The One M9 smacks of HTC playing to the HTC faithful: a device that's designed to answer the lingering complaints of current users, and play up to their design tastes. All the same, I'm not entirely confident the design will get the attention that investment deserves, not least because of the similarity in appearance to the outgoing phone, and I'd honestly rather have seen fewer megapixels and the inclusion of optical image stabilization. There's nothing inherently wrong with spending 300+ hours on crafting each phone chassis according to custom processes, just like there's nothing wrong with plumping for a 20-megapixel camera that sits near the top of the resolution rankings for recent flagships. The brief, fuzzy pause as each image loads in the gallery, for instance, belies the strength of the GPU, especially given that it actually takes a little longer each time than the One M8 before it. In fact, for the most part I have little complaint about the phone's performance – apps load quickly, games play smoothly, and the M9 has no complaint with Full HD video playback – though there are a few lingering annoyances. In fact HTC pushed out a software update midway through my review process which, among other things, tweaked the thermal limits under a subset of use-cases: when benchmarking or gaming, or during the firmware upgrade process.Įven before that update, however, I struggled to push the One M9 to the point where it was approaching uncomfortable to hold. It's not wrong to say that the Snapdragon 810 – and the One M9 specifically – have experienced more than a little attention for how hot things get under load. If you have AllPlay-compatible WiFi speakers, you should be able to group them together into rooms or zones, and stream to them simultaneously. I was able to get it working with a Jawbone Mini Jambox, once I'd manually paired them beforehand, and the switchover was pretty much instantaneous, though I could only stream to a single Bluetooth speaker at a time. Although Sonos speakers show up in the list of potential output options, and the One M9 claims to be connected to them when they're selected, the audio still comes out of the phone. If you think it all sounds a little like Sonos then you're not alone, but ironically that's one platform Connect won't work with.
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