The HTC One Hima (M9) Thread

The biggest thing putting me off the M9 is the camera quality. I appreciate it is a review phone and not final software, but just how much are they going to change the quality with some software tweaks? Also found out that image stabilisation is gone due to space constraints.

Looking more likely ill go for the S6 in the next few months, which is a shame as I much prefer HTC to Samsung in all senses.
 
It's not much different to my M8! Even if I thought my M8 was the best thing ever and I was at the end of my contract, If I was going to upgrade, I'd get something different just so it didn't seem just the same phone. Either that or keep the M8
 
The more I think about it the more I can’t see any reason to upgrade the M7 in this current generation. The differences between the new phones and the Galaxy S4/M7 generation phones are slight and incremental at best. It seems we’ve reached a plateau and all they seem to be doing is adding random gimmicks and pointless power and screen resolution hikes whilst continuing down a path of charge as much as possible to an upgrade obsessed generation for almost no real improvement.

My M7 is fast, snappy, has a wonderful screen, supports 4G LTE and has wonderful build quality. The only thing wrong with it is the beyond shocking battery life but it doesn’t look like real strides are being made in that area anyway.

Guess it can last another year.
 
Now my contract is virtually up the temptation to get a new phone is huge after two years with this M7 but as Fox says there just doesn't seem to be a large enough improvement in all round functionality and hardware to warrant it although I would quite like an SD card slot and better camera!

Off to Australia in a few weeks time and I guess I'll just take the M7 with me - saves worrying about it being nicked or picking up scratches etc on a brand new phone.

I might be tempted however to move to a sim only 4G contract as I could do with faster internets!!
 
[TW]Fox;27714712 said:
The more I think about it the more I can’t see any reason to upgrade the M7 in this current generation. The differences between the new phones and the Galaxy S4/M7 generation phones are slight and incremental at best. It seems we’ve reached a plateau and all they seem to be doing is adding random gimmicks and pointless power and screen resolution hikes whilst continuing down a path of charge as much as possible to an upgrade obsessed generation for almost no real improvement.

My M7 is fast, snappy, has a wonderful screen, supports 4G LTE and has wonderful build quality. The only thing wrong with it is the beyond shocking battery life but it doesn’t look like real strides are being made in that area anyway.

Guess it can last another year.
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What sort of battery life do you get from your M7 out of interest, Fox?

I'm still using my launch day M7 and I seem to get a solid day with normal use (unplugged at 8am, down to 14% usually at about 11pm/midnight). That's mostly screen on time with Whatsapp open, and maybe an hour or so of internet browsing. I appreciate use profiles vary from person to person :)

I'm still on an old version of the ARHD ROM (4.1) as it's the only version that works with the bluetooth module in my E46.
 
Gaygle said:
The biggest thing putting me off the M9 is the camera quality. I appreciate it is a review phone and not final software, but just how much are they going to change the quality with some software tweaks? Also found out that image stabilisation is gone due to space constraints.
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Was wondering the same. With the M8 they said the same thing at launch - "we'll fix the camera software" etc but all they achieved was going from dreadful to below average in the IQ stakes.
Shame as its the only thing holding the HTC back from being a great phone.
 
Those of you with M7 but wouldn't upgrade, if you were on a phone from a cycle before it, would you upgrade?

I have the Galaxy Nexus, but was impressed with the M8 which I got as a work phone a couple of weeks ago. Was thinking of M9 as a new personal, but it hasn't blown me away at all.

The Galaxy phones, I can't stand the hard button. Also don't think the edge design is quite for me.
 
Atari said:
What sort of battery life do you get from your M7 out of interest, Fox?

I'm still using my launch day M7 and I seem to get a solid day with normal use (unplugged at 8am, down to 14% usually at about 11pm/midnight). That's mostly screen on time with Whatsapp open, and maybe an hour or so of internet browsing. I appreciate use profiles vary from person to person :)
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It's horrible, it's the only thing about the phone that annoys me. If I am lucky it'll have 6% by 5pm. Similar usage to you I guess.

If I am out and about using it properly all day (ie lots of WA, the odd photo, etc) it's dead in 5 hours flat. I took it into New York City last year for a day of photos and WhatsApp and it was powered off by 2pm. It's ridiculous. I sent it back to HTC for repair last week - the battery and a wifi issue. They've sent it back having done nothing at all with the battery.
 
[TW]Fox;27716223 said:
It's horrible, it's the only thing about the phone that annoys me. If I am lucky it'll have 6% by 5pm. Similar usage to you I guess.
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trying not to sound obvious but have you tried using an app to see if its something you've installed thats dropping the battery? Does sound weird as im a m7 user from when it came out and i still get a decent bit of time out of it.
 
[TW]Fox;27716223 said:
It's horrible, it's the only thing about the phone that annoys me. If I am lucky it'll have 6% by 5pm. Similar usage to you I guess.

If I am out and about using it properly all day (ie lots of WA, the odd photo, etc) it's dead in 5 hours flat. I took it into New York City last year for a day of photos and WhatsApp and it was powered off by 2pm. It's ridiculous. I sent it back to HTC for repair last week - the battery and a wifi issue. They've sent it back having done nothing at all with the battery.
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Any chance of a screenshot of your running apps and battery usage history after a day's usage? As above my M7 life is completely fine.
 
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[TW]Fox;27714712 said:
My M7 is fast, snappy, has a wonderful screen, supports 4G LTE and has wonderful build quality. The only thing wrong with it is the beyond shocking battery life but it doesn’t look like real strides are being made in that area anyway.
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Bit in bold - don't agree. I've had the M7 and M8 and the latter was very noticeably better than the former for battery life, and phones will continue to do so. The M9 should be better than the M8 with its more efficient snapdragon 810 and slightly larger battery - I'd be surprised if it wasn't double at least what your (now 2 year old) M7 can do.

My OnePlus One is even better still, getting at least 6 or 7 hours screen on time and pretty much being used in some capability almost constantly all day.

Otherwise, I do agree with most of your post - the M7 is still a good phone except for the battery life and if you can live with that then keep it, but personally I couldn't go back to a phone with crap battery life - that is a deal breaker nowadays.
 
[TW]Fox;27716223 said:
It's horrible, it's the only thing about the phone that annoys me. If I am lucky it'll have 6% by 5pm. Similar usage to you I guess.

If I am out and about using it properly all day (ie lots of WA, the odd photo, etc) it's dead in 5 hours flat. I took it into New York City last year for a day of photos and WhatsApp and it was powered off by 2pm. It's ridiculous. I sent it back to HTC for repair last week - the battery and a wifi issue. They've sent it back having done nothing at all with the battery.
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Leave it plugged in and use web whatsapp.

and stick this in your pocket for days out http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultra-Compa...325381&sr=8-1&keywords=portable+phone+charger
 
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