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On the other hand, it gets RAW shooting and completely manual controls.Ī mixed bag on paper, perhaps, but HTC’s brilliantly simple camera app helps you get the best possible shots with the hardware. It’s got optical image stabilisation and a twin-LED flash, but misses out on laser autofocus. The Evo has 16MP rear camera, giving it the edge in terms of pixel count over the vanilla HTC 10, but is saddled with a smaller f/2.0 aperture lens instead of f/1.8. Right where you’re most likely to block it with your hands. The phone doesn’t have stereo speakers, either – just one, on the bottom of the phone. I thought everything sounded a bit too bass-heavy, even when playing high resolution tracks, so they might not match your own musical tastes. They can’t cancel out all noise, though, and you can’t tweak the settings at all. This works pretty well, giving your playlists some extra punch when the noise level creeps up around you. They plug in over USB-C, and use built-in microphones to analyse the ambient noise around you and adapt to it on the fly. Nope, you’ve got to make do with the bundled buds instead. If Apple taught us anything with the iPhone 7, it’s that a proprietary headphone port is annoying, but not the end of the world – as long as there’s an adapter in the box for using your existing cans. Yep, this is 2016, which can mean only one thing: HTC has ditched the headphone jack. The Evo might seem like music to your ears so far, but I’m about to throw a sonic spanner into the works. It’s handy, but I hate the persistent notification that refuses to go away until Night Mode switches off in the morning. That’ll come as good news to fidelity fans – neither the Samsung S7 or the iPhone 7 are quite so customisable.Īndroid N’s Night mode makes an appearance, cutting out blue light to help you sleep better after those late-night Candy Crush sessions. The HTC 10’s "Vivid" and "sRGB" colour profiles are gone, replaced with a colour temperature slider to get more fine-grain control over your image. If incredible contrast is a must, then an OLED phone should still be top of your priorities list. It sticks with a tried-and-tested LCD panel, rather than switch to OLED, so you know what to expect: crisp and bright colours that avoid becoming oversaturated, and very bright whites, but slightly milky blacks on account of the backlight. You won’t notice the slightly lower pixel density from arm’s length, so unless you need a magnifying glass to read your Whatsapps, pictures and text look perfectly sharp and detailed. The 5.5in panel is that little bit larger than the HTC 10’s 5.2in, stretching the same 2560×1440 resolution over slightly more screen space. HTC has given the EVO a display upgrade, too.