HTC has unveiled the new HTC 10 evo smartphone in Taiwan. The new HTC 10-series smartphone has been also listed on the company's UK site. The HTC 10 evo is the global variant of the Sprint-exclusive HTC Bolt which was launched recently in the US.
Much like the HTC Bolt, the HTC 10 evo will be available in Gunmetal, Silver, and Gold colours. The smartphone is now available to pre-order in Taiwan from the company's E-Store. It has been priced at TWD 17,990 (approximately Rs. 38,500) for the 32GB variant while the 64GB variant has been priced at TWD 19,900 (approximately Rs. 43,000). The company website confirms that the HTC 10 evo will start shipping in Taiwan from November 28. Unfortunately, there is no word when the smartphone will be available in UK, or mention of its UK pricing.
While the company hasn’t mentioned anything about India launch, the smartphone has already been listed on HTC India website. HTC is widely expected to launch the Desire 10 Pro in India on November 24, and there are chances wherein the company might as well announce the HTC 10 evo.
One of the biggest highlights of the HTC 10 evo is it packs USB Type C-enabled headphones. The HTC 10 evo smartphone also comes with support for HTC BoomSound Adaptive Audio.
HTC 10 evo specifications and features
The smartphone flaunts a 5.5-inch QHD (1440x2560pixels) Super LCD 3 display with 2.5D curved glass on top and Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection. Under the hood, the HTC 10 evo is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 octa-core SoC clocked at 2GHz, paired with Adreno 430 GPU and 3GB of RAM. It’s quite surprising why HTC decided to go with the dated and controversial Snapdragon 810 SoC with thermal issues, while it could have gone with the much-refined Snapdragon 820 SoC. To recall, the Snapdragon 810 chipset had drawn severe criticism for over-heating issues. Samsung took a logical step in skipping the chipset on its Galaxy S6-range and Galaxy Note 5, and used its homebrew Exynos 7740 SoC instead.
With 32GB / 64GB of onboard storage, the HTC 10 evo also comes with a microSD card slot for further expansion. In the photography department, it is equipped with a 16-megapixel rear snapper with 29.3mm wide angle lens, f/2.0 aperture, PDAF, optical image stabilization (OIS) and dual-LED flash. The rear camera also supports 4K video recording and 120fps slow motion video recording capabilities. Up front, the smartphone houses an 8-megapixel selfie camera with support for HD video recording.
The HTC 10 evo is armed with a 3,200mAh battery along with support for Quick Charge 2.0 for fast charging. Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC and USB Type-C port for charging and data transfer. The handset sports fingerprint scanner below the display which is claimed to unlock the device in just 0.2 seconds. This phone is water, splash and dust resistant, in fact it has an IP57 rating. On the software front, the smartphone runs Android 7.0 Nougat wrapped under HTC’s Sense UI.
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