After the indomitable HTC 10, the Taiwanese giants have now produced a smartphone of similar pedigree whose name will take some bashing to forget. Endorsed by the world’s fastest man and also named after him, the HTC Bolt (known as 10 evo internationally) is one heck of an smartphone. Let’s see if the HTC Bolt is superior to its namesake, Usain Bolt.

Build quality and display

The HTC 10 evo, is in many ways, similarly designed to HTC’s 2016 flagship, the HTC 10. One cannot point-out many differences between the two except for the fact that the HTC 10 evo’s LED flash is placed in a central position atop the smartphone’s back panel while the HTC 10’s LED flash flanks its primary sensor. The same sumptuous metallic design and a Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protected display panel, the Bolt is as premium as ever.

Its display features a large 5.5 inches Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen with 534ppi pixel density. This translates into a duper-crisp 1440p HD resolution that is sure to get your taste-buds in motion. Who’re we kidding? A 5.5 inches 1440p display is like owning a mini home theatre!

Cameras

Just like Samsung and Apple, the cameras department is where HTC never disappoints and the HTC 10 evo follows in those very same footsteps. Statistically, the smartphone features a large 16 megapixel feature-rich primary sensor that includes OIS, phase detection autofocus and a dual-LED flash. Trust us, the HTC 10 evo will simply not let you down on this one.

The selfie camera features an 8 megapixel sensor meaning that your video and photographic needs are very well guarded by the 10 evo on both fronts.

Hardware and software

The smartphone supports ample power under the hood. An Octa-Core processor with 3GB of RAM might not be the greatest quantity you’ve seen in a 2016 release but the 10 evo ensures its got more than enough to smoothly run the built-in Android Nougat (one of the first HTC phones to come-in with built-in Android Nougat).

32GB of internal storage is a plus while the smartphone houses all other necessary features such as a fingerprint scanner, Quick-Charge 2.0, IP57 dust and waterproofing, USB type-C and a 3200 mAh battery that make it a proper modern day smartphone