HTC with metal clad body earlier this year HTC One A9 Focused on the mid-range segment with the smartphone. This phone was also well liked. Now, the company affordable with the intention of repeating this success HTC One X9 Smartphone has been launched. This phone is also made of metal body. The phone’s specifications attract. Is this phone Le Max 2 And Xiaomi Mi 5 Like you can compete with a smartphone? Read our review
Design and texture
On seeing the other, HTC One X9 largely resembles the company’s Desire series smartphone. The rear of One X9 is completely made of metal, which makes it look attractive to see and it is also clear that an attempt has been made to give a premium look to the handset.
Glass is used in the front of the phone, which causes round the side of the phone. The phone has three backlit capacitive buttons for back, home and recent under the display. HTC branding is ranked above the display. There is a front camera on one side of the display. HTC has confirmed that cornings have been given in the front. There is a dual speaker grill at the top and bottom of the phone, which makes the phone look better.
On the rear panel of the phone, there are antenna bands up and down, while the camera and dual LED flash are ranked in the left corner. There is also an HTC branding in the middle on the rear of the phone.
The phone has a SIM card slot with power and volume button on the right side. Whereas on the left one can install another SIM card and a microSD card. The one X9 has a 3.5mm audio jack at the top, while a micro-USB slot at the bottom.
The HTC One X9 has a 5.5 inch full HD (1080×1920 pixels) super LCD display. The screen of the screen is 401 PPI. We found the screen quite bright and crisp while using the phone. We can easily use the phone in daylight. Watching videos with dual HTC Boomsound Speaker and Dolby Audio SPONT Enhancement and playing games is quite funny experience.
The one X9 with a thickness of 7.99 millimeters is thin on the screen. It becomes very convenient to hold the phone with its folded edges and use it with one hand. However, the phone feels a little heavy to use the phone with a weight of 170 grams and the phone starts slipping when sweating. This phone will be found in carbon gray color and opal silver color. Overall, the HTC One X9 costs a premium according to the price and is designed extremely well.
Specification and software
HTC One X9 has an octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 processor and 3 GB RAM. The phone has 32 GB inbuilt storage which can be increased to 2 TB via microSD card. The phone has a 13 megapixel rear camera and 5 megapixel front camera. One X9 comes with connectivity features like Bluetooth 4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11 A/B/G/N/C, GPS, Glonas, Meerakast and 4G LTE. This phone has a 3000 mAh battery with quick charging support.
The HTC One X9 runs on Sense UI of the company which is based on Androy 6.0 Marshmallow. This version of Sense UI is much lighter than the UI launched in HTC smartphone launched till a year ago. It has fewer blotware and HTC has noticed Google’s app suits such as search, drives, photos, hangouts and chrome. Quick Setting Togal also gives a large extent like stock Android. Apart from this, a theme app of HTC has also been given for twitting and dinnering new themes, wallpapers and ringtone.
The phone has Zo video editor from which recorded video can be edited. The phone also featured Android Marshmallow features like Now on tap and app permission. Overall, it is easy to use HTC One X9 with the new Sense UI.
Performance
One X9 smartphone with Helio X 10 processor is extremely convenient for multitasking. Need for Speed: Games like no limits and dead trigger 2 can be played without any problem. After playing the game for a long time, the phone gets hot.
However, we have noticed many times that there is a delay in opening the app which is quite useless. During the review, we found that the bar apps crash which is disappointed for this price phone. In the phone, we were able to use 4G network without any problem and the call quality was also good.
The HTC One X9 gives a crisp sound from the boomsound speaker. The earphones coming with the phone are fine. The benchmark figures of OneX 9 were greatly influenced. And it scored well in the benchmark test.
Talk about the camera, the One X9 has a 13 -megapixus rear camera with BSI sensor, optical image stabilization (OIS), aperture F/2.0 and dual tone LED flash. One of the biggest feature of the camera is the recording of 4 of 4 frames per second. The camera app has a Pro mode from which it can be controlled manually and an image can be taken in RAW format. This phone has a selfie timer of up to 10 seconds. Also it has HDR mode, panorama mode (up to 270 degrees). There are also features such as hyper laps and slow motion video recording. Like the second HTC phone, this phone also has a zoom button.
The camera causes the focus quickly but there is a problem in the shutter. Pictures taken in good light come with crisp and natural color but saw a little feticide. Face detection function works well. The performance was poor in low light and we saw noise in all the pictures. The 5 -megapixel front camera brings a good selfie, but the smartphone in this price was not the best camera performance.
HTC One X9 battery supported the video loop test for 10 hours and 45 minutes which is not bad. However, the battery performance is less than average during general use. Once charged, the phone’s battery did not last a day.
With a lot of use, we got 12 to 14 hours of battery life in the phone. As soon as the battery came at 20 percent, we had to turn on the power saving mode. The phone battery decreases rapidly during the use of an app like Google Maps. In such a situation, Quick charging support gives a lot of benefit. One X9 takes about two hours to have full charge which is not bad.
Our decision
HTC One X9 was launched in India in May for Rs 25,990. But its sale started in July and currently the phone is available in the market for Rs 23,990. The metal body and good display performance of the phone is a great package. However, the camera and battery life disappoints. Overall, say the same price Xiaomi Mi 5 And Le Max 2 The smartphone is a more powerful phone than HTC One X9.