Our quick take

HTC One max - 3.5 / 5

Designed to be… the same

To the max

Fingerprint foibles

Super-sized display

Not so hardcore hardware

Sense 5.5 and Android 4.3

BoomSound and calling

Smile: You’re on Zoe camera

Battery life

To recap

The HTC One max offers the HTC experience on the big screen, but offers little novelty other than the size. The design looks good, microSD card expansion is useful and the BoomSound speakers are the best around, but this huge phone might be took big for some to handle and never really makes use of the screen size on offer.