Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has made significant strides in the development of its handsets particularly its flagship series.
Its latest flagship smartphone, the HTC One M9, is also excellent in terms of features and specifications which make it at par with the current flagships of other big name brands like Samsung and Apple.
Admittedly however, the cameras of HTC phones are always not as excellent as its other features. Many consider it as the chink in HTC’s armor.
The company actually recognizes the subpar quality of its camera in its latest flagship that is why it rolled out a software update to its HTC One M9 in the middle of April supposedly to fix the camera issues.
When the software update was released last month to the HTC One M9, it was initially for the US but the company said that it will eventually roll out to similar handsets in other countries.
Still a disappointment
Despite claimed improvements in the camera of the HTC One M9 by way of software upgrade, BGR reported that the smartphone’s camera was still a disappointment when compared to the other flagship handsets.
During a recent blind camera shootout of several different Android phones conducted by Android Authority, the HTC One M9 was never in real contention at all.
Android Authority used the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, the HTC One M9 and two different Huawei smartphones for its blind camera shootout comparisons, and the end result was that the Taiwanese smartphone maker’s flagship did not top any of the categories at all, although it did manage to tie for the best in one of them.
Comparing the different pictures taken by the four phones, it was quite easy for Android Authority to recognize right away which ones were taken by the HTC One M9. The pictures taken by the HTC flagships had the dullest colors, worst resolution, and lowest contrast.
To the many users of HTC smartphones, they can easily pass this off as the downside of their handset which is compensated nonetheless by the other superb and unique features of the HTC One M9.
But to the experts in the industry and have been in the business long enough, they really find it intriguing why the quality of smartphone cameras of HTC remains far behind when all the rest of the major handset makers have already made significant strides in improving the snappers in their respective smartphones.
The rather absurd part of it all is the fact that HTC always claims that it’s working to address the shortcomings of its cameras but thus far, there is hardly any major improvement at all that would seem to indicate that it is close to matching the top smartphone cameras in the world. It also comes off as rather a big disappointment that the HTC One M9 camera was even beaten by two Huawei smartphones.