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HTC’s Desire EYE Might Be the Ultimate Smartphone for Selfie Addicts


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A duckface has never looked so pretty.

 

HTC has just unveiled the Desire EYE, a smartphone geared specifically toward helping you take your best and highest resolution selfies possible.

 

To accomplish this, HTC has outfitted the Desire EYE with 13-megapixel cameras on both the front and rear. Usually, the rear camera of a phone takes much higher quality shots than the front-facing camera; on the Desire EYE, the front-facing camera will take high-quality stills and video, too.

 

That’s not all, though, as the Desire EYE’s front camera also gets a wide-angle 22 mm lens to help fit as many friends in your selfies as possible. The front camera even gets its own flash, making it one of very few smartphones whose front camera has one.

 

That’s serious selfie love.

 

Available only on AT&T in the United States, the Desire EYE is being positioned just below HTC’s critically acclaimed flagship smartphone, the One M8, which sells for $199 with a two-year contract. That means the Desire EYE will likely cost between $99 and $150 on contract.

 

Still, the EYE gets many of the same goodies as the M8, with the exception of its gorgeous aluminum body.

 

Plastic but pretty

Even though it’s priced lower than the top-of-the-line M8, the Desire EYE is still, if you’ll excuse the pun, quite the looker. The handset is surprisingly sleek and slim.

 

Sporting a white paint job with orange accenting around its edges, the Desire EYE features a plastic chassis that still manages to feel sturdy. What’s more, HTC says the EYE is splash-proof. So you’ll be able to get it a little wet without worrying about it giving up the ghost. Just don’t try taking it into the pool.

 

Like the One M8, the Desire EYE gets HTC’s excellent BoomSound front-facing speakers, which I found offer the best-sounding external audio of any smartphone on the market.

 

But whereas the M8’s speakers stand out thanks to their large grilles, the Desire EYE’s are more low-key.

 

Located in small gaps above and below the EYE’s display, HTC says the speakers will offer all the sound of the One M8’s, while helping to cut down on the handset’s size.

 

Like the M8, the EYE also gets a 1***p display, though at 5.2 inches, the EYE’s screen is a bit larger than the M8’s 5-incher. Still, image quality will likely be comparable between the two handsets. Videos and text should appear exceptionally colorful and crisp.

 

While most smartphone makers tend to neuter their midrange devices a bit, HTC has given the Desire EYE the same processor and amount of RAM as the One M8, which means performance should be the same across the devices.

 

The Desire EYE, does, however, come with just 16 GB of storage compared with the One M8’s 32 GB, though both phones support up to 128 GB microSD cards. As with the One M8, the Desire EYE will also run on Google’s Android KitKat operating system and feature HTC’s Sense interface.

 

HTC EYE Suite

But enough about the body of the phone: What’s really interesting about the Desire EYE are its two cameras. To make sure you take advantage of the handset’s selfie camera, HTC has loaded the EYE with its new HTC EYE Suite camera software.

 

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Included with the HTC EYE Suite are five photo settings, including Split-Screen Capture, Photo Booth, Crop-Me-In, Selfie Mode, and Pan 360. Split-Screen Capture lets you take 13-megapixel photos with both the front and rear cameras at the same time, while Photo Booth lets you take four consecutive images and saves them like a photo-booth strip.

 

Crop-Me-In uses the front camera to take a live image of the shooter and, in real time, put him into the scene photo being taken with the rear camera. Selfie Mode is meant to help you put your best duckface forward, by using the phone’s front 13-megapixel camera to capture photos. The Desire EYE’s Pan 360 mode, meanwhile, lets you take a 360-degree panorama.

 

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Selfies aside, the Desire EYE’s most intriguing use case has to be its ability to improve video chatting with your smartphone. Thanks to its face-tracking technology, you won’t have to hunch over your handset to ensure that your face is in the frame.

 

What’s more, if you and a colleague sit in front of the Desire EYE while video chatting, the handset will detect both of your faces and crop you closer together so you’re both in the frame.

 

If you’re feeling a bit envious of future Desire EYE owners, fear not. HTC says it will be making its HTC EYE Suite available for download in both the Google Play store and Apple’s App Store.

 

Outlook

HTC has not announced pricing for the Desire EYE, but the company did say that AT&T stores would have the handset in time for the holiday season. So should you put the Desire EYE on your shopping list? Stay tuned for our full review to find out.

 

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