If you've been too busy with the latest EDM club anthem to
answer, HTC's latest mid-ranger might be the right phone for you. The Desire 10
lifestyle excels the sound above all else - everything but the price. It's a £
250 phone that does not overcharge the competition, but it has been doubled to
the speakers and pushed into a high-quality DAC that plays well with Hi-Res
audio.
Is that enough to look beyond a simple screen and entry-level
performance? I rocked myself last week to find out.
HTC DESIRE 10 LIFESTYLE
AUDIO:
The ad may be just like that, but the lifestyle does not hit
the audio department - no matter whether you're listening to headphones or the
phones own speakers. That's because it packs booming sound, with a tweeter on
top and a woofer on the bottom that separates high and low frequency audio for
music closer to your home stereo than anything you've just pulled out of your
pocket, each speaker also has its own amplifier. Yes, you can really raise the
volume and hear from the other side of the room - it's impressively loud. OK,
so "subwoofer" will not worry the neighbors, but you'll notice the
improvement over most other phones.
HTC has also added Dolby Audio to dynamically match your
music through the 24-bit DAC. If you have an HTC headset, the tone signature is
automatically adjusted. But before you moan, if you want to use the duff-pair
of bundled buds, you should know that the set you get with the lifestyle is
really damn good and offers a much better audio quality than any other freebie pair.
There's a remarkable sharpness in lifestyle that I did not even get to other
phones with the same headset. Audiophiles may find it too far away from this
indispensable, neutral sound, but it has done a great job in resuming the
YouTube uploads of old 90s Rave tape packs with a bit of bite.
HTC DESIRE 10 LIFESTYLE
PERFORMANCES:
The lifestyle is not just a (subjective) pretty face. It's
also very flexible, with a fully customizable freestyle interface that makes
the phone your own. Everything can be changed: not just wallpapers and
ringtones, but also icon types, fonts and layouts. Nor are they limited to the
premade designs of HTC. You can download themes created by other users and even
create and upload your own.
Apart from a few wake-up movements that open certain apps
from hibernation when you tap or swipe in a certain way, Android Marshmallow is
also relatively storable - a big change for HTC. It is a pity that it feels a
bit sluggish due to the entry-level CPU the show is running on. Normally you will
find the quad-core Snapdragon 400 in cell phones under $ 200, but here he is in
a middle ranger who has a hard time keeping up. You get either 2GB or 3GB of
RAM (depending on whether you need 16GB or 32GB of storage space), but even our
higher capacity model was not that fast. Sure, you can skip through the home
screens with no noticeable delay, but intense games like Asphalt 8 feel heavy,
and Chrome felt sluggish when a few dozen tabs were open. The low-power CPU did
not really help extend battery life. At the end of a long day outside the home
you will be looking at a blank phone, with the lifestyle at home dropping off
regularly.
HTC DESIRE 10 LIFESTYLE
CAMERAS:
Due to previous experience, I did not expect to be blown away
by Lifestyle's rear-view camera. There is no laser autofocus like the Desire 10
Pro, and the number of pixels does not hang at 20 MP, but at 13 MP. You get
even a basic LED flash - there is no two-color. This means that low-light shots
are hard or flashy with the flash.
It can record 1080p video at 30 frames per second, but not
4K. The results are passable for Facebook, but with one of these movies, no
Action Epics are turned. The 5MP selfie camera in the front area is equally
walkable and can jump digitally in live make-up mode on the slaps. However, it
can be a bit aggressive - softer or you may end up looking like a mannequin.
The camera app from HTC is also annoying. There is no manual
mode, no RAW recording, no filters to play with or even slow motion video. The
HDR mode adds one or two seconds to each photo - just enough to be annoying and
you want to disable it altogether. It's too slow to cope with fast moves, and
blurry parts are added to your footage when multiple shots are put together.
However, adding a dynamic range to still images is a decent task. If you are
not in a hurry, it is still worth a try.
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