The HTC One M9 may have been released in March this year but most HTC fans have branded the current flagship smartphone as a souped-up version of the Taiwanese smartphone maker's HTC One M8 because the former offered no massive departure from the latter.
HTC One M8 is regarded as the most leaked handset in history. Because of the recent release of the HTC One M9, the HTC One M8 can now be bought at much less money than before.
The successor of the HTC One M8 features a re-contoured body shape and a trio of new two-tone color schemes, including a striking silver variant with gold edging. It also has a scratch-resistant coating to the metal shell, details Know Your Mobile.
In terms of what's inside, HTC has improved the BoomSound speakers with the Dolby Audio enhancement as well as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor, and a 20-megapixel rear-facing camera.
Second generation HTC One
The HTC One M8 is actually known as the second generation of HTC One or sometimes as the all-new HTC One.
It was officially unveiled in a press conference on March 25, 2014 simultaneously held in both New York and Londo but not before tons of leaks has already made the rounds in the internet. The HTC One M8 was released on the very same day by Verizon Wireless at retail, and also by other Canadian and American carriers for online orders prior to its wider retail availability in mid-April.
The HTC One M8 features a rounded chassis and has a 5-inch 1080-pixel display. It is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, a depth of field sensor which can be used to individually refocus and apply various effects to the foreground and background elements of photos taken from the smartphone's higher-resolution front-facing camera.
Just a few weeks after its release, a update has made it to the HTC One M8 which featured improvements to the device's front-facing stereo speakers, expandable storage, new gesture functionality, and a refreshed version of HTC' Sense software.
In August 2014, HTC has unveiled a software variant of the HTC One M8 running on Windows Phone 8.1 instead of Android, aiming to adapt the operating system's experience to the device without any compromises.
The HTC One M8 received mostly positive reviews with particular praise devoted to the design improvements within its hardware and software, and its upgraded internals in comparison to the first generation HTC One.
But it also has some share of criticisms including its large bezels, the lack of significant improvements to the main camera's image quality and the inconsistent quality of the effects enabled by the depth sensor.
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