HTC yesterday announced the launch of its next flagship, the HTC 10. However, for the Indian market the Taiwanese company has announced a cheaper variant of the phone called HTC 10 Lifestyle which has all the features of HTC 10 but comes with a low end chipset. HTC has however not revealed the price and availability details of HTC 10 Lifestyle in India. The HTC 10 has the Snapdragon 820 quad core Processor while the HTC 10 Lifestyle has the less efficient Snapdragon 652 octa core processor.
Like the HTC 10, the Lifestyle version also comes with latest Android Marshmallow operating system and has the HTC Sense user interface. It also has 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of internal storage, expandable storage slot as well that can hold a micro SD card of up to 2 TB capacity and a Super LCD5 display with Quad HD (2560X1440 pixels) resolution and Corning Gorilla Glass as the HTC 10.
But the highlight of both HTC 10 and the Lifestyle variants are their cameras – they have a 12 megapixel rear camera that comes with Laser Auto focus, BSI sensor, Optical Image Stabilisation, f1.8 aperture, Sapphire lens, dual tone LED flash light, Auto HDR, and manual mode feature. This camera can capture 4K videos. For selfies, the phones are armed with 5 megapixel front camera which too is an Autofocus unit and has BSI sensor, f1.8 aperture, Auto HDR and Optical Image Stabilisation feature.
The HTC 10 Lifestyle, which weighs 161 grams, has a nano SIM card slot and offers 4G connectivity. It has NFC, Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi (ac), DLNA, and GPS with GLONASS and Beidou. It also comes with HTC Boomsound, Dolby Audio, Hi-Res earphones, three microphones for noise cancellation, 3.5 mm jack, USB type C port, and a 3000 mAh battery that has Quick Charge 3.0 technology.
It has also a lot of Sensors including fingerprint sensor, Ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, Motion G sensor, Compass, Gyro sensor and magnetic sensor. It has been announced in golden, grey and silver colours.