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hey what's up everyone this is Todd Hazleton from TechnoBuffalo I'm here in Barcelona Spain checking out the brand new HTC One m9 was just announced by HTC at Mobile World Congress here and if it looks familiar that's because it sort of is HTC told me this is a refinement of the HTC One m8 but it does have some of the sharper edges that we liked and saw originally on the One m7 you can see it's got the boom sound speakers on the top and bottom and unfortunately that HTC black bar is still there which apparently needs to be in order to make a room for those speakers in some aspects you also have the front facing front facing rather ultrapixel camera that's a 5-inch display with the 1080p resolution on the left-hand side I believe that's either similar expandable storage I don't have a tool to open it and have it had one yet so I'll to find out but it does have expandable storage up to 128 gigabytes and 32 gigabytes onboard however on the back you can see it looks familiar but you were missing the duo camera setup that we saw in the One m8 that's because that's a new 20 megapixel camera there with the dual LED flash at the different tones then you can see the antenna bands coming across I like we saw before and on the right hand side the buttons have changed slightly you don't have the rocker anymore you have the two volume up and down buttons separate of each other real nice a sort of brushed aluminum look there and then you have the power button and then I believe either no sim or the micro SD card slot I'm not quite sure again because I don't have the two will open it so software here is changed we're running lollipop with Sense 7 and that includes blinkfeed over on the left which is getting more and more contextual so you can see the top here says thinking about coffee and showing me coffee shops in Barcelona powered by Yelp but again you get your news stories and Social Feeds really similar to before quick and easy to use and that also comes with what I should see oh we have a system update already sometimes then it'll use that contextual update like thinking about coffee and put it right on your lock screen which is kind of neat if you're worried or if you're interested in in areas around you and then now we have this like sense now sort of feed on the front here and you can see it has out home and work and now what that does is it changes the icons available on this launcher in the apps depending on where you are so I said I was out but now when I'm home it'll swap it around to themes and calendar and music and YouTube and stuff like that and then I could also say I'm at work where it might say that hey these are the apps that you care about your mail app and Google Drive and stuff like that now you'll notice also in here or downloads this is where your most recent downloaded apps would appear and suggestions this is sort of kind of feels like malware but not really it's like advertisements it's just apps that it thinks you should download like candy crush which I'm not crazy about and super bright light or something like that and you'll have to pardon the connection here it's not it's not great where I am in Barcelona but it's recommended apps now thankfully you can turn those off I believe in the settings of this let's see if we can access it we can't now however HTC did tell us that you can turn those off so you can remove the suggestions folder and downloads at your leisure now we'll go through here you can see there's a some preloaded apps boomsound connect this lets you connect to HTC sort of connected home supported speakers and stuff like that if they're nearby or blue to it if you will and will go through there's also HT seeds new dot view application if I can find that floating around here somewhere powered again oh there it is this comes with a bunch of themes that you can tweak my themes holiday themes live themes and you can even change it to have a special message that flashes across the theme your display if you want so there's lots of new stuff you can do with a doc view case that will be available for this phone also notice peel smart remotes included this time around HTC uh no network connection HTC decided to get rid of HTC's built-in TV software which was built on peel anyway and just add peel Smart Remote so that you got the frequent updates provided by them and HTC wouldn't put their own resources into it so not a bad choice photo editor is a new one here you can do all kinds of stuff with the pictures that you take so I had a selfie I took earlier and you can do let's see add various effects some of them are a little weirder than others so like you know like Picasso or something I don't know and you can also blend two faces so if you have a selfie of your friend and your own selfie you can then mix the faces together which is pretty silly and you need at the same time the photos or the gallery app rather is pretty sweet still - you get the animated Clips that you have if you you know shot videos with the camera I'll just show you that's one of the effects you can add you can do that on the m8 as well so just neat little things like that throughout the software inside of sense 7 otherwise one of the other big things that HTC is putting a focus on is themes so you can change your out of your theme that was the default one and here's a bunch more but the idea is that you're gonna go through a store and be able to download and I don't think pay but maybe pay download themes and let's see so I'll replace this one with one called Cascadia and here you can see the theme is applied it literally changes everything you see at the bottom like the app for switching tasks is now some mountains and you have this home button is now sort of a weather thing but all the icons changed even the messaging icon is different mail calendar weather and then even the fonts and stuff so you can go through and tweak all of that so fonts and icons or the entire team if you want which is pretty neat and then of course HTC has some new wallpapers here if you care about those we'll go through and just browse them a lot of these we published on the site already they kind of spilled out ahead of time I kind of like this night one on the beach was you see so a customization obviously in personalization is gonna be a big part of this phone as well in any case under the hood and you probably noticed it's everything's running really smooth with lollipop and on the Snapdragon 810 processor here I know there were concerns of overheating I've been using this for a couple hours now and it feels totally fine you got three gigs of RAM on board again I said 32 gigs of storage expandable with an additional 128 gigabytes HTC said that's it for now that 32 gigabytes q so not sure if they're ever gonna have more maybe down the line but that's not the plan right now then up top you've got the IR blaster again for the TV support and on the bottom 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and micro USB charging in any case that's a quick look here at the HTC One m9 one of the newest hottest phones should be launching sometime this spring no we're getting on carriers and stuff but stay tuned to the TechnoBuffalo homepage for all the news on that this is Todd Hazleton from TechnoBuffalo at Mobile World Congress