The HTC One (M8) Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Joshua Ho on March 26, 2014 7:00 PM EST- Posted in
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- HTC One
Display
The new One increases its display size from 4.7” to 5.0”. The M8’s IPS Pro panel (read: IPS) still features a 1080p resolution. There are no funny subpixel arrays here, just a standard RGB stripe. HTC isn’t using in-cell touch, although Synaptics supplies the touch controller for the M8. The display is a MIPI command mode type panel (effectively supporting self refreshing of the panel).
The overall display experience on M8 is near identical to M7 from a color accuracy standpoint. Black levels are higher than our original M7 sample, but max contrast ratio is still a healthy 1300:1.
The M8’s display isn’t bad by any means, but I continue to be disappointed in the lack of attention paid to pursuing greater color accuracy among most Android OEMs. The Nexus 5 and 7 are the targets to aim for in that space - I hope we’ll eventually have more than Google pursuing them.
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secretmanofagent - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link
Does the new Sense UI allow you to see emails on the lock screen? They took that away from the One Mini in the 4.3 update. They also moved the widgets to a painful swipe to the left, was hoping they fixed that too.gg555 - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link
No review of the noise cancellation? Sigh. I've come to count on AnandTech as the only site that takes this seriously. But it seems to be getting passed over in recent reviews.hangfirew8 - Saturday, March 29, 2014 - link
Love Love Love the noise cancellation on my M7. Thank you for reminding me of that.Yes we need to keep on top of that.
varad - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link
Neat review but seriously, where is Brian Klug?yelped - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link
Great question! Seriously, this review wouldn't have been missing an analysis on the audio quality, and the network connectivity (WiFi, Bluetooth..). Also, can you explain what the Sprint version is using instead of the QFE1000?Thanks!
jasonelmore - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - link
something is definitely up. Anand staff have been dodging questions about the whereabouts of Brian Klug for several days, so me thinks Anand and Brian had some kind of "falling out". Whether it was over Pay, or internal beef, it definitely makes you wonder. For example, he did not attend Nvidia's conference, nor was he part of a Major Android flagship review.Blairh - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - link
Anand admitted in private to Brian that he loves SD cards in phones and that was that.yelped - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - link
Lol. Though I am wondering what's going on.. Also, any word why Sprint has different front ends and why?asaini007 - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - link
HahaAnand Lal Shimpi - Thursday, March 27, 2014 - link
There's no falling out, I just had dinner with Brian :) Can't talk about much more for now, sorry :)Take care,
Anand