HTC One M8: Review & Top 5 Features! #Helpful Post

he new HTC One m8 is taken what made

the original m7 one of my favorite

smartphones of 2013 and improved upon it

it's got a bigger display it's faster

and has some new features so gonna kick

back relax and find out what stood out

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Morrison here yep that is just like Jim

hope you guys are having a fantastic day

evening or whenever you may be watching

this I am back some coverage on the

brand new HTC One otherwise known as the

HTC One m8 so I'm currently in the

preparation stage of my review testing

it out using it as my daily driver and

pretty much just getting a feel for the

phone but I have used it for a couple

days now so I want to share with you my

first impressions and also what stood

out to me and I'm going to do that by

breaking it down into my top five

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let's go to Jim right into it and kick

it off with feature number five and that

is motion launched now briefly touching

upon impressions I am NOT a huge fan of

the sleep/wake button placement on the

new m8 for me by instinct I keep wanting

to reach for what actually is the micro

SD card slot up down on top right hand

side and actually on Twitter myself

Detroit Borg and Danny widget who both

by the way make killer tech videos all

seem to agree at the sleep/wake button

placement is a little bit cumbersome and

for us the ideal placement would

actually be where the volume down button

is located now if you happen to have

picked up one of the new HTC One m8 I

would love to hear your opinion on

whether you agree or disagree with us

now getting back to motion launched

there was some reasoning behind that

little ramble and because I do find the

sleep/wake button cumbersome that makes

me appreciate and find motion launched

that much more useful now quick

disclaimer this may seem very similar to

some of LG's features so I'm not saying

by any stretch of the imagination that

HTC invented the wheel but regardless

these are useful so for starters when

the phone is asleep and in portrait

orientation you can actually double tap

the phone and that will wake it up

taking that one step further you can

swipe left and that will take you to

your widget panel which essentially is

your homescreen swiping right will take

you directly into blinkfeed which I'm

not a huge fan of but it's there and if

you want to access that quickly that's

how you do it

now swiping up will unlock the phone

completely and if you're curious what

the difference is between up and

because they seem very similar if you

swipe up that will actually take you to

your last open application as opposed to

the home widget panel now conversely

swiping down while she activate voice

calling so if you want to quickly make a

phone call when your phone's asleep just

swipe down and then from there it'll

prompt you to say call and then the name

of the person you want to dial and then

lastly if you do want to quickly access

the camera on the m8 from sleep all you

got to do is turn it landscape so

sideways and then press either of the

volume buttons and voila so you can see

they're not revolutionary by any means

but definitely useful and that brings us

to feature number four that is micro SD

card expandability so jumping back to

last year's HTC One the m7 one of the

biggest complaints and drawbacks was a

lack of storage expansion that was

something the galaxy s4 offered and for

a lot of people that was a make or break

feature in terms of actually buying a

phone but this year that completely

changes and what makes it more

impressive is that HTC has proven that

you don't have to sacrifice build

quality in order to get expandability

now upon first glance you might not even

realize there is a micro SD card slot on

the ma because it kind of just looks

like a sim card slot right there on the

top right hand side but the SIM card

slot is actually on the left side now

because it is a unibody design the bad

news is you do need a tool to access

that slot the good news is though it's

just a sim card ejection tool so you're

not going to have to have a separate

special adapter or tool or anything like

that it's the same one you'd use for

your sim card now you can expand up to

an additional 128 gigabytes by a micro

SD on top of that if you don't need that

much storage you can actually pick up a

64 gigabyte card for less than $1 per

gigabyte right now they're floating

around 40 to $45 and I'll have current

pricing and various models and sizes

linked down below just in case you are

interested in picking one up so moving

on to feature number three and that is

the duo camera now in the back of the m8

you might be wondering why are there two

cameras those are actually two separate

for ultrapixel cameras that take two

separate pictures simultaneously and

then give you access to the various

depth of field information that you can

then tweak afterwards now there has been

some controversy on whether this is

useful or if it's gimmicky but for me

more than anything it's a step into the

future into the right direction and it's

actually nice to see HTC taking a chance

and trying to be innovative as opposed

to just keeping the same or boring now

from my initial test and it's not

perfect in every situation but if you

kind of know when and how to use it can

actually

cool so here you can see my lovely dog

miss melody posing for the YouTube

camera and this is with no effect turned

on and you can see if we focus on her we

can actually create that blurred

background effect so in this case it

actually looks really nice this is Big

Mac in a similar scenario and again it

looks pretty good here and this is based

off what they call you focus you can

change either the foreground or

background focus they also have

foreground ER which gives you four

options sketch zoom blur cartoon and

colorize this shot of Big Mac right here

was created using the foreground ur

sketch effect and in this case I think

it works really well

there's also seasons which will give

your photo almost a video like effect

with various elements there's Sakura

dandelion maple leaf and snow now

dimension plus is pretty trippy because

there are two focal points with the two

cameras if you actually tilt the phone

it will give you a pretty tripped out 3d

effect which I don't know how useful it

is but it's kind of cool and lastly

sticker doesn't really have anything to

do with the dual camera per se but I

thought why wouldn't you want to see a

picture of Big Mac in a hat so again

it's not perfect in every situation but

I think a lot of consumers who just want

to have fun with their camera and aren't

really trying to be a pro photographer

are going to find some use out of this

and again even though it can be

conceived as gimmicky I think it's a

step in the right direction and also

something we'll see on future

smartphones to come and following up the

dual camera at number two is Bill

quality and the display and I'm kind of

just a matching these together because

they are both awesome and kind of both

go hand in hand

now the original HTC One m7 by all means

was a beautifully crafted beautifully

designed extremely premium feel and

smartphone but HTC has found a way to

even improve upon that

so the m7 consisted of about 70%

aluminum in terms of bill material

whereas the m8 bumps that up to about

90% so with that it does make it heavier

but it feels extremely solid and there's

very little plastic and just like the m7

something I really like about the m8 is

when you pick it up in the morning

because it is aluminium and gives you

that cold metal feeling which is

something I just personally enjoy now

alongside the build quality the display

on the m8 is also just as awesome so it

is still 1080p just like on the m7 but

it's slightly larger now coming in at 5

inches which for me is just about the

sweet spot in terms of a smartphone

screen display size and on top of that

just overall image quality brightness

and color accuracy is outstanding

so whether you're watching YouTube

Netflix playing a game or even just

reading for me having a large sharp

display is something I really enjoy

now as awesome as the display is for

consuming media this takes me to my

number one feature which is boom sound

which takes consuming media to that next

level so again jumping back to the

original HTC one the m7 boom sound was

one of the features that kept me using

it as my daily driver for as long as it

did it is honestly loud enough and

sounds good enough to where if you

didn't want to use a Bluetooth speaker

in certain applications you'll actually

enjoy listening to music off of it now

HTC is claiming that the new m8 is 20%

louder compared to the m7 and I'll

actually go all out and test that out

with a decibel reader for my full review

but in the meantime for reference here

is what the iPhone 5s sounds like

and here is that same track at the same

volume level on the HTC One m8 so you

can see there is an absolutely huge

difference between the two and it is

beyond me why this is not a feature on

every single smartphone or tablet

because it completely enhances your

experience not only does that apply to

YouTube or Netflix but if you're

actually playing a game you get more

immersed into the content because it

sounds that much better and for me I

watch a ton of NBA League Pass on my

phone so the bigger display combined

with boom sound makes my geek slash

sports heart very happy and thank

goodness the Bulls turn it around this

year they're making me proud but they

did have me a little bit worried when

Rose went down again the MRI confirms

it's a torn meniscus the right knee of

Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose

which will sideline him remainder the

season yet again the Bulls struggles

continue since losing Rose for the

season

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