This review is after 4 days use of the device. First of all the outer look will beat any phone in the market, sleek, appropriately combined with colors ( Gold Sepia looks the best) . Display is very vibrant and everything appears real in the screen.
Second comes the Camera. No doubt a 20 MP camera does all the wonders required on daily life. Even there are certain modes which are available on DSLR cameras only.
Third comes the battery. 2800 MAH battery is enough for full day use even if you are a hardcore mobile user. Here are my own examples-
Day 1: - Received in the evening a 5 PM and when opened, the battery was 58 % . I switched on the phone, configured it with Wi-Fi and used continuously up to 10 PM via Wi-Fi only downloading the apps, doing personalization and transferring all the things from old phone and the battery left at 10 PM was 21 % .
Day-2: - Fully charged previous night and the battery remaining in the morning was 89 % then I started the day again at 8 AM with the same curiosity things on a new phone and kept 3G on permanently for whole day and using Whatsapp, Facebook, net surfing and at the end of the day at 5 PM, the battery remaining was 39% which lasted for whole night and needed charging in the morning.
Day-3: - started with 100 % battery at 7 AM and installed about 100 apps and configured all of them, watched videos, taken pictures, whatsapp was permanently on and 3G was also permanently on. Made my own themes and did various things not allowing the screen to be off even for a second i.e. used it continuously for 5 hours doing all the things and screen was kept open for 5 hours continuously without a blink of screen. Any other phone would have begged for charging and would have heated up to boiling point but this one left with 27 % battery and cool like was kept in AC. All these things were apart from the calls I received and dialed which is average 40 calls before noon and 40 after noon.
P.S. : - If you switch off data connection, you’ll wonder from where it’s operating i.e. battery is almost not at all used.
I don’t think anyone would require more rigorous use of phone than this. So you can be sure of battery lasting the day long irrespective of your field.
The features don’t need to be told as are already mentioned. Yes corrections are as below-
It’s a dual SIM phone not a single SIM
SD card support is up to 2 TB and not only 128 GB
The weight of the phone is 135 gm and not 150 gm
All these features are not available even on high budget phones up to 55 K so you should grab it for sure.
Cons: -
The phone is large in size and its because the bezel is much more. The size can be reduced by almost an Inch if HTC would have designed it precisely.
User Interface is not as much appealing as is in Samsung premium phones and LG premium phones. I was using LG G2 and I will still declare it a winner over E9+ on inner appearance of the phone.
HTC is giving a charger with 1 AMP adapter which will require about 2 and half hours to charge the phone to full. They should have given at least 2 AMP so that charging time could have been reduced to half.
Overall it’s a treat on 35 K. You won’t get such features in this budget and that too from a renowned company like HTC. So don’t think, just go for it.