Bye Bye M9

[msm0511]

What did you not like about the s6

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I checked out the S6 today. The only thing I liked about it was the display, and only in Samsung apps. Otherwise it seems to drag a bit more than the M9. Somehow the device felt hollow when I held it. It felt really cheap honestly. It really surprised me. I expected a depth to it. It wasn't there. I guess it felt too light for the materials maybe? I can't describe it. I think I wanted it to feel heavier. People say the iPhone feels like a toy, but it truly felt like a cheap plastic toy to me.

 

[Makaveli1490]

I got the update from tmobile, but still experiencing overheating issues. It gets warm from texting, having multiple screens open at once or should I say multitasking, it gets uncomfortable my hand. Sad cause I really like this phone

 

[drone3]

I checked out the S6 today. The only thing I liked about it was the display, and only in Samsung apps. Otherwise it seems to drag a bit more than the M9. Somehow the device felt hollow when I held it. It felt really cheap honestly. It really surprised me. I expected a depth to it. It wasn't there. I guess it felt too light for the materials maybe? I can't describe it. I think I wanted it to feel heavier. People say the iPhone feels like a toy, but it truly felt like a cheap plastic toy to me.

I initially thought that as well with the demo but after I purchased it I have found the materials quiet nice. One thing that really struck me was the clickiness of the buttons, it feels so great compared to the shallow flush buttons of the m7. But overall I'm struggling to adjust to the S6, yes its display and camera are unbelievable but touchwizz is laggy and stuttery, WiFi is super flaky, the back button is on the right (like WTF!) And at night you can't dim the capacitive buttons - you have to put it into power save mode to turn them off (again WTF!) I'm still keeping it and I will try work through the issues but its a fill in until the M10 comes along.

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[cohoman]

I checked out the S6 today. The only thing I liked about it was the display, and only in Samsung apps. Otherwise it seems to drag a bit more than the M9. Somehow the device felt hollow when I held it. It felt really cheap honestly. It really surprised me. I expected a depth to it. It wasn't there. I guess it felt too light for the materials maybe? I can't describe it. I think I wanted it to feel heavier. People say the iPhone feels like a toy, but it truly felt like a cheap plastic toy to me.

I was considering the M9 and S6 when I upgraded my phone last week, and I thought the opposite of what you did about the weight. I thought the M9 was too heavy in my hand, while the S6 felt much lighter and more modern (albeit, more slippery with the glass front and back). The build quality of the S6 looked just as good as the M9. So, this just shows everyone has different tastes to what feels good to them with a smartphone.

 

[Rose4uKY]

Has AT&T gotten their update yet? I checked my coworkers phone on Friday he hadn't gotten it yet.

 

[bhatech]

Has AT&T gotten their update yet? I checked my coworkers phone on Friday he hadn't gotten it yet.

It's supposed to be Monday according to HTC. AT&T still doing some high quality testing /s

 

[Altema22]

Wow, if I was having all those issues, I'd take it back too! The battery drain for photos is amazingly high. I don't know why anybody, not just you, cares about low light camera performance though. They had a good low-light camera on their phones before, and basically everybody except for me and five other people told them they didn't want it.

I don't think the heat is much of an issue, as it falls in line with other devices I've tested (I'm an engineer). The problem is that HTC did a good job in getting heat to transfer from the internals to the back where it could be dissipated. This is great for the internal components, but odd for the user experience because it will always feel warmer than other devices. If you ran an S6 hard so the internal processor reached 102 degrees (and it does), the back would feel cool because it's holding the heat inside due to glass being a thermal insulator, not a conductor. By the way, aluminium is good at thermal conductance due to the cubic grain structure. So if you did have an S6 (which I also like, by the way), and an M9 with the same internal temperatures, pretty much everybody would say the S6 feels cool and the M9 feels hot. The plus side is that the M9 sheds heat at an amazing rate. I don't have the exact results in front of me right now, but it's something like a 30 degree drop in 90 seconds with a 50 degree airflow over the back.

 

[glgbnaf6969]

My m9 works fine better than iPhone and ditched my Sony Xperia z3 HTC is the best out there so quit sniffling

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[RobbyRob]

Glad I seen this thread. The S6 is doing the same battery thing as you mentioned above. I was going to trade it for a M9. Now I will look at the Nexus 6, if I don't like that I guess I'll hold off for whatever Note series or new iPhone comes along. I can't deal with a battery that I have to watch all the time.

 

[davidtm]

I've read that the new flagships all struggle with power management, which will hopefully be addressed with the 5.1 update as it was in other phones

Sent from Tapatalk on either my HTC One M9 or Tab4 10.1, it kinda depends

 

[SummersLastNight]

After almost 2 weeks with it I've had solid battery life for how I use it. Usually getting 15-16 hours life which is coming home from work with 30-50% remaining. Much better than my old phone.

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[Guysndolls Daycare]

Sorry HTC but I have to say bye to the M9.To me the M9 is still the most beautiful device to launch to date but they failed on so many fronts with this iteration. These are the most prominent issues that led me to return:

Excessive heat - Not saying the m8 doesn't get warm but my experience with the m9 was poor. The m9 would constantly top 102 degrees especially when using the camera.
Poor lowlight camera - This has been said many times, but i'll say this again. The lowlight performance of the camera is HORRIBLE!! ( Even after recommended adjustments from XDA)
Poor Battery - The battery drain is significant. GSM Battery continued to give an average of 3.5 hours of screen on which is not up to standards.
Battery while taking pictures - I would literally drop 3 percent in battery life with just 8 pictures taken in a row and even more drain when in low light. Seems like the processor goes into overdrive when the camera is launched thus causing rapid battery drain.

Everything else about the device was beautiful. Design, Screen and UI was boss.
In the end I think im going to hold off on the newest flagships of 2015 and wait to see what others are offering. I owned an edge as well and didn't see a 800 dollar reason to keep it.
I know there's going to be plenty of the "my M9 doesn't do that crew" but these findings are facts and simply can't be disputed. I love HTC phones but this year's iteration is just not good.

My m9 is pretty good except for the camera. For a 20mp I'm shocked that the pictures come out so bad but I heard there was a update that should fix that. Fingers crossed because I am pass the month to exchange it. I'm gonna wait for the note 5 to show what it's made of before I upgrade next year.

 

[bigrey81]

My m9 is pretty good except for the camera. For a 20mp I'm shocked that the pictures come out so bad but I heard there was a update that should fix that. Fingers crossed because I am pass the month to exchange it. I'm gonna wait for the note 5 to show what it's made of before I upgrade next year.

Still and well there is another update on the way, to repair that and the camera is on par if not in some cases superior to the 's6 from what I am reading.

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[idon12no]

I am actually quite happy with the M9's battery. Today wasn't my heaviest use day since I was at work, but I did do some messaging, surfing, talking, and picture taking, and you can see I was easily going to pass 12 hours of use after leaving to work with about 65% battery. Daytime photos have turned out to be very nice too.

 

[neo905]

I am actually quite happy with the M9's battery. Today wasn't my heaviest use day since I was at work, but I did do some messaging, surfing, talking, and picture taking, and you can see I was easily going to pass 12 hours of use after leaving to work with about 65% battery. Daytime photos have turned out to be very nice too.

You obviously charged your phone midday so there is no real point to posting the screenshot.

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[ron561]

I am actually quite happy with the M9's battery. Today wasn't my heaviest use day since I was at work, but I did do some messaging, surfing, talking, and picture taking, and you can see I was easily going to pass 12 hours of use after leaving to work with about 65% battery. Daytime photos have turned out to be very nice too.

lol

 

[cat cheerful]

Thank you very much for this article.
I have reviewed a lot between choose HTC one M9 or galaxy s6.
but I gave up the idea of buying M9 after I read this article on your. (

 

[fernandezhjr]

You should also go to the S6 forum and see if there are any threads there about issues with the S6.

 

[cat cheerful]

when I talk about this, a few days ago. everybody comments and I had other thoughts
I think, probably because you have purchased a phone substandard
compare with s6 galaxy. HTC one M9 really much better

 

[killswitchkevin]

I'm a pretty big htc fan. Been using them since the original nexus. With the m9 all the problems I have seen myself or have heard of can easily be fixed with root. Except the camera which I don't care too much about it gets the job done. The overheating the battery life. The hang ups. Root can fix all that. In running viperrom and its amazing. I'm not saying you should change your views in saying root it and tweak it then decide if it's not for you. Most Android phones for me suck until you root them. And rooting Android is half the reason to own one to begin with. So yeah. There's my tidbit lol