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the HTC 10 may just be the biggest sleep a company has made in a while hello everybody I'm crystal Ora and this is HTC 10 versus the HTC One m9 there's only been little changes made to the flagship of HTC this year but these small tweaks really go a long way both phones are made from a very high-grade aluminum and have a nice curve on the back but we no longer have a brushed metallic finish on the HTC 10 which makes it look a lot cleaner and sleeker there's a huge chamfered edge running around the border which has been a little controversial but once you see the 10 in person chances are you'll end up loving it because it reflects light and adds a little pop to it the camera on the temperatures a bit more than the one found in the m9 but it ends up taking less space overall and there's also a lot less branding and text going on thanks to the new FSC guidelines which helps a10 look even less cluttered as we turn the phones over to their fronts once again you have a much more simple design with the HTC 10 yes the HTC One m9 that we have is a gold model but even if you were to get the phone in a different color the front top and bottom bezels are never a true black but this year HTC decided to make the top and bottom bezels black regardless of the style of the back and that really just helps blend everything in and give a bigger focus to the display the one m9 had a large black border around the display along with a black HTC bezel wedged between the screen and the bottom bezel and even though the TENS bezels are similar in size the unified coloring almost makes them appear smaller than the m9 s the buttons on both phones can be found on the right side and even though the m9 had a great textured power button the tens power buttons texturized pattern is much more exaggerated and really helps the user find the button just using your finger all the buttons on the m9 set a little too flush to the body but with the 10 they have much more tactile feedback and they need a good push to be triggered other than that the phones feel almost identical to one another the 10 is ever so slightly taller and wider but this is to make more room for the point 2 millimeter larger screen the 10 is also a little thinner at 9 millimeters versus 9.6 but it's a little heavier both phones have some of the best build quality and they feel great in the hand but when it comes to aesthetics the 10 is miles ahead when it comes to display it has been greatly improved on the 10 this year and on top of that we get a slightly larger one too at 5.2 inches versus the 5 inch on the one m9 both our LCD panels but with the 10 we have the newer Super LCD 5 technology over the Super LCD 3 found on the m9 the panel itself is a little tougher too thanks to the Gorilla Glass 4 instead of 3 and of course HTC has finally given quad HD a chance with the HTC 10 but it does make sense at the one m9 stuck with only a 1080p display with a smaller 5-inch screen and you won't really notice any extra sharpness really with a 10 over the m9 but what you will notice though is the overall quality of the displays the tens is much more enjoyable the m9 display is very cool and almost has a greenish hue to it which looks very unappealing the TENS is much more warmer and is able to get a lot closer to true White's colors are also crazy vibrant on the HTC 10 almost as close as a saturation of a galaxy phone and with the m9 not only is a much more dull than the 10 but it's one of the dullest displays of a 2015 smartphone with the 10 being one of the best LCD displays we've seen and the m9 being one of the worst it's very easy to pick a winner here now it's hardware this is an area where HTC has removed a lot of key features in order to help with the HTC 10 design first it's not really a feature it's more the way the hardware's design but the vibration on the 10 is crazy loud it's one of the loudest vibration motors on a phone you can love within most volume settings the m9 s is much quieter but very strong it's definitely worth noting now if you take a look at the top of these phones you'll see the absence of an IR blaster on the 10 which is a trend that we've been seeing on recent smartphones with the m9 you can control televisions sound systems cable boxes and more right from your phone but a lot of people use this which is why it has been removed and remember how I was saying that HTC tends front is much cleaner and nicer looking than the m9 s well there is a major downside to this being the boom sound front-facing stereo speaker grilles on the m9 these speakers are one of the things that made HTC phone stand out the sound quality is incredible with the m9 they're very crisp and clear while still having a lot of bass to them they're dual front-facing as well which creates a very balanced listening experience when watching videos and they're aimed right at you know better speakers are found on the phone the 10 also has what HTC calls boomsound speakers and they do sound nice but they don't come close to the quality of the m9 there is one huge hardware Edition though with the 10 and that is a fingerprint scanner it's located at the bottom of the device under the screen and it's actually one of the best scanners I've used it's very fast but more importantly it's reliable it's a great way to secure your device without adding any extra hassle like on the m9 you'll have to resort to passwords patterns or other ways to keep your phone secure which can get annoying when you're doing it dozens of times per day on either side of the scanner we have capacitive back and recent apps buttons instead of on-screen buttons like on the m9 which gives you just that much more screen real estate performance is a huge step up on the HTC 10 which is expected with your typical 2016 flagship specs we got a Snapdragon 820 versus a 10 Adreno 530 versus 430 and 4 gigs of ram vs 3 now the one m9 is using the a-10 which is a great processor but unfortunately it uses an older version of it allowing the m9 to get uncomfortably hot at times which cripples performance even more with both phones at low temperatures I threw some Geekbench benchmark tests on them to see how they rank up with one another and the 10 scores much higher in single and multi-core rankings games load way faster on the 10 they have smooth playback you're just going to be a lot less frustrated using the HTC 10 with this fast performance now a battery life is actually pretty similar on each there's a slight boost with a 10 with a 116 million power larger battery but that larger battery has to deal with the higher resolution display so on both you're looking at an average of about 4 to 4 hours and 20 minutes of screen on time per day you should easily expect both phones to last you an entire day now when you charge at the end of the day you'll have a better time with the 10 thanks to the addition of USB type-c software is another night and day difference between these phones both phones are running Android marshmallow however just by looking at the m9 you would think this was a phone running Android 4.4 KitKat the HTC 10 follows almost all material design guidelines in fact the entire pulldown menu is the same pull down menu find on the stock Android device with some added features the recent apps screen is also almost similar to stock Android and so is the settings menu now yes a lot of users love a stock Android look and feel but of course not all users are going to like it and a lot of om skins on Android look nothing like stock but are still quite good however with the HTC One m9 it's the opposite HTC Sense on the m9 is a great skin and it's loaded with features but aesthetically it looks very cluttered and unappealing and the pulldown notification shade looks the same but with huge shortcut icons with text and all capital letters which actually makes some of the settings names cut off the recent apps screen on the m9 looks to be pretty much the same when we found an Android KitKat and it works very well but it definitely looks outdated Sense is also a lot less bloated with a 10 there's no silly games or other sponsored apps which are things that you will definitely find all throughout the m9 but feature wise both phones are very similar with lockscreen shortcuts theme store and blinkfeed which is a page for all your social media lists all in one neatly organized page or you can quickly see what's going on in your world HTC Sense overall is a great take on Android on both phones but design wise the HTC 10 once again is miles ahead camera was one of the most disappointing features of the m9 especially when it came to lower lit photos we got 20 megapixels with an aperture of 2.2 and no optical image stabilization the 10 goes with the 2016 camera setup that we're seeing on almost every flagship now of 12 megapixels with larger pixel size 1.8 aperture and optical image stabilization in outdoors there are some great improvements with the 10 adding some extra color a bit more contrast and images appear to be sharper with more detail even with less megapixels the m9 appears to be a lot softer smudging away those details and there also seems to be a bit of a haze on top of the Nine's photos with the n9 also being prone to overexposure the HTC ten does overexpose in certain areas though but compared to the m9 it's much better at handling bright areas HDR is also much better with the ten even if it looks a little unnatural now there's a huge difference when it comes to low-light photos the n9 has a slower shutter speed and that mixed with the lack of optical image stabilization creates very blurry photos human with the studies of hands it loses all detail has a lot more grain and its colors suffer as well turning on HDR usually helps phone cameras take better low-light photos but it gets even worse with the m9 it takes a long time to stitch together the shot so every time you'll end up with an even blur your image and the image will be way too bright interesting enough the HTC One m-9s front-facing four megapixel camera is actually a lot better than the tens five megapixel one you'll get a lot more detail on the m9 and that's thanks to its ultra pixel technology with the pixel size on this sensor being very large it exposes a lot better has a bit extra contrast and its colors are very vibrant the 10 selfie cam does have one thing going for it though and that's optical image stabilization which is a first for smartphone selfie camera so video recording is much smoother which is helpful for things like vlogging the TENS video also destroys the m9 mostly thanks to the addition of optical image stabilization this shot is very study compared to the jerky video of the m9 also the m9 s-video just seems to be a little too dark to enjoy now the HTC 10 isn't going to blow anybody away it lacks that one huge feature that most other flagships have but in almost every department the 10 blows the HTC One m9 out of the water the screen has better colors brightness and resolution the design is much sleeker the software is toned down less bloated we have a new fingerprint scanner and the camera produces pictures you can be proud of so sure you lose a great quality of the m9 s front-facing boomsound speakers but I'm sure the majority of users won't mind if that's what it takes to create a phone that's years ahead of the m9 well that is it for this comparison video thank you very much for watching in the comments below be sure to let me know which phone you think is better and for the full in-depth review of the HTC ten click that video this playing above make sure you head on over to android authority comm for the full in-depth comparison and subscribe for more videos like this because we are your source for all things Android