Share your HTC One (M8) first impressions and personal reviews!

[DeadpoolJunior]

Everything about the m8 is fantastic except for the size. It is to darn big. It barely fits in my pocket with an otterbox. I just can't get used to the size. I am returning it tomorrow and will just wait for the mini 2.

I don't get why all the high end androids have to be so big. Surely the success of the iPhone proves that no-one wants a high end phone that can be used with one hand.

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Seems like troll bait but I'll bite. People buy the iPhone in spite of its size, not because of it. When they release a larger version this fall, it'll sell just as well. Also, the Galaxy and Note line of phones have been successful as well and those are big as well making your point about size wrong.

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[mjs2011]

I came from the iPhone 5s. Great phone but just way too small.

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[TJ Cooper]

I needed to replace my Nokia windows phone because it was acting up and I needed a couple apps the window store didn't have. Having already owned an iPhone before, I thought I would go with Android. I purchased an S5.

The S5 was ugly, seriously ugly. It felt cheep and the lack of any unifying color palette made the OS feel like windows 3.1, just a desktop with disparate icons thrown on top. My GF wanted the phone, and so she got it.

I then purchased the HTC One M8. So far so good. It feel fantastic in the hand, it is aesthetically more pleasing, and comes across as far more polished.

So far so good.

 

[Skyway]

Everything about the m8 is fantastic except for the size. It is to darn big. It barely fits in my pocket with an otterbox. I just can't get used to the size. I am returning it tomorrow and will just wait for the mini 2.

I don't get why all the high end androids have to be so big. Surely the success of the iPhone proves that no-one wants a high end phone that can be used with one hand.

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Don't use an otterbox case....

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[taronba25]

Ah-hah, the HTC M8 DOES have and is capable of SVDO if 1) You're on Sprint, 2) You disable the Connection Optimizer, 3)You set your Network Mode to LTE/CDMA, 4) Turn the Wi-Fi off, of course.. An automatic setting, surprisingly, gives you that dreaded message "we can't do that". I was calling Cvs, which goes to voicemail and I went to my stock browser's favorite menu and WA-LA, no message AND the nice green bar on the notification status area, like my Evo LTE used to have. I'm in Nassau Co., NY which is LTE enabled recently and it worked good. Let's see about Google Play and GPS and such. I just remembered, I'm in my apartment, which is out of reach of the LTE signal. I am going to try it again when the rain calms down.

 

[Dizfunctions]

I personally think that the HTC one m8 is the smoothest android skin out there today. While I would still prefer stock android, the features includes are quite useful.

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[davcole]

I personally think that the HTC one m8 is the smoothest android skin out there today. While I would still prefer stock android, the features includes are quite useful.

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Completely agree!

Not all Android skins are bad. The M8's skin is useful and unobtrusive!

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[mjs2011]

I personally think that the HTC one m8 is the smoothest android skin out there today. While I would still prefer stock android, the features includes are quite useful.

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Yep. I've actually chime to like Blinkfeed so much that I have it set as my home screen.

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[Dizfunctions]

Yep. I've actually chime to like Blinkfeed so much that I have it set as my home screen.

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As a hardcore user of flipboard, I have no intention of doing that, although I will say that blink feed is much improved over the last generation version

 

[taronba25]

Oh well, that was nice. I toat I taw some SVDO! I did not. It was some leftover pages in memory, dammit! I feel so NEWBIE! Please excuse my excirment. I do have it with Wi-Fi so I'm ok.

 

[distributor1]

Re: Just picked up the new HTC One MA in gunmetal gray

I have had mine for three days. It runs in parallel with a Note 3.

The industrial design is great, much more comfortable than M7.

I find the skin a little hard to work through, wish it was more stock Android. Add the ATT stuff on top of that and it is alot of overhead.

Sound via the two speakers is awesome. Screen is good. I was very surprised by the camera. I took a photo in a dinner during a power outage (I am in Latin America) and the photo was crazy good. Not grainy at all for such high ISO. That is something to be understood.

Battery life is excellent as well.

My only pet peeve is the nano-sim, alot of people like me, have to rotate phones depending on what they are doing and who they are with. That makes is much harder to use.

 

[cjr4497]

I ended up keeping the m8. It is just too nice to give up. I am going to try and find a slimmer case for it. I can't go caseless with this phone. The m8 is too slippery in my hands. To the size point, I know about twenty people with iPhones that say they won't try Android because the they say they are too big. I even heard more than a few complain about the iPhone 5 being too big!




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[anon(767240)]

Ive had the phone for a few hours now. I love it but the adjustment that i have to make is tremendous. Its huge compared to what i am using to post this.


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[CannedBullets]

I've had it for over two weeks and I love it. It would be the best smartphone camera also if it was higher megapixel. Battery life is great also, it matches the battery life on my old Droid Razr Maxx.

EDIT: As for my usage. On a heavy day I used my GPS for about an hour and then I watched a few youtube videos. All over an LTE connection. I was able to come back home with 23% battery left.

 

[RobGG]

First full day with my M8... Im still getting used to it, have used IOS for the past 5 or 6 years, tried android for the first time in 2010 with the nexus 1 from htc.

So far, im getting used to the different twitter app, i use twitter alot and find it a bit better on the ios, hope i find a third party app that is similar to ios.

Phone is big, gotta get used to that, gestures help but wish a 2 tap gesture to turn off screen would appear soon...

Also, i loved swiping back and forth between opened pages on IOS safari, does chrome or other browser have that? Would like a browser with address bar on the bottom too.

I dont like how hard it is to save a picture from dropbox to my gallery app, maybe im not doing it right, i just want my old wallpapers on my new phone

 

[raymaane]

Got the phone Thursday afternoon and I can't put it down. Coming from the Note II (Samsung) it's taking some time getting used to the Sense UI. But I don't mind it. I'm enjoying the smaller size of the phone, compared to my Note. I know this phone is far from small. The stock keyboard is actuated pretty good, I haven't been itching to switch it yet!

I so wish T-Mobile had the Gold version of this phone. Man, I wish.

The camera isn't bad at all. I'm not complaing. I like it. The features are cool too. And the two sensors on the back look cool too.

The Metal design is pretty amazing too. How can I ever go back to plastic? This is premium.

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[jean15paul]

Here's my experience. I wrote this before reading anyone else (didn't want to bias myself). I'll update with additional thoughts as I spends more time with the phone and read other people's opinions...

So it was time for a new phone. My Galaxy Nexus just couldn't keep up anymore. I was debating between getting the HTC One M8 or waiting for the new LG G3. There are a lot of things about the G3 that I like, especially the photo quality. But I ultimately decided on the M8 simply because it was the phone that excited me.

I'm a Sprint customer (I know, I know), and was pretty sure I had settled on the Harman Kardon edition. I like the idea of HK earbuds and software, and the black and gold (ok champagne) look great, especially to a New Orleans Saints fan. But after reading about the texture differences and slipperiness, I didn't want to decide until I held it. I went to a Sprint Store and handled both the HK edition and the Gunmetal Grey, and was instantly in love with the Gunmetal Grey. It looks so nice, it feels GREAT in the hand, and it doesn't attract fingerprints.

Ok, on to first impressions:

• Man this phone is sexy! And it feels so good in the hand. The Sprint store didn't have the dot view case color I wanted so I ordered one from Amazon. After 3 days of using the phone without a case I don't know if I can bring myself to put a case on it. So I also ordered a bumper. Maybe that will strike the right balance of feel and protection.
• Without a case I am babying this thing. I'm so scared of getting it scuffed. I need something because I can't keep this up.
• Coming from the 4.7" 720p amoled display on the GNex, this screen BLOWS ME AWAY!!! Seriously, I just want to play Smash Hit all day to look at the textures and reflections.
• I think this might be my limit in screen size. I cant' reach across to the far edge of the screen with my thumb without also touching the near side of the screen with the my palm. Maybe I just need to get use to it.
• I'm not experiencing the amazing batter life that everyone is talking about. I think I got about 8 or 9 hours yesterday which included all wifi except my commute, some nav use, some streaming video and bluetooth audio. I do have a pretty bad signal at work, but I'm on wifi, so it's only a bad voice signal.
• Speaking of battery, is there anyway to check screen on time on the One? And it looks like HTC doesn't break out screen use separately for battery usage?
• The icing on the cake: hitting the voice dial button on my bluetooth opens Google Now! AWESOME! On my Gnex it opened the (rather useless) Voice Dailer app.
• Such a sexy phone!

 

[Rose4uKY]

What bluetooth headswet do you use? My Blue Ant Q3 broke they sent me a replacement which took forever and i almost bought a plantronics. I used to hate that headsets never brought up Google now and just that voice dialer but now there starting too, I don't think voice quality is the greatest on the Q3 gonna give it a few more days and may get a new one. Glad you like the phone I still think it's the best phone ever.

Here's my experience.
[*]The icing on the cake: hitting the voice dial button on my bluetooth opens Google Now! AWESOME! On my Gnex it opened the (rather useless) Voice Dailer app.
[*]Such a sexy phone!
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[jean15paul]

What bluetooth headswet do you use? My Blue Ant Q3 broke they sent me a replacement which took forever and i almost bought a plantronics. I used to hate that headsets never brought up Google now and just that voice dialer but now there starting too, I don't think voice quality is the greatest on the Q3 gonna give it a few more days and may get a new one. Glad you like the phone I still think it's the best phone ever.

I'm using the LG-Tone+ (730). I really like them. LG Tone + HBS-730 Bluetooth Stereo Headset - Bluetooth - ShopAndroid

 

[Jason McConnell]

As of today, I've had the phone now for a month.

I'm a Sprint customer ( I know, my first mistake) and have been with them for 10+ years. I just upgraded my almost 3 year old iPhone 4S. I wanted something with more memory, a larger resolution camera, and hopefully something that would take advantage of the 4G LTE network that I kept seeing commercials for. I got tired asking if there was an open WiFi network everywhere.. and most of my family is on Sprint with some fancy schmancy phones.. so I thought here we go

Btw, this is my 3rd Android device.. I seem to keep switching back and forth. My first was an unlocked HTC Nexus One, then the Original Samsung Galaxy S phone. And now the HTC One M8 HKE.

The GOOD.
The sound is AMAZING. I crank mp3's at work before business hours all the time, and I love the fact that I don't need to hook it up to a set of speakers to hear it. The device itself is very responsive and snappy, animations and transitions are fluid, and overall pretty awesome. Battery life seems pretty solid when there's a steady signal, or I just put in airplane mode at work (big concrete building with lots of RF interference, no one gets a decent signal in there) and cruise the wifi. Overall construction is awesome, for such a large phone it fits my hand very well, and the UI is fast and responsive.

The BAD.
Sprint's Spark network. Apparently there was a massive outcry a few weeks back, so much so that Sprint sent out a patch OTA. I saw it, thought it was an Android update, and updated. Sucks to be me.. because where before I usually had a very solid 3G or moderate 4G signal, now my phone is constantly disconnected from the data network. I've made two trips to the store where I bought the phone, and have called Customer Service and Techical Services at least half a dozen times, asking that even though I'm over the 14 day period, I've been a customer for so long that I'd hate to go elsewhere.. can I exchange it for a different model that's non-spark? Apparently that's the last thing they want to do. I agreed to try using it regularly for a few more days, but am really considering jumping ship to go to Verizon.

Overall, I really like this phone. Too bad it's attached to a network that's still in it's infant stage of execution.