Hands-on review: HTC One A9

By Gareth Beavis

What is HTC up to here? It’s had a flagship launch at roughly the same time for years – the HTC One ‘M’ series has been a long-held tradition.

Sure there have been variants, but none that could claim to be a real flagship rival to the big hitter. That’s all changed with the HTC One A9, which has a confusingly decent spec list and genuinely outperforms the HTC One M9, the company’s hero device, in a number of areas.

The main improvements are to the camera and the music player – well, they would be if HTC’s apps were on there. You see, this is a phone that’s been given the once-over by Google, it seems, as it’s one of the first to launch with Android 6 Marshmallow.

YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7WW5io2nvc

That means that HTC’s stripped back a number of the design elements that make up its Sense UI, with the idea being that the A9 offers a sleeker, faster and more Google-y experience than ever before.

That’s on top of an all new design language and a theoretically cheaper price point (more on that in a moment) …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Phones