That's probably the worst part of the HTC One M8: it's very large for a 5-inch device. The Nexus 5 has the same size screen as the HTC One M8, but to get the M8's body down to Nexus 5 proportions, you'd have to cut off an entire speaker section. As we mentioned earlier, though, this sound fidelity comes at a price-namely, the size of the device. The M8's front-mounted BoomSound speakers are loud and clear and closer in performance to laptop speakers. This actually looks nice, and the plastic top presumably gives the Wi-Fi and cellular signal somewhere to escape.Īnd speaking of speakers, while the Beats branding is gone, the best speakers in the business are still here. (We don't understand why HTC can't put the power button in a reachable place and just add an IR lens to the top of the phone, the way Samsung and LG do.) The button and the entire top edge of the phone is made of the same IR-transparent plastic that TV remotes use. There is a reason for the top-mounted power button it has an infrared LED embedded in it, which allows the M8 to control a home theater system.
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Every other Android OEM has figured out the power button needs to be on the side of phones this large. While turning the phone on is easy, turning it off remains really hard. It's a super handy feature and one of our favorite additions to the device-it doesn't fix the entire problem, though. HTC has tried to address this by adding double-tap-to-wake functionality to the screen-just tap twice on the screen while the M8 is off, and it will turn on. Things aren't any better on the M8, which puts the power button on top of an even taller phone. One of the complaints about the original One was the location of the power button, which, on top of a tall phone, was pretty hard to reach. It's a nice iteration-the phone is faster, and the back has been smoothed out and shined up-but we aren't convinced all the additions are improvements.
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HTC seems to be adopting Apple's bi-yearly design cycle too, as the new HTC One is mostly an iterative update when compared to the original. Last year the company carved out a nice niche by being the only one brave enough to try to rival the build quality and materials of the iPhone. So, as curious onlookers wonder if the company is circling the drain, HTC reminds us that it is still here-and still fighting-with the release of the HTC One M8.
The Taiwanese company's market share usually hovers around two to four percent, and it uses that tiny foothold in the smartphone market to stubbornly fight some of the largest companies in the world-Samsung's marketing budget, for instance, is higher than HTC's entire yearly revenue. Suppliers seemed to be distancing themselves from the company too, with The Wall Street Journal reporting that HTC had trouble getting the One out the door suppliers apparently felt that HTC was no longer a "tier one customer.” Even without all this internal turmoil, HTC would have a large task ahead of it. Multiple high-level employees left after the unprecedented failure of the HTC First, while others were indicted for taking kickbacks, falsifying expenses, and leaking trade secrets.
The last year seemed like one of the worst ever for the company, with problems in seemingly every area of the business.
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Dual Band 802.11b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0, GPSĤMP "UltraPixel" rear camera, 5MP front camera, depth sensorįront-facing stereo speakers, notification LED
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