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hey what is up guys on to Bhd here and better late than never HTC ten final verdict as a smartphone this is a really really good phone so you probably already knew that but after using this phone for the past couple weeks I kind of realized it surprised me how underrated it is it's just really good at a lot of things and I think most anyone would agree it's the complete package so it pretty much nails everything you look for in a flagship smartphone so the build it nails that this phone is all metal all the way around so anytime you're holding it you're touching metal which is awesome and the sides are also pretty flat which is important so even though it's kind of a chunky phone it's easy to hold and then for looks it has this big chamfer all the way around the edges of the rounded back and that really characterizes this device so there's plenty of other metal devices but the chamfer color it sort of changes as it catches the light from different angles so it's really nice it's like classic HTC hey you know what the most underrated piece of hardware that actually really makes a smart phone is good buttons seriously and HTC ten has great buttons a textured clicky power button and a separate very tactile clicky volume rocker so a good grade for both of those the only knock I have on the build is that it's not ip68 water-resistant but it is still IP 53 technically so it can handle a misting just fine now the display it also pretty much nails that so you're working with a 5.2 inch quad HD super LCD display it looks good as you'd expect pretty vibrant and color accurate not the brightest thing in the world but you know just barely visible in outdoor sunlight and it looks great and sharp everywhere else the speaker's this was an interesting point compared to previous HTC phones because those were legendary for boomsound front-facing speakers here on the HTC 10 we have two speakers one larger driver on the bottom for low and mid frequencies and then another one up in the earpiece at the top and the cutout for high frequencies and they work together sort of like a woofer and tweeter pair at it sounds pretty good it's definitely way better than the worst speakers out there so that's good but it's still no front-facing stereo pair which is what I got used to from HTC in the past even other devices now like my Nexus 6p now obviously this isn't a big deal to some people plenty of people will use headphones anyway which are great with this phone but it's something to note this is a pretty middle-of-the-road speaker setup the specs yeah of course it nailed those Snapdragon 820 chip Adreno 550 GPU 4 gigabytes of RAM and as a bonus expandable storage so there's a SIM card tray on one side and the other side a micro SD card slot for those that cherish that kind of glad these made it come back in 2016 and in the performance Department this phone has stayed fast I kind of mentioned in the first impressions video that it felt quick obviously that's right out the box but responsiveness is on point and this is something HTC worked on a lot with their new software and I've had no slowdowns with day-to-day use with this guy so opening and closing apps is quick multitasking is quick and a lot of the normal in-between stuff feels so quick and snappy because the animations are shortened a lot in fact just the software in general on this phone since 8:00 is now one of my favorite skins I've seen on Android to date in a long time it's pretty close to stock Android in look and feel and I like that not just because it's stock ish but because it's good and just that one extra level of customization beyond a signage and mod rom or something so you have HTC's themes store and a couple extra features here and there and hardware optimizations but still a mostly stock feel so I dig it removing duplicate apps to clean the app drawer and make things less confusing was a good move and not overloading the phone with a whole bunch of weird features and gestures and stuff was also a good move keep saying simple top all that off with a 3000 milliamp hour battery and you're looking at pretty consistently smooth performance that actually lasts a whole day I'm a lot happier with again the battery life of flagship phones this year to this HTC ten is getting me my four and a half hours of screen on time and has great standby so pretty much matches the galaxy s7 if a little bit short and I almost never use any of the power saving features so I'm happy about that one place that I'd say that this phone is kind of lacking is the camera I'm not recommending this phone to anyone for the camera so if you're a person who takes a lot of photos or a lot of videos and is really into the camera this isn't your number-one choice it's probably top ten but it's not the best so if that's what you're looking for then this is not your phone HTC 10 is rocking a 12 megapixel camera with an F 1.8 aperture optical image stabilization LED flash and laser autofocus all good specs on paper image quality wise it's just above average so you can see from the shots I've taken you can definitely get really good photos and 4k videos out of this phone no question especially in good light so color accuracy is solid nothing's too over sharpened or oversaturated - which is cool and then with the F 1.8 aperture you can also get that nice shallow depth of field and blurred background if you want and then that also helps of course a lot combining with OIS to do a little bit better than average in low-light uh it still breaks down but you know you get the idea I think it tends to err err on the side of overexposure definitely has a bit more blown out highlights than crushed shadows usually but since it's doing auto HDR so quickly dynamic range is also pretty good I put it in the top few cameras on smartphones for sure but again the galaxy s7 s and iPhones of the world are going to take better photos for sure overall if CC 10 gets a lot of the little things right stuff like the expandable storage like I mentioned it's a nice bonus for people who take a lot of videos and photos or have a lot of music the fingerprint sensor is also a nice touch it's pretty quick not the quickest it's behind touch ID and I'd say Samsung and Huawei but top five for sure and things like the super high quality DAC this smartphone will actually drive your higher powered headphones and those who pay attention will notice the great audio from the headphone jack of this guy there's also airplay support right out the box on HTC 10 that's a first Ranny Android phone so it has a lot going for it so at the end of the day like we said this HTC 10 is a really good phone it's not perfect by any means definitely still has its quirks what you might consider flaws but it checks pretty much all the boxes and it does most of what you would expect out of a flagship smartphone so the beauty the power and the nice clean OS I think it'll be even more interesting later this year now that works to see at least the rumors point to an HTC made Nexus phone coming out later this year and then that should take a lot of the design keys from this phone but we'll reserve judgment until we see that that's basically it for this review thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one bass