Gadgetory

last year we reinvented the mobile home screen with blinkfeed giving you a constant stream of social updates and news headlines that matter to you over the past year we've continued to add top-tier content and media providers giving you even more choice with this new version of blinkfeed we focus it on making it even easier to find the content that you're interested in the new layout is spacious clean and colorful so the articles are easier to browse and read and with the new blink you can create custom feeds on absolutely any topic for example i happen to be remodeling my home and I'm constantly looking at modern architecture for inspiration I can type that in as a topic save it as a custom feed and then I instantly get articles and tweets about what interests me we see a lot of potential to make blinkfeed even more useful and intuitive so today we're opening up blinkfeed to developers so they can integrate their content in ways that are really interesting to you one of our first partners is foursquare for example let's say it's coming up on noon we happen to be in Manhattan foursquare will publish lunch recommendations right into your feed we're also working with Fitbit to display your activity milestones in the feed in fact you'll be able to use your HTC One m8 with it's always on sensor hub as your Fitbit activity tracker all your activity data goes straight into Fitbit and then you'll see things like your latest achievements show up in your feed and these are just two initial partners we've opened up blinkfeed to everyone so developers can integrate their content in new and interesting ways that matter to you the software developer kit is available today and we look forward to seeing what our new partners can do let's talk a little bit about TV now last year we turn to the HTC One into the only remote control you need by integrating an IR blaster and introducing you to sense TV on the HTC One m8 sense TVs all new visual layout is more engaging and makes it easier to find out what's on but we've made it even more powerful with the inclusion of real-time social feeds and live sports statistics now when you're watching a show you can just swipe to the right to get to your the official Twitter and Facebook pages along with popular hashtags for sports fans since TV now supports the 10 most popular sports in the world from basketball to baseball football to golf you get live scores and stats TV channel information a full remote control and an integrated social experience all in one application moving on to talk about audio HTC's signature boom sound set the standard for mobile audio with dual front stereo speakers dedicated amps and custom DSP with the HTC One m8 our lead in mobile audio is only growing the new HTC One features a finely tuned multiband amplifier it improved dynamic range and reduces a distortion we've also redesigned the speaker chambers it results in audio that is twenty-five percent louder and has more depth this means you get clearer sound with everything that you're listening to we also put tremendous effort into making it easy to connect your phone to your home theater or stereo now you can just swipe with three fingers and anything that you're doing on your phone whether that's playing a song watching a YouTube video or listening to internet radio it can instantly be played through a wireless speaker TV or stereo system and these are just a few of the partners that we've worked with to make sure this is a seamless experience