HTC One M9 review: One up
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- AnonD-376951
- MIa
- 23 Mar 2015
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2015Totally agree. If we just focus on the M7, M8 camera 4MP u... moreActually the camera in the M9 is made by Toshiba not Sony. In fact, by the sound of things, HTC would have been better apeing Samsung and Apple and gone for a Sony lens instead.
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- GFraz
- aXk
- 23 Mar 2015
AnonD-7433, 23 Mar 2015Note 4. Duh..! It's the single best phone right now. Touchw... moreNote 4 has an extremely poor loudspeaker and full of Samsung's bloatware though. It's a shame there isn't really any perfect phone out there at the moment. I was thinking of the M9 but am unhappy with that battery life and heating.
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- chowmein
- 0wr
- 23 Mar 2015
terrible battery and aggressive throttling.
sorry no M9 for me
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- Anonymous
- v0q
- 23 Mar 2015
another reason for me to wait for xperia
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- AnonD-378294
- nIu
- 23 Mar 2015
What a waste of a 20MP camera. Come on GSMARENA, these shots are poor, very poor. HTC still have major noise issues in their camera and the low light photograph quality is laughable. My next phone will definitely not be a HTC.
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- AnonD-7433
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- 23 Mar 2015
AnonD-232131, 23 Mar 2015Hmm, which one should I pick, this or Galaxy Note 4? The... moreNote 4. Duh..! It's the single best phone right now. Touchwiz is less bloated and much smoother. The screen res is for VR, which is out of this world. Do some research about it, it's amazing.
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- AnonD-274519
- pWQ
- 23 Mar 2015
Very nice audio output on headphones again. Screen is unimpressive (low resolution for being a 2015 flagship) and it's also too small for my taste. I expected more, but seems like my next device really isn't made by HTC when I switch from the M8. :)
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- AnonD-39775
- pqC
- 23 Mar 2015
GSMARENA, YOU SAID: "There are only a few smartphones louder than the M9 in the whole history of the industry". WICH ARE THOSE "FEW" SMARPHONES LOUDER THAN M8 OR M9 ?????? NAME THEM !! Personally i know only one: Nokia N91 and maybe Samsung Serenta for Bang & Olufsen, but with this last one i am not sure anymore. So those "few" smartphones louder than M9 are in fact just only one: Nokia n91. Of course i am talking here only about the loudness of the headphones output, not the speakers....
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- nDN
- 23 Mar 2015
Screen resolution is not a disadvantage GSM ARENAAAAA. It's the clear mind of a manufacturer that knows a bigger resolution is just stupppid
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- 23 Mar 2015
Anonymous, 23 Mar 2015Totally agree. If we just focus on the M7, M8 camera 4MP u... moreSamsung should buy htc . Then their phones would have Samsung's internal organs with htcs beautiful body on top. Will remain on no.1 forever.
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- rAT
- 23 Mar 2015
In terms of look htc one m7 and one max are the best. Performance wise m8 is the best but the asymmetrical speakers in m8 and m9 looks weird. There may not be any boom box or any stereo device having one small speaker/grill and the other one larger in this world expect m8 and m9. Htc may be the only company coming with such an odd design for some meagre improvement in sound. They should have paced the sensors on one side and the front cam on the other side on the top bezel so there would have been enough space in between to put a speaker grill equal to the size of speaker grill on the bottom bezel.
- John Shepard
- 0Bh
- 23 Mar 2015
Akira, 23 Mar 2015This test is based on preproduction firmware. HTC just cam... moreThe OTA update pushed last week is the final firmware. Read this quote:
"The phone received a big OTA update last week while we were in the process of preparing our review. Could it be the final firmware to fix all heating issue, we wondered. We went ahead and redid the whole benchmark session. What you would read on this page is based on the scores we got after the update.
We did notice a difference in regards to how hot the phone got under use. It took a longer time for the the One M9 to get hot, but ultimately, it still did get as hot as before.
Another change that we did notice after the update is the measurable performance of the smartphone. Before the update it got 4020 points on GeekBench (down to 3761 after the update) and 57900 on AnTuTu (down to 51727 after the update). The single and multi-core CPU scores as calculated by BaseMark OS II 2.0 were slightly higher before the update, too. On the other hand, the GPU benchmarks showed no change at all so we suspect HTC has changed the main CPU throttling policy in relation to the internal device temperature."
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- Anonymous
- v0X
- 23 Mar 2015
What is the difference of dual-quad core & octa-core?
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- darkraver
- 6jb
- 23 Mar 2015
AnonD-43136, 23 Mar 2015Nice phone... Bad chipset. I will be avoiding anything with... moreI would believe the newest reports saying m9 with final firmware heats up only on par with m8...
Funny thing, there are no 3rd party S6 heating test reviews...
Not that it heats up probably much, but with all the talk about em ditching qualcomm for the issue, one would expect someones test at least to prove Sammy had a case...
But no, only htc heatup was tested...
Go figure...
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- darkraver
- 6jb
- 23 Mar 2015
Dissapointing batterylife to say the least...
For now, M9 and S6 both somewhat dissapointing for flagships
Htc made another flop Im affraid, shame...
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- AnonD-43136
- 39x
- 23 Mar 2015
Nice phone... Bad chipset. I will be avoiding anything with a snapdragon 810 in it as you will either get a throttled experience or one that isn't throttled and a phone that overheats. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the flagships catch fire with that chipset in.. But according to snapdragon there are no issues... Who would you believe... Snapdragon or the hundreds of reviewers all reporting heating issues and thermal throttling?
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- Kress
- MGm
- 23 Mar 2015
I would buy this phone if developer version will be sold outside the US. Meaning factory unlocked bootloader and S-OFF. Besides there are no substantial changes from M8.
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- Anonymous
- X{X
- 23 Mar 2015
Now LG and Sony are in a sweet spot because they are now fully aware of the horrible outcome of SD 810. They have time to fix their flagships before realising them.
If Sony and LG produces the same crappy flagships like Sammy and HTC it will be a huge disappointment.
Bottom line; last years flagships were much better than Q1 of 2015.
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- uNV
- 23 Mar 2015
After reading this review,I think I'll keep my M8..and lets see if anything "bigger" arrives like M9+ or the Note 5.
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- My only One
- ajM
- 23 Mar 2015
AnonD-232131, 23 Mar 2015Hmm, which one should I pick, this or Galaxy Note 4? The... moreTotally agree with you. The only thing that is keeping me away of having the Note4 is Touchwiz. In all the other aspects Note 4 is better than M9...battery, camera, performance, screen...S6 is Samsung's reply to Apple's Iphone 6 and that's it...two colorless phones