petvas72
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There are two things that I cannot accept from a flagship phone: A bad display and bad battery life, especially compared to last year's model.
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There are two things that I cannot accept from a flagship phone: A bad display and bad battery life, especially compared to last year's model.
Cool Jeff
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Yep like a review said, the M9 screen is a superb screen...by 2013 standards! But compared to Note4, S6 ,Z3 and iphone 6 it's miles behind.
Camera is good compared to Z2 and S5 perhaps but not S6 and Note4.
Of course the speakers are still the best but it's only useful for people who play heavy 3D games or watch long movies, meaning not me
Camera is good compared to Z2 and S5 perhaps but not S6 and Note4.
Of course the speakers are still the best but it's only useful for people who play heavy 3D games or watch long movies, meaning not me
The Verge gave the display a 10. While I don't think it's an awful screen, to see the testing by Anandtech show that it's actually worse than the M8, it makes me wonder if the M9 is a 10, are the Note 4 and S6 in the 15-20 range?
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I quote Anandtech's review:
The display is one of the more disappointing aspects of the One M9 thus far. Although the 1080p resolution isn’t really a problem in actual use, the lack of improvement or regression in every other metric suggests that HTC has gone backwards in display quality. Combined with the removal of PSR, it’s concerning to see that cost optimization has affected such a crucial aspect of the smartphone experience. Overall, even when comparing against 2014 smartphones the One M9 ends up closer to the bottom for display quality.
The software experience seems to be one area where HTC continues to do relatively well compared to most Android OEMs, and Sense 7 remains a relatively enjoyable experience. However, the new additions to Sense 7 aren’t really all that helpful. There’s a lot of effort spent on introducing new features like additional personalization and some new widgets and applications, but none of this really feels well-differentiated, and there isn’t much change to the rest of the UI to make it mesh with Lollipop’s UI. It also seems that Snapdragon 810 causes some minor performance issues, but the effects of this are incredibly minor and it’s hard to tell whether this is due to random variance to some extent.
Although we’re still missing some of the pieces, based upon what data we have the One M9 is in an alarming place for a new smartphone. It’s pretty rare that a new phone ends up regressing in almost every major way compared to an old phone, but the One M9 ends up doing this in display and battery life. The SoC is better, but I can’t help but feel that Snapdragon 805 ends up being a better choice than Snapdragon 810 for a flagship smartphone at this time. The Snapdragon 808 may be better suited as an upgrade to the Snapdragon 805, but given the performance of the 810 I’m not really holding my breath. Given all of these issues, I’m almost tempted to point to the One M8 as the better phone, but until we get the full picture we won’t be coming to any final conclusions about the One M9.
The display is one of the more disappointing aspects of the One M9 thus far. Although the 1080p resolution isn’t really a problem in actual use, the lack of improvement or regression in every other metric suggests that HTC has gone backwards in display quality. Combined with the removal of PSR, it’s concerning to see that cost optimization has affected such a crucial aspect of the smartphone experience. Overall, even when comparing against 2014 smartphones the One M9 ends up closer to the bottom for display quality.
The software experience seems to be one area where HTC continues to do relatively well compared to most Android OEMs, and Sense 7 remains a relatively enjoyable experience. However, the new additions to Sense 7 aren’t really all that helpful. There’s a lot of effort spent on introducing new features like additional personalization and some new widgets and applications, but none of this really feels well-differentiated, and there isn’t much change to the rest of the UI to make it mesh with Lollipop’s UI. It also seems that Snapdragon 810 causes some minor performance issues, but the effects of this are incredibly minor and it’s hard to tell whether this is due to random variance to some extent.
Although we’re still missing some of the pieces, based upon what data we have the One M9 is in an alarming place for a new smartphone. It’s pretty rare that a new phone ends up regressing in almost every major way compared to an old phone, but the One M9 ends up doing this in display and battery life. The SoC is better, but I can’t help but feel that Snapdragon 805 ends up being a better choice than Snapdragon 810 for a flagship smartphone at this time. The Snapdragon 808 may be better suited as an upgrade to the Snapdragon 805, but given the performance of the 810 I’m not really holding my breath. Given all of these issues, I’m almost tempted to point to the One M8 as the better phone, but until we get the full picture we won’t be coming to any final conclusions about the One M9.
bigrey81
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I find it hard to believe that is why I must have the phone in hand.
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petvas72
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I think that The Verge wanted to achieve a very specific score.The display cannot be a 10...
Agreed. It's a low score as it is. Very unfortunate for HTC. I was going to give it a go if it came out before the S6 as I love trying new tech each year, but I've already used the M8 and they delayed the launch. Hopefully this doesn't sink them too low so they can bounce back next year.
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smooth4lyfe
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HTC should have went with QHD like I said, although their intention for a 1080p display was good, I think a QHD would have been much better in terms of a 2015 flagship device
They even said there's nothing wrong with a 1080p screen. It's just a POOR 1080p screen. (I'd prefer 1080p to higher res due to better battery life, but it can't be junk)
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The weird thing is that if they were going to stick with the 1080P screen, why did they alter the temperature of the screen rather than keeping it the same? If its the same exact screen then I'm sure this is something that could be corrected after being rooted, but it just seems strange that they thought they should alter the screen after it had received such good reviews last year.
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Oh man they should've had you on their R&D team.
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smooth4lyfe
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Its the battery life GIVEN 1080p that is doing them in.
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I dunno. There is another site that has the S6 and is allowing people to ask questions in a thread and they aren't impressed with that battery life either. They are saying 3-4 hours on screen time and 13-15 hours average on moderate/heavy use. I'm getting just over 3 hours right now on my M7 and I know the M8 is close to 5 hours. He did say it is a pre-production model so to reserve some judgement. That said, I'm not impressed with ANY of these 2015 phones batteries so far. It just seems like a step back in general and I was expecting a leap forward to justify my purchase.
I can say the M7 biggest flaw was battery and the camera in that order. The M8 biggest flaw was the camera. HTC got the battery just right. If you anyone thinks HTC is going to waste time improving the M9 you are so wrong. Since they had a change out in leadership, HTC will be focusing on the M10. A new CEO has to get it right for next year. What you buy in the M9 is what you are going to get and do not expect much to change. Why do I say that? Because the M7/M8 was flawless out of the box.
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