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what's up Tech fans its Marco from taka tomorrow and the HTC One m8 has been with us for the past month or so and it's time to give this guy a revisit to see how things are going if you haven't been around there have been a lot of the past month Donald Sterling's made some racist comments and the brand new HTC One the Encore to the old HTC One m7 has dropped into millions of people's hands maybe not quite millions but definitely a lot of hands and it's definitely one great device the new I made is faster bigger and made with more metallic elements something called aluminium which is different from the lumen I'm apparently and it's definitely a different device because the old m7 was a device we all fell in love with and the new m8 is a device but I'm deeply in love with so far so let's give the HTC One m8 and revisit one month later the HTC One m8 whereas people would like to call it the mate is one sexy device now being built out of 90% aluminium it has a texture unlike any other smartphone out there it makes the one absolutely the most slippery device known to man it's like someone who took an iPhone 3G and smothered baby oil all over it but where this extra aluminum comes in if beauty does follow and so far I've only managed one tiny scratch right below the HTC logo on the back and one tiny scratch on the display and keep in mind I kept the one almost bare throughout the whole one month one minor thing to note is about the boom sound speakers and mainly the speaker holes themselves I had an issue of debris getting stuck underneath the speakers on the HTC One m7 and they're still here with the new m8 so the phone is still beautiful good next would be hardware specs and battery life well the HTC ones 801 chip is now out on a few smartphones like the s5 fee Oppo find 7 and they just recently announced oneplus one device which is a sub brand of Oppo apparently but I've only used C 801 chip on the s5 which we've made a comparison video on that a couple weeks ago which you can check out in the description below it's still generation leading but obviously it mainly relies on how well the software uses all of that power from the 2.3 gigahertz quad-core chip which we'll get to that in just a moment the other side of this hardware talk is the battery life with a slightly larger you'd only imagine a slight increase but you're wrong I have never managed to get this one underneath the 20% mark at my end of the day and you have to realize I almost practically work off my phone on a day-to-day basis and that super battery saving mode is still not active on any of the US models but really I just don't need it in the future and it's not only me tons of tech you two people have had similar results now let's switch our focus to software the One m8 runs Android 4.4.2 kitkat and sense 6.0 which of a time of this recording is still the most current version of Android handsets I figure out standing with my earlier claims of this being the best skinned Android experience to date I've never run into problems with built-in applications crashing all the features work most of the time and I've never had anything that annoyed me sense 6.0 is still a breath of fresh air for Android 4.4.2 in my opinion while some may disagree with me and may even favor the Google Play edition m8 I would still stick with my standard one who sent six now there are some things I would like to change like how the app drawer Scrolls vertically instead of horizontally but that's just an HTC thing I would also change the motion launch settings to be less sensitive and let you use those gestures with a phone on a table which leads me into motion launch itself it's actually more helpful than you may think that it can help people with smaller hands it almost gets rid of using the lock switch entirely because you could just swipe from the right hand side to unlock your phone in one motion you can also launch them to blinkfeed use a voice command feature and if you flip the phone in to landscape mode and tap the volume rocker launch for camera application throughout my time browsing tweeting watching youtube videos and playing games I've never run into major problems of sense 6 I think I've only had about one or two games crash on me but other than that it's nothing another major aspect of Sense 6 is the upgrade ability of the software HTC is making a major strive to keep their software up to date on all the phones over over-the-air updates that also means we can hope for the next version of Android to be available on the HTC One m8 within weeks or even days of its arrival at i/o this year the last thing I wanted to mention is the camera there is no changing the original verdict of the HTC one fits camera it's of low quality compared to the s5 to 5s or really any other flagship on the market we all wish it were better that's just what we have so after a full month of the HTC one being in our hands we still love this phone it's still in my pocket as my daily driver and I think that's the most ultimate award coming from a man who sits at work and reviews tons of phones each and every year the phone that sits in their pockets must be the best right but all sorts of people have different sorts of tastes when it comes to owning a phone for an extended period of time the HTC One m8 is not for everyone there's other flat chips around and many of them are coming soon like the oneplus one which uses a very similar hardware structure yet cost half as much as the m8 but if you like a phone that's built like this runs beautiful skin software like this and just looks as beautiful as vm8 then this would be your perfect fit so let us know what you think about the HTC One m8 and whether you own one or not also let us know if you'd want to own one or could care less because there's other phones around you can also ask me questions directly on Twitter - at mark om Hana is my twitter name and feel free to give me a follow wire there and as always my name is marco from Technic tomorrow and I'll catch you guys in the next one