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This isn’t a camera designed just with HTC mobiles in mind, though. The RE’s mobile app is available for iOS and Android, so you can use it with the iPhone 6 or Samsung Galaxy S5, just not Windows or Blackberry ones. Connecting to the RE can be tricky, but the app works well once you’re in You need to first open the RE app, which connects your phone to the RE via Bluetooth, then you need to access your Wi-Fi settings to find the RE. There’s no Wi-Fi pass through, which means you’ll have use your mobile data connection for live streaming or backing up online. The whole process is a little convoluted and irksome. Connection isn’t guaranteed, either. We found we had to constantly connect our RE as a device, adding a password with annoying regularity on both iOS and Android.
A firmware update has improved stability significantly, but it still sometimes happens. Not ideal when you’re having a party and everyone has to wait while you set up for a group shot. There’s lag between what you seen on screen and where you’re pointing the RE, too. It’s OK if you make slow movements, but anything more than that and you have to wait a few seconds on a frozen frame while the phone catches up. It’s no different to our experience with the Sony Lens camera or a phone-connected GoPro, but it just makes it that bit harder to get the shot you want. The app can straighten wide-angle photos. It’s fast and results good The app provides various other tweaks and settings, including the resolution of photos – 8.3, 12 and 16-megapixel – and videos, and a wide-angle lens toggle.
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Advanced settings include digital video stabilisation and firmware updates. This is where you should update the RE if you’re having the connection issues we experienced. Oddly these firmware updates can only be downloaded while connected to the RE. They’re only a few megabytes in size, but we’d still prefer not to have our mobile data leached for this task. The app gallery lets you upload images to your favourite social media outlet and straighten the fish-eye effect caused by the wide-angle lens.
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The RE app uses software to do this, but it’s fast and you wouldn’t notice a photo’s been straightened. Very clever indeed. HTC RE – Picture Quality The 16-megapixel 1/2.3-inch sensor on the RE isn’t too far off the specs of the Galaxy Note 4’s camera. There’s no optical zoom or optical image stabilisation (OIS). The lack of OIS is a bit of a problem. For a camera meant to be used on the go and to capture moments as they happen, the RE doesn’t cope well with movement.
If your hand is moving more than a little when you take a picture, the result will be a blurry mess. When we first got the RE the ease with which you can take pics made us a bit blase. We’d swing our arms around or walk and take a pic. Suffice to say this doesn’t work. You still need to treat the RE like a camera – you need to frame your shot and stand still. So what’s the point of having the RE if you’ve already got a top smartphone with a decent snapper?
Aside from the convenience and ease with which you can use the RE, it also has a 146-degree wide-angle lens that lets you take in a whole lot more of the scenery. The proof is in the pictures, though, so we took the RE out to Las Vegas to get some shots as you would on holiday. When we got back to London we also tested it against two of the best camera phones on the market right now – the iPhone 6 Plus and Samsung Galaxy Note 4. That wide-angle lens lets you get more of the scenery in the frame than you can with a traditional smartphone camera. If you’re at a football match you can even get the whole pitch in a shot.
Something’s got to give when a camera takes so much in, and in the case of the RE that thing is detail. In general photos look good, if a little muted.
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