Top Hidden Features Of HTC One

HTC One is definitely one of the most attractive
and desired smartphones of the modern age.It’s
most appealing aspect is definitely the full
aluminum build, as well as the front facing
stereo speakers.

The phone carries a certain
innovative aura which is further emphasized
once you reach into its software. Android has
become a beast of a platform, allowing some
seriously impressive and ingenious features to
be built into phones running it. The HTC One,
being a flagship top end device, comes with a
decent set of these hidden features which are
there to make your experience with the phone
even better. It’s nice to see such an impressive
list of added features which are put completely
out of the way, never obstructing your working
space or limiting the amount of content you see
on the screen.

Taking screenshots

This feature has only recently become available
by default on Android phones. Back in the day
you had to install a third party application to get
this, and were often linked to the camera
shutter key. In this day and age, you can long
press on home and power button
simultaneously or you can hold on to the power
button and the volume down button . On the
HTC One you will notice a neat little animation
to let you know that the screenshot was actually
taken. By default, the captured screenshot will
be saved in the default screenshot folder right
on your phone, under Images: \.

Beam me up, Scotty!

You’ve probably encountered several websites
with this feature – basically, once you reach the
end of a long page, you’d want to quickly return
back to the top where you’ll often find function
buttons, allowing you to do something else. For
those really long pages where you would need
to flip the screen multiple times, you can simply
quickly tap on the notification bar area once and
you’ll be pulled back right on top of the web
page or any other menu within the operating
system.

Quick launch bar customization

Plenty of people are wondering about how to
customize those quick launch bar icons. It’s
really simple to do it, though – you won’t be
able to put any applications or icons from the
home screens, yet you need to go into the
application drawer segment. From this area you
can drag and drop icons from and to the quick
launch bar. This bar will remain the same in the
lock screen segment as well so you may want to
put those most common applications and
functions here, to gain quick access.
More applications listing in the app drawer
Over time, you’ll definitely accumulate a nice
assortment of applications. In order to have a
clean overview of these, you’d want to condense
your app drawer so that you can see more of
your applications at a glance. To do this, access
your application drawer, pull it from the top
down and you’ll see a menu icon. Tap on the
menu icon and select the 4×5 format on the grid
size option. You will now have 20 application
icons to look at in a single glance.

HTC Zoe toggle

HTC Zoe is one of my personal favorite features
about the HTC One’s camera. It allows you to
record quick 3 second videos with audio. In
order to do this, access your camera. You will
notice an icon on the middle left part of your
screen. Press this icon and you will activate HTC
Zoe. Now, when you push on the capture photo
icon you will instead record a short 3 second
video. This is actually quite handy for those
quick takes of something in motion. Since the
HTC One captures great quality video, you can
easily use this footage for later editing and
extract the best still photo from the video
stream.

TV control

One of the features found on the HTC One
which is often swept under the rug is its IR
blaster. With this little device you basically gain
access to a universal remote control, with which
you can control whichever device. This feature
works best with flat panel LED displays and can
easily be programmed to control your television,
as long as it’s a supported model. You can use
the default TV application found pre-installed in
the HTC One, even though there are some third
party apps. I’ve found the built-in app to work
seamlessly, so you can give it a try.

Slow motion
video recording

In order to record slow motion
video, the
camera needs to boost up the frame rate as far
as it can go. HTC One’s camera is quite a
capable one, with the ability to record 1080p HD
videos. For slow motion video recording, the
device will automatically reduce the resolution in
order to bump up the frame rate as much as
possible. In order to record a slow motion video,
open your camera application; go to options –
scene and select the slow motion video recording
option . You can also accelerate the video
recording process which isn’t as impressive as
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