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HTC launched One (M7), the "heavy metal" flagship last year, which attracted many fans who like the metal texture. The subsequent launch of Butterfly S and One Max were both painless. In March 2014, HTC, which has been accumulating strength for a long time, finally came to a "big explosion" and released the new flagship M8, which has a higher proportion of metal, dual cameras and stronger hardware configuration. What surprises will "ham sausage" bring us this time?

Although it's boring, let's take a look at the parameters first... The following is a comparison of the parameters of the M8, the previous generation product M7 and the largest competitor Galaxy S5 (Qualcomm version):

In terms of parameters, the M8 is similar to the Galaxy S5 in many parameters, but it is inferior in terms of battery capacity and camera pixels. Compared with the previous generation M7, the M8 main camera parameters remain unchanged, but the OIS optical anti shake function is omitted, the depth of field camera configuration is added, and the front camera and battery capacity are improved. The M8 configuration is basically in line with the standard of current flagship phones. Of course, HTC insists on using the UltraPixel camera, so the pixel is much lower than that of competitors. Some netizens even have such ideas:

appearance

The overall appearance design of HTC One (M8) (hereinafter referred to as M8) continues the design style of M7. When the screen is turned off, the front is very "high-end black". The front BoomSound dual speakers are very aggressive ▼

The front camera has reached 5 million pixels, while the rear camera has only 4 million pixels. The M8 is also the first mobile phone with a higher front than rear pixel ▼

In the "chin" part, the two touch keys on the M7 are removed and the virtual keys are used instead (this is also the place where the most complaints are made) ▼

The rear cover is made of metal in a large area. The texture is very good. We got the silver M8 ▼

The camera part is really a lot of highlights. First of all, the configuration of dual cameras is rare. There is also a dual color LED fill light beside it. The main camera still has UltraPixel technology, but there is no optical anti shake function. There is a noise reducing microphone ▼ beside it

The chamfer polishing process of the frame is very excellent, which shows excellent workmanship everywhere ▼

The whole black part on the top is actually the shape of the infrared sensor, which reminds people of the remote control of the TV, and contains the black key ▼

At the bottom are microUSB interface and 3.5mm headphone interface ▼

On the right is the microSD card slot and the volume key ▼

Support microSD card expansion ▼

The left side is the SIM card slot. What's more puzzling is that the M8 has also been replaced with the same nanoSIM as the iPhone 5, which will definitely make some users feel inconvenient ▼

The SIM card slot looks very long, but actually only the smallest nano SIM ▼ is used

Although the M8 screen is enlarged to 5 inches, it has a narrower frame than the previous generation and the smooth processing of the frame. With the excellent texture of metal, the M8 feel is really "really good" ▼

From the top, it can be seen that the M8 frame is treated in an inclined plane, which is more suitable for holding ▼

The original supporting sleep protective sleeve, the front is treated with glue ▼

The back cover is made of slightly hard plastic, which is easy to grind ▼

Official accessories, of course, are very personal, and also have the function of turning on the automatic light screen, which is very easy to use ▼

Click on the key in the closed state, and the time and weather will be displayed in dots ▼

M8 uses a 5-inch 1080P SLCD3 screen. The performance of M7 screen is impressive. How will M8 perform this time? Let's take a look at the screen remake comparison:

In terms of red, green and blue, there is little difference in the performance of the three solid colors (left Galaxy S5, middle M8, right Xshot) ▼

Next is the white performance. The Galaxy S5 is slightly red, while the M8 is slightly green. The Xshot performance is normal (left Galaxy S5, middle M8, right Xshot) ▼

Black performance, M8 and Xshot both have obvious light leakage, while Galaxy S5 is... we really have mobile phones on the left... (left Galaxy S5, middle M8, right Xshot) ▼

Black contrast, excellent Xshot performance, and square 1 can still be seen, while Galaxy S5 and M8 can only barely see square 3 ▼

White contrast, M8 performs well this round, and you can see the square 254, while Galaxy S5 and Xshot can see the square 253 ▼

Bright colors (upper Xshot, middle M8, lower Galaxy S5) ▼

The Xshot shows amazing color reproduction. The M8 is slightly white, while the Galaxy S5 is slightly red.

Original drawing ▼

Green color system (upper Xshot, middle M8, lower Galaxy S5) ▼

The Xshot color is too rich, and the M8 color is a bit white. The Galaxy S5 restores this picture accurately.

Original drawing ▼

Red color system (upper Xshot, middle M8, lower Galaxy S5) ▼

The petals of Galaxy S5 perform better, while M8 is slightly better in the background color.

Original drawing ▼

In terms of visual angle, Xshot performs slightly better. Galaxy S5 and M8 are all white ▼

Diagonal contrast, the LG screen of Xshot shows the ancestral "death diagonal", the M8 still performs well even in this angle, and the Galaxy S5 is slightly white ▼

The M8 screen is a 5-inch 1080P, with a PPI of 441. It adopts the sub pixel arrangement of RGB standard, which has reached a high level of fineness in today's mobile phones. The following are the live photos of screen font enlargement:

With such a high PPI RGB arrangement screen, it is believed that no user will be dissatisfied with the screen fineness of M8.

Finally, we tested the brightness. The SLCD3 screen brightness of M8 is very high, reaching 478cd/㎡. This brightness performance can also enable users to have a more visual experience outdoors. In addition, it is specially mentioned here that the M8 automatic brightness adjustment has high sensitivity and is more sensitive to the external brightness. It is believed that it can meet the needs of most users for automatic brightness adjustment:

From the above tests, the quality of the M8 5-inch full HD SLCD3 screen is really good. The high PPI, good color and visual angle performance, and excellent brightness level make the M8 screen among the best mobile phone screens.

The new Sense 6.0 still retains the secondary menu, and the icon is more flat ▼

The leftmost page of the launcher is BlinkFeed. You can browse the subscription information ▼

The first five shortcut switches and notifications ▼ are displayed in the single finger drop-down bar

Quick switch ▼ for the whole page of the double finger drop-down bar

The design of the secondary menu is still retained ▼

On the lock screen interface, click the unlock icon, draw up to unlock, draw left to return to the starter, and draw right to open blinkfeed ▼

Press the multi task key to open the multi task management ▼

The setting menu is simple in color matching and caters to the popular flat interface ▼

M8 has a variety of motion launch screen out gestures. This function is very practical. It can realize double click wake-up, slide up unlocking, etc. This is also a big improvement. However, this function is too sensitive in actual use. If it is placed in the pants pocket with the screen facing inward, it is easy to accidentally touch ▼

The system is based on Sense 6.0 ▼ of Android 4.4.2

Open the developer option. Sense 6.0 has a unique "Running Mode" ▼

Support ART, I believe that many users have seen it with tears ▼

Dial panel, flat design, main color is black, slightly heavy taste ▼

Message editing interface ▼

Album ▼

From the sense 6.0 on M8, HTC does not follow the design direction of complex functions. The simple UI, flat style and high enough differentiation from native Android make sense 6.0 look so different. The most commendable thing is that this system has excellent fluency and response speed. Among many Snapdragon 801 series chip mobile phones used by the author, M8 is absolutely among the best in fluency, and it is no inferior to the Nexus 5, which is praised for its fluency. I have to praise HTC's accomplishments in this regard.

performance

Like many flagship mobile phones, the M8 uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, and the high-frequency MSM8974AC2.5GHz processor is still used in Asia. Due to the ultra-high frequency, the performance of this processor has reached a new height compared with previous products. What about the performance of this processor on the M8? Let's have a look.

According to the evaluation of An Tu Tu, more than 38000 points is the best result of Snapdragon 801, which can be regarded as one of the "king of running points" ▼

3D drawing score exceeds 9800 ▼

The latest version of rabbit evaluation V5 focuses on GPU performance, so Snapdragon 800/801 performed very well in rabbit evaluation. M8 scored nearly 46000 ▼ in this test

The 3D drawing score is up to 15000, and the strength of high-frequency Adreno 330 is really strong ▼

Pi hit the 26 second mark, which is quite tough. Thanks to Krait's good floating point performance and ultra-high frequency, combined with excellent optimization, this achievement is really amazing ▼

Web page javascript performance Sunspider 1.0.2 (Chrome Beta), less than 690ms, which is quite excellent for Snapdragon processors ▼

GBA simulator, with 170 frames, has surpassed the Exynos5410 processor of Cortex-A15 at a lower frequency ▼

RAR test. This test mainly tests the performance of CPU L2 cache. M8's performance exceeds 1200KB/s, which is considered excellent in Snapdragon series processors ▼

EMMC flash speed test, M8 adopts eMMC4.5 flash memory chip, and we also use A1SDBench to test M8 flash speed:

In the Accurate Test, the reading speed is 120MB/s, and the writing speed is 43.37MB/s ▼

In Random I/O test, the reading speed is 120MB/s, and the writing speed is 43.37MB/s ▼

Graphic performance test, GFXBench off screen test, Manhattan scene 10.6 frames, Tyrannosaurus Rex scene 28 frames, all normal scores of high-frequency Adreno 330 ▼

3DMark, with a total score of more than 20000, is also very good at viewing frames, and the frames of each scene are among the best in mobile phones ▼

Graph performance comparison chart, MSM8974AC (red) in the figure is the number of M8 test frames. In addition to the horrible Tegra K1 and the next generation product APQ8084 (Snapdragon 805), the number of M8 graph frames is relatively strong ▼

Video decoding test

Anthare recently launched the video decoding evaluation application, and we also used this application to test the M8. The result was not very satisfactory, with a score of 382. In the world test, there were many video formats that could not be played ▼

The following is the test summary ▼ of Anthare video evaluation

Hard solution measurement

We used BSPlayer, MXLayer and the built-in player to test the hardware decoding of M8.

Video list:

720P group

FLV AOM OP, 1280 × 720, H.263

MP4 Jay Chou's Double Cut Staff, 1280 × 720, H.264 High Profile L5.1， Bit rate 17M

AVI "Circle of Realm" trailer, 1280 × 720, Xvid

WMV Microsoft WMVHD official video, 1280 × 720, VC-1, MP@HL

RMVB Dark God Theatre, 1280 × 720, RV40

1080P group

MP4 Clannad OP ，1920×1080， H.264 High Profile L5. ref16

MKV Conan Theater Edition 15 trailer, 1920 × 1080, H.264 Main Profile L4.0， Audio coding AC-3

WMV Microsoft WMVHD official video, 1440 × 1080, VC-1， MP@HL

MP4 2160×1440， ref3，fps=30

MP4 3840×2160， ref3，fps=24

The test results are as follows:

It can be seen that the hardware decoding ability of M8 is quite good, and it is at the same level as other mainstream Snapdragon 801 mobile phones (where "hard solution+" is the function in MXLayer).

Game Test

The M8 in Asia uses MSM8974AC processor and 578MHz Adreno 330 graphics processor. The screen resolution is 1080P. The game performance is quite powerful. We also use some large 3D games to test the game performance of M8.

Wild Racing 7 (1.1.0)

The Shanghai track of Wild Speed Racing 7 has high requirements for the graphics performance of mobile phones, but it is still a piece of cake for the M8. After running for more than one lap, it remains close to the full frame level, with an average frame number of 57 ▼

Real Racing 3 (2.3.0)

Real Racing 3 is also a famous racing game, and it is updated frequently. It supports new GPU and new technologies well. M8 supports immersive full screen during the game. At the end of the first lap of the game, the average frame number was 49. Since the frame number was not high when there were many cars at the beginning of the game, the average frame number of the real racing car 3 was not as scary as the wild racing car 7 ▼

When running real car 3, it supports immersive full screen ▼

Jipin Feiche 17 (1.5.01)

Extreme Speed 17 is also a classic racing game, but the game version has not been updated for a long time. M8 still performs perfectly in this game, with an average frame number of 58 ▼

From the above several large-scale games, M8 is very good at game fluency. The only one that can be choosy may still have virtual keys in some games. However, after we use an application called Immersive Mode, we can force M8 to perform a global full screen ▼

From the above tests, the performance optimization of M8 mobile phones using Snapdragon 801 is absolutely one of the best, and the test results are higher than those of other mobile phones using the same SoC. The only thing to be picky about is that M8 only uses 2G Ram

photograph

M8 adopts 4 million pixel Ultra Pixel, the sensor size is 1/3 inch, the pixel size is 2 µ m, and the aperture is F/2.0. Unfortunately, the OIS optical anti shake on the M7 does not appear on the M8, which is somewhat disappointing. The Ultra Pixel camera is believed to have been experienced on the HTC M7 and HTC Butterfly S of the previous generation. The larger pixel size brings greater light input and better image quality. In addition to the UltraPixel, the M8 has also added a depth of field camera. How about the actual shooting effect of the M8? Let's take a look at the sample (click to view the original picture):

In the same scene, the HDR effect is obviously improved, but strange "ghost" appears (click to view the original image):

For night scene shooting, the light input of M8 camera is much larger than that of ordinary cameras. With the large aperture of F2.0, how about the night scene effect? (Click to view the original picture)

By default, the ISO is increased to 800, and the shutter is 1/4 second. The overall brightness of the image is good, and the resolution is also good.

Let's turn on the manual mode to see the effect (click to see the original picture):

We manually adjust the shutter and ISO. The shutter time is up to 4 seconds, ISO100， The overall picture brightness is much higher, and the picture purity is also quite excellent. Of course, this is also the effect that requires a fixed mobile phone to shoot.

With a larger unit pixel area, the M8 UltraPixel brings more light input than ordinary mobile phones. It is excellent in the night scene performance, and has good analytical power while ensuring the brightness of the picture. The 4-second exposure in the "M" manual mode can also enable the phone to take better night pictures under fixed conditions.

It can be seen that the M8 is quite good in daily use, but will 4 million pixels bring disadvantages? Because of the low pixels, the analytical power of the 8 megapixel or even 16 megapixel mobile phone will certainly have a disadvantage. Here we also compare the 8 megapixel iPhone 5S (it is worth noting that when the maximum pixel is turned on, the M8 photo is 16:9, while the iPhone 5S is 4:3):

M8 (click to view the original picture):

IPhone 5S (click to view the original picture):

Detailed comparison shows that the iPhone 5S performs better in petal details than the M8 ▼

M8 (click to view the original picture):

IPhone 5S (click to view the original picture):

In detail, the iPhone 5S also has obvious advantages. In addition, the white balance of M8 is more accurate than that of iPhone 5S ▼

It can be seen that due to the difference in pixels, the resolution of the M8 is still inferior to that of the iPhone 5S. When facing products with 16 million or even 20 million pixels from "friends", the difference may be more obvious. Therefore, users who need to take a screenshot or enlarge their photos may need to consider whether they can accept the M8 camera. HTC's new flagship Butterfly 2 is likely to use Sony's 13 megapixel IMX214 sensor. This disadvantage is believed to disappear soon.

M8 has a variety of post photo functions. The following is to take photos before focusing:

Focus on the yellow doll:

Focus on the blue doll:

M8 is believed to be the first mobile phone with a front camera having a higher pixel than the rear camera. The front camera has a 5 megapixel aperture of F/2.0 and supports 10 levels of beauty. The following is the self portrait effect of M8 front camera

Endurance

The M8 uses a 2600mAh battery. Compared with other flagship mobile phones, the capacity is slightly smaller. We conducted a high intensity endurance test in the following environment for three and a half hours:

testing environment

Screen brightness: 50%

Volume: 75~80dB

Game: NBA2K14 automatically runs for half an hour

WiFi access: microblog Chrome、 Baidu Post Bar Half an hour

Music playing: close the screen to play music in FLAC format, turn on HiFi mode, turn off the sound effect, and play music for one hour

4G Internet access: microblog Chrome、 Baidu Post Bar Half an hour

GSM call: half an hour with the handset off

Hard solution video: built-in video player, playing mp4 video for half an hour

Comparison results of endurance test (click to view the large picture):

The actual performance of M8 is in line. Observe the power consumption percentage of each item. Large games consume more power than other mobile phones. It is estimated that M8 maintains a high frequency during the game and has a small battery capacity. The M8 has performed well in other test items, and its power consumption is low in music playing, calling and hard solution video.

fever

The M8 uses up to 90% of the metal shell, so when the phone is held at a high temperature, it will feel hotter than ordinary phones. However, measured by an infrared thermometer, the surface temperature of the M8 is not high, and the maximum temperature on the front and back will not exceed 42 degrees Celsius (28 degrees Fahrenheit at room temperature)

summary

As HTC's flagship phone in 2014, the M8 has achieved the level that a top Android phone should have in terms of overall configuration. Its excellent screen performance and system optimization level continue the traditional characteristics of HTC's flagship. In terms of camera configuration, M8 still inexplicably uses a 4 million pixel UltraPixel camera. Compared with competing cameras with high pixels and large sensors, M8 still has a big gap in picture details and resolution. Moreover, M8 removes the OIS optical anti shake used on the M7 from the lens, which requires higher stability for handheld photography. Although the M8 battery is only 2600mAh, due to the power consumption control and excellent system optimization of the Snapdragon 801, the endurance performance of the M8 is still excellent. The M8 is most commendable for its 90% metal ratio and outstanding hand feel brought by the unique design of the back curve. The M8 system and performance optimization level are also among the best in the current Android phones. Although it was not equipped with the top mobile phone before the deadline, the M8 is still a high-end Android phone worth recommending.