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the new HTC One m8 is taken what made the original m7 one of my favorite smartphones of 2013 and improved upon it it's got a bigger display it's faster and has some new features so gonna kick back relax and find out what stood out to me today's video is powered by Dollar Shave Club hey guys johnathan Morrison here yep that is just like Jim hope you guys are having a fantastic day evening or whenever you may be watching this I am back some coverage on the brand new HTC One otherwise known as the HTC One m8 so I'm currently in the preparation stage of my review testing it out using it as my daily driver and pretty much just getting a feel for the phone but I have used it for a couple days now so I want to share with you my first impressions and also what stood out to me and I'm going to do that by breaking it down into my top five features now if you're brand new to the channel definitely feel free to subscribe that way you'll be notified once I do upload the full review and you can do that by either clicking the YouTube button right here or we'll have it linked down below aside from that let's go to Jim right into it and kick it off with feature number five and that is motion launched now briefly touching upon impressions I am NOT a huge fan of the sleep/wake button placement on the new m8 for me by instinct I keep wanting to reach for what actually is the micro SD card slot up down on top right hand side and actually on Twitter myself Detroit Borg and Danny widget who both by the way make killer tech videos all seem to agree at the sleep/wake button placement is a little bit cumbersome and for us the ideal placement would actually be where the volume down button is located now if you happen to have picked up one of the new HTC One m8 I would love to hear your opinion on whether you agree or disagree with us now getting back to motion launched there was some reasoning behind that little ramble and because I do find the sleep/wake button cumbersome that makes me appreciate and find motion launched that much more useful now quick disclaimer this may seem very similar to some of LG's features so I'm not saying by any stretch of the imagination that HTC invented the wheel but regardless these are useful so for starters when the phone is asleep and in portrait orientation you can actually double tap the phone and that will wake it up taking that one step further you can swipe left and that will take you to your widget panel which essentially is your homescreen swiping right will take you directly into blinkfeed which I'm not a huge fan of but it's there and if you want to access that quickly that's how you do it now swiping up will unlock the phone completely and if you're curious what the difference is between up and because they seem very similar if you swipe up that will actually take you to your last open application as opposed to the home widget panel now conversely swiping down while she activate voice calling so if you want to quickly make a phone call when your phone's asleep just swipe down and then from there it'll prompt you to say call and then the name of the person you want to dial and then lastly if you do want to quickly access the camera on the m8 from sleep all you got to do is turn it landscape so sideways and then press either of the volume buttons and voila so you can see they're not revolutionary by any means but definitely useful and that brings us to feature number four that is micro SD card expandability so jumping back to last year's HTC One the m7 one of the biggest complaints and drawbacks was a lack of storage expansion that was something the galaxy s4 offered and for a lot of people that was a make or break feature in terms of actually buying a phone but this year that completely changes and what makes it more impressive is that HTC has proven that you don't have to sacrifice build quality in order to get expandability now upon first glance you might not even realize there is a micro SD card slot on the ma because it kind of just looks like a sim card slot right there on the top right hand side but the SIM card slot is actually on the left side now because it is a unibody design the bad news is you do need a tool to access that slot the good news is though it's just a sim card ejection tool so you're not going to have to have a separate special adapter or tool or anything like that it's the same one you'd use for your sim card now you can expand up to an additional 128 gigabytes by a micro SD on top of that if you don't need that much storage you can actually pick up a 64 gigabyte card for less than $1 per gigabyte right now they're floating around 40 to $45 and I'll have current pricing and various models and sizes linked down below just in case you are interested in picking one up so moving on to feature number three and that is the duo camera now in the back of the m8 you might be wondering why are there two cameras those are actually two separate for ultrapixel cameras that take two separate pictures simultaneously and then give you access to the various depth of field information that you can then tweak afterwards now there has been some controversy on whether this is useful or if it's gimmicky but for me more than anything it's a step into the future into the right direction and it's actually nice to see HTC taking a chance and trying to be innovative as opposed to just keeping the same or boring now from my initial test and it's not perfect in every situation but if you kind of know when and how to use it can actually cool so here you can see my lovely dog miss melody posing for the YouTube camera and this is with no effect turned on and you can see if we focus on her we can actually create that blurred background effect so in this case it actually looks really nice this is Big Mac in a similar scenario and again it looks pretty good here and this is based off what they call you focus you can change either the foreground or background focus they also have foreground ER which gives you four options sketch zoom blur cartoon and colorize this shot of Big Mac right here was created using the foreground ur sketch effect and in this case I think it works really well there's also seasons which will give your photo almost a video like effect with various elements there's Sakura dandelion maple leaf and snow now dimension plus is pretty trippy because there are two focal points with the two cameras if you actually tilt the phone it will give you a pretty tripped out 3d effect which I don't know how useful it is but it's kind of cool and lastly sticker doesn't really have anything to do with the dual camera per se but I thought why wouldn't you want to see a picture of Big Mac in a hat so again it's not perfect in every situation but I think a lot of consumers who just want to have fun with their camera and aren't really trying to be a pro photographer are going to find some use out of this and again even though it can be conceived as gimmicky I think it's a step in the right direction and also something we'll see on future smartphones to come and following up the dual camera at number two is Bill quality and the display and I'm kind of just a matching these together because they are both awesome and kind of both go hand in hand now the original HTC One m7 by all means was a beautifully crafted beautifully designed extremely premium feel and smartphone but HTC has found a way to even improve upon that so the m7 consisted of about 70% aluminum in terms of bill material whereas the m8 bumps that up to about 90% so with that it does make it heavier but it feels extremely solid and there's very little plastic and just like the m7 something I really like about the m8 is when you pick it up in the morning because it is aluminium and gives you that cold metal feeling which is something I just personally enjoy now alongside the build quality the display on the m8 is also just as awesome so it is still 1080p just like on the m7 but it's slightly larger now coming in at 5 inches which for me is just about the sweet spot in terms of a smartphone screen display size and on top of that just overall image quality brightness and color accuracy is outstanding so whether you're watching YouTube Netflix playing a game or even just reading for me having a large sharp display is something I really enjoy now as awesome as the display is for consuming media this takes me to my number one feature which is boom sound which takes consuming media to that next level so again jumping back to the original HTC one the m7 boom sound was one of the features that kept me using it as my daily driver for as long as it did it is honestly loud enough and sounds good enough to where if you didn't want to use a Bluetooth speaker in certain applications you'll actually enjoy listening to music off of it now HTC is claiming that the new m8 is 20% louder compared to the m7 and I'll actually go all out and test that out with a decibel reader for my full review but in the meantime for reference here is what the iPhone 5s sounds like and here is that same track at the same volume level on the HTC One m8 so you can see there is an absolutely huge difference between the two and it is beyond me why this is not a feature on every single smartphone or tablet because it completely enhances your experience not only does that apply to YouTube or Netflix but if you're actually playing a game you get more immersed into the content because it sounds that much better and for me I watch a ton of NBA League Pass on my phone so the bigger display combined with boom sound makes my geek slash sports heart very happy and thank goodness the Bulls turn it around this year they're making me proud but they did have me a little bit worried when Rose went down again the MRI confirms it's a torn meniscus the right knee of Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose which will sideline him remainder the season yet again the Bulls struggles continue 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