HTC One max Review

HTC One max is a high-end Android cellphone released in October 2013, counting with a big size 5.9 inches display, an exceptional 1.7 gigahertz Quad-Core processing unit, a 4 megapixels back facing camera and a 2.1 MP front side camera.

HTC appears to have forgotten about weight optimization in this 7.65 oz cellphone. This cellphone is quite a compact cellphone, taking into account that it presents a 5.9 inches display and it is only 6.48 inches long and 3.25" wide. The HTC One max is slim and practical, while it's not close to being one of the thinnest devices you can find, with a thickness of 0.41". Talking about its construction quality, the HTC One max is mostly made with Aluminium, giving this cellphone a high quality finish.

HTC designed this cellphone with a incredible 5.9 inches screen, and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 (Full HD), which makes all images and videos look amazing. This screen uses S-LCD 3 capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

HTC decided to equip this cellphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 APQ8064T chip, including a great Quad-Core CPU running at 1700 megahertz and a great 2 GB RAM. Helping with graphic intensive tasks, this cellphone also uses an Adreno 320 graphic processing unit clocking at 400 megahertz. A good advantage of this phone is its big 32 GB internal storage memory and an SD memory slot, more than enough to install hundreds of applications without thinking about how much storage is left.

The HTC One max features two cameras, a 4 megapixels back facing camera and a 2.1 mega-pixels front side camera. Its back facing camera has a f/2 aperture so it can capture impressive pictures even in poor lighting situations. It is also able to capture Full HD 1920x1080 videos at 30 frames per second, and 1280x720 HD slow motion videos at 60 frames per second (2 times slower than reality). In addition, the camera features a couple of useful features: auto-focus, flash, digital image stabilization, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This device packs a 3300 mAh big capacity Li-Polymer non-replaceable battery, enough to provide this cellphone with an extremely long battery life. HTC reports a 393 hs stand by time and a 28 hs talk time for this cellphone. An issue to take into account is that this phone's battery is non-replaceable so you can't throw it away and buy a new one when it starts losing capacity, though with its 3300 mAh you will probably discard this cellphone before that happens.

The HTC One max provides wifi connection (and it can be provided to other devices acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G (LTE) great performance connectivity and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a bit slower 4G type and 3G fast connectivity, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone uses two Micro SIM cards so it's able to use two different phone numbers or carriers in the same cellphone and it can use both GSM and CDMA carriers.

This cellphone also includes a wide variety of great characteristics as Fingerprint Sensor, NFC, Infrared Port, Bluetooth and GPS, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope and Compass.

The HTC One max costs around $ 285, which is somewhat expensive for comparing with similar phones. It doesn't matter whether you want a phone to mainly use social networks, want a cellphone for playing games, you love taking photos or are looking for a cellphone for work, you will definitely love this phone.