A huge piece to Sense this year is the customization I was talking about earlier. Now one interesting addition to Sense 7 this year is the option to have either a grid view or card view of multitasking. It definitely complements Sense in a very good way. I definitely love all the bits of Android Lollipop that have been added to Sense 7, including the notifications on the Lock Screen. Usually, I turn those things off but BlinkFeed has been pretty darn nice to have for things like News. Sense happens to be one of my favorite skins around and this year, with all the new color schemes and modifications to the themes, I actually use a lot more Sense features like BlinkFeed.
HTC Sense has really evolved into a great skin and Sense 7 is even better than ever. Now it’s running Android 5.0.2 Lollipop with the latest iteration Sense 7, which really improves on a few key things but doesn’t really change the overall experience of Sense from Sense 6. The software has also seen some significant changes. And lastly for hardware improvements, the battery has been bumped up to a 2840mAh battery larger than the outgoing M8 and also HTC has added a microSD card slot for external expansion of the storage. The camera has also been reworked, to leaving UltraPixels only for the front-facing camera and just incorporating a 20MP sensor on the rear camera shooter. This makes for an incredibly powerful device.
All of that has made it to 3GB of RAM and the latest Adreno 430 GPU. It’s packed with a Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor with a 2GHz quad-core chip alongside a 1.5GHz quad-core chip. On the inside, we find a completely different device. But the M9 also looks exactly the same as the M8 with the only external differences being the dual-tone bands around some of the models and the movement of the lock switch to the right side of the device. And this is absolutely the best sounding smartphone around this year and it’s really incredible to see that there’s real improvements with every HTC One. It’s accurate in color reproduction, crisp, has well over 400ppi, and the viewing angles were absolutely great.īoomSound also returns this year with even more loud stereo speakers. Plus, I love the original HTC One M8 display last year and I ranked it to be of my top displays of 2014. And I commend HTC for not upping the resolution of Quad HD because honestly, there’s really no need for that.
It has the same display, which is a 5-inch 1920 x 1080p IPS LCD 3 display. In all, it’s only 1mm narrower, 1mm shorter than the outgoing device but it’s a hair bit thicker. The HTC One M9 is a very minimal departure from the HTC One M8. You and I have heard the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And that is exactly what sums up the HTC One M9 but not 100%. So let’s not waste any time and get straight to it.
After weeks of using the HTC One M9 and as my primary device, I’m ready to give you my full review. You’ve probably been looking at this phone, asking yourself: “Do I want this thing?” It looks sick, it’s shiny, sexy and new.
And then we have this-this is the new HTC One M9.
Then came the HTC One M8, which improved everything the M7 had. First, we have the glorious HTC One M7 with one of the most beautiful designs of Android. Past two generations of HTC One have been fantastic.