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hey what is up guys I'm kid Bhd here and welcome to the HTC one m9 hands-on so this is the successor to one of the most well-liked phones from last year the HTC One m8 and most of the outside hardware as you can see has stayed pretty much the same while the specs got the bump on the inside so that's really the long story short with this phone it's kind of like the equivalent of the HTC One m8 s so it's an incremental improvement but I think in the best possible way because the One m8 was already one of the best phones of last year so of course it's metal everywhere again and the minor changes you get are you know one additional color choice in pink and there's also now a two-tone look so the sides have a different color than the front and back so this silver version for example has gold stripes on the sides where the buttons are and these buttons are actually in a new place so I mentioned in my what to expect video the ridged power button has moved to the right side underneath the volume buttons so it's much easier to reach now here and overall the metal has more of a brushed look so you can tell that when you put it up next to the One m8 now I'm not sure how slippery is going to be this one is on a tether so it's keeping me from dropping it at all but I'm feeling like it's gonna have the same pretty slippery feel on the hand as the One m8 so I think I'm gonna end up putting a skin on it when I get it but I'll at least give it a shot with no skin or case for my full review but otherwise on the outside the boom sound speakers are still there so one year later there's still some of the loudest and crispest and clearest of any phone and they're supposedly enhanced this time around with Dolby surround sound but I'll have to get in a quiet area and test that out again for the full review to see if it's worth the change but otherwise yet still boom sound you also still get microSD card expandable storage so I guess that's something that was noticeably missing from Samsung's new flagship you also still get a 5-inch 1080p display so not quite HD and I don't mind this really I suspect we'll see quad HD in the next HTC flagship but with a 1080p screen here we're still getting 441 PPI and it's still a great display you know awesome brightness great colors great viewing angles in fact this was one of the best 1080p displays of any smartphone last year - and I know some people wanted them to get rid of that bottom but with the HTC logo but you got to realize the display drivers have to go somewhere and that's pretty much all the bezel of this phone you got to remember how much space those speakers take up so the one main hardware change that they really made to this phone was the camera on the back so that one m9 is rocking an all-new 20 megapixel sensor no optical image stabilization but it can take 4k video now and of course now it takes these very high resolution photos and this is the number one thing I will be testing in the full review process I got to spend a little bit of time with this phone obviously in a press room with this crazy terrible lighting and it's on a tether so I could really only point and shoot at so many things and images looked okay on the one screen but I really want to go out and test this new camera as deeply as I can bring images back to the computer pixel peep and everything so you can be sure that I know the most that I can about this new camera but you know we'll see how that goes so obviously no more ultra pixels on the back but they did stick around and keep the ultra pixels for the front-facing camera which is this really wide angle lens and I guess that makes sense for selfies so the ultra pixels aren't gone forever but that new camera module is definitely something to test a lot now inside this phone like I said you get a spec upgrade so Snapdragon 810 chip 3 gigabytes of RAM and HTC Sense 7 on top of Android 5.0 lollipop in the software Department not a whole lot of preloaded apps here and this new version of sense does seem you know flatter and smoother and more responsive as it should on lollipop they've added some new features like quick themes in the settings and even this custom widget which is essentially a grid of icons that changes what apps show up based on your locations so I guess it's supposed to be smart enough that when you leave home and go to work it switches over to showing you your work apps so stuff like that should work automatically and of course you can manually toggle it if it's not smart enough but also it will apparently suggest some new apps that you don't have installed so I hope that works well and isn't distracting but yeah you can see everything else looks really familiar here to previous HTC One owners multitasking is smooth all the buttons and things you would expect are right where you'd find them on the last version I really can't wait to spend more time with this phone off a tether and in my pocket to really get to know it well but my sentiment really I've read a lot of these tweets and people who are talking about oh I'm disappointed with this phone or I really expected more but if you're HTC you really you took the one of the best phones of last year in the one m8 and you fixed and improved everything that was wrong with it and you bumped up the specs boom there's your one m9 I can see why people are complaining because they wanted a big design refresh and a huge change but HTC can't do that every year so if it ain't broke don't fix it I imagine HTC is pretty happy with this phone and all the changes they've made seem to be for the better so the testing will begin as soon as I get my hands on one and I'm pretty pumped so be sure to subscribe if you haven't already to be one of the first to see the full review when it does come out until then thank you for watching this one and I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace