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this is Dancy for with the verge and you're taking a look at the new HTC ten this is HCC's new flagship phone for 2016 it's a very obvious successor to last year's m9 and a nine kind of blends the design of those two phones together much like every one of HTC's flagship phones for the past couple of years the 10 has a full metal unibody design really has a ton of metal here there's only a little bit of plastic for antenna bands at the top and these stripes on the back one thing that HTC is done different this year is this massive chamfered edge which has a different kind of finish than the matte finish of the back but otherwise it feels and looks pretty similar to last year's phones as well around front we've got a 5.2 inch quad HD display this is a new Super LCD panel that HTC says has 30% more color than its prior panels it's very bright and vibrant and sharp of course kind of what you'd expect for a screen in 2016 below that there's a fingerprint home's button as well as fingerprint scanners so you can wake the phone up and unlock it right with that and you can see next to it that there are now capacitive buttons HTC has returned to this design after a few years of using on-screen buttons one of the things that HTC is long struggled with is the camera and of course this year they're promising that it's much better the new camera is a 12 megapixel ultra pixel camera so it has larger pixels it's got a 1.8 aperture lens as well as optical image stabilization dual LED flash true tone type the flash as well as a second generation laser autofocus system also around front the new camera up top is a 5 megapixel unit it 2 also has an F 1.8 aperture lens as well as optical image stabilization which is a HDC says is the first phone with an optically image image stabilized front camera so that's pretty unique it's supposed to improve your selfies there one thing that this phone doesn't have from last year is front-facing speakers you might notice that the speaker port on the bottom here is for the main speaker which handles a lot of your base frequencies HTC's also says it put a tweeter up top with a supper amp for both of them so it's supposed to have a very high output as well as great range and she si says that the 10 is an HD audio or hi-fi audio certified phone so it'll have better range and output as far as software goes it's running Android 6.0 marshmallow as well as with HTC's interface on top HTC says it's done a lot to reduce the number of redundant apps here as you can see it's using Google's calendar HTC's mail app Google's Play Music app Google Photos instead of HTC's old galleries so that it reduces the number of duplicate apps that you have of course this being an unlock model though that will likely change when carriers get their hands on it but otherwise the interface is very similar to Google's Nexus interface very stock like here it's probably one of the most stock like interfaces that HTC has ever produced there's very little bit of HTC's customization there the HTC ten is powered by a Snapdragon 820 processor it's also got four gigabytes of RAM so it's certainly the higher-end processor that you'd expect from a premium phone in 2016 inside is 32 gigabytes of memory there is a micro SD card slot for expansion as well other unique features this year USB C charger its quick charge 3.0 compatible inside it's got a 3000 milliamp hour battery the HTC claims up to 2 hours of battery life on which is a really long time for this size of phone HTC says that this will be priced around a flagship phone price so you can expect this to be at least $600 or so probably even a little bit more to be available on all of the major carriers in the US and it should be hitting shelves very soon stay tuned we're going to have much more on the HTC 10 including a full review in the near future thanks for watching we are really excited to check out this HTC 10 and put it to the test in our full review real soon until then check out these videos on the side and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more