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HTC ONE M8 2014
Hello everyone. So, here we are
with the HTC One, otherwise known as the
M8 the follow-on to the HTC One.
Now, as many of you will know, the HTC One last year was voted T3 magazine's
phone of the year and I would certainly agree with that. So,
we're going to go through a full unboxing, a complete deep dive
all of the key features in one single video. These videos tend to take around
30 to 35 minutes and ultimately you will get to see
every single bit of the device and our first impressions
as well. We'll be following up over the next week with a full review as well as a deep dive
on all of the really small
intricate features that we're being given here with the HTC One M8.
Let's start. First of all I noticed they've kind of
skewed the usual kind of boxy shape that we get with a lot of these smartphones.
Instead of obviously quite a small thin box we've got something a little bit more
square which I think is quite nice. So, let's remove the top
and straight away there is our handset. Let's just see if we can get that out.
Have to tip it, no let's tip the box. Whoa!
OK, yes, you can certainly feel the extra weight on this device compared to
the
HTC One from last year, the 2013 model.
Mmmm, but not unpleasant I wouldn't say. So let's see what else we have in the box here.
HTC ONE M8 2014
It's the usual assortment, oh!
OK, looks like we get a free cover. Let's take all these little bits and pieces out
first and
we'll just see. Let's get this box out of the way. OK then, so, there's
our device and then we've got all manner of extra stuff. So,
we'll leave the device to one side for a moment. Let's just get these bits out
here, or should I say, tear into them. So,
we have what by now is known to many many people the HTC One charger.
We have what appears to be a set of headphones.
as well. Yes, set of HTC ONE M8 2014
headphones which are actually quite nice. They sort of look like a
Beats Audio one if you can just see that. Very similar design to
Beats Audio earbuds from last year. The
obligatory micro USB cable, because you know, we all don't
have millions and millions of those lying around. But this interests me.
It would appear to be a free case. It is!!!
It is a free case. Now that's an interesting thing in itself.
How nice to get a nice little flexigrip cover with it.
Fantastic. But anyway, we don't really care about all these things we get in the box do we?
What we really care about
is the HTC One itself. So,
next up let take a look at the HTC One's design
and let's see what we think. OK, so let's have a look at the HTC ONE M8 2014 itself.
It's obviously come in a small little piece of
sort of plastic there, just to keep the thing from getting scratched and
make sure it's all nice and shiny. Ta dah!
Here we go. Now the first instant thing
that I notice is these tapered edges are far superior to
the previous HTC One. That actually has a really nice feel in the hand.
I quite liked the first HTC One from last year
but the edges could feel little a little bit kind of gratey
on these parts of your hand here. This has a very good
in the hand feel. Feels very similar to the
Galaxy S4 with its tapered edges. Very, very nice.
Now the most important task, see if we can do this
is a finger balance. Now, if we get this device
near enough in its centre, it should HTC ONE M8 2014
be able to find the pivot point. There we are. So what we can see here, this is actually a couple inches off the
ground
but that is your kind of balance point on this device.
And it's actually very nicely balanced. If you notice I'm able to
lift it up-and-down and it isn't really moving around too much.
If I try that on the side of my finger should be able to get a similar kind of result
from it HTC ONE M8 2014.
There we go, a little bit more wobbly but
that is pretty well balanced I would say. The
original HTC One always felt like it had just a slight amount
of kind of top-heaviness on it so it would sometimes kind of tip more
that does feel nice. So just going
round the device as it were, just pop that down on the table,
one of the key things that we obviously have on the HTC
range of devices is the boom sound which is denoted by these two speakers.
On the original HTC One it gave incredible sound. We will be checking to see how
well that
stacks-up on the new device. What we also have on the front is
the front-facing selfie camera that I think we can now well and truly dub
front facing cameras HTC ONE M8 2014
It is a 5-megapixel shooter which is a bit of an interesting one really
traditionally we normally would have maybe 2 or 3 megapixels or less.
Here we have a 5-megapixels normal style shooter so not ultrapixel
just 5-megapixels.
It's a standard kind of camera. The display is now a
5-inch display and it's pretty much edge to edge.
You can see a small amount of bordering here
but not a huge amount. On the bottom
this is where our standard kind of jacks are concerned.
We have our mini USB
micro USB whichever way you want to call it and a headphone jack.
On the top we have a power button and that's about our lot.
Taking a look at the front of the HTC ONE M8 2014
one of the key things that we can obviously notice is the speaker grille
very similar to the HTC One from last year.
It is boom sound which means it's got lots of front facing sound and
unlike most mobile phones and smartphones which have their speakers in the bottom
the back which ultimately means that the sound isn't really facing you,
in the HTC One from last year it was most definitely a stand-out
feature. Interestingly the front-facing camera is now a 5-megapixel shooter
which is interesting because effectively using ultrapixels for the back HTC ONE M8 2014
cameras that really only topped out at the equivalent of around 4-megapixels
so in theory you'll get a slightly bigger quality of image
such a large image from the front facing camera than you will from the back, although
evidently the front-facing camera is not going to give you as good a quality of
image. Less light being able to come in. Now,
on the bottom we have our standard USB jack HTC ONE M8 2014
and the headphone jack. On there, so charging and audio.
On the top is our power button and on the sides
we have two trap doors which are used for the SIM and the Micro SD.
card. Excellent thing here, 32gig
is your storage but you can expand it through micro SD. HTC ONE M8 2014
thankfully. Nothing worse than having a top-end
smartphone that's brilliant for media and not being able to actually get all of your media
you want to play onto it. Now,
on the back things haven't really changed a right lot from
the HTC One 2013. The major changes
really are dual cameras and dual LED flash which
I don't believe dual LED flash was on the previous HTC One. I'll HTC ONE M8 2014
double check that actually and also we've got some noise cancelling microphone
point there I believe as well. Now the really interesting thing with the camera
array they've gone
for on the HTC One M8 is this dual camera setup.
Now we will be testing this in more detail and giving you some footage from that
as well. But ultimately the way this works is this is your primary camera here
and this takes your actual photograph. But this top camera is actually measuring the
depth of
the image as it's being taken. So what you can then do is
change the focus on the camera after you've taken the picture
so effectively you can take the picture, take your picture of a nice scene
maybe two people stood next to each other or pme person stood slightly into the background
and then afterwards you can kind of recompose the shot by making the foreground blurry
and the background sharp and vice versa and all of that is achieved by
this ability to have depth information generated from this second
camera. This could well be a watershed moment
in smartphone camera design. A very clever idea and something that's very similar
to a technology called Lytro.
which was kind of come up with a few years ago. Very interesting to see how this kind of
works out. Now the HTC logo, it's slightly bumpy
it kind of is embossed into this metal and it
feels a little rough but mmm, it's not unpleasant.
Let's see how that kind of affects my in the hand. Mm,. You can feel a slight
roughness to it but it's not getting in my way. It's not catching on my hands or
anything. HTC ONE M8 2014
You can just feel it's there. In many respects that might actually help to
find the centrepoint of the device for grip, but we'll see.
Honestly it's just a little affectation really isn't it? It's just something to say Hey
mine's a HTC. But anyway, one thing I do really like though is these tapered edges
are gorgeous. The more I hold it in my hand the more I kind of feel
wow, that is comfy. Even with that extra weight and the kind of size increase from the
you know the 4.7 inch screen I think it was in the previous one up to a
5-inch screen now and it's actually grown by about a centimetre
top and bottom, overall from the height
and a couple of millimetres on the width but it feels good.
It doesn't feel... this isn't kind of like holding a Note 2 or Note 3 for the
first time, where you're kind of like going Ooh!
my hand has expanded. This feels good
and the weight and distribution again feels really nice. So,
the next thing we need to most definitely take a look at
is we need to turn this bad boy on. There it is, the HTC One booting up for the first time.
Now just something to mention because I know when we've done these deep dives in
in before on the first look
people so oh the device is taking so long to boot up. That is perfectly normal
when a device is being run for the very first time out of the box. A lot of stuff has to be
stored in the background, or
patches and so on. Obviously it's going to get faster the more times you
boot that up HTC ONE M8 2014
and so on. So, we're giving it a, wow, that was quick.
I was expecting that to take a fair old while, and we've been talking for quite some time but
wow that was really fast. OK, let's see
what it's going to present me with when we come in. All right, so pretty standard stuff.
We now need to set up our device. Already picked out United Kingdom let'*** start. It's
asking me for my mobile network. Obviously I need to drop my SIM card in here
and it's showing me all of the wifi networks in my area.
Now what I'm just going to do is I'm going to quickly progress through this, just
to save a little bit of time really and
when I come back we'll be sitting at the
kind of next prompt. You don't really want to see me bunging in my password and everything like that.
I popped in my
various Google details, syncing up my accounts and very first thing
it's mentioning to me is HTC Advantage. So
thank you for your purchase. Basically I can get no charge
an extra 50gig of Google Drive storage and advance back up.
Well, absolutely, I think I'll have that. Who doesn't want some
free stuff.
Has it dropped my wifi there, I think it might have done>
There we go, let's just go back. So, when
you actually get the HTC One, they've done a deal with Google so
what you actually get is 50gig of free Google Drive storage for buying
the HTC One. Bonus! Although after Google dropped the price of their storage that's
probably only worth about £1
a month, so £12 a year. Still,
free is free. So checking for save backups
connecting to HTC services. What else have we got here. Use a computer to set up your email, no I
really want to skip that
thanks. Transfer and restore - skip.
Essentially what we have here is HTC have
offered you a few ways that if you have a previous Android device or I think even an iPhone
or a BlackBerry you can kind of
drag all of your old data off that device and onto your new one.
Now I think it uses an extra piece of software from HTC
or if you've got a previous HTC phone it can pull the back up that it's already kept.
This is useful and we're starting to see this a lot more from manufacturers this kind of need to
really make a smooth path between devices
certainly between Android devices kind of essential but also to help people
migrate from
iPhone, BlackBerrys and so on. So let's just skip that, it's of
no interest to me because I have my backups held someplace else
so we've then got all of the usual kind of syncing options available
absolutely oodles and oodles of them. So we can now personalise and set up our
screen lock if we want.
We going to skip that for now. I'm going to show you how you do all of that afterwards. Wow, it
really does want to have lots of screens here for my
start-up so sat here with my accounts again, it's asking me what would I like to back up
would I like to tell HTC when things go wrong and how they can improve their device
yes, certainly would. HTC ONE M8 2014
And hopefully we're now coming to our home screen. Hooray,
So first off it brings us into the blink feed.
Now BlinkFeed is kind of HTC's social stream in many respects.
It gathers together news and social updates
from your connections, you obviously have to put those details in first, into the device.
and then it will give you all of that information in a feed that
you can then browse through. It's kind of like Flipboards or
Newsstand from Google. It's quite nice but occasionally
mmm it can be a little bit irritating, certainly on the
HTC ONE M8 2014 What have we got here? Oh,
all right so we've got our first update has already been pushed out for it.
120meg, so stability improvements, core performance
Bluetooth, wifi, auto function autofocus
change the video highlights, improve video photo editing.
Let's download that now while we're doing it
in the background
but essentially transfer update manually,
Great. Presumably because it's already downloading
quite a lot of stuff in the background. We'll have to wait a little while and do that in a
moment. HTC ONE M8 2014
Obviously before we test any of those features we really do need to patch up
using the day one patch,
make sure that we're using the latest software before we kind of explore this in any more
detail.
Now the main issue that I always had with BlinkFeed as it were
was it just wasn't very well executed. It was quite laggy at times.
This does seem to be quite a bit faster.
Nicely so in fact. So what I'm going to do,
I'm just going to take a quick break because there's some bits and pieces of software we need to install.
I need to obviously install that day one patch as well before we kind of carry on.
I wasn't aware they were going to be pushing one but ultimately we've got a software update on day one
to improve the device.
Bonus! Let's do that first and then we'll move on and start really deep diving through all of these
features and settings.
OK, so just whilst the HTC One M8 is installing its day one patch let's talk
about specs
slightly. So first of all is the overall size. You're looking at
5.78, 6inches should I say of height
a width of 2.78 and a depth of
.37, effectively about 4 millimetres. It's
quite thin. Now the display is a 5-inch display up from 4.78
I think we had on the previous edition and that's running at 1920x1080 and it
has a PPI pixels per inch of 441, which is
a slight reduction over the previous device. Essentially the same pixel density but
over a bigger display just lowers that pixel density by a small amount.
It's going to be so small you're not going to notice the difference I would have thought.
Now they're running Sense 6.0 for the
launcher, user interface which, there's lots that can be said about
Sense
it's not one of the worst it's not one of the best either but it generally does a good job.
Processor-wise this is where things get a bit more
interesting. The procesor is a 2.3 gHz
quad core, Qualcomm Snapdragon 8.01
processor. In previous phones from last year we were looking at the
800 processor and a lot of people have commented that the 8.01 isn't massive departure from the
800. HTC ONE M8 2014
I would argue slightly differently. It's not a massive architectural
change necessarily but what they have done is given
speed bumps in some really key areas. The overall GPU
CPU is clocked much higher. Now that generally means that
before I think we were dealing with a GPU clock of around 330-360, something in that kind
range for that particular GPU part. Now,
we're looking at well over 400, I think around 460.
Now that additional clock gives around about 20-25%
more performance for 3D work. That's a pretty big leap
guys. You know that's not a small kind of speed bump at all really.
We'll definitely be checking out some games. We'll be comparing them to
footage from Galaxy S4 and the Nexus 5 and we'll just see how much of a difference
that actual speed bump made. You can hear the boom sound kicking in there.
Now the rear camera uses Ultrapixels. Now, strictly speaking
it gives you an image equivalent of a 4 megapixel
photograph. Now that might seem a little on the small side when you're dealing with things like 18 and 20 mega pixels and so on.
but the way that HTC are using those pixels is quite a bit different
and an Ultrapixel is a very large pixel capable of taking
in much more light than a traditional sensor can.
Now the whole idea there is the more light you can capture the better-quality of images you
will generally have
overall. It might not produce quite such big images
leaving you very little crop space etcetera, but overall
your image should be better. Now the issue is always with, you know,
image sensor sizes and everything like that, the bigger the image the HTC ONE M8 2014
more crop you've got or you can shrink the image to increase the pixel density
and thus giving you a sharper image. Well, effectively that's
great, unless you're working in low light conditions. In low light,
you don't have much light coming in and so the camera has to crank ISO and do all sorts of
ugly things to try and make a picture that's viable.
HTC with the phone from last year, the HTC One 2013
they absolutely nailed low light photography in a way that I have never
seen
on a smartphone before and consequently it was most definitely one of the standout
features.
What we can certainly expect here is more of the same but with refinements.
everything they learned from last year improved. The actual sensor
appears to be exactly the same as last year's model so HTC ONE M8 2014
let's not expect anything new and groundbreaking there necessarily, but how they
kind of work in software
with those images has changed but obviously the addition of the
dual shooting camera there, the additional depth
sensors as it were, that is going to make a big difference on
how we kind of edit our images and kind of how we can compose them after the fact.
Now you can see here we're just running through the final stages of an Android upgrade
hasn't got very long to go. Now capacity wise we're looking at 16 and 32 gig
of capacity that is how much stuff you can store on your device.
We'll take a look and just see how much roughly HTC has used up in advance.
RAM is only 2gig. Now this is going to be an interesting one.
A lot of the devices we're seeing coming out this year are running with a minimum of 3gig.
With HTC, saved a little bit of money here, gone with just 2gig of RAM, that
might make a bit of a difference. Certainly
in throughput with certain games and being able to keep certain apps
open in memory at the same time without Android having to put them to sleep
etcetera might be interesting and we might see that as a slight bottleneck.
Expandable storage you can put up to 128 gig of
expandable storage in this using a micro card.
So, a micro SD card, very, very cheap
these days. Certainly being able to expand out to 128gig is HTC ONE M8 2014
going to be fantastic. Interestingly as well
there's a 2600 milliamp power battery in here which is
I think a fair old rise from the previous one which was around 2100 or 2300
milliamp power battery. It's
going to make a fair bit of a difference. Also
HTC have got some technology that Samsung have also been rolling out
in the S5 which is an ultra low power mode. Basically turn everything off on the device
to keep the battery running as long as possible. It's going to be a few weeks before we can
really understand how well that's going to
work. We've got the usual assortment of features on here as well
4G LTE, wifi, NFC, Bluetooth version 4
most important but not the low energy version of Bluetooth apparently.
Infr Red blaster is included and then we've got out usual selection of software
like
BlinkFeed and Boom Sound and and so on. Colour choices are going to be an interesting
one.
Grey, silver and rose are going to be your colours, rose gold
apparently. This particular one is the silver if you hadn't guessed.
Beautiful silver looking device. I had the silver one last time and HTC ONE M8 2014
I must admit I really did fall in love with that kind of real premium feel that the
metal gives you.
and I personally think you should show that off and
rose gold? Really? Mmm.
Carrier wise well you can expect to find this on every carrier under the sun.
It will be everywhere. This particular device came from Carphone Warehouse and
it is
free.
As you can see, the old vibration there works quite nicely.
OK, let's now dive into the device itself, start looking at the software.
This is the HTC One on its home screen
and one of first things that we can notice is if we swipe
to our left side effectively. If we swipe from left
to the right we bring up our BlinkFeed and this is basically our newsfeed as
I mentioned earlier. It rounds up data and information from a variety of different sources
which you can provide it, Facebook and so on, and it creates us
really a live feed of what's going on in our lives and around the
world.
BlinkFeed it works pretty well. Certainly what we're seeing here so far feels so much
more fluid
and inviting than the previous BlinkFeed.
You know, colours aside it being nice Android green,
it does feel quite a bit better than the previous BlinkFeed,
not only smoother and faster but generally
pulling in from Google+ now as well which is nice. But generally speaking
it just feels quite a bit more user-friendly
than the previous editions which could at times well
be a bit clunky would be my gut feeling. So let's
move on to the rest of the system. If you've used the previous version of Sense
everything here looks pretty much the same. The icons certainly don't appear to
have been given
a massive makeover including the camera icon that looks very reminiscent of
last year. We have all of the usual Android 4.4 features here. This is KitKat remember
so things like the transparent bars up at the
top and the way some of our settings work and so on.
Everything there is Android 4.4. Down here we have our
dock and this is where we can get hold of all of our apps which Google has very
helpfully pre-installed
even the stuff I didn't want it to, which is handy, it's taken everything from my Nexus 5
and dropped it
across. Useful in some respects but not necessarily when we're trying to do a first
test on a device but
never mind. So that takes us into our
home area into our dock and from there we've got various features
that allow us to kind of rearrange these apps, show and hide apps as well,
change our grid size and manage them. Manage apps allows us to remove apps
that we've downloaded as well as seeing how much space we've got. This is actually the 16gig model
that we've got here. You can see what's on the SD card which is a bit of a misnomer
because actually the SD card is internal storage
bar in this particular scenario with the way Android works at the moment.
So you can see there that I've used up about 7.65 gig
it's still installing stuff in the background. I've got about half the space left
over but actually I think this device is probably going to be hitting about 6gig. I'll have to give it a wipe over
later and just get the HTC ONE M8 2014
final you know, free space at install
count for you but somehow I've actually managed to get
Flappy Bird on here as well. But anyway. So,
let's move on. When we actually look at our home screens
we got there we go. our widgets so you can pinch
anywhere to bring up your widgets and adjust your home screens and panels etcetera.
Works very nicely, it's really nice and fluid. Very similar
to the Galaxy S4 and pretty much any other Android launcher you've ever used.
We've got the weather widget up at the top which is well and truly loved
by all, well, pretty much everybody. But anyway, let's move on now and take a look
around the rest of the system. One of the key areas to always take a look at is our
settings area. So when we actually come into here, this is our notification tray
and this is where all of our notifications live, sometimes known as the notification shade by
some
and what we have here, we can dismiss using that icon.
Or if we click on this one it brings up our kind of quick launch
options here for brightness control, turning Bluetooth and wifi on or off.
Here's our extreme power mode option, we'll have a play with that in a bit,
turn your mobile data, do not disturb and a few other
bits and bobs in there as well. But actually what we want is we want to go into
our settings.
So, if you've ever used a HTC device before
hey welcome to HTC's way of doing settings. It tends to be a great big long list and
you have to go through. HTC ONE M8 2014
Again we have some of our kind of quick settings here which are more expandable
or quick and easy to access. So we tap on the airplane mode
and it will turn any of our wifi signals
3G or 4G signals off. If we turn on wifi we can go and pick from a
wifi networks. Bluetooth we're allowed to turn Bluetooth on
and set up our Bluetooth devices. Mobile data
pretty obvious one, turns our mobile data on and off but also in there you have
your ability to set your roving information
access points, your network mode and so on. All those very important if you happen to
have, you know a SIM card you're just dropping you need your APN settings.
You will find more in there to change. Your media output...
Now in previous editions this is affectively like a mirrorcast kind of
thing. It allows you to stream data from your device
videos pictures music to a receiver and usually these are DLNA based receivers
Digital Living Network Alliance for those that like acronyms.
Go into more. This is where we have yet more features related to
the memory usage etcetera. I noticed that it's saying HTC
mini-plus in here which is quite interesting.
That's obviously for a completely different device presumably
that's something that's left over from
interesting. We'll look into that in more detail but I noticed that dotted
around the interface in a few places making these references to
HTC mini-plus.
I honestly haven't seen what that's exactly about. I assume it's a device
but very strange. If you happen to know what this
information here is, the HTC mini-plus do let me know HTC ONE M8 2014
could be a fitness band maybe, or maybe it's a leftover piece of
another phone that they haven't quite removed yet. Our VPN settings if
you're a network-based
kind of person wanting to connect to corporate networks. Mobile network sharing this is your
tethering basically,
so wifi hotspot, USB or Bluetooth tethers.
Useful. Glad we're still seeing that in there and it hasn't been forcibly removed by the networks.
You can with Android 4.4, this is 4.4 feature change who
or what your default SMS app is going to be.
Very, very useful for those people who like to use things, you know
don't really like the built in SMS-app or want to use Hangouts for instance,
you can use that just change it. And then here's your NFC toggle as well which is a
little bit buried. I would prefer to have seen it kind of
more central here rather than just being buried away there
I'm someone who likes turning NFC on and off
when I actually need it rather then leave it running through the background
personalization here is where we get change the look and feel of our lovely new
device
we've got are home screen are wallpapers apps and widgets the lock screen
a theme ringtones notification everything in
there also notification sound should I say
which is lotus listen to some of these
I think these are very much similar to ones we have had
previously from HTC
nothing particularity new I don't think lets just leave it on willow HTC ONE M8 2014
so in here we can make adjustments to well sp far in home screen just
blink feed no other option and apparently it just throws us straight out
I think that's probably where launches will get collected up so if you have a
few launches you will be able to switch between them
as another piece of I think it under 4.4 but it might be
in a previous edition 4.22 cant quite remember or maybe in 4.3
so other things impersonation changing wallpaper
wow there is a far few options there
so HTC'S built in wallpapers your live wallpapers gallery computer
photos and ASTRO File Manager
ASTRO File Manager is appearing there because I have just installed that in the background
apps and widgets actually brings us back to are pinch contextuality there
so effectively just keeping that functionality exactly the same
in some respects I actually prefer that to the way Samsung do it where
where you kinda end up having 2 or 3 different meta-fores doing exactly the
same action
HTC there just saying to people well actually guys you can just use a
pinch to zoom there and just dropping people
straight into it I quite like that actually
um your home screen pages again
that's bringing we've seen this kind of functionality before his very standard
way of
altering home screen adding the new panels moving things around ect
does mean I keep having to come back
into here the theme is um reasonable
lets change that and lets see if it makes any major changes to are icons
no its pretty much just a wallpaper really oh but its also
updated this to a purple taking on a kind of hue from here
so it's its effectively skinning bits of HTC system as it were
but it is not making major changes to the icons
bit of a shame it would have been nice if they kinda embraced that a little bit more
maybe um yeah its changed these up to purple as well
that's kinda cool but i think we are a little bit reliant there on HTC to
provide these new themes and colour ways
as opposed to having that flexibility built in
natively that would be lovely maybe we will see that for a future update
START HERE JOHN !!! attention think this is pretty standard stuff
if you've ever used an Android device this is where you will find your syncing settings
and this will continue to seek on at New Kent acceptor picking from
a wide variety different things so these were already be installed purely because
the absence talking back home from Google others will be built in by
default
policies can't quite tell you which ones are which at this point
at Google obviously an HTC our definite anything else in there may very well
be because my backgrounds tools kicking worst luck
we don't have location now this is obviously an important my back she say
can point to you
if you're concerned about battery life tool and you may very well what's coming
and make some changes
on a CC MODIS back to saving by default
might want justify so meet you might want higher accuracy
bearing in mind these options change your battery you really want to kind of
keep on %uh
just make sure Jolie's in quite a battery life it could well be
something here this query your location quite a lot
even pop online battery or disable that particular
from using the GPS and location information
security is always in a repeat up very very interested
everything here is going pretty much standard kind back we have your
long list of options that getting longer every year it seems
but actually in here we have screen not which gives us a few different options
you got no screen lock face unlock it is time to stop these days it would look at
your face
and ABC's issue it will let you in a pattern
dropout mom scream Pat match in nineteen pin
enter PIN numbers like your bank card and password lock
at Mikes tax am to pass wouldn't let you in
enable lock screen widgets this is that each member 4.3
my recent these lines any of your Widgets divorcing
on the lockscreen cell we don't have to keep going unlucky defines
you can access information beware from a security point of view
if you have things like Gmail you SMS messages we can camera
as we keep on your lock screen you are leaving yourself open to potential
security she
you have kid mode this has become very popular lot the main manufactures no
the idea that is that you can set up your device with a cut down
series all abt only your kids can use and other options
from simply locking him in at page since on he's working combination with some
Google's new features within me place till
we then have an education setting so which used cations grouping lockscreen
it's a little bit limited you can see it very much is only base
functionality all the smartphone device this is pretty normal
I'm afraid so you can have your email she comes on again
money security things like this sent I'm not music automatically
you can bypass the security screen when launching music each
thats let's hope the only elections the music app a and it's not somewhere you
can intricate to go straight into the actual
desktop itself will check for that incoming phone calls
very very useful so high party content infringes on security locks if you get a
call coming in
it won't display back information it would just say there's a call coming
very handy me to pass with visible done
I thank you that means when typing password on the system it will show you
the characters you can type in in
personally never ever ever relied on any device
ever anyway on essentially is much better to find the
accident putting the wrong password to be asked to put in again
then run the risk of somebody a beam to see exactly what you keyed in
more important than ever when we're starting to use smartphones now as authenticating
devices
so if you would like to hear gmail conferences you can have people send
token or text message time he's not and lashed authenticate
you can imagine that if you got that password visible back
adding execution risk in police L just
act it from me basically device administrators this allows you to really
set
third parties may be chill bosses IT guy
all whoever to administer the device may be
missiles it ties into things might and Google's Android
divisiveness tracking system utilized to fund your phone remotely
as well as locket wiping and so on unknown sources
this is used again this can be a big security issue
is very much kind of how use Russian if there is an app you want to install the
isn't on the Google Market at Google Play market
and you can one game he found you can side load using its not basically means
you drop p
onto your device and then you install it manually will go through that and not
more detail in 8 p.m. each week
but that's what I was options which is that how users it is not something I
would recommend
for 19.99 percent people leave intact check
verify naps really important you do want to leave this on what it will do
double check and Google database of bad apps that might have viruses or malware
or be stealing personal information.
ABC's imagines that one installment it's kind of like the
and member firewall the phone hacked into the haps again
if you have a new source too long we do have liked it it will double check
anyway see his problem here
so it can be quite useful is extra safety them
notification access asked not read notification even to most things
on if you want and that means that if you have indications that
abscam query data doing additional things basically
the story time he's about this is basic you could ensures that this is useful
for corporates and government installations that need to know that
this is a trustee device
with security on board except and that we give me that
it's really something that at for most people him he spots so ever
armpits really that displays Cooper says people try to translate transition away
from blackberry
and you can also set up your SIM card lock in here as well
I one would want in this day and age is beyond me you've got that option
map let's move on to the next year okay simic studies accessibility
when he's always quite important for a wide range people because not everybody
is
a hundred percent able-bodied and so we need smart phones that can
kind of tune themselves a little bit more to
what we as individuals are actually capable of and so we'll have some
the speeches here the talkback will allow you to
get a orchard cue from system to help blind ambition he uses
self-described what you've touched and select inactivated this is the first
time I've really seen missed on a smartphone
and we're going to be testing it out and I think it's just a great little
feature accessibility something to believe in know 100 percent
to date technology has amazing abilities but it still keeps leaving people behind
this is not king camp address that a little bit
you can change the font size and really important thing captions in video
magnification haven't when called making easier for people to act immediately
fun without having to come we trained on some might not work
bhakti disability autorotation speaking password
my mom's QTP interview and saw you've also got a text speak to him which you
can actually change
what we see is going to be used what speed rates and so on
and all this is working so that you know United Kingdom every few from a
different country
it may comes default on a different language acceptable
that's where you can change everything in there speed rate is probably one of
the most important aspects
if you can be easing functionality he doesn't need to be garbled she has to
go he's not picking up some standing but likewise is too slow
and it actually becomes like a distraught home in ways
so again that is where those functions are to have a play within
I know a lot of people don't have disabilities still find the speeches
really useful in 18 using a smartphone
making just a little bit quick exit something worth exploring
you back up in reset the easiest and it's definitely under device again to
see
with an extra twist that we've got be ATC backup option in back
now what this really means for us more than anything else it this is where
we can buy tobacco past month into the crime we download our backup history me
to believe him back
went and got some but more important this is where we can reset hold the date
from the device as well see if you're passing by some somebody else
heated blanket he recently from here everything
white backed factory perhaps popping details again
we cannot commit to get content with the fam this is part of this kind
and transition migration process lost my phone time and using
last spring data from blackberry Samsung's I found
Accenture on Team price slayton gestures this is gonna be interesting when we
gonna have to go through a bit more detail
but what they claim he was covering up some features that would normally him
this place
members gestures option as well so we have his pick of
on controls screen brightness how long the time it will last
daydream I've never used a dream yet
on any Android device it feels like something the acting ministers met at
10:20 useful
essentially what I like to do is win docked title
it'll show pictures on the screen care and 10 friend
woohoo to help an important in the cities in a standard feature
anything actually you notification light you can change how that's going to be
operating
what things going to be working with as it stands it's a pretty slim unless you
may want to get
called Mike flood which will allow you to and tweak those who how you would
like
we will stop motion sensing motion launch chest is in pain
we're going to this in more detail but essentially a lousy when the devices of
without having to actually I'm going to lock screen anything like that
double tap on the screen swipe and then have actions performed
47 double tapping pick up portrait the phone important Asian double tap to wake
steady hand actually pass a button adjustable tak we'll show you how will
that works
later on control this you see that this effect few different options
in there that we can be making use of
we've also got the gyro sensor calibration Mac
if you actually need very rarely do
then we also have Sam call zaps storage and so on
missus a quick flick The Sun these sound it's gonna be pretty much much confusion
heavies longer device before Pocket Mod is useful
if the text in your pocket it will being lined up
brings especially when you've got such huge speakers
we can go in here I'm *** lost things vintage how nice it to see they disable
back by default
something could learn a thing or two from at when there's not anything to
something devices on the reset and his
come the touch seems constantly beep bloop bloop bloop to return the mall
KCC deciding what we know anybody's check out the box
lead opted to take on the run thank you HTC for that one small Missy
you've got a result is that too can occupy bring some touch
professions exception all happy to customize
have calls are going to be handled actually
is greater moment got me singin that will go back and take a look at that
I'm nervous time aP's we've seen this before Islam or obscene
store effect we can go in and install them
manipulate me how naughty difference welcomed here
I think got the ability to uninstall the app disable your 40 into GP rendering
should be really need to are you see how much space using
as well looks nice came in cash if you need to something you sleepy pap
too troublesome actors crashing a lot storage
this really should be very similar attacks in many respects shows you a
break time
what is using a information rounded up so yes
easy to put funky music 800 8
87 Mac for indecent funk monk
so actually be other 524 this is our base operating system
so PC only using 5.2 gay
now you can trust not to someone like HTC which SAT
some some who've been getting nearly nine 10 gig
snatched from the device if we install anything into it this is pretty slim
down device MapPoint even suck West Point you
there's not an awful lot software kinda bloating things I'm
wonderful really like to see things like that power
this is where things get moderately interesting force optimize much like the
internet on
extreme power saving mode 10 on looking to run them what's can take
he said the CPE cdbg screen brightness to not migration feedback
10 data connection land use and groups to run continue
odometer now sent you what does the puts the entire device
largest palimony can he's still alive but only just
the idea is to really he can't much cash as possible said
you drop on at night you don't need advice
sat back crime he 3.net kinda low-power you want it really to have
very very very little power going to anything and messy
pitch he needs that power that's very unlikely at night
to give utmost halfway house between ten devices completely and 10 committee and
urgent call
and actually have any device available for you some
very useful thing I think and to be really interesting to see
how hard he plays an increase in battery life some folks is set to its
increasing bash like in two hundred how is mark that's going to be a
really interesting thing to see it is true and it also sounds and technology
stocks
same way to be super watershed moments my pantry
something he said we expect to see among actress copy
I wouldn't keep or is where we can change are
ki got hung up but also of texas leaking *** as well
and if you happen to store third party keyboard like sleeping here
you can find the app settings at any place if you need to
taking time funny now that allows it to crash that party sometime as well as
setting up my horse times I'm
automatic updates with what work useful if you have to run me and you can send
back the time
eyes and changes even changing mat and features United of Nate
is printing paper texas' myspace work to do
can print so that you can print directly from smartphone to a printer
across the internet meh printer could be on the other side of the world
I'm movie smartphone casket just happy printing
it's been set up in account so that's what I'll call settings
nest now come take a good look hassle HTC's
software the i'd things like camera let's take a look
camera here because this is obviously a standard feature for HTC
or leasing hope it will be not using the same
ultra pixel technology as the previous txt c-130
with a change we know how a jew
camera and %um he's back met what we come
have come to expect from HTC a very good camping
passport it focused and a comfy chair set
which feels solid man first thing I would say is
the autofocus is still really really
exceptional policy the trick here is I'm quite closely guess I'm just doing this
BBC is very very fast and responsive features why is
this kind of fat for ducks in a row that brings us into
park under settings and beauty come to play every
big button so that you can quickly hit things humpback
compared to say, the Galaxy S4 camera software
this field nice likewise all you have to do is
touch aren't you can move between very settings
king salmon to capture
comer and panoramic sea
the only thing that kinda strikes me is not being very nice listen to this
yeah
I don't like that not my sound like nit-pick
but really kinda harsh sound it doesn't feel like a kind of haptic
feedback kind of thing it almost feels like a light switch we intend on not
getting up
spark it's not particularly pleasant
I wouldn't say that's not too bad that kind of
would knock sam Brownback short kinda
he I don't like it ticking but the following from thing about is the sound
on one button
fair enough I think I can probably live with it but yes practice great actually
but anyway once again she have archive
option selected we don't go into settings than here
and here we have all of the options you could possibly imagine
so that a wartime and what type of water we can have it on what a week
nightshot HDR sweet panoramic
school reform to try whips get back into that
the anti-shake
you sorry understand
instantly set again legal
manual portrayed landscape
plans plenty on backlit text
or macro macro seating for clubs up work
so nosy kind cue seems as it were as most at Mumbai
II and many cameras you'd use opening scene modes
the spot back in 2002 for second know what we also have the sweeping
each of those moms is the ability to then change
camera settings see happy I so want to all
I thought 1600 which is the max ices have sensed it becomes going to be two
months
one-pot kind doesn't matter so much because we deem it hoped to pixel camera
here
it might sensitivity is excellent mishap are
exposure compensation pool exposure times now as well
automatic white balance or select what type of like you are dealing with
auto white balance is always a funny one person I was fine best
cheaper exactly what you're looking for what you can actually say
he then got the obligatory field tunes yet it wouldn't be a smartphone camera
2013 14
which doesn't have filters in its so them have a wide range
confirms and these will be real time filters as well so people actually a
justice
in real time to keep you different kind of views looks which is quite nice I
like sadness in previous version of the
actually see one it's quite nice just quickly thrown in effect to see how to
change seem
we also linger into this clock here *** should I say
I'm you think I even more options continuous shooting
what will actually used to trigger the camera I'm
trigger kitchen taken image adjustments across the green
even have agreed on do you take we photos and have a movie duration: be
its own wide range of different features let's put it that way
and i'm saying certainly compatible to samsung star
but maybe not quite as full featured in some respects
but ultimately the job camera option he's going to be big decide to hear
if you're able to manipulate and can be composure images
cokie taken them its only major plus point
to be really interesting to come see and feature wise how is kinda sucks up to
something Galaxy S5 as well from speeches pointy the city wanna see here
to speed up the camera
the way the functionalities bin Laden's its green nicely done
for for better than what kind of horrible mess we had on the Galaxy S4
where
frankly which is clunky and taking pictures wasn't particularly fun if you
have to going to make any change the settings
it seems here HTC have done a good job rethinking
how to layer all of that at times quite complex active settings
with clutching the screen or getting really small tiny straight hit that you
think is
I really like this certainly I think that to you know will give us a good
test run
and taking different images and video will report back on what we see is
difficult during these
kind as for first looks to get much more than a week
tenia surface view all how this is going to work in practice
but let's see next up games
okay so here we are with Ridge Racer this is one of the latest racing games
to
be released on Android so it proves it a really good kind of test
after the latest game that will soon take a look at a tribute to
well just give it a little bit footage is this really just can't get a feel for
how it could work
it's also haha audio little bit and guess and games and as well
see how this plays now on the next find one like that
play this game for me to be pretty good but can have some
frame rate issues going into corners I'm and some the tracks ends to seem to get
here
perhaps we should actually have gone for a slide there instead of
from Tim cone on certainly there's not a lot to come back here on the site
run
not just a little bit more food and responsive I
what the families sometimes when you come in and actually trying
for adrift on get a little bit come frame rate like
right nice actually substantially better I'd say
little bit late Jim there's the tourist things weren't
was just say com writes itself
gang back is feeling pretty good actually 16 perfect I
see when they smoke trails my back and he powerful time to
net actually it is like a little bit too close
but I would say now is certainly an improvement over
the Nexus funk but not by much its marginal I'm saying
obviously I'm not to play not more
games to get really good feel for it for now it's a nice definite improvement
next time pay so much you
only margin
right let's have a look at don't read to shower
I'm something with a bit more play at this person shooter action going on
and very high detail text just tensnake weicker's
good test for any device as we can about
despues de tricked him and where really looking just to see
how this game actually look someplace room
one combines lackey that is going on there
me it looks beautiful I'm not kidding you eat straw like the kind of
shiny shiny goodness we really like to see
the does it feel to be fluid that's strange
little bit better now action may very well have just enough to text you cash
in on but few
if you watch this doesn't feel quite as
robust as I think we've seen on other devices that's interesting
wonder whether any mind this is very very similar
and GP you CP combinations be happy
for and the knox's funny
but own clock higher should in theory
for better frame rates want to build a strong
might be requires looking haccp about to be honest with you that I had been quite
a bit better now
anyway I'm could very well just bc she started
she's while it was you know something about which
feel quite good not perfect I'm not perfect
she's very strange wouldn't have to investigate this week in more detail
just see
whether it's a device issue whether it's reshape or whether it's a game that
he/she
it what is smooth enough now
just doesn't quite feel like dizzying going on with the frame rate
and responsiveness I behind the scene on the Nexus frightened to
that was perfection interesting so wanna things I'm notices have been
and branding on the device having accomplished
look is little software PCC at complicitous device
with love my Epson installed in the background my previous device:
thanks to Google I'm which can be useful but also a pain when you're trying to
kind of get a feel for the Bison
this time but he put very little here in the way of computing software
quite interesting on that link P which an integral part
since it he will we have really is with Google's maps that we've come to know
now
crow Gmail Google+ maps music and so on
to drive you cheap POS homes but software wise move if you're looking
here
ignore all of my apps before she been installed really
is very little heat from HTC other than this who set
to calculate a flashlight whether downloads PTC
Spain international who scored Casey back to set a cutie
am things we've seen on precinct PC devices and
sleepy to change that much the only other thing really
is is a week which unfortunate moment,
and what doesn't work until brand summertime and Bascom did
eat it's very very slimmed-down I'm
which in many respects I'm really respect is not a huge amount here
I've noticed oxidases stated auction in kid mode
summaries things like camping out we seen this before
times in and Sat you know we've seen previews HTC devices
into the device that match kids just to use the apt you come
want will have to come out TV mode happens well
de moda is really easy to use the imprint blast me that national control
television and you or your home phone equipment to record from his nap time
I used this last year on HTC One 2013 and it was fantastic
it actually working Mike Keane better consumption device did not think they
were using same
companies must provide the software for it
the other options that we have is medium is kinda Rams up accused Google Maps
as well as it seeks PCs and stuff we have camera and back in my arms he sees
HTC music app KTC ham radio
send digital dunno why packing with that he ceased at last year
sprint I'm in a pissy just going to stuff like
you stand lose TV and photos as well as play music
in as well we also got stocks
HTC died gives you information HTC
kind of work and past me not know he likes it productivity game got
scribbling them
Clark's office and opponent at auction but these were all kinda
well feels to me more like re skins
of existing perhaps than camber massive departure
he's always been a strange thing when you're dealing with company
building on top of Android because Google oxy expects these devices carried
that a standard %um and duplicating with manufactured in producing
conditions at the apt that don't turn to Google services such
always like confusing think the access this alien
and this is really a kind of content sharing app on
which works with his only software is it will run from liking the idea is moms to
a cloud-based system
no idea there is to be no shape and his online and so on but
unfortunately it's not on the device as standard
and it won't be launching apparently lose
will be launching apparently into arranging time
which is a better showing it would be nice if they'd happy single launch so we
can check it out
and I'm it's a curiosity so don't expect *** crap to do much of anything to gym
friend
so software wise I say did not a huge amount here to kind of crowd back from
HTC sprint 2 p.m.
but actually that in itself is something to crow about because
normally we expect these devices to come chock-full
software most of the time we are never going to use
and most the time he doesn't work very well if we do try and use it
so is nice see he sees increasing look we kinda have to say this
a certain set users who don't want the Google Maps to put those in
and then it's a case is locate this certain features the week I need because
back kinda important to make happen work like a camera
exception days designed to work with the new hardware features but
overall here it's very slim I'm like that I like
the option to choose what I want to install from
which particular app developer as opposed to kinda feeling a great I got
this
translation app built in we gonna use it
and more importantly even didn't use it translation I wouldn't use the app
anyway I want to pick something myself
site it's really nice have a hot game
software suite here really nice compact
in many respects it feels like HTC listen to the market and gave us
what we were asking for choice
said week milken through pretty much and every aspect of the HTC
one and 8 that you could possibly imagine
the question is how will this stack up overlook the next week or so how will we
see each context and
things in Greeley kinda want crow about or potentially say
mmm haiti needs to try better next time over these next couple weeks we going to
put an HTC One Thing
its full cases we're gonna ritually Terry a party twice
see what it's capable of where its downsides on and so upset
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to begin with that these are huge tc1 and 8 and I am very impressed with what
he did he see it live it here
it's a beautiful feeling device in hand has anyone who in hand feel
it is heavy who previous devices sent me happier than
Samsung's devices but actually gives a really nice
premium feel the actual metal that's been used in the general feeling pack
yeah he's just gorgeous annisten see it would have most striking screens
I think we've seen so far it has a slightly smaller
lower PPI than previous 81 but he's gaining
additional real estate full screen it for me inches
overall from what I've seen so far HTC may very well get para
wish being the phone of the year again it's hard to see
what some Sun with the galaxy s fine can really teach compete when
we deal with very similar hardware but ultimately
this feels premium and it feels like it's with
away with paying for it could be very interesting to see how the other
manufactures responding because I think he see
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