*** The Official HTC One M8 Thread ***
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nano
ordered mine from three £469.99 pay as you go, been told its unlocked and unbranded, hoping i get it tomorrow to play with it
im currently on sim only on three £20, carphonewarehouse had it for £530 sim free,
i have been using the galaxy s3 to s4 and currently have the note 3 but wanting something smaller , and i think its time to move away from touchwiz
im currently on sim only on three £20, carphonewarehouse had it for £530 sim free,
i have been using the galaxy s3 to s4 and currently have the note 3 but wanting something smaller , and i think its time to move away from touchwiz
Pants. I'm guessing i'll have to get something to cut it down to nano size?
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Would this have been so terribly difficult?
Obviously I'm ignorant of most of the issues, but one can wish.
Obviously I'm ignorant of most of the issues, but one can wish.
Pretty decent price I think on PAYG. I'd also seen that price at Carphone and been looking at sim only deals.
Vodafone contract up in a couple weeks from my One X and been looking at the One M8 on simfree and then just possibly going sim only with 3 who look like they have a decent 4G sim with 4GB data for low 20's.
Probably. Don't think that it's just empty space underneath the black bar. There will likely have been a lot of design decisions to be made about that space and what's behind it. I doubt very much that HTC would decide to just put a black band there with a logo on rather than use it for screen real estate.
Pair of sharp scissors do the job OK - it's all I used. There are templates online to use as a guide but it's an easy enough
Not sure if srs, or trolling
I am serious? I'd prefer a thicker phone to be honest!
that is simply too long and seems like a lot of space is wasted, that picture above me explains exactly why I as a designer would have removed that and probably made it thicker.but then again.. nexus 5, lg g2 etc manage to do it without that
no bumsound tho but you see my point! those 2 speakers shouldn't add that much.
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I think it bad usage of space, a good comparison is the Z2, which offers a bigger battery, bigger screen, has a much bigger camera sensor and stereo speakers. Its a tiny bit taller, 3m wider and a mm thinner. It seems like HTC is making poor use of space, and they wasted space on that Duo camera, which I think is more of a gimmick then useful.
It really is a gimmick considering the second camera is purely used for depth perception and nothing else. I wouldn't have mind it if it could boost the quality of the pictures but it seems useless most of the time.
A teardown of the M8 here: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HTC+One+(M8)+Teardown/23615
Seems the screen does need to use the space behind the HTC logo. But it does look like they could have shrunken that area by a fair it. Looking at the daughterboard where the camera modules are held seems mostly bare, I'm sure they could have made that more compact.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7893/the-htc-one-m8-review
The fake 'Bokeh' UFocus feature looks terrible, nothing like the real creamy thing.
Ans the lack of OIS has made a big impact of the shakiness in video recording.
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