coverstory HIGH-END SMARTPHONES A CLASS Aprt HTC U11 SAMSUNG GALAXY S8 Price: `51,990/- SCORE PRICE: 6.9/10 Performance: 8.7/10 Price: `57,900/- Features: 8.4/10 Overall: SCORE 8/10 PRICE: 6.4/10 Performance: 9.1/10 Overall: he newest member of U family is here with top-notch specs to Features: 7.2/10 7.6/10 compete with its flagship rivals. The new HTC U11 looks chunky Tand snappy with its mirror finish on the back, but at the same f you ask for stunning device of the year 2017, then till date I would time it works like a fingerprint magnet. The phone feels luxurious while say its Samsung Galaxy S8. Having the round edges on the both sides, holding and has a solid build. Ithe phone boasts SAMOLED screen which produces vibrant colors. U11 hosts a 5.5 inch Super LCD5 capacitive touch screen which Whether you watch movies, play games or do anything, you will simply produces rich colors. Having the wide viewing angle and good amount love the screen. The back is protected by Corning gorilla glass, but it of brightness, it is perfect device to enjoy movies and games with your attracts smudges, which steals its beauty. In terms of brightness, it’s friends and family. perfect to use in almost every light condition, however, in direct sunlight, HTC U11 backed by a 12 MP camera at the back and 16 MP at the you might find a little difficult to read texts. front. The rear camera is good enough to capture images with decent At the back, it has 12 MP camera that captures amazing images in amount of details. It captures images with brilliant color and 4K video both day and night light conditions. Images comes out with popping colors recording is also impressive. The front shooter is perfect to capture and good amount of details. The low light images are also good with a bit selfies and groufies with good amount of details and vibrant colors. The grains. The front 8 MP shooter is perfect for both selfies and groufies. Using daylight images are perfect whoever a little noise can be seen in low light the rear camera you can also capture excellent quality 4k videos. clicks. Backed by top-notch hardware, the phone can perform almost The phone has top notch specs, meaning HTC tried to make it stand every task. Be it games or any other application, you would enjoy all out, and in real world performance it does the same. The phone handles of them without any visible glitches. The edges also has option to add everything easily. I installed some of the high graphics intensive games your favorite app shortcuts for easy access. However, on this many like Fifa, Asphalt, and Mortal Kombat, etc. I didn’t notice any visible can argument as few can like and few won’t find it that much useful. performance lag while playing or switching between them. The phone also comes a physical button Bixby assistant, which I think The phone is backed by a 3000 mAh battery, that allows you to use is placed at awkward location, as I pressed it many times accidently. the device for more than a day in moderate usage. In our video loop test Moreover, the Bixby is dud to me, as it just mimics Google Now. You will it lasted for about 7 hours and 52 see some news, reminders and videos. Also the fingerprint scanner is KEY SPECS: 5.5 inches Super minutes while playing video over placed with camera, which could be placed somewhere else as it was LCD5 capacitive touchscreen (1440x2560p), Corning Gorilla Glass WiFi with full brightness and volume. difficult to reach to scanner every time. 5, Android 7.1, Qualcomm MSM8998 The speakers deliver quite crisp Samsung Galaxy S8 is backed by 3000 mAh battery that can last Snapdragon 835, Octa-core (4x2.45 sound but not loud enough, if you with you for more than a day with GHz Kryo & 4x1.9 GHz Kryo), Adreno prefer playing games in the public KEY SPECS: 5.8-inch quad-HD 540 GPU, 128 GB ROM, expandable Infinity Display (SAMOLED), Samsung moderate usage. In our video loop up to 256 GB, 6 GB RAM, 12 MP, places, it can disappoint you. Exynos 8895, 4GB RAM, 64GB storage test it lasted for 13 hours and 25 f/1.7, camera with dual-LED flash, Bottomline: With the snappy (microSD up to 256GB), 3000mAh minutes while playing video over 16 MP, f/2.0 camera at front, Type-C design, the phone looks pretty cool battery, 12 MP rear and 8 Mp front 1.0 reversible connector, Li-Ion 3000 camera, Iris and fingerprint scanner, WiFi with full brightness and volume. mAh battery but attracts smudges which steals Android 7 Nougat Bottomline: Without a doubt, this PROS: Solid bulid, snappy design, the beauty of phone. Having the top- PROS: Excellent screen, beautiful is an excellent device in terms of excellent performance, camera notch specs, it can handle almost design, performance, camera performance, camera and battery CONS: Back attracts smudges, not anything and comes with good CONS: Awkward fingerprint sensor life. But two things are annoying placement, dud bixby so loud sound camera setup that lets you captures placement of fingerprint sensor and quality images. dud bixby. 28 PCQUEST JULY 2017 pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] shootout LG G6 ONEPLUS 3T Price: `41,990/- Price: `34,999/- SCORE PRICE: 8.4/10 Performance: 7.5/10 Features: 6.9/10 SCORE Overall: PRICE: 9.3/10 7.6/10 Performance: 7.3/10 Overall: Features: 7.3/10 8/10 ropping its LG G5 modular design the LG came up with its ith the tagline of ‘Never Settle’ OnePlus revamped its previous successor LG G6 with low bezel and 2880 x 1440 (2K) display. smartphone OnePlus 3 and comes with 3T. As you can guess DLet’s see what LG brings to our palm, and how the G6 stacks up Wfrom the name only, its upgraded ‘Turbo’ version of OnePlus 3 against its current and near-future competition. which is an amazing device. LG G6 has very attractive looks along very thin bezels that instantly There is no change in terms of build quality and design. It has an draws the eyes attention. The back of phone protected by Gorillas Glass ergonomic solid design which gives it a premium look and comfortable 5 while the front which is more important part of the phone is using the feel in your hand. The elite body holds 5.5-inch Optic AMOLED Full HD Gorilla Glass 3 The power button at back along fingerprint sensor is little screen with 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. The new screen is better bit tricky to use. The phone is water and dust resistant and has IP68 than the previous one with improved brightness, deep black levels, good rating. LG has opted for an 18:9 ratio display that provides a taller panel contrast ratio, and color reproduction. in a smaller body. It boasts a 16 MP camera at the rear, the snappy camera lets you The 5.7-inch display is not AMOLED the colors it delivers are vivid capture images with a whole lot of details and rich colors. We captured and have deep black. It’s the first phone with Dolby Vision support and images in both day and night, the daylight images come with vibrant HDR10-enabled too. Overall the display is awesome. colors and details, however, a little bit grains can be seen with low light Though G6 has 835 snapdragon processor and it is a fast phone images. The rear camera can capture videos up to 4K resolution. whether you are playing games such as Modern Combat and Asphalt The front 16 MP camera captures great selfies and groufies. Even the play or watching videos everything is smooth without a hitch or dropped low-light selfies come with the good amount of details and colors. frame. But few time it shows some lags in certain apps such as in True Surf the Internet, play games caller or Google Maps. KEY SPECS: 5.5-inch Optic watch movies and do many The G6 has two sensors of 13 MP along optical image stabilization and AMOLED Full HD capacitive other activities, it handles all the touchscreen with 1920x1080p wide viewing angle. Detail was excellent though there is a noticeable dip resolution and 401 PPI pixel density, apps easily without any visible in quality in low light, especially when using the wide-angle lens. There’s a OxygenOS based on Android 6.0.1 performance lag. I played games fairly standard 5 MP camera for selfies – and, of course, 4K video recording Marshmallow, Qualcomm Snapdragon like Asphalt 8, Fifa, NFS, and Mortal is supported as well. It is quite good 821 MSM8996 Pro (2.35 GHz) quad kombat simultaneously, expecting to core processor, Adreno 530 GPU, 6 KEY SPECS: 4 GB RAM, 64 GB too, and we were happy with the GB LPDDR4 RAM, 128 GB internal see a little graphics lag, but no luck. ROM, 5.7 inch 2K Display, Dual quality of photos. memory, 16 MP front and rear In one full charge it lasted for 13MP Rear Camera and 13MP Front The battery of LG G6 is 3300mAh, camera, 3400 mAh lithium-polymer more than a day. In our video loop Camera, 3300 mAh Battery, Android and in our video loop test it stands battery, NFC, Bluetooth 4.2, Reversible test, it lasted for 3 hours and 40 Nougat 7, 2.35 GHz Quad Core type-C connector Snapdragon 835 Processor for 5 hours 55 minutes.