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hey what is up guys on Kibby HD here and I just got back from an event by HTC across the river in New York City which is why I have this this is the all-new HTC One m8 so of course I'm going to go ahead and give you guys my very first impressions of it now obviously this is one of the most leaked phones of all time so we basically knew everything that was going to be announced but of course hundreds of people came to the event and liveblog the official announcement anyway and now the device is out and in the wild and people actually get to see it so physically this device is going to look very similar to the old HTC One it resembles it a lot especially on the front because of those boom sound speakers no other phone really does that yet so you're going to think it looks very similar to the old HTC One but there are three main differences that really distinguish it from that other phone so first of all number one it has a larger display it's a 5-inch 1080p display same awesome brightness same awesome sharpness but of course now it has on-screen buttons and it's bigger and that brings us to number two which is the device itself is a lot taller so it brings its height in a lot higher than the old HTC one if you look at them side-by-side it makes it really easy to tell but the phone is not that much wider and number three is a lot more rounded off so they rounded the metal from the back of the phone all the way around to the sides so there's not nearly as much polycarbonate and the overall shape of the phone is a lot more rounded on the corners so the entire device looks a bit more sleek a little bit more graceful less sharp edges and maybe that feels better in the hand I'll probably be able to figure that in a couple of days of using it but it's definitely a much more round device now but of course because it's metal it screams quality and the rest of the specs are pretty high-end as well nothing too overly extreme here but with that Snapdragon 801 quad-core chip the 1080p display and the latest version of Android 4.4 with HTC Sense 6 on top they made a witty pun about Sixth Sense but it's a pretty obvious that this is a flagship caliber device for HTC inside and out so around the back here we have one of the most talked about parts of the phone as soon as it was announced at the event people started chatting about it it's the cameras so on the back here we have a 4.1 megapixel camera we're sticking with that pixelmon occur like I said we would and what to expect video and then above that we have a second sensor so HTC calls this the duo camera system and it's supposed to allow you to refocus a picture after you take it so if you have something fancy in the foreground and something fancy in the background you can refocus on exactly what you want after you took the shot and have a nice soft blur over the out-of-focus parts for my limited experience though this feature doesn't even really work very well actually looks super artificial in the finished results but at least this is something they can improve in software pretty quickly since it's in the Play Store and this new duo camera API is also public so developers can build the feature into their own apps and maybe make it a little better than HTC does so but basically a lot of people are still bummed about the fact that this main camera is a four megapixel camera which is actually means the the wide-angle front-facing camera is a higher resolution you know for those selfies now we'll be doing a lot of testing with these cameras in the next couple of days and weeks before my full review video so definitely stay tuned for that but right now what I can say is they did make some sacrifices there's no more optical image stabilization there's now a two-tone flash on the back which I have to experiment with I usually don't use flash on my cameras anyway but it's there so there's a lot of things I need to figure out but what I got to say is when I was taking pictures with it in New York City in the viewfinder while I was taking the pictures they looked great they looked fantastic it was very high frame rate it looked like if the shutter was really really fast to fire the autofocus was extremely fast that was excellent but then looking at the photos afterwards after I took them they resembled the same as photos from the old HTC one which is okay it's not particularly high resolution but obviously like we said it's much better in low light than the typical camera even though it doesn't have oh is any more so we'll have to play with this a lot more I think a lot of people are going to be curious about the differences between this camera and the old HTC One camera also HTC Sense has been redesigned and that isn't really getting as much media attention because we're not really focusing on that but this is easily the cleanest most modern version of since UI yet it's definitely definitely still a skin no mistaking that but the redesign helps it stay unintrusive and I'm liking this design a bit more than a last one of course it still has you know the speakers on any phone by a long long way I still have battery life to test I still have some sweet new accessories to test and even a Google Play edition is on the way but at the moment it's clear to me that the main focus of this phone is designed HTC knows that the one was one of the best designed phones of 2013 that's what wanted all the awards and I guess they figured the best way to capitalize on that is to continue to focus on design and creating a phone that feels good looks good and works well but other than that that's basically it these are my first impressions of the all-new HTC One m8 definitely leave a comment below of things you want to see me cover in the full review when that goes live and leave a thumbs up below if you enjoyed this video and also there's a subscribe button below so you'll be one of the first to see and not miss the upcoming videos on the mkbhd channel so you'll be first to see the review so either way that's been it thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace