Originally Posted by
banesfist My contract will be up soon and the M8 is high on my list of potential phones. How do you guys like it after having it for a while? Still worth the buy?
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Positives:
This phone is beautiful. Before getting this phone, I didn't think the aesthetics would be as important, and I chose this over the Samsung Galaxy S5 for other reasons. I was wrong. The beauty of this phone has really been one thing that has stuck with me. Even with my Spigen case on it, it is a thing of beauty. Aside from that, the phone is very quick. I didn't like the Blink launcher so I picked up Nova. I didn't like the keyboard, so I got SwiftKey. I still love Sense 6. The phone doesn't have as much bloat from HTC as the GS5 does, but it does have a ton of bloat from VZW. I've removed it all through quick-rooting with weaksauce, then just using a root-uninstaller to rid myself of the bloat. The camera has been fantastic for me, though I admit to not using it much.
Negatives:
There are only 2 things with this phone that I'd call negatives. The first is a stuck pixel (only 1). I have an app for it that's supposed to get it un-stuck, but I keep forgetting to run it over night to really get it unstuck. The second negative is that the top bezel where the front camera is is coming up in the corner. This is a build quality issue - basically, they didn't glue it down properly. The rest of it is flawless, so I can't even really complain about it.
And we're getting the new update (Verizon M8s are) next week, so even more awesome sauce on the way (like the Emergency Power Saver mode...finally!).
So I recommend the phone very very highly. I'm getting a GS5 through work (it was that or an iPhone...the choice was easy) so I'll be able to compare and contrast, but I know that I love this phone and wouldn't trade it for any other phone right now.