Yes, the M9 can get almost uncomfortably warm if you make it a point to push it hard - I noticed it mostly during my repeated benchmark testing, which most average users will never, ever have to worry about. It’s such a mixed bag that I’m honestly surprised. Sometimes the M9 has richer, more accurately exposed colors sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes the M9 comes through with crisper details other times the M8 seems to do a better job. I’m not just talking about low-light situations where the UltraPixel camera truly shines, either. Here’s the rub: You’d expect this thing to be uniformly better than the UltraPixel shooter HTC’s been pushing, but that’s just not always the case. In bright, consistent light, the M9 fires off detailed photos with nicely reproduced colors - they can be a little washed out compared to the M8, though, and the cooler screen on the M9 doesn’t help them look any better. At least that edge won’t catch on your pockets when you whip your phone out. Possible butterfinger moments aside, the beauty of the M8’s curves was that it made the physicality of the phone sort of fade into the background. Some will mind it less than others - it does make the M9’s body feel less slippery than the M8’s - but a colleague summed up my feelings best when he said it was like having the edge of a butter knife pressed into your palm. The gold edge that runs around the M9’s sides terminates in a pronounced ridge that feels completely out of place. It’s light without feeling chintzy and just sort of screams “solid,” maybe even a little more than the M8 did. More importantly, the M9 sits in my hand with just the right amount of weight and gravitas. And for the third year in a row, it has show-stopping flaws, which bring the great experience you’re having to a screeching halt.Įngadget’s review of the One M9 echoes the same sentiment as that of The Verge. Overall, The Verge concludes its review by saying that the One M9 has some “show-stopping flaws.”įor the third year in a row, HTC has produced one of the most visually alluring smartphones that feels as incredible as it looks. In well lit scenes, the M9 has trouble exposing wide ranges of light to dark areas. Low light pictures often have odd color casts and there’s unpleasant blooming in highlights. The M9 has the pixel count the M8 lacked, but all too often the images are fraught with noise reduction and smearing of details.
The M9 is slightly shorter and ever so slightly thicker than last year’s phone, but it’s not noticeably different in everyday use.Īs for its mediocre camera, this is what the publication had to say: On the whole, the experience of holding, using, touching, and taking the M9 in and out of pockets is the same as it was with the M8, save for the lack of worrying that the phone was going to slip out of my hands like a bar of soap at any given moment.
The publication says that using the One M9 gives a déjà vu experience, with the phone feeling “largely the same as the M8 from last year,” which is not necessarily a bad thing. More worryingly though, reviews indicate that the screen and battery life on the One M9 have actually regressed compared to the One M8, which is both shocking and disappointing. Reviews of the handset from all the major publications suggest that the One M9 suffers from the same issue as its predecessors have: a poorly placed Power button and mediocre camera performance. The first batch of reviews for the HTC One M9 are out, and things are not looking good for HTC’s latest flagship.
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