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| HTC One M8 |
HTC One M8 is one of the long awaited phones this year and when you think about the HTC One series like the previous M7 the first think that pops into mind is the body of the device, unibody Aluminium(Al) the way it feels in the hand. that was one of the biggest selling points of the phone.
Hardware Or Design
The M8 is no exception, the same Aluminium(Al) unibody design and the front facing speakers. But there is another device that meets the same level of specifications named the Galaxy S5 both the devices have almost same internals which makes the looks design and how the device feels in the more important than ever..
and they both have a lot of difference in the design..
If you have seen the promos and ads of the M8 it is all about the design and the build quality of the device and it is where the phone excels. it is the same material of the old HTC One but little bit bigger a little bit more round and a few few different colors. Gunmetal Grey, Glacial Silver and Amber Gold, A very Apple inspired move you can say.
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| Apple inspired Move |
Comparing it to the previous HTC One the M8 has even more metal on it, the previous one had some poly-carbonate on the sides and the sides were also flat which made the phone to fit in the hand and because you get something to grip on. M8 has those side covered with metal and the side are more rounded or curved you can say, now there is no edge to hold on to it is the slippery Aluminum.
The display of the device has changed in the section of size and quality both it is a 5- inch 1080p LCD display, and it is one of the most amazing display on a device.
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| Headphone and Micro USB jack |
On the left of the device is your SIM card slot and on the right side you have memory card slot which supports upto 128GB.. Yes you read it right 128GB and just below the memory card slot there are the volume rockers. On top right side there is the power button which is hard to reach according to me it should have been on the right side of the phone because you have to move the device a lot to reach it and most of the time i found myself using it with two hands, but it's still better than last time. and the whole top of the device is covered with the IR blaster so you can turn ON and OFF your TV with an built-in app. on the bottom there is you 2.0 micro USB port for data and charging and with it is the 3.5mm headphone jack.
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| SIM Card slot |
While talking about the HTc One series you can't forget the front facing speakers, we all loved that in the previous device and i am sure everybody who uses the M8 is going to love love them, they are louder than before, clear than before, and again they are front facing to better that any other device's speakers.
Every thing mentioned above is just an update of the things we already had in the One nothing new.
But there is a thing once you have noticed you cannot un-notice it without asking questions, let me give you a Hint- It's the number of cameras, it's different than normal, the M8 has three cameras two on the back and one on the front.
HTC got a lot of feed back from the old HTC one's camera the 4 MP ultrapixel camera a lot of posoitive but also a lot negative but HTC decided to keep that camera so it's the same 4 Ultrapixel camera and the 2MP depth sensor with two tone LED flash. the Dual-camera feature is used for couple of interesting software effects..
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| Dual-Camera |
The camera shutter is very fast so you can capture more photos faster it is the closest thing i have experienced to instant shutter on any Android device. In the manual mode which let's you change ISO and exposure and other thing and actually save those setting and as a custom camera feature as long as you know what you are doing , and even if you don't you can use the Auto mode ..
the Dual-Camera feature works after you have taken a shot and you look at it in the gallery you chose to edit it, you'll see some effects on the bottom these are called the dual-camera effects which only appears if shot is compatible, the most well known one is the u-focus which when you tap the part of the photo you want in focus it'll blur the rest of the photo.to the untrained eye and on the small phone screen this will look great, but a lot of time you can see the blur seem pretty artificial and sometime it doesn't even work for this effect to work properly you have to have a very obvious object and a very obvious background. But these are just some software hiccups which can be fixed through updates, if you do every thing right you can get some amazing photos.
There are some other effect that adds effects only to the background and makes the object highlight more.
and can make the image look 3D which moves through the Gyroscope of the phone.
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| Dual-Camera effect |
But the real photo taking experience isn't also that great.it crushes the dark and blows out the highlights every time, it has a pretty nice but a pretty dull exposure sometimes the photos are just under exposed and the resolution is no high, obviously it's coming from a 4MP camera so they look nice on the phone's small screen unless you are looking it on a big screen of printing it that can really take the fun out of it.
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| More background effects |
And you can't ignore that fact that it's front facing camera is of higher resolution than the back camera. but the photos of the 4MP primary camera are just fine to go with unless you share your photos more than just the web.
Software And Specifications
It is running the Android 4.4.2 Kitkat the latest version of Android with HTC sense 6 on top of it the latest version of the HTC's skin.and it's the greatest skin that i have ever seen on top of any Android device, i still love stock Android and i would still take that any day of the week. but the sense 6 really feels like an adjustment to Android rather than a layer on top of it.
Performance is also smooth and fast opening and closing apps getting into your daily user interface super quick and very very responsive, which it should be.
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| On-screen buttons |
HTC has given it a very nice touch to the notification bar, it's color changes depending on where you are in the phone if you are on the home screen or the lock screen the notification bar is clear but in certain HTC apps the color changes to match the color of the app and it does it quiet smoothly all the HTC apps that come with the phone have their one color on the notification bar and in the other apps that you download
it will be grey so it's nice..
It has on screen buttons with software home and multitasking button is on the bottom of the screen.. remember the part where i was talking about the hard to reach power button HTC knows the problem and they have come up with a solution.
You can double tap the phone to turn the screen on you can swipe down when the screen is off that will take you to the voice calling which is unfortunately really bad and is not connected to Google now and that is the reason it's really bad , swipe left to bring home screen up if you are in an app and you lock the phone and swipe left to unlock it'll take you to the home screen not to the app, and same is with the right swipe that will always bring you to blink feed, if you wan t to get to the app you were working on you have to swipe up that'll bring you to where you are last. so the only time you have to reach the power button is to lock the device..
It has a non-removable 2600mAh battery, it bigger than the last One but not that big but it can still you can easily get two days out of it with light use..it is really good at saving battery even if the 5-inch display is on nd you are playing game it doesn't just drain all the battery like most devices..
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| spec sheet taken from:http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_one_(m8)-6074.php |
So this is it this is all i have to say about the HTC One M8 it is a great device with exceptional set of skills if you love the way unibody Metal devices feel with in the and you are not a professional photographer the HTC One might the the One for you..
Feel free to leave comments if you have some concerns or questions drop them in the comments sections below and i'll be happy to answer them..
Peace...
