HTC One (M8) - user opinions and reviews
- AnonD-116479
- tes
[deleted post]It's not like that. If you compare HTC One X display with Galaxy S3 display, without any doubt HTC One One X is the clear winner. The S3 display is so bad with yellow tint and too over saturated colours. I wish if HTC M8 had an OLED panel. New Samsung OLED panels are not that much worse. Samsung has hugely improved their OLED panels. Now they are quite natural, but not as LCD or IPS panels.
Everything depends according to your personal preference. According to my opinion too natural colours are too dull. HTC should saturate the colours little bit more like the IPS panel on the Xperi Z2. At the end of the day HTC is the best in non-Amoled displays and Samsung is the best in Amoled category.
- tarun
- uuD
guys is the phone very slippery to hold and is there a better grip on the glacier silver version plsssssssssssssssssssssssssss reply BEGGING YOU
- AnonD-116479
- tes
darkgamer, 31 Jul 2014Oh well.
Regarding the car now, it's also on s4. Do obviously it'll be on s5. I mentioned ... moreMay be there is some truth in your opinion. But I have told you from the beginning that I'm not much concern about specifications. I highly concern about the real-world performance. If I concern about specs, then I could have end up with buying Galaxy S5 Octa-core version. Yeah, LG G3 is completely a fail. Galaxy S5 LTE is the best qHD display phone so far with a better s805 processor and an Adreno 420 GPU. LG was too early to release a qHD display and the hardware is not compatible with qHD display. I feel sorry about LG.
There are three versions of s801 processors.
1) Qualcomm MSM8974
2) Qualcomm MSM8974AB
3) Qualcomm MSM8974AC
AB and AC versions are clearly better than the original MSM8974 version. I have read many reviews, articles about AB and AC versions. All of them have mentioned that you will hardly discover the any difference of the performance, it's just a small clock speed difference on processor and GPU. When I was using the Galaxy S5 and HTC M8, I never found that Galaxy S5 outperform the M8 in performance. Let's assume that's because of the heavy, bloated Touchwiz. I even watched reviews on YouTube, the Google edition of these phones. Still never found any difference. It's just a Qualcomm's marketing gimmick. It's just like that Intel design i7 processor with two clock speed as 3GHz and 3.4GHz and marketing that 3.4GHz is superior to 3GHz version. However, aware people exactly know what is it and how they are distinguish each other. Most people would choose the 3GHz over the 3.4GHz version. Because their is no need to spend more on minor clock speed.
According to my experience with the S5, I have even faced the 4k video recording recording trouble over 4 minutes. The phone is overheating and close the camera app automatically. But I think that problem is not anymore on the Galaxy S5 LTE.
Regarding the Wolfson DAC on the S4 Octa-Core version. I even checked it. Anyway, Qualcomm uses their own DAC in their soc's. If it's anything like the s4 Qualcomm vs Exynos situation then they should both be excellent. Most audiophiles hardly hear a difference between the two. The real advantage of Wolfson comes with audio mods. May be Wolfson DAC on S4 could outperform the HTC One M7 but can't argue about the M8. Thank god there is no Beats on M8. Actually, Betas on the last year M7 completely destroyed the music quality. HTC phones are better off without Beats. It's just a Bass focus sound lack of surround, echo and voice and natural instrumental sounds. As a heavy music fan, I love natural sounds. HTC M8 is a winner for audiophile people. The Harman Kardon edition of HTC M8 is far more superior. I recommended it to one of my friends and he bought it and showed me. I felt like that I was using an old Nokia N91 many years ago. The best music quality I have ever heard after my old Nokia N91. I blame HTC for not to include that on their international version of M8. It's clearly could have a strong competitive advantage for them.
May be we should stop arguing about those specs. We should more concern about the real-world performance rather than specs.
We can keep a hope for this year Xperia Z3 and iPhone 6. Let's wait what will happen in the future.
Have a Nice Day!
Period
- AnonD-28999
- vGc
Has anyone received 4.4.3 update in Delhi ? If yes in which area? Thanks
- Qrif
- 6cH
My htc one m8 camera is broken. No function. I use default software , camera 360, google camera.... Update 4.4.3 still couldn't function.
Please htc quality control your produk
- A Mockery
- NrJ
darkgamer, 31 Jul 2014Please explain the better colours. AMOLEDS have a much wider colour gamut. They are also m... moreEven in the days of S3 people like you were overly excited about amoled display now you just become preposterous. Does the beauty of M8 hurt you so much? M8
- darkgamer
- XNn
Catalin, 31 Jul 2014Amoled is better at contrast, brightness and viewing angles, ok... The bad thing about amoled ... morePlease explain the better colours.
AMOLEDS have a much wider colour gamut. They are also much more power efficient, faster response time, better sunlight legibility, thinner, have no backlight bleed, can display accurate whites, can adjust the colour fidelity by changing the modes and the typical ones.
The only advantage of LCD is that they are cheaper to manufacture.
Gone are the days of galaxy s3 when colours were oversaturated and crappy. Now AMOLEDS are more accurate than IPS.
- darkgamer
- XNn
Jacky, 31 Jul 2014Dude, you've got it all wrong. Amoled displays dont display Real life colors, especially Samsu... moreLOL. No use of even making you understand.
S5 display has the most accurate colours of any smartphone by displaymate.
I have a lot to tali about these displays but no need of explaining to someone who won't even try to understand.
- darkgamer
- XNn
AnonD-116479, 31 Jul 2014You have forgotten the superior music quality, caller clarity and Car Mode on the HTC M8. The ... moreOh well.
Regarding the car now, it's also on s4. Do obviously it'll be on s5. I mentioned the smoothness of sense.
Minor processor speed does make a difference. Actually its more than that. S5 uses the s801 AC which has 2.5 ghz clock for cpu and 578 man for gpu. M8 uses the s801 AB version which has 2.3 ghz cpu and 550 mhz gpu. So the Adreno 330 are not the same.
Regarding the advantages of s801 AC over s801 AB, it's slightly more efficient too and hence there is less heating when recording 4k video. You might have heard the 4k problems with z2 with s801 AB.
Regarding the call quality, m8 is better hands down. But music quality its tough. There is an exynos version of s5 too and it has a Wolfson chip. That's beats the m8 by quite a long shot. Even my s4 exynos beats the m8 due to Wolfson DAC.
The multitasking app on Plaistow uses the floating windows rather than the full versions used in multi window. It's comparable to xperia mini apps but Multi window is miles ahead. Trust me, I use both and multi window is miles better.
I know you are a sensible person unlike a specific person on s5 thread (I won't take his name).
Remember my prediction of g3. It was 100% correct. I can know smartphones by their specs. No need to argue further.
I don't care about any of these phones. Both are just minor iterations of their predecessors. Let's talk when the real updates come in q3 and q4 in the face of iPhone 6, note 4, galaxy f, xperia z3 and z3 compact with real chipsets and a good difference from the q1 and q2 flagships.
Have a nice day
- Catalin
- nsF
Ravi, 30 Jul 2014Seriously, how can you compare lcd to amoled . Amoled screen far better than lcd.Think before ... moreAmoled is better at contrast, brightness and viewing angles, ok... The bad thing about amoled is that colours are rubbish. Good for the menus and for most people. If you want colour fidelity, IPS is the way to go, much better colours, even though blacks are not that deep and angles not that perfect.
- Jacky
- sUU
darkgamer, 30 Jul 2014Are you serious. M8 is an LCD display and it cant even come close to s5 in display quality.
... moreDude, you've got it all wrong. Amoled displays dont display Real life colors, especially Samsung's SO CALLED SUPERAMOLED, they are just good for deep blacks and for health of eyes! and s5's display just shows OVERcontrast!
- Jacky
- sUU
darkgamer, 30 Jul 2014Are you serious. M8 is an LCD display and it cant even come close to s5 in display quality.
... moreDude, you've got it all wrong. Amoled displays dont display Real life colors, especially Samsung's SO CALLED SUPERAMOLED, they are just good for deep blacks and for health of eyes! and s5's display just shows OVERcontrast!
- AnonD-116479
- iwp
darkgamer, 30 Jul 2014Your first 3 reasons are the same. And you forgot the boomsound speakers.
M8 over s5:... moreYou have forgotten the superior music quality, caller clarity and Car Mode on the HTC M8. The kids mode already on the M8 and it also had on my last year M7 as well. I don't think minor processor clock speed difference makes a huge difference. In day to day usage, still M8 faster than the Galaxy S5. Both phones have the same Adreno 330 GPU.
I agree that S5 has tons of features, but the only matter is, are they useful to you or are you using them more often? There are better alternatives available for the Health & Fitness and Multitasking apps on the Play Store. There is a great app called "Multitasking" available for multitasking on Play Store. Finally, the fingerprint scanner on the Galaxy S5 is not quite perfect. It's not accurate as the fingerprint scanner on the iPhone 5s. Sometimes I had to swipe the finger 2-3 times when I was using the Galaxy S5.
We don't have to buy a phone because of the tons of features and if we don't use them in our day to day usage. The most important thing is which phone gives the better user experience.
- janel
- TS{
Anyone can help me? Why can't attach picture from gallery while using whatsapp?
- AnonD-289186
- smZ
Dont listen to what people may say about the camera quality. its the best ive seen out there. depth and colour make all the difference. however the camera lens will scratch way too easily and is unusable after 4 months. im having to send mine back to be replaced (i hope). yes ofc im carefull but you'll need a specific lens cover for it, available if you google it. speakers, screen, ui, performance, are all the best of the best. cant complain about them at all. the glass screen is very resilient, ive heard no complaints and have none about it. that lens lets the whole thing down though. HTC give you the best phone you ever used with the best camera and make the lens out of rubbish.
- yus76
- tue
My m8 just got system update to 4.4.3
Good job HTC, keep it up HTC.
From Malaysia here
- chidi ebere
- N9@
s5 has better screen than one m8.but i dislike s5 because it lacks FM radio,stereo speakers + heavy UI.
- darkgamer
- 9xn
Anonymous, 30 Jul 2014M8 is overall better....
Reasons..
Has a much cleaner smoother interface..
Naturally margin... moreYour first 3 reasons are the same. And you forgot the boomsound speakers.
M8 over s5:
Smooth UI
Better looking ui
Much better metal build
Boomsound speakers
Better front camera
S5 over m8:
Better screen
Water resistant
Finger print scanner, heart rate scanner and all other extra sensor's like gesture sensor, barometer etc
Camera
WiFi mimo( 2 WiFi antennas for double the WiFi speed)
Slightly powerful cpu and GPU.
Capacitive buttons ( personal preference Stert save the screen space)
Removable battery
Much more features in touchwiz like s-health, multi window, toolbox, private mode, kids mode etc.
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