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Mar 31, 2014  I started with the HTC One M7. I loved it many times more than the Samsung Galaxy S4 that I had before. When I saw Verizon had the HTC One Max T6 I decided to give it a try. Great choice! I love the phone. The Finger print scanner works fine for me. Everything else is pretty much the same as you get on the HTC One M7 but with a larger screen. Insert a card into the phone memory slot. Turn on your HTC One Max in Bootloader mode. Wait until your One Max has read the memory card and wait for it ask if you want to update phone firmware. Press the Volume Up button and the flash process will start. Do nothing until the process is finished. The One Max phone may restart a few times before. Why the HTC One Lacks a Micro SD Slot. Yesterday 12:10PM. The version of the HTC One sold in the US lacks an SD card slot due to internal space restrictions.

The HTC One is great. Months after launch, its aluminum body and incredible display continued to impress. Launched with then cutting-edge silicon and an innovative, if not universally loved, approach to Android skinning, it made HTC a hot topic, again. Nearly a year after its launch, it still elicits feelings of covetousness and envy whenever you see one. So you might expect similar levels of excitement in the lead up to our review of its successor, the HTC One Max, no? No.

The biggest compliment that can be paid to the One Max is that it is so much like its predecessor. The sophomore effort for the rejuvenated team at HTC takes a great phone, makes it bigger, and lessens it in the process.

Design, display, and build

The first leaked shots of the One Max looked like a cheap knock-off sold by a Hong Kong street vendor. The overall appearance was right; the HTC logo on the back, the BoomSound (God, help us) speakers up front. But the speakers weren’t lined up properly, and the back was removable. The finger print sensor sat like a wart on the back, and the whole thing just seemed ill-thought. This couldn’t really be the work of the same firm that made us fall in love with HTC all over again? Could it?

It seems, yes.

The HTC One Max is stretched awkwardly in all directions. The added real estate makes room for a larger battery (natch) and the aforementioned fingerprint sensor. The screen balloons to 5.9 inches, diagonally. The back of the device pops off, courtesy of a chintzy switch on the left side of the handset. The power button now resides midway up the right side, below the volume rocker. The top retains the IR blaster and the headphone jack. The microUSB port remains on the bottom, now shifted to the right.

Pop off that rear cover and you'll reveal the microSIM slot and microSD card, though no removable battery is offered. I found the microSIM tray solution of the One perfectly adequate and would be happy to never handle a microSD card again. As such, the removable back is wasted volume, to me. But if you’re one to cart around an epic library of music and several seasons of all your favorite shows, then you’ll appreciate the addition.

The HTC One was an all-aluminum unibody, with plastic accents. The One Max is a plastic unibody with aluminum accents. The solution doesn’t lose any rigidity for the switch, but it does lose a certain cachet. The aluminum body was sleek to the touch and solid, with no creaks, gaps, or coarse edges. The One Max’s rear cover never seats properly, so when you hold it there’s squishiness and a rough edge where it gaps. The chamfered aluminum edges of the One are replaced with chamfered plastic, losing a pleasantly cool and sharp tactile experience.

The display doesn't suffer for being stretched. Maintaining the 1080p resolution ensures a respectable pixel density, and the colors are brilliant without being over saturated. Such a large display makes for an excellent media experience, and games certainly look good. But that size has a price.

Software, usability, and camera

Sense 5 brought us BlinkFeed, the newsfeed home screen hybrid. As divisive as Android skins can be, BlinkFeed at least approached the problem with an eye toward function, rather than simply cramming as many widgets on the screen as possible. For many, though, the solution fell flat. Sense 5.5 is the latest iteration, now running Android 4.3, but mostly leaving the user experience intact. BlinkFeed remains, and the gallery software now features some tweaks.

Utterly absent in Sense 5.5 is any concession to the sheer size of the One Max. One-handed operation is almost entirely out of the question. Reaching the opposite side of the screen with my thumb was an exercise in stretching, and the notification shade was an impossible reach. Two-handed operation is hardly spared any awkwardness. Two hands in portrait feels top-heavy, while two hands in landscape involves stretching to reach the middle of the screen. It's as if the software team didn't even know the One Max was happening.

The camera is bundled just as in the original One, pairing the excellent UltraPixel camera with innovative software solutions like HTC Zoe. The faults and successes of the One’s UltraPixel camera are transferred intact to the One Max. Dark scenes are remarkably well photographed, if just a little low-resolution. Well-lit or daytime shots look muddled and noisy.

And then there’s that wart on the back. The addition of a fingerprint sensor to Motorola’s Atrix 4G in 2010 was an effort to bolster enterprise cred. On the Apple iPhone 5S the addition was unobtrusive. Adding it to the HTC One is just a shame.

Coming in just below the rear camera, the sensor is high enough that swiping it with an index finger while holding it with one hand feels awkward. Security conscious users might appreciate the feature, but the awkwardness of the swiping motion made even long passcodes a faster way to access the phone.

There’s also just no good argument for including an added security feature. This isn’t a corporate or enterprise-centric device. HTC isn’t in the middle of bulking up its sales among institutions; it's in the middle of bulking up its sales among anyone. The number of users that would be compelled by a fingerprint sensor seems so thin as to make the effort a wasted one.

Performance and silicon

The greatest disservice to potential buyers of the One Max is the silicon. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600 graced the inside of the HTC One, and it was lightning quick. But now it’s several months later, and the Snapdragon 800 eclipsed that earlier chip ages ago, and the 805 is right around the corner. An updated SoC would have gone a long way to making this handset feel like more than an afterthought. Performance is unsurprising, so we'll bundle all our benchmarks into one gallery set.

In the end, the HTC One Max echoes the performance of the One and stays a few steps behind the rest. No surprise, at all. This seems like a misstep on HTC’s part, though in use the phone remains just as smooth as the One. The reality is that our desire for better hardware has as much to do with making this phone a justified effort as it is about better performance. Why bother releasing it if you weren't going to do anything with it?

Filling that big body is an enormous 3,300mAh battery. Large displays can be a real drag on battery life, but the modest silicon and large battery ensure great battery life. The One Max does lose out to LG's G2, though, despite the latter's faster silicon.

Conclusion

HTC isn’t wrong to want to offer a lineup that includes normal sized phones and big phones. And if the One Max had been released, as-is, alongside the One, we’d offer little objection. It wasn't, though. This could have been a result of supply constraints, manufacturing issues, lean design resources, or countless other delays. Regardless, the One Max is, ironically, too little, too late.

If you’re looking for an oversized Android phone, you could do worse than the One Max. But you could also do better. Samsung’s Galaxy Note 3 attempts to justify its size through a bundled stylus and modified software. The LG G2 innovates in design and layout and uses software to enable different use paradigms for the screen size. The HTC One Max is the HTC One, but big.

The only laudable improvement over the One is the One Max’s battery life. From there, things either stay the same or suffer. In the end, we’d have preferred to see a big refresh to the HTC One, rather than a great, big One.

The good

• So much like the HTC One
• Sturdy plastic body resembles the One's aluminum body
• A big gorgeous screen you'll never get tired of looking at
• microSD slot, for those that want it
• BlinkFeed and Sense 5.5 really aren't bad with Android 4.3 underneath
• Great battery life
• Compatible with Sprint's tri-band LTE network

The bad

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• So huge, but with no stylus or UI tweaks to account for it
• No updates to the silicon, despite Snapdragon 600 being a bit long in the tooth
• The plastic body doesn't feel as nice as aluminum, and the removable back plate never seats properly
• BlinkFeed and Sense 5.5 still aren't stock, so if you don't like them, you're hurting

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The ugly

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• On the Sprint One we sampled, there was so much bloatware!