HTC’s latest handset

NEW YORK: HTC is promising a better camera — along with refinements in audio and design — as it unveils its latest flagship phone, the HTC 10. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light. But the resulting 4MP images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20MP camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. The HTC 10 tries to strike a balance — larger individual pixels, but not as large as before. The camera is now 12MP, the same as the latest iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones.

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