The UFocus tool allows you to blur foreground or background detail, while the Foregrounder effect isolates the main subject by desaturating the background and adding a sketch filter to it. This enables the M8 to add dramatic depth-of-field effects to your photos after they’ve been taken. Flip the M8 over and you’ll see two lenses – one that captures the main image and a smaller one that records spatial information. It’s even possible to answer calls through the case without having to open it.Īside from the design, the most significant update is the Duo camera. This allows light from the display to shine through a grid of pinpricks in the front cover, allowing the phone to display the time, weather and notifications through the flap in retro, dot-matrix style. We also like HTC’s ingenious new Dot View case (£35 inc VAT). However, it’s good to see that HTC has added a microSD slot to the new model with the original HTC One – now renamed the One M7 – you were stuck with the storage you opted for at purchase. The HTC One M8 also lacks dust- and water-resistance like the forthcoming Samsung Galaxy S5 and the recently released Sony Xperia Z1 Compact.

HTC is keen to push design as a key selling point of the phone, and it’s succeeded in remaining ahead of its rivals in terms of looks.įrom a practical point of view, we’re disappointed to see that the home, multitasking and back buttons have been shifted from beneath the screen into the display itself, eating into the usable screen real estate. Since it sports a larger 5in, 1080p display, as well as a higher-capacity 2,600mAh battery, the phone is physically slightly bigger than the original One, but HTC’s engineers have managed to keep a lid on things the M8 is only half a fingernail taller.

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