Camera

HTC has struggled in previous years to produce a high quality smartphone camera that competes with the best. The HTC U Ultra represents a step in the correct management, and although the camera hither isn't as adept as yous'll find in the Google Pixel, iPhone seven or Milky way S7, it's good enough for typical day to day usage.

The U Ultra comes with a 12-megapixel "Ultrapixel two" rear sensor with 1.55μm pixels, fastened to an f/one.eight lens. In that location's also optical epitome stabilization, plus a combined PDAF and laser-assisted autofocus solution. On the front is a 16-megapixel with an f/2.0 lens. 4K video recording is included on this device.

At that place are some really solid aspects to this camera. I was very impressed with the level of item provided by its 12-megapixel images, especially when viewing 100% crops. HTC's image processing reduces noise without causing a massive loss in fine detail, which can be an upshot on some competing cameras. There'south no oil painting effect seen here, and that'due south a fantastic result for a relatively depression megapixel rear camera.

Colors produced by this camera are accurate, and the U Ultra meters well to avoid even subtle wrong tones. If anything, images captured in adept lighting are a little underexposed, though for the most part the U Ultra is a 'what you lot see is what yous get' camera. What you lot won't become is vibrant or well saturated images like you will find from the Pixel Forty or Milky way S7, and these types of images tend to be more sharable. U Ultra images crave a scrap of editing before you send them to your social media accounts if you lot want those beautiful, if slightly unrealistic shots.

The U Ultra has an automatic HDR mode, only it's quite slow compared to the regular fast shutter. Whether the U Ultra is capturing HDR shots or non, dynamic range is weak in general, and several steps behind the Pixel XL and other competitors. Indoor shots in particular tin can suffer from minor amounts of washing out; this has been an upshot for a number of HTC cameras in the past.

Depression low-cal performance is impressive: the U Ultra produces vibrant, bright night time images thanks to its large pixels and wide aperture. Shots in these conditions have surprisingly low amounts of noise, and OIS reduces mistiness for the most part. It'southward just when you lot move into very dark environments that y'all can capture somewhat blurry images, but even then it's not a huge bargain, and these images are probably besides dark to utilize anyway.

The front facing camera is decent, by and large due to its high resolution, and information technology produces expert selfies in both strong and depression lite. sixteen megapixels is probably overkill for selfies and I'd prefer to encounter larger pixels than a larger resolution here, but information technology's difficult to mutter about the actual results provided by the U Ultra.

The camera app included with this phone is decent, with a sensible layout and easy access to the camera's primary features. Thanks to phase detection and laser autofocus, the U Ultra tin can focus chop-chop, though certainly not every bit fast as the Galaxy S7. I'one thousand pleased to see HTC has included a total manual mode hither, which really should be seen in every high-stop phone these days.