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so unless you've been living under some sort of rock over the last couple days you would know that I've been spending a lot of time with the HTC One m8 over the last couple days and after today's launch event we did get our hands on a review unit because this phone is available right now available for you to buy we wanted to put it through a few more paces before we get started on our full review and tell you what top five features we're most excited about when it comes to handling this brand-new device so it's Josh vegara from Andhra Authority what's going on everybody and this is our top 5 features on the HTC One m8 alright and when we're talking about the HTC One m8 of course we have to talk about its most glaring change and that is on the back in terms of that new camera not just the camera that returns from the HTC One m7 which is the four ultra pixel camera that did do very well in low-light photography but also the dual camera that is found very much at the top of the device and may or may not be a blemish for some of you users out there but its function is undeniable as it is a hardware solution to one of the problems that some of these other manufacturers have been trying to sort of put into their phones and solve which is the selective focus inside of your photos they're really looking to create a DSLR level experience here and even though 4 megapixels may not be a whole lot for most of you users out there the fact that you can be very stylistic with the photos you do get out of the camera on the HTC One m8 is a very big prospect indeed and then we move over to yet another feature of the HTC One that has always been one of its best traits and that's the build quality in the update to the m8 the HTC One has been given even more aluminum and metal in its build and now the phone is almost made up of 90% aluminium now despite the fact that metal might interfere with the antennas that is not the case here as they have been able to bolster their antenna technology to be able to be put into the aluminum and now the aluminum is wrapped around the phone from the back to the front where the screen is obviously that results in a very nice feel that is different from the more rigid fuel of the original HTC One after that the screen has also been bumped up to five inches which is more in line with current flagships which does make the phone little bit larger all around but it is still a very narrow device and with the curve on the back and the nice smoothness on the sides this is actually not that hard of a phone to handle even with that extra girth on the top and bottom but then again those are the boom sound speakers speaking of the boom sound speakers they have been enhanced in this new version of the HTC one the amplifiers in either of the top or bottom of the boom sound front-facing speakers have been given a 25% volume boost allowing this to really be sort of a replacement speaker or rather if you're going to be sharing your media with anybody else you should be able to share it easily with anybody that is in at least close proximity because this thing can probably get really loud and then our next feature that we're really excited about is the improvement to sense 6 or they called it Sixth Sense because ultimately the operating system is trying to give you the information you need without you having to go searching for it and that starts with blinkfeed blinkfeed has been enhanced with a different look that is not paginated the way it was before and now is a full-on scroll with all of the tiles that are there it looks quite elegant and if you don't like the color that it is defaulted to in that green you can always change it in the settings after that more contextualization in terms of the motion sensor you'll be able to turn on the phone easily without having to reach to the top for that power button these are just very nice enhancements of the sense UI that takes what is already an attractive package that is also useful and makes it even more useful for the general consumer and then finally the last part of the HTC One m8 that we're excited for in this top 5 is the battery life now while the 2600 milliamp hour battery may not seem that big of an improvement going from the m7 to the m8 we will see that the battery will probably last quite a while because of the optimizations that are put into there not to mention the Snapdragon 801 which should be a power sipper in terms of its consumption according to HTC the battery in here should last 40% longer than the one that was found in the m7 but they're not just going to stop with their optimizations they're also adding in software that will allow you to have an extreme power saving mode which will allow you to have the phone on for just wicked amounts of time at 5% in this extreme power saving mode the phone will still be in standby for up to 15 hours so if you really just need to be connected okay someone calls you you can turn on that mode and then you can take your sweet time getting over to a charger and then charging the phone back to full power to where you need it and so there you have it for our top five features that get us really excited about using and reviewing this brand new phone from HTC the HTC One m8 there are quite a few enhancements in the UI and also in the build quality but also that camera up top so we will call this a proper update to what was already a pretty well received and very nice phone to boot so keep it tuned to android authority for all of the best coverage of the HTC One m8 we're going to have our full review coming up quite soon and also feature focuses on both blinkfeed and the camera to say the least so keep it tuned to Android thority and don't forget to head on over to our website and rathore decom for all of the best coverage because we are your source for all things Android