Jul 26, 2015 08:13 PM
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The Phone
It sports a 5.2-inch Quad-HD 2560x1440p resolution display which has become flagship-standard these days and comes running on Android Lollipop flavour over their signature HTC Sense v7.0 .
It packs an octa-core Helio X10 Mediatek CPU with 3GB RAM and offers 32GB expandable support up to 128GB at max. They seem to have switched sides on the ultra-pixels by adopting 20.7MP camera sensor for the rear camera, and offering the 4MP shooter on the front. All this power comes loaded with 2840mAh battery.
Design
There is not much to differ between the form size and design dynamics of One M8 and M9+, except for the fact that the construction of this year's HTC One flagship has been giving more finishing prominence that can be tangibly felt while using it. There's nothing wrong in minor refinements, but we can't truly appreciate it either for some reasons.
The BoomSound speakers are another fixture on HTC phones, and they are probably the best in the business right now. HTC has opted for the fingerprint scanner on its physical Home button right below the display and this one feels fairly tactile and responsive to finger touches, essential for unlocking the device. Everything feels good, but One M9+ fails to stand up to the challenge posed by Samsung this year and it seems the Taiwanese brand has opted to stay true to its philosophy. Only if they could have tried their hands with something more different and refreshing with the latest'One' series.
Display
HTC has been neck-to-neck with Samsung when it comes to offering display technology on its flagship phones and that continues to be the trend with the One M9+ as well. We've got nothing to complain about the viewing angles and this is where the panels of the 5.2-inch display really show its worth. It's easy to agree that Quad-HD resolution stands above the levels of what the naked eye can project and analyze but the clarity, sharpness and crispness of the content on One M9+ is hard to ignore. It does help that unlike the Super AMOLED colours, the Super LCD3 panels make for realistic colour-based viewing experience.
Camera
If design has been HTC's core strength over the years, then it's safe to say their imaging prowess needs more conscience. It doesn't matter the number of megapixels that One M9+ has been bestowed with(20.7MP so to say) as they don't show up where it really matters. Either the algorithms don't add up or somewhere down the line HTC has fluffed its sensor placement in the worst possible manner for a flagship-quality product.
Battery
The life of a device is very much dependent on the cores underneath, and the aforementioned lapses of the core have ensured that One M9+ for all its battery power doesn't manage to scale up to those levels. Reading of close to 6 hours for a phone is never a good thing on PCMark battery test, let alone for a flagship product. The dependency on power-saving options on the One M9+ is laughable and we're dearly hoping that whatever magic HTC has promised to offer to resolve issues with One M9, does also make its way to the One M9+ as well.
