I swear, every God damn reviewer mentions something or the other showing preference for a 2k screen on the M8. I really don't understand the necessity of having 2k over 1080p. It just drains the phone's battery and reduces its gpu performance.
I'm thinking about getting the M9 but I have reservations about the camera because I take a lot of pictures with my phone. Is the camera as bad as people are saying?
+Copypasta King The two things wrong with this camera really, is terrible low light performance, and lack of camera stabilization other than that its not that bad of a camera
2k isn't needed. I have a note 4 and you really can't tell unless you have a 1080p screen right next to the 2k. Samsung went 2k because it makes a big difference for the gear vr and other virtual reality headsets.
Hey man do you happen to use Microscope while using your phone? Because I don't see any other use of a QuadHD screen on that tiny screen. BTW I have a 1080p Projector which projects on a 100 inch screen which looks pretty sharp unless you are sitting next to screen.
They can still tweak the 20mp with software updates, and a software type ois in the future. That may be their plan anyway. They have already sent out some software updates for the m9 to straighten the camera up for reviewers.
Kind of got it wrong. The M8 was a success for them. Roundly lauded by critics, won numerous awards & helped get HTC back in the black. However it was a different market a year ago, when that plastic joke S5 bombed & Apple were seriously losing market share pre iPhone 6/+. Whatwe are seeing here is a monumental cluster fuck by Peter Chou, completely misreading the market and just playing it safe, or it was just a case of HTC not having the R&D budget for a redesigned new phone(reused components point to that) Either way,the result is the same, and HTC will be lucky to survive the year, which is a great shame...
I have the m9 is hard to send video messages without having to download a second app can you help me with this problem please will have any suggestions I watch your shows all of the time on TH-cam
Yo John, I'm gonna be switching phones soon and I haven't touched this series of phones. Would I be better going with the M8 since it's like 199 bucks cheaper at Best Buy? If it's like this in the review, I don't know as if I should upgrade to an inferior model for $200
I am thinking if I should buy this, Butterfly 2 or Desire HD. I would have bought the Butterfly 2 a long time ago, but the thing is that it does not have a Gorilla Glass display and its keeping me from buying this device.
Hey John. Could you please tell us the average "screen on time " from 100% to bellow 10% charge? Really interested in this device but cant find out this information anywhere
Wow. Not a single mention of anything people are wondering about this phone: Does it get as scorching hot as every other review states? Does it suffer from throttling and stutters like the G-Flex 2? And is it benchmarking lower than other SD805 phones?
Good review as always. I like the phone but I think htc couldn't seem to get the camera right and maybe lollipop and the snapdragon 810 aren't up to par yet. The next phone from them should improve something's hopefully. Maybe with some lollipop updates things will get better.
There is just no positive way a 2K screen could have worked out. The battery is already barely able to be considered strong and at 5inches it would make the least difference of all flagships. Samsung did it at 5.1 but their processor is more efficient so the battery life is no worse than the S5 it seems. Really like the M9 though.
If it wasn't for the Droid Turbo, this would have been my pick. I love HTC, but there was just something Motorola did to the Droid Turbo that made me not want to wait for the M9.
It's unbelievable the HTC still can't manage to put an impressive camera in their flagship. The M9 took a step back in low light photography from the M8. That's unacceptable
John Velasco Yeah it's good that it improved the detail deficiency, but the newer version is supposed to be an improvement in not just a few areas but all if not most when it comes to something as important as the camera. So for customers to have to accept that there's a trade off between the new camera on the M9 and the old camera on the M8 that's unacceptable. HTC has to do better in the camera department.
One day someone will come out with a full 4k screen, anything less and people like you will be saying, '' Its a pity its only got QHD'' . I think 1080p is more than enough for a 5 inch screen.
Beautiful device but Disappointing camera and battery. Its surprising that the m8 beats the m9 in both those categories. The s6 with a Quad HD screen has a better battery than that! Very nice review John Velasco :)
They should have just kept ultra pixel, and upped it to 8. That would have gave them better detail in photos, and kept the low light performance. Then kept ois, and the other basic software setup. I really like the ultra pixel, with my m8, it does lack detail sometimes. My wife has a cannon rebel and I have got some photos that look better.
Quad HD doesn't make sense with such a small device. Not to mention it's gonna be held in portrait mode most of the time. Maybe videos will look slightly better in landscape but good luck streaming at that resolution and chewing through data. Plus lower non-native resolutions are gonna look bad. You'd have worse 3D performance and battery drain too.
HTC have gone from being king of low light smartphone photography to the shittest in low light. Maybe they should have kept a similar camera layout to last year, with a 20MP camera for good lighting and a 4MP ultrapixel camera for poor lighting...
Great review. Underwhelming phone, particularly in the camera department. Really wanted to buy this for keeping SD slot unlike Samsung. Will have to look elsewhere.
lol Did he say the M8 was a good phone, but not great? First time I heard that. Most other reviews said it was a top 3 phone of 2014, and would have been perfect with a better cam.
with a 5" screen, a 4K resolution is utterly pointless, all it does is drain the battery even more. With a 1080p screen, you wont notice the difference, or even any pixels until you hold the screen right up to your eyeball
I got my lg g3 last year in october n im not as impressed as i thought it would be. Im thinking ill get the m9 later around the same month in october or if i feel like just trading my g3 to tmobile. I did like my old m7 i was used to the htc design and layout, only thing was the dumb pink tint the camera had because of the bs update it gave me....
Philmore James eh, both my siblings have the s5 n mom has the note 3. Never liked the way it looks cartooney and bright colors. I liked the htc n both s6 n m9 are in the same page practically but i like the m9 more.
Reviewer, you a good for wanting quad HD res on this size screen. It adds nothing to the experience, just robs the phone of performance and battery endurance.
Well I can say it , Htc M9 is a great phone and Htc did really a good job but it won't be able to compete till the end of this year as M8 did last year I mean M8 was awesome till last day of 2014 and till now he is an awesome phone and a good choice for anyone but I feel M9 will pass only in the 1st half of year and no one will want to have it within 5 months I feel good with 1080p and i don't like 2k screens but a lot of people want 2k Processor high temperture issue is bad thing Snapdragon 810 will ruin many phones this year I wanted the battery life to be more better as it's 1080p screen byt it feels like it's the same as M8 As a whole it is still an awesome phone but waiting to see Samsung Galaxy s6 , Z4 and LG g4 and hope M9 can withstand and compete..
Yes you are right Htc one M8 can stand and have his place for around 2 years and still be a great phone ;) I'm planning to buy a new phones Xperia Z did the job for me for 2 years and still pretty good "Old but gold " But it's time to upgrade Z4 or Htc M9 I will decide later
Underwhelmed for a flagship for 2015. Camera is bad again? With all that girth you couldn't stick OIS? They really need help with their photo software too. Front camera is fine. Battery life is on par with the m8? Better SoC and bigger battery and they still can't squeeze out more juice. Black bar... Take a page out of motorola or sony please for front facing speakers. For a 5 inch phone, it's utterly tall... Like really tall. I'm just going to wait for the theme engine to trickle down to the m8, because that's all that's really changed in software. Once again, I'm very Underwhelmed.
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Is there a way to block this phonearena on youtube?
i stopped watching when he said it needed a higher resolution screen. That's just wrong, because this screen is just bad. It has nothing to do with the pixel density, but rather with the very low contrast and bad colors on the M9.
God HTC ruined this year I lose interest in my own hand on because the the lack of change or improvement like main camera just simply worse than m8 ,that spam widget that might know our private and even small thing didn't work well like default wallpapers and the only improvement HTC had made is only theme engine and power on the side
Samsung going with their own SoC this time is looking very prescient. Battery and camera performance on M9 is below what I would have hoped for based on specs. Those two sentences have no real relation to each other. Buy some more games, Mr. V!
HTC is getting long in the tooth if you ask me. Their HTC one line is becoming the Android version of the iPhone, minimal improvements year after year.
wow what a phone when compared to s6, this has worse performance with lower resolution with worse battery life, while taking more than two time longer to charge is this a joke?
Same design, same speaker, worse display, worse camera and worse battery life...only thing M9 was improved from M8 is its CPU/GPU... I seriously got dissapointed by HTC this year...
hahahaha HTC stubbornly stuck with the 1080p screen and snap 810 , but battery life still sucks compared to the QHD S6 and NOTE 4... with exynoses , ....ohoh the irony stubborn htc.... since the m9 is this bad... i suppose we will see some followup device.. one max 2 or M9 plus I had say..
1. It's based on low tech, 2, not have changed since previous model, 3. same old Android phone 4. Too bulky and thick and heavier than other phones out there. 5. Design stayed same as before ----> It's flop. I think Chinese ran out of idea after copying too much.
Mick Harrison you know how floss operates. He'll get the m8 out of his rotation to get the M9. The M8 was one of his favourite phones. Guarantee he'll get the m9 for that hot 2 tone finish. Either that, or he might wait for the M9+
Man, every tech channel uploaded their HTC One M9 review videos all at the same time!
Garrison Parthemore Yeah that is pretty crazy.
ShadowReaper Bruh... it was like wtf when I refreshed my sub feed! 0.0
BankaiAce I was that way too when I refreshed mine. I am thinking it may happen again when everyone reviews the galaxy s6.
Garrison Parthemore same weird feeling
It's probably because HTC has lifted the "insert name" that has stopped people from publishing reviews :). Happens to PC cases etc too :).
Stopped watching when he had to mention the 1080p screen again, I didn't hear this much complaining with the iPhone 6 a d it's 750p screen..
because iphone is not android duhhhh
They're used to a terrible dull low resolution though. And the screen is a tiny 4.7". That makes it much less noticeable.
Because Android phones are better, they have higher expectations
matthew von its not a good review if he failed to mention the screen revolution. but why does it matter anyway. feeling insecure by hearing it?
it has 441ppi, stop complaining! It is a good resolution for a 5" screen.
Notice that Pocket Now, Android Authority and Techno Buffalo all posted their One M9 Review at the same time.
Does the on screen buttons fade away during videos or games
I swear, every God damn reviewer mentions something or the other showing preference for a 2k screen on the M8. I really don't understand the necessity of having 2k over 1080p. It just drains the phone's battery and reduces its gpu performance.
It doesn't drain battery if it's an AMOLED QHD, actually LG's special IPS doesn't either. Still loses a few fps via the GPU though.
I'm thinking about getting the M9 but I have reservations about the camera because I take a lot of pictures with my phone. Is the camera as bad as people are saying?
+Copypasta King The two things wrong with this camera really, is terrible low light performance, and lack of camera stabilization other than that its not that bad of a camera
Can't wait to get my hands on this device.
2k isn't needed. I have a note 4 and you really can't tell unless you have a 1080p screen right next to the 2k. Samsung went 2k because it makes a big difference for the gear vr and other virtual reality headsets.
Hey man do you happen to use Microscope while using your phone? Because I don't see any other use of a QuadHD screen on that tiny screen. BTW I have a 1080p Projector which projects on a 100 inch screen which looks pretty sharp unless you are sitting next to screen.
They can still tweak the 20mp with software updates, and a software type ois in the future. That may be their plan anyway. They have already sent out some software updates for the m9 to straighten the camera up for reviewers.
Kind of got it wrong. The M8 was a success for them. Roundly
lauded by critics, won numerous awards & helped get HTC back in the black. However it was a different market a year ago, when that plastic joke S5 bombed & Apple were seriously losing market share pre iPhone 6/+. Whatwe are seeing here is a monumental cluster fuck by Peter Chou, completely misreading the market and just playing it safe, or it was just a case of HTC not having the R&D budget for a redesigned new phone(reused components point to that) Either way,the result is the same, and HTC will be lucky to survive the year, which is a great shame...
I have the m9 is hard to send video messages without having to download a second app can you help me with this problem please will have any suggestions I watch your shows all of the time on TH-cam
Yo John, I'm gonna be switching phones soon and I haven't touched this series of phones. Would I be better going with the M8 since it's like 199 bucks cheaper at Best Buy? If it's like this in the review, I don't know as if I should upgrade to an inferior model for $200
a quick question, does htc m9 get hot often?
Everyone talks about how fast and lag free HTC sense is, but I see they lack in other optimisation. Like battery life!
You can see the phone lag at 4:55
Loading a theme... Duh.
***** dont forgot their will be maybe an update after a release just to make sure everything will run smoothly
For a new flagship it should run smoothly out of the box, regardless of updates.
Troll
No you can't. It was loading a new theme. That's not lag, it's a screen redraw.
I am thinking if I should buy this, Butterfly 2 or Desire HD. I would have bought the Butterfly 2 a long time ago, but the thing is that it does not have a Gorilla Glass display and its keeping me from buying this device.
Hey John. Could you please tell us the average "screen on time " from 100% to bellow 10% charge? Really interested in this device but cant find out this information anywhere
PhoneArena What about heating problem ? Can you measure the heat when playing games about 5-6 min.
Micheal Fisher from pocketnow said it doesn't get even as hot as many other phones do. Even after 30 mins of gaming.
Wow. Not a single mention of anything people are wondering about this phone: Does it get as scorching hot as every other review states? Does it suffer from throttling and stutters like the G-Flex 2? And is it benchmarking lower than other SD805 phones?
Good review as always. I like the phone but I think htc couldn't seem to get the camera right and maybe lollipop and the snapdragon 810 aren't up to par yet. The next phone from them should improve something's hopefully. Maybe with some lollipop updates things will get better.
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Need help should I get the htc one m9 or iphone 6 plus for my birthday
There is just no positive way a 2K screen could have worked out. The battery is already barely able to be considered strong and at 5inches it would make the least difference of all flagships. Samsung did it at 5.1 but their processor is more efficient so the battery life is no worse than the S5 it seems. Really like the M9 though.
If it wasn't for the Droid Turbo, this would have been my pick. I love HTC, but there was just something Motorola did to the Droid Turbo that made me not want to wait for the M9.
UGH WHAT PHONE TO GET I DON'T KNOW
It's unbelievable the HTC still can't manage to put an impressive camera in their flagship. The M9 took a step back in low light photography from the M8. That's unacceptable
wiezewee They did solve the detail deficiency of M8's UltraPixel camera, but in the process, the M9's low lighting performance takes a hitch.
John Velasco Yeah it's good that it improved the detail deficiency, but the newer version is supposed to be an improvement in not just a few areas but all if not most when it comes to something as important as the camera. So for customers to have to accept that there's a trade off between the new camera on the M9 and the old camera on the M8 that's unacceptable. HTC has to do better in the camera department.
Oh!. I must be on the wrong channel.. I'm looking for the HTC M9 review Phone Arena not the *HTC M8... S*
Dude hell yeah on how much Linkin Park I saw on the music part of the review. Best band of all time.
One day someone will come out with a full 4k screen, anything less and people like you will be saying, '' Its a pity its only got QHD'' . I think 1080p is more than enough for a 5 inch screen.
Beautiful device but Disappointing camera and battery. Its surprising that the m8 beats the m9 in both those categories. The s6 with a Quad HD screen has a better battery than that!
Very nice review John Velasco :)
is it a good phone or not?
This, s6 or wait for note 5?
What 6 hours screen on time?! IF thats true thats the most ive heard of any phone get...
They should have just kept ultra pixel, and upped it to 8. That would have gave them better detail in photos, and kept the low light performance. Then kept ois, and the other basic software setup. I really like the ultra pixel, with my m8, it does lack detail sometimes. My wife has a cannon rebel and I have got some photos that look better.
Anandtech reports a dimmer screen than the M8. And, for that matter, an over all drop in screen quality from the M8.
Watch the android authority review this guy works for Apple
Quad HD doesn't make sense with such a small device. Not to mention it's gonna be held in portrait mode most of the time. Maybe videos will look slightly better in landscape but good luck streaming at that resolution and chewing through data. Plus lower non-native resolutions are gonna look bad. You'd have worse 3D performance and battery drain too.
0:42 who are they kidding? that's not gold it's copper...
Please gays help me sony t2 ultra or Sony c3 which good ??????
Haha you'r asking "gays" for help haha. I know you meant to type "guys"
Fuck u :D
What do you expect from a Zamalek supporter..
jk :D
watching it on my m9👀
HTC have gone from being king of low light smartphone photography to the shittest in low light. Maybe they should have kept a similar camera layout to last year, with a 20MP camera for good lighting and a 4MP ultrapixel camera for poor lighting...
What a flop,very disappointed.
It can't be a flop when it's not even for sale yet... lmao it's called your option,
matthew von what?? Lol you can tell from the video there's nothing special.
Philmore James It's a fucking phone! What did you expect it to do? Blow you?
Golden Boy lol I guess you don't understand advancement.
Philmore James Advancement..you mean like?
Am I the only one here who thought the intro was kinda awkward?
do the review for the M9 plus please please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great review. Underwhelming phone, particularly in the camera department. Really wanted to buy this for keeping SD slot unlike Samsung. Will have to look elsewhere.
Reggie Ryan That's the consensus it seems.
Did he say the m8 wasn't great?
lol Did he say the M8 was a good phone, but not great? First time I heard that. Most other reviews said it was a top 3 phone of 2014, and would have been perfect with a better cam.
Ugh... This camera could have been so much better?
It's got no optical image stabilisation
with a 5" screen, a 4K resolution is utterly pointless, all it does is drain the battery even more. With a 1080p screen, you wont notice the difference, or even any pixels until you hold the screen right up to your eyeball
I got my lg g3 last year in october n im not as impressed as i thought it would be. Im thinking ill get the m9 later around the same month in october or if i feel like just trading my g3 to tmobile. I did like my old m7 i was used to the htc design and layout, only thing was the dumb pink tint the camera had because of the bs update it gave me....
Go s6. You won't be disappointed.
Philmore James eh, both my siblings have the s5 n mom has the note 3. Never liked the way it looks cartooney and bright colors. I liked the htc n both s6 n m9 are in the same page practically but i like the m9 more.
750p display on the iPhone *nodoby complaints*
1080p display on the One *We wish it had higher resolution'
Come on..
Reviewer, you a good for wanting quad HD res on this size screen. It adds nothing to the experience, just robs the phone of performance and battery endurance.
you could easily voice act the nerdiest nerd on the planet
There is no reason to buy this phone rather than an iphone or a S6
Well I can say it , Htc M9 is a great phone and Htc did really a good job but it won't be able to compete till the end of this year as M8 did last year
I mean M8 was awesome till last day of 2014 and till now he is an awesome phone and a good choice for anyone but I feel M9 will pass only in the 1st half of year and no one will want to have it within 5 months
I feel good with 1080p and i don't like 2k screens but a lot of people want 2k
Processor high temperture issue is bad thing Snapdragon 810 will ruin many phones this year
I wanted the battery life to be more better as it's 1080p screen byt it feels like it's the same as M8
As a whole it is still an awesome phone but waiting to see Samsung Galaxy s6 , Z4 and LG g4 and hope M9 can withstand and compete..
Yes you are right Htc one M8 can stand and have his place for around 2 years and still be a great phone ;)
I'm planning to buy a new phones Xperia Z did the job for me for 2 years and still pretty good "Old but gold "
But it's time to upgrade Z4 or Htc M9 I will decide later
Lumia 640 XL review please...
Underwhelmed for a flagship for 2015. Camera is bad again? With all that girth you couldn't stick OIS? They really need help with their photo software too. Front camera is fine. Battery life is on par with the m8? Better SoC and bigger battery and they still can't squeeze out more juice. Black bar... Take a page out of motorola or sony please for front facing speakers. For a 5 inch phone, it's utterly tall... Like really tall. I'm just going to wait for the theme engine to trickle down to the m8, because that's all that's really changed in software. Once again, I'm very Underwhelmed.
Is there a way to block this phonearena on youtube?
HEY GUYS
15 min reviews... why cant this all be in 5 mins or so? ...
i stopped watching when he said it needed a higher resolution screen. That's just wrong, because this screen is just bad. It has nothing to do with the pixel density, but rather with the very low contrast and bad colors on the M9.
Eww. I want stock Android. Not no sense 7 skin! I also hate the m9's navigation bar icons!
No need to review m9 really all u have to do post a pic of the spec because the rest of the phone is m8 :)
Dunkin' Donuts.
God HTC ruined this year I lose interest in my own hand on because the the lack of change or improvement like main camera just simply worse than m8 ,that spam widget that might know our private and even small thing didn't work well like default wallpapers and the only improvement HTC had made is only theme engine and power on the side
Unimpressed. Wait for the next.
Samsung going with their own SoC this time is looking very prescient. Battery and camera performance on M9 is below what I would have hoped for based on specs. Those two sentences have no real relation to each other. Buy some more games, Mr. V!
Any recommendations?
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HTC is getting long in the tooth if you ask me. Their HTC one line is becoming the Android version of the iPhone, minimal improvements year after year.
wow what a phone
when compared to s6, this has worse performance with lower resolution with worse battery life,
while taking more than two time longer to charge
is this a joke?
We don't need Qhd
I don't think you know what you want
lag at 4:55
A lot of wasted space
Same design, same speaker, worse display, worse camera and worse battery life...only thing M9 was improved from M8 is its CPU/GPU...
I seriously got dissapointed by HTC this year...
hahahaha HTC stubbornly stuck with the 1080p screen and snap 810 , but battery life still sucks compared to the QHD S6 and NOTE 4... with exynoses , ....ohoh the irony stubborn htc....
since the m9 is this bad... i suppose we will see some followup device.. one max 2 or M9 plus I had say..
Nice phone but again: nothing special ...
Will they ever get rid of Joooohn V ? Seriously, he's like the worst reviewer out there.
1. It's based on low tech, 2, not have changed since previous model, 3. same old Android phone 4. Too bulky and thick and heavier than other phones out there. 5. Design stayed same as before ----> It's flop. I think Chinese ran out of idea after copying too much.
I work for HTC so i can tel you not to buy this phone. The uh oh program is bullshit. This phone is bullshit it over heats and the camera sucks...
As floss would say absolute TRASH.
HTC have fallen back into the same hole they were in pre M7
shout out to you google gangster!
this right here, is a major major go
our boy floss will love it, guaranteed
He'd hate it man. He's into flashy stuff.. If its not worth the upgrade its not worth the $$ he will be all over the edge like a fat kid on cake
Mick Harrison you know how floss operates. He'll get the m8 out of his rotation to get the M9. The M8 was one of his favourite phones. Guarantee he'll get the m9 for that hot 2 tone finish. Either that, or he might wait for the M9+
Mick Harrison Might not be the best phone..but I'm pretty sure that on a scale of 1-10, Floss would rate this a solid GO
Really, this guy has the most awkward way of speaking and that amplifies with his weird accent.
I just can't watch this guy
HTC's are soooooo shit!!! shitest phones ever!!
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