectly.

Display

Large and high-quality display. HTC maintains its reputation by releasing smartphones with some of the best screens on the market. The picture on the Desire EYE bold, crisp, colors are on top. The viewing angles are the widest in what direction do not tilt the smartphone, the image is not distorted. All well and with a margin of brightness, it is enough. Oleophobic coating pleased with its quality prints are not going very intense and easily erased.

Performance

The phone is very fast, top iron shell and the latest version of Sense doing their job well. All elements of the system, application etc. open immediately and very smoothly. Use the phone as fast a lot of fun. In the games, too, everything is fine, they go to the mid / high graphics settings and with excellent performance, and the smartphone is heated only slightly.

The capacity of the non-removable battery does not allow to set a record of autonomy, but even with a battery HTC Desire EYE gives good results. With daily use with browsing, reading, socializing and, of course, the creation of many self, smartphone enough for about a day. Hours screen in this mode may be about 3 hours. The fact is that in our sample have a small problem with autonomy, so while working in the retail version should be a little bit more.

To save battery at a critical moment in the present EYE gentlemanly set of two power saving modes. First disables background data and Haptic feedback, and also reduces power consumption processor and the screen brightness. Second, desperate disables almost all, leaving you with the five most essential apps – Phone, Messages, Mail, calendar, calculator and clock.

Camera

Camera – this is the main feature of this model. In order to emphasize the importance of PhotoChances device placed on the right side separate the start button and the camera application for creating photo. The main rear camera takes very good pictures in daylight. The overall picture in the photo is impressive for its color and saturation. Very well on this camera are obtained macrophotography. At night, the camera captures the light is good, but the final result comes out slightly palely. Everything else, in low light is easy to lubricate the picture even with a small movement.

Examples of the photo on the back of the camera

Giant keen eye front has the same characteristics as the “colleague” back. What can I say, this is one of the best frontalok in my practice. I think that for all the testing I’ve done more self than in my entire life. When you have at hand a quality machine, you want to do it more often.

The camera has a wide viewing angle, with room light shots often turns out well, at least excellent. Sometimes photos come too contrasting and noisy. At night, the camera also showed good results with little noise. If you turn on the flash, then all will be beauty. The only flaw is from this very long range flash. When you make a photo of a loved one only, all perfectly clear, but when you start to do selfi now, the person who holds the smartphone will bask in the glory of the flash, and other friends standing together in the shade.

Application

Camera app simple and easy to manage, but at the same time has more features, which, incidentally, has become even more after the recent update titled EYE Experience.

The application has a lot of shooting modes, such as HDR, night shot, close-up, etc. There is a mode full manual photo settings, where it is possible to expose not only the usual parameters such as iso and white balance, but also to adjust the focus and set the shutter speed.

To create pictures using the front camera to the EYE present the largest range of options, which I saw on the phones. Then you and the HDR, and Night Scene, there is even a fully manual mode. For those who always have to look at 100%, it is possible to retouch the face in real time. Unique mode can be called HD-lapse shooting at the front camera, such I never met in any smartphone. C upgrade EYE Experience not even need to touch the smartphone to take a picture, it is enough to say “shoot” or just smile and the camera takes the picture itself.

In the present application mode “dual camera”, which allows you to take photos and videos directly on the two 13-megapixel camera. There was a regime “Photo Kiosk”, which allows you to create fun collages with your self.

The software component of HTC smartphones one of the best on the market. In EYE installed the latest version of the shell Sense, which boasts a beautiful, designed in the same style interface, high speed and smoothness. The system itself and all third-party applications to be expected are stable. To learn more about the shell recommend to look into the Software section in the review HTC One M8.

Results

HTC Desire EYE turned out good, almost all the time, this smart phone is very good. His original design, high-quality display, smart performance and hell, 13 megapixel front camera with flash. Thus EYE cheaper flagship One M8.

The first thing that I did not like, is autonomy. Yes, I wrote that it was a test model and there may be problems with running time, but be that as it may, what’s that worth selling version of the battery capacity of 2400 mAh. With such performance records of autonomy to put difficult. The second point, which upset – it results that gives the camera at night. The smartphone, which made such a big emphasis on the review photo, accounts for almost hold my breath so as not to lubricate the picture in low light. As an option – use minishtativ, good choice of great and the prices are adequate.

In all other HTC Desire EYE awesome and it can be safely advise buying. However, if you do not hurry up and feel free financially, then I would recommend to wait until March 1 – on this day will update HTC flagship smartphone One. Maybe he’ll have more to their liking.

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A few days ago, HTC has introduced a new self-oriented smartphone Desire EYE, equipped with a front camera with a resolution of 13 megapixels. However, just to add a front camera would be foolish on the part of HTC, so they are equipped with the camera interface is very interesting possibilities. To inexperienced users can quickly understand the application interface, the Taiwanese company has released several informational videos.

In the first video tells about the enhanced features of video calls. In Desire EYE there is a function called Face Tracking, which keeps the focus and stabilizes the image of the face of the interlocutor. Also, if during a call to talk to you a few buddies, the camera divides them into individual images, which can be combined on the screen.

In addition to these features, there is a function Screen Share, which, as the name implies, can show your actions on your smartphone companion.

In the second video HTC demonstrates the capabilities of the camera for self-images. Much attention has been paid to the Taiwanese company the opportunity to make the photo without pressing the screen of your smartphone. As can be seen from the video, it can be done in three different ways.

The first is that the smartphone takes a photo at a time when everyone who is in the frame, smiling. In a second embodiment shooting occurs when users in a few seconds were still before the viewfinder. And finally, the third way is the camera activated voice, saying, for example, the phrase «Say Cheese!».

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Earth, as we know, revolves around the sun, and while on one side the people peacefully snuffle in their beds, on the other may well take some significant event. For example, while you were sleeping last night, in New York hosted the presentation of HTC, where the company showed the world their new products. Than rich Taiwanese – find under the cut.

HTC Desire EYE

The most significant event of the presentation can be called a representation of HTC Desire EYE. This is something from the company did not wait long and here it finally happened – the 5.2-inch smartphone with FullHD-screen resolution, operating at 801 Snapdragon processor with a 2GB of RAM, and most importantly, the 13-megapixel camera! To be precise, even with two 13-megapixel cameras. Yes, that’s right, and the main and front cameras have one resolution of the matrix – and it’s great!

The design is reminiscent of that of the also recently launched Desire 820, at least if we look at smartphones, “from the back” – the same two-tone body. Front same Desire EYE looks even better. Lovers of juicy sound can zaperezhivat: “where is the front speakers?”. But do not worry, they are here on the ground, hidden under a black frame screen and contrasting white frames.

5.2 inches in our time – it is a very compact device. However Desire EYE so call does not go out, its dimensions are 151.7 x 73.8 x 8.5 mm, and weight – 154 grams, which is slightly more than the Sony Xperia Z3, for example. The reason for that, unfortunately, is not ample battery whose capacity is only 2,400 mAh battery, and probably all the same module in the front of the camera. In addition, the smartphone is protected by standard IPx7 (30 minutes under water at a depth of a meter), which also requires a slight increase in size.

However, it’s worth it, because the smartphone’s camera – it is the main feature, for which he must be willing. They, by the way, not exactly the same, both have a 13-megapixel matrix and dual LED-flash support both HDR and can shoot FullHD-video, but the main camera has a wide-angle sensor technology to support the rear lights and 28mm lens with an aperture of f / 2.0, and the front – 22 mm lens with an aperture of f / 2.2.

HTC Desire EYE should start selling in Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia since October. Price on it is not voiced, but according to the French resource Nowhere Else, it will be 529 Euro.

HTC Re

Well, we have come to HTC smartphones with “human” camera is not bad. You can even think that the company is aware of all your mistakes and now took up the head … But do not be in such a hurry, as if a head does not have to take us, because the second device shown now, become action-camera Re.

What can you say about the design of this device? Well, it’s periscope red, white, turquoise or dark blue to choose from, with a button under the “eyepiece” and something of a mirror in the area of ​​the bend “pipe”. Why the camera should look like? Who knows, these Asians?

Weight is 65.5 grams of Re, so carry it with you should not be difficult, unless, of course, exclude the moral and psychological side of the question, there is a fear that people will think about you.

If you come to the device from a purely technical side, this 16-megapixel camera with 146-degree wide-angle lens and an aperture of f / 2.8, which is capable of recording FullHD-video at 30 frames per second. It also can record in slow-mo and time-lapse, apparently, the video is slowed down to 4 times a resolution of 720p. The camera, by the way, there is no flash.

All images are recorded on a microSD-card included with the camera is an 8-GB memory card, but it can be increased up to 128 GB. Re battery is 820 mAh, which should be enough for 1,200 photos or 1 hour and 40 minutes of recording video at 1080p.

The camera can work in tandem with devices on Android 4.3 and above, as well as iOS 7 and above. In order for them to connect, provided modules Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi.

If you still will get HTC Re and could not bear to imagine other people’s views, decide to get rid of it – you know, drown it useless, the camera is protected according to IP57, it is easy to hold at a depth meter for half an hour.

HTC Zoe

All of these PhotoChances in addition, HTC has announced that its corporate application HTC Zoe emerges from beta stage and becomes available in Google Play for all, including for users of smartphones and other manufacturers.

HTC Zoe – this is another photo and videosotsialnaya network. However, while the application was beta-testing downloaded more than 5 million times.

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Good news for fans of pictures of themselves on the front camera and the army of fans of the Taiwanese company HTC, as a brand new smartphone, which will be presented in a few days, and will please both.

The assumption that the upcoming event will showcase the new vendor representative of the family One, were wrong. Eye extend the series Desire, more precisely, it will be headed by – filling machine is far from the definition of “budget device.”

Target Audience HTC Desire Eye – today’s young people, who will have to taste the appearance of the device – body painted in several bright colors. It is unknown whether plastic or mysterious composite material from which made ​​the “mythical” HTC Prime M8.

The question that the Taiwanese manufacturer may imply the term smartphone selfie, when for the last six months, most gadgets «One» and «Desire» got a 5-megapixel photo module for self-portraits, the answer is: the front camera 13 megapixel with dual flash. By the way, the main camera takes pictures with the same resolution, and it is only one.

Features HTC Desire Eye

HTC Desire Eye with 4 × 2,3 GHz Snapdragon processor 801 has 2 GB RAM and 32 GB of internal memory, removable battery 2400 mAh, 5.2-inch diagonal display with a resolution of 1080p and stereo speakers (marked by a red render). Among other things, the device is protected from dust and moisture.

At the presentation of the smartphone is expected to announce the firmware for selfie, which will not only new, but also the current flagship One M8 and Butterfly 2 in the near future. Mini version of the M8, Ace, as well as the original One, One Max and One Mini acquire new functions after upgrading to Android L .

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