[Review] HOMTOM HT3 PRO REVIEW - Full Review

[Cleopatra]

HomTom HT3 Pro review

Ladies & gentlemen … I'm proud to present to you one of the latest CHEAPER & PERFORMANT chinese device launched on April 2016 in the global market :

The HOMTOM HT3 PRO

$83 HomTom HT3 [email protected]

Above all, it represents a decent compromise between low price and good efficiency.
Its MAIN FEATURES (I will go over in more details later) are the next :

• 5-inch 2.5D 1280 x 720 (HD 720) curved glass display
  
• MediaTek MT6735 quad-core 64-bit chipset clocking 1.0 GHz
  
• 2GB of RAM
  
• 16GB of Internal Storage (up to 64GB microSD support)
  
• ARM Mali-T720 MP2 600 MHz of GPU
  
• Android 5.1 Lollipop OS
  
• 13 megapixel rear camera / 5 megapixel front camera
  
• 3000mAh of battery capacity
  
• 2 Micro SIM cards slots
  
• 4G: FDD-LTE 2600 MHz / 2100 MHz / 1800 MHz / 800 MHz
  
• 3G: WCDMA 2100 MHz / 900 MHz
  
• 2G: GSM 1900 MHz / 1800 MHz / 900 MHz / 850 MHz
  
• WIFI: 802.11b/g/n
  
• Bluetooth 4.0
  
• Picture format: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG
  
• Music format: AAC, MP3, WAV
  
• Video format: 3GP, AVI, MP4
  

This is the back side of the package :



And this is the contents of the package :



The first thing that stuck out to me was the DESIGN of the phone :
1) rounded corners
2) curved glass screen
3) slim

You can verify it with your own eyes in the next 2 pics :



When I have removed the back cover to inspect inside the phone ... I saw this :



That is a detail of the 3 slots (the two microSIM slots & the TF card slot) :



And this is the battery :



This is the Home Screen (it's an animated background ... the "Swarovski swan" turn around over and over again) :



A thing that impressed me was the good quality of the pictures taken with both rear & front cameras. The next picture was taken with rear camera :



And the next picture was taken with front camera :



CPU

There are some previews/reviews on the net that have claimed 1.3 GHz of max clock speed ... but it is not absolutely true ! The REAL max clock speed is of 988.0 MHz. Before affirming it ... I have made 5 different test with the next 5 different apps :
"CPU Monitor", "System Monitor" (by Christian Göllner), "System Monitor" (by Daniele Comi), "CPU X" and "AIDA64". They all agreed to confirm a max clock speed of 988.0 MHz :



Despite the low max clock speed frequency ... I can assure you that the phone is surprisingly fast.
There is not much difference between the HOMTOM HT3 PRO (Quad Core 988.0 MHz) and my Ecoo E04 Plus (Octa Core 1.7 GHz) ... trust me.


CPU-Z & AnTuTu Benchmark :
The unexplainable phenomeno about FALSE INFORMATIONS ???

"CPU-Z" & "AnTuTu Benchmark" are the most famous and most reliable apps to obtain detailed informations about your phone ... that's what I thought until today. But when I have installed them ... I made a terrible discovery : wrong informations !
You really need to see this for yourself (red arrows & yellow arrow) :



Now I can understand why some writers has claimed 1.3 GHz of max clock speed into their previews/reviews ... it wasn't all lies ... it wasn't their fault.
I do not want to accuse "CPU-Z" & "AnTuTu Benchmark" to be unprecise ... probably these apps are incompatible with HOMTOM HT3 PRO. However, I have decided to do not use these apps to obtain detailed informations and the points average score.


SYSTEM - OS - MEMORY DETAILS

The following screenshots, in a particularly detailed fashion, show you the essential informations about the phone :




RAM - GPU - DISPLAY DETAILS

To verify the technical details, I have used 4 different apps ( "DevCheck", "Screen Resolution v1.0", "Display Tester Pro" and "CPU Hardware and System Info" ). Please see following screenshots. In the first screenshot ( "DevCheck" ) you can also see the technical specifications about RAM :





CAMERA DETAILS

You can ascertain with your own eyes that the genuine specifications of the back/front cameras are like in the next screenshots :





SENSORS DETAILS

You can verify all the sensors and their technical details in the next screenshots :




GPS DETAILS

Tested with "GPS Test Plus". The GPS works fine ... you can verify it with your own eyes :




BATTERY DETAILS

It is quite good. Above all, there is no sign of battery overheating (it is stable on 25ºC ). Tested with GSam Battery Monitor Pro. Please see the screenshots above. If you see "Battery History (6h 38 min 14s)" it is because I have installed the apk 6h and 38 min ago ... but I have recharged my battery to 100% ... and then I have started the monitoring at 9:03 PM :





ENGINEER MODE - HOW TO

In order to gain access to the Engineer Mode, you have to compose the next sequence on the Dialer :

*#*#3646633#*#*

Please see the next screenshot :



The Engineer Mode screen will be automatically opened when you will have compose the last symbol of the sequence *




CONCLUSION

In my view, you could not find anything better within the range of the budget phones ... think more about it

$83 HomTom HT3 [email protected]

[cookiedough]

MT6735 best budget SOC. Better than snapdragon 410. Maybe better than snapdragon 615 for some things. HomTom HT3 Pro available at Euro warehouses too. Looks good.

[GizBeat]

Thanks for your work Cleopatra. Looks like a good choice for a budget mobile.

[Cleopatra]

UPDATE


STORAGE - FILESYSTEM, SIZES & BLOCKS

In the next 3 screenshots you will be able to verify all the details about storage.
Keep in mind that I have installed some stuff ... consequently the available free space will be higher :




ROOT & TWRP - HOW TO :

http://www.chinaphonearena.com/forum/Thr...stall-TWRP


Xposed Framework - HOW TO :

http://www.chinaphonearena.com/forum/Thr...mework-GEL

[Cleopatra]

UPDATE

GALAXY S6 porting rom for HOMTOM HT3 PRO




You will find it at the next link :

http://www.needrom.com/download/galaxy-s6-porting-rom/

[mrsim]

nice review @Cleopatra
how is the device holding up in real world usage these couple of past weeks since you created this thread...god it's been so long since i held onto a MTK device it's been all flagships for me this past few months,OP3,Huawei P9,etc etc

[Cleopatra]

UPDATE


CYANOGENMOD 12.1 x64 for HOMTOM HT3 PRO

You will find it at the next link :

http://www.needrom.com/download/cyanogenmod-12-1-x64/

[machak10]

nice review @Cleopatra
how is the device holding up in real world usage these couple of past weeks since you created this thread...god it's been so long since i held onto a MTK device it's been all flagships for me this past few months,OP3,Huawei P9,etc etc

I have this phone for 2 months now.
I can testify that this is a hardware wise decent phone with decent performance but it's battery life was horrible untill i rooted/debloated/TWRP'd with great help of Cleo. it.Now it runs smooth and battery life is significantly better.

[emufile]

Very nice phone
it's incredible how real racing 3 run so good in this device