HTC 10 vs iPhone 6s Plus specs comparison: Apple phone gets a rival with better camera and equivalent hardware

(www.htc.com/Apple.com)HTC 10 vs iPhone 6s Plus - Device from HTC has expandable storage and cheaper price tag.

Last year, the iPhone 6s Plus from Apple did well among the phablet-sized smartphones, but this year, another metal-bodied device, the HTC 10, has arrived to take it on. Here is how these two devices fare when they are compared to each other.

Design

These two devices have similar metal bodies, but they look very different. The iPhone 6s Plus is first and foremost a bigger device and it comes with an aluminum body and rounded edges. Its fingerprint scanner is incorporated into the home button and there are plastic antenna lines at the back. As for colors, the device comes in gray, rose gold, gold, and silver. Coming to the HTC 10, its metal body is flashier than that of its competitor, but it has antenna lines at its rear. This year, HTC opted to introduce a fingerprint scanner and it is on the front button just below the screen. In terms of colors, the HTC 10 comes in silver, gray, and gold.

Display

Only the iPhone 6s Plus has 3D Touch included on its display, which can sense the amount of pressure being applied by the user. As for the display on the device, it is an IPS LCD version measuring 5.5 inches with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels and density of 401 pixels per inch. On the HTC 10 is a smaller Super LCD5 display measuring 5.2 inches with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels and density of 565 pixels per inch.

Hardware

On board the HTC 10 is the latest chipset from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 820, coupled with a quad-core CPU and an Adreno 530 GPU. As for the iPhone 6s Plus, it has an equally impressive Apple A9 chipset, coupled with a dual-core CPU and a PowerVR GT7600 GPU.

Memory

Only the HTC 10 has a memory slot that supports up to 200 GB of external storage. As for RAM, the HTC 10 is again ahead with 4 GB compared to the 2 GB on the iPhone 6s Plus.

Camera

The 12-megapixel camera on the HTC 10 has shot ahead of the similar 12-megapixel version on the iPhone 6s Plus in the DxOMark camera ranking, and it now occupies the first spot.

Price

When it comes to price, the iPhone 6s Plus with 16 GB on board costs $299 with a two-year contract, while the HTC 10 is expected to cost $199 with a similar contract.

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