HTC One A9 review

The iPhone with the brains of an Android

HTC One A9

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HTC One A9 review

Shooting straight into RAW mode shows the impressive camera prowess

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HTC One A9 review

While focus can be a little scattered it largely gets the fading right

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HTC One A9 review

The camera is particularly good in bright light for capturing detail, but struggles with brightness

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HTC One A9 review

In darker scenes, detail is preserved

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HTC One A9 review

Other phones have proven better in low light, but a lot of the detail is captured here

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HTC One A9 review

This photo is a lot more impressive than it seems, as it was captured while a train was travelling quickly

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HTC One A9 review

This photo used RAW enhancement to get a much better snap

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HTC One A9 review

Double exposure mode does actually work better here, but you need to play around with it and have pictures of a similar size.

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Gareth Beavis
Formerly Global Editor in Chief


Gareth has been part of the consumer technology world in a career spanning three decades. He started life as a staff writer on the fledgling TechRadar, and has grown with the site (primarily as phones, tablets and wearables editor) until becoming Global Editor in Chief in 2018. Gareth has written over 4,000 articles for TechRadar, has contributed expert insight to a number of other publications, chaired panels on zeitgeist technologies, presented at the Gadget Show Live as well as representing the brand on TV and radio for multiple channels including Sky, BBC, ITV and Al-Jazeera. Passionate about fitness, he can bore anyone rigid about stress management, sleep tracking, heart rate variance as well as bemoaning something about the latest iPhone, Galaxy or OLED TV.