Gadgetory

maybe you've noticed but there's been a recent trend of very solid mid-range phones running dual-core Qualcomm processors is the HTC One SV a worthy competitor or just a plot by HTC to keep confusing us with its naming conventions find out in our review hey everybody I'm Chris look now while it's got its own style and software the HTC One SV is pretty similar to other phones we've looked at recently both in its performance and in its hardware how similar is it well let's take a look at the specs the HTC One SV runs a 1.2 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and has a 4.3 inch WVGA display it has one gig of ram eight gigs of internal storage expandable via microSD the rear and front facing cameras are 5 megapixels and 1.6 megapixels respectively all of this is powered by a 1,800 milliamp hour battery the look of the HTC One SV is pretty similar to some other models in the one line of HTC phones though the body isn't quite as bulky so my review unit was in white but the One SV is available in a range of different colors generally I don't like the design quite as much as some other HTC devices but it's still fairly stylish build quality is usually a strong suit with HTC phones and the One SV is no different in this case though it's fairly white it still feels very sturdy though I don't know how well it would survive the drop test the phone fit very nicely in my hand and the buttons feel well laid out the weakest aspect of the HTC One SV is definitely its display with a pixel density of 217 pixels per inch you're definitely going to end up with some items not being rendered as sharply as they could be that said the screen is bright and colors are vivid so it's not like we're looking at an entirely low-end display here dual-core snapdragon do a great job of bringing decent performance to mid-range phones and that is definitely the case here and two to three tons and average the scores ending up with an average figure of around ten thousand nine hundred running Epic Citadel and benchmark mode produced similar results with the high quality setting producing around 48 frames per second and the high performance setting yielding 50 frames per second scrolling through home screens in the app drawer was always smooth apps all we launched quickly and games performed pretty well despite the occasional hitch in performance the 1sv runs Android 4.0 point 4 Ice Cream Sandwich skinned with HTC Sense 4.1 we've heard that an update to jelly bean and sense four plus might be on the way but I had no such luck during testing there were a lot of apps pre-installed and while some definitely following in the category of bloatware a surprising number of them are actually pretty useful like the flashlight mirror voice recorder and FM radio apps you may not use these all the time but they're definitely more useful than a lot of pre-installed apps we've seen I never really expect amazing results out of the cameras and mid-range phones which means I'm usually not too disappointed this worked out for the 1sp the 5 megapixel rear camera isn't too bad and can definitely take a decent photo low-light performance in particular was better than expected HTC is thrown in HD our best shot and a few other useful features the 1080p video capture is fairly decent with generally the same image quality is still shots and HTC has included the fun but not too useful slo-mo mode Snapdragon chip sets are usually good at getting the most out of a battery so the 1,800 milliamp hour capacity of the One S V's battery isn't something to worry over during heavy testing I still ended up with just over 8 hours of battery life and in more normal use the phone easily lasted a full day without charging surprise surprised the battery is actually removable which isn't something I usually expect an HTC phones being able to carry a spare battery you're using extended batteries always handy so right now we have a lot of similarly SPECT phones coming out at similar price points and it seems like that's going to keep happening so what makes them all different the design with the One SV by keeping the design similar to some of its other more popular phones HTC is betting on already-established design it works for me but your mileage may vary now if you'd like to know more about the HTC One SV we do have a written companion to this video you can find the full article at android authority comm the link is in this video's description we always have new videos going up so if you haven't yet you may want to subscribe to our Channel I'm Chris book for Android authority and as always thank you for watching