HTC Still Exists - Desire 21 Pro 5G Unboxing By C4ETech

Long ago, once upon a time, HTC used to be the go-to brand for android phones, but over the years their presence has faded away to a point where you could say it's almost non-existent now. Can you believe it's been almost five years since I last covered a HTC phone here on c4e-tech? Now it really doesn't feel that long, but it actually is now. When I started this channel, it was mostly Samsung and HTC. HTC was my second priority, believe it or not, but things have changed a lot, but today we're gonna. You know, turn back the clock. A little go back to HTC and check out their latest release their first phone launch for 2021.

This is the HTC desire, 21 pro 5g and in this video we're going to unbox it and see what HTC is up to these days: hey guys ash here from c4etech and if you do end up liking. What you see here subscribe turn on notifications by hitting that bell icon. Let's begin, we've got a black box with the branding up top the color options are present to the sides, nothing here, the regular information sticker to the bottom. This indicates that we have an 8 gig ram, 128, gig storage variant, there's more branding to the top and the usual phone highlights to the back. Hey, it's been so long since we've seen that green HTC logo, I can't believe, I'm actually being so nostalgic here, I'm having flashes of the best HTC phones, I've covered running through my head now.

Can you guys actually identify any of these anyway? If you do, let me know in the comments: let's not continue, here's my prop knife cutting through the plastic and peeling it off moment of truth, our first HTC phone in ages. It is here the desire21 pro it's the first thing you see. Let's get back to the phone, though in a moment. What else do we have, of course, there's the sim ejector pen IMEI stickers and then the regular literature how to pop a cement, the warranty information and all that that is followed by an 18 watt travel adapter? And yes, this is included in the box. That seems to be fast becoming an actual pro worth mentioning sad as it might be levied.

Next we have a standard, USB type c, cable and a not so standard pair of earphones. This feels a little too light. I'd even say cheap, but given it's in the box can't really complain. Ear pods style with a type c connector so seems to be no headphone jack, and it is now time for us to remove the protective plastic of the HTC desire, 21 pro 5g man. That is a mouthful anyway.

Getting the phone out this back. It looks quite nice. We have golden accents around the camera. The power key is also in that same golden color, this power key. It has a fingerprint scanner built in seemingly it's HTC's.

First, such implementation other placements include a speaker, USB type c port and primary microphone to the bottom. A hybrid tray to the left up top. We just have the secondary noise-cancelling microphone and hey the volume buttons are present to the right above that power key. We also get another biometric authentication option in the selfie camera, which is present in this whole punch. This is a 16 megapixel sensor and, as you can see, it does seem to do quite well sharp and crispy shots.

The skin tones are on point even with the light coming from behind the subject. It seems to perform well around and beneath this camera is a 6.7 inch IPS LCD panel. The aspect ratio is 20 by 9 and the resolution full HD plus, so the pixel density is almost 400 pixels per inch quite respectable. The colors are vivid, especially for a consoled panel. This is bright enough, so that shooting outdoors was not a problem.

I could easily see the screen. The refresh rate is 90 hertz, pretty smooth, whether you're moving around the UI or playing a game that supports high refresh you're gonna, have a smooth experience here now. Another important aspect of having a smooth experience is the hardware inside so does the desire21 pro? Have the hardware drops to back it up it seemingly do we have a snapdragon 690 chips running the show, and it managed to keep pushing the necessary pixels without any stutters? Even the user interface was pleasant to use. I mean this part made me a little sad to be honest to me. HTC has always been a sense UI.

No more, though we get stock, android seriously, you're crippling about stock android, 10 wine wine wine next things I know you're going to be starting your videos with hi there. This is no, don't apologies guys. I don't know why this keeps happening. I am so sorry what I meant was: yes, I'm happy to see stock android, but in a weird way, I'm also a little sad because I'm nostalgic, I do miss HTC sense back when android wasn't. This polished sense was one of the most polished skins and greatly refined the android experience.

Now this almost feels like Xiaomi. Without me. Okay, I mean that would actually be a good thing if they didn't voluntarily screw it up this time. I actually agree with mini me here anyway, back to HTC, we get eight gigs of ram 128 gigs of storage and by the way, what is the snapdragon 690? If that's the that's the question in your minds, well, I'm going to try to explain here uh. Let's take a look at how it stacks up against the other premium, midrange ship, the snapdragon, 765 g, it's a little confusing, but I'm going to try to do the best job I can start with 5g the 765 g.

It supports both sub 6 gigahertz and millimeter wave 5g. The 690 only supports sub 6 gigahertz, so it doesn't have as wide as support for 5g, and it also comes with slower upload speeds, so one gigabit per second is the theoretical max on the 765 g. Here it's 200 Mbps, but hey it's not like. We are seeing speeds anywhere close to 200 Mbps. So you know, even in UAE, with 5g uh, we haven't seen that kind of speed.

So uh, that's just an on paper thing with performance, though the 690 is an eight nanometer chip. The 765g is seven nanometers. The clock speeds are not as high as with the 765 g, but the cores themselves are very different. Now both chips have eight cores and that's where the similarities end. The 690 has a two plus six combos, two, 77 cores with six a55 based cores Qualcomm calls these the cry 560.

The 765g, on the other hand, has a one plus six combination. So first we have a prime, a 76 core clocked very high. Then one performance core, that's clocked a little lower and again six a55 cores all clocked 100 megahertz higher than what's on the 690. Qualcomm calls these cry 475 cores. Do note that the a77 cores on the 690 they are the successor to the a76 cores on the 765g, and they're supposed to bring performance improvements.

So where does that leave us I'd, say in a very, very weird place because on one hand, the 690? It's got the older manufacturing process, lower clocks, but newer technology with the 765g you've got a newer manufacturing process. Higher clock speeds all around, but older technology. Now this is all theory in practice. Well, initial impressions, like I said, they've, been fine. If I do end up reviewing this phone I'll have more to say, uh in regard to final performance, and now, let's get to the one area of the interface that HTC still tinkers around with the cameras and this I actually wasn't a huge fan of actually one thing over here.

You see this. You see how we get to ultra white. This is what happens with a lot of a lot of phones. Can't do that with HTC, though you can crop in by tapping on this, but for ultrawide you got to go here and choose it as a separate mode. It's quite annoying.

To be honest. Anyway, the hardware we get four sensors to the back, a primary 48, megapixel, f, 1.8, 8, megapixel, f, 2.2, ultra-wide and two 2 megapixel macro and depth sensors that are just making up the numbers, the pictures they turned out. Quite nice, under good light, they were crisp. I especially like the dynamic range there's, a slight color difference between the primary and secondary, which I did not like indoors the primary sensor. It continues to do well, while they also wear in typical mid-range fashion, entirely falls apart now before we wrap this up.

Let's return to the build, I did kinda get sidetracked. Despite the use of plastic, the desire21 pro weighs in above 200 grams 205, to be precise, the reason HTC they've crammed in a 5 000 William hour battery, so I expect battery life to be excellent, but this also means the phone's 9.4 millimeters thick. So it doesn't feel very sleek. Add to the fact that the backs plastic- and you end up with a very generic feeling phone, how the mighty have fallen in the past HTC used to have the best built-in designs and while there's nothing particularly wrong with this belt, there are no creaks, no wobbles' hell. The matte plastic back is better than a lot of other implementations, but the design is so run-of-the-mill that I can't help but feel a little underwhelmed by it anyway.

As of now, the desire21 pro 5g is only available in Taiwan and the price is uh 11 990, new Taiwan dollar that converts to about 425 us dollars uh or about 31 000, Indian rupees. That seems to be a little on the higher side for what's on offer, but hey the value of this phone, isn't what uh we are actually looking at with this video. What we are looking at is HTC and what they're up to right now. So what do you guys think about it? Do you feel this is a nice little mid-ranger? Do you think HTC has any chances of making a comeback, or do you think they should be doing things differently, sound off in the comments below? Let's talk, all things HTC there and with that it is time for me to bid you at you. We are at the end of this video thumbs up thumbs down, based on whatever you felt about it.

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