The screen itself it bold, bright and vibrant, while being pixel perfect and sharp – it is one the best displays I have ever seen on a smartphone. The M8 has a bigger, 5in screen over last year’s 4.7in One. The phone is also incredibly well built, with no give or flex anywhere in the body making it feel quality and like it could take a knock or two without much bother. The metal has an inherent tack against skin, while being slippery against clothing making the M8 easy to slip into and out of pockets despite its size. While it certainly is smooth, the M8 is not slippery to hold unlike some glass-backed smartphones. Throughout my testing of the phone I found myself touching it, almost stroking its silky smooth exterior for no real reason other than it felt nice. The curvature of the back and corners makes the phone ergonomic, sitting comfortably in the palm, while the metal body feels warm and inviting to touch. The result is an incredibly smooth and rounded back, side and corners, which feel beautiful in the hand. "At HTC the designers come first, however, and the engineers have to fit around the designers." Metal is great for designers but for phone engineers that need to worry about the function of the phone it is a nightmare," said Graham Wheeler, HTC's director of product for Europe, middle east and Africa, talking to the Guardian about the design process of the M8. "It has taken us 13 years to get the point where we can create an all-metal phone. The One from 2013 had to have plastic edges, but HTC has removed the need for them by integrating all the needed radio antennas into the metal casing for things like the cellular radio, Wi-Fi, bluetooth and the GPS. HTC has made the entire body of the new One M8 out of a single, curved metal case that bends around the edges to the glass front of the screen. 'It's taken us 13 years to get to this point' The One M8 has no fingerprint sensor like the Samsung Galaxy S5 or Apple’s iPhone 5S, no heart rate monitor and no wireless charging, though whether that really matters is debatable. In its pursuit of design over almost everything else, certain things have had to be left out of its flagship smartphone package.
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