At a quite, secluded restaurant in Damansara Heights an office building valet experienced a peculiar surge of cars requiring parking space like never before. Little did he know that HTC Malaysia had booked the venue in his building for the official announcement and hand-on session for HTC 10 and another new phone launch on that day. The exclusive event was only for the media.
We have been longing for HTC 10 to arrive here since it was first announced 2 months back, having finally reached our shores and LiveatPC.com getting an exclusive review of the device, we have been interested to know HTC Malaysia’s plan for the flagship. Priced at RM2799 and available in Gold and Carbon Grey, a new protection casing called Ice View that can be used for photo taking, viewing messaging or even skipping a track without the need to lift the cover, priced at RM159. Units are available on both 11th street and HTC retail stores.
Flagship Sidekick
The RM1000-RM2000 budget range smartphones are aplenty, those looking a premium phone without coughing out too much of their savings are the pickiest lot. Criteria, are most often specifications, they want high quality components, great camera and conscious to design and outlook of the device. In other words they want a flagship model at a budget price range.
While the HTC 10 might be out of reach for some, those looking a compatible worthy can consider the HTC One X9, the One series follows the delectable offerings found on the One A9 launched not to long ago.Taking cues from the company’s metalmorphics philosophy, One X9 retains the all metal combination and gives the phone a luxe feel. Keeping to the theme it comes in- Gold and Grey.
Slender Beauty
Before we publish the full review of the phone, here a brief overview, slender and slim the One X9 comes at 75.9mm in size, with 5.5-inch full HD screen and a 13MP rear camera with second-generation Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) with Real-time anti-shake functionality. The front is a 5MP camera, with integrated Auto Selfie, Voice Selfie and Live Make Up. There is also the RAW format’s one button enhancement feature which automatically brightens colors and sharpens edges with one push, and other imaging tools commonly used by professional photographers such as Pro Mode and an advance manual control.
Running on Android, 6.0 Marshmallow with Google Now on Tap and Google Backup for Apps is available, sound quality on the device is traditionally of good performance with BoomSound intergrating Dolby Surround.
Available from August onwards, HTC One X9 will retail for RM1,499.
