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MRU's HTC One M8 Review 2014

Great review. I had the S5 for 3 weeks but once I had a good play with the M8 in a store I traded it for the M8. Agree with everything you have said and much prefer it to the S5. Sure, its camera is better and the removable battery and all that but the M8 to me just was the better device.

I've now converted it to a GPE following threads on XDA and love the stock android feel, its like my Nexus 5 on steroids. Currently no way back to stock sense though so it's kinda a one way ticket but well worth it if you are missing the S4 GPE feel.
 
I sold my M8 and will run with my S5 for now.
Reasons:

Notification light only 5 mins
Won't sync with iPhoto/mac
Screen not 5" only 4.5" because of on screen buttons.
Too slippery without a case worse than 5S
Bit heavy/tall in pocket.
No wireless charging.
Camera not as good but not a deal breaker, a advantage.

This was my first HTC and its a great phone but those things out way the positives for me now, like Great speaker and Build quality.

Plus the S5 waterproofing and they are a blue tick phone here and have better reception in rural areas won me over. Also S5 screen can be seen with polarised sunnys on.
 
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^ at this present moment if I was to sell either of mine! it would actually be the S5. I'm already sick of trying to make it speedier and feel less bloated, and it's started me obsessing about memory management ...

For me the M8 in every day use of the phone offers a far superior user experience, I just wish I could stick the camera from the S5 into the M8. For me it would then be a perfect device.

I also think contrary to others finding the screen on the M8 is easier to see outdoors for me, and the speaker on the S5 leaves a lot to be desired compared to boom sound.

I'm rural here too and phone reception is actually same between devices and flipping between phones callers haven't noticed any difference between them call quality wise ...
 
MacRumorUser said:
^ at this present moment if I was to sell either of mine! it would actually be the S5. I'm already sick of trying to make it speedier and feel less bloated, and it's started me obsessing about memory management ...

For me the M8 in every day use of the phone offers a far superior user experience, I just wish I could stick the camera from the S5 into the M8. For me it would then be a perfect device.

I also think contrary to others finding the screen on the M8 is easier to see outdoors for me, and the speaker on the S5 leaves a lot to be desired compared to boom sound.

I'm rural here too and phone reception is actually same between devices and flipping between phones callers haven't noticed any difference between them call quality wise ...
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I am not a real techno user like some. Our biggest Telco does testing on all their phones and only give blue ticks to phones that are better in rural areas. Australia is a big country. These phones below are. S5 screen is better for me driving with sunnys and outside. Everyone wears sunnys here:)

Post-paid handsets
Samsung Galaxy s5
iPhone 4S
iPhone 5C
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini
Telstra Easy Discovery 4
Blackberry Z30
Telstra Dave
Nokia Lumia 625
Telstra Tough 3
Telstra Easytouch 4G

Pre-paid handsets
Ascend Y300
Samsung Galaxy Young
EasyCall 3
Nokia Lumia 520
Telstra T96
Samsung Galaxy Ace
Samsung S5511T
 
Loving my M8 three weeks in, so happy no more Touchjizz from my old S4, wow Samsung kills a good phone with their crappy UI.

Sense 6 has amazed me, really well designed, and layed out. And the battery life on this M8 phone blows me away, as does this awesome LCD screen outdoors, I can finally see a screen outside, unlike my poor Samsung S4 that sucked hard outside.

I tried out two GPE ROM's to give stock Android a fair try again, and I kept coming back to Sense 6.
 
To nail it down i probably should of researched HTC and the M8 a bit more having never owned one.
I sold my 5S as i wanted a bigger screen and a notification light.
I didn't know the M8 light was only a 5 min blinker and the screen is really only 4.5" for most things which really hit home after using the S5. I wanted a full 5" screen. Which i thought the M8 was. My mistake.
 
MacRumorUser said:
^ at this present moment if I was to sell either of mine! it would actually be the S5. I'm already sick of trying to make it speedier and feel less bloated, and it's started me obsessing about memory management ...

For me the M8 in every day use of the phone offers a far superior user experience, I just wish I could stick the camera from the S5 into the M8. For me it would then be a perfect device.

I also think contrary to others finding the screen on the M8 is easier to see outdoors for me, and the speaker on the S5 leaves a lot to be desired compared to boom sound.

I'm rural here too and phone reception is actually same between devices and flipping between phones callers haven't noticed any difference between them call quality wise ...
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Speaking of memory management, the official build of CyanogenMod isn't much better than the touchwiz ROM on my note 3. Only have 2 apps open, Chrome and Settings.
 

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Dr McKay said:
Speaking of memory management, the official build of CyanogenMod isn't much better than the touchwiz ROM on my note 3. Only have 2 apps open, Chrome and Settings.
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Cyanogenmod is not known for good memory management or good battery but lol that looks like same usage of TouchWiz.
 
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