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HTC announced two image-focused products at its Double Exposure event on Wednesday: the RE action camera and the selfie-taking Desire Eye phone. Here are our hands-on impressions with the devices.
RE
The camera ends up compromising wearability in favor of ergonomics. The RE armband looked positively awkward on the event models, as if they had strapped a water pick on their arms while going out for a jog. The form factor also makes it less suitable for strapping to your head since it’s so long.
HTC has positioned the device as a mainstream alternative to the GoPro, and that’s a wise move. Of course, the fact that the Flip failed should serve as a cautionary tale for RE.
RE has two options for video recording: 1080p or 720p. Still photos can be taken in three resolutions: 16MP, 12MP and ~8MP. The camera has a normalize feature that mitigates the wide-angle distortion from the fisheye lens, or you can simply elect to turn the wide-angle mode off.
HTC had an array of accessories on display for the RE, including a hat band, suction mounts and lanyards.
The camera uses Bluetooth LE to establish the initial connection with your phone. From there, you can use Wi-Fi Direct to transfer photos. RE will also tap into Wi-Fi networks on its own to transfer content to the cloud if you so choose. In order to use the timelapse feature on the RE, you’ll need to trigger it via the iOS or Android app.
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The image quality is good, but not stunning. As Wednesday’s event showed, HTC is continuing to differentiate itself through interesting mobile photo use cases, such as RE and its new Zoe app. RE is a fun, casual device.
Desire Eye
If we’re all stuck taking selfies, we might as well take better ones. Desire Eye offers a dramatic improvement to your front-facing shots with its 13MP camera and dual-LED flash.
Normally a front-camera shot in those conditions would be extremely noisy, but the Desire Eye handled it well.
One concern is that HTC’s custom Eye Experience software is that these new features, while neat, are adding unnecessary complexity to the camera app. For instance, it’s not clear which of the new tools, such as the button-free “selfie mode,” needed to be toggled on.
The crop-and-scale feature to be gimmicky. It felt more like the kind of option you’d find in a photo sticker booth, as opposed to a handset.
There’s certainly a time and a place for advanced camera controls, but considering that the Desire line is meant to be mainstream, and the selfie features would appeal to nontechnical users, HTC is going to need to solve a UI issue here. Otherwise, new camera features will get buried and the phone’s unique selling points will be neglected.
The phone’s hardware design is fairly nondescript. Maybe it was the orange trim, but the device reminded me some of Xiaomi.
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