HTC Desire Eye review

The ultimate selfie-phone?

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HTC Desire Eye review
The camera to tap into your soul, attached to the front

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HTC Desire Eye review

A daytime shot on full auto reveals a lot of noise around the background and an overly white picture

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The same shot with HDR mode enabled gives a better colour contrast - note that the sky is now blue rather than white

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Night time shots with auto settings pick up very little by way of detail

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There's only a small improvement with night mode enabled, the outline of the trees and the ground is now visible

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This low light outdoors shot suffers from a lack of contrast

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Another low light shot, this time inside, fares better

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There's plenty of detail, even if the contrast isn't great

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HTC has included plenty of filters for you to play with

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Without HDR mode enabled, colours look washed out and the background noise bleeds over the picture

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The same image with HDR enabled

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The panorama mode is cool, but as you'd expect - detail takes a hit

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Selfies capture plenty of detail and brightness, but contrast suffers as a result

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Here's the split selfie mode. It's fun, but not much more than a gimmick. Again, skin tone looks very white

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Jeff Parsons
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