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.