All important symbols are easy to reach, but the space bar is, unfortunately, a bit narrow in portrait mode. The virtual keyboard automatically predicts words and is sophisticated. The haptics are, unfortunately, very similar, so there can be accidental inputs in the beginning since the three buttons are very close to each other. Not only do they look sophisticated, but they also feel this way. The volume rocker and the power button have a short travel and a firm pressure point. This is not a big problem for the handling, but users will lose screen estate in some applications.
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The Android buttons are on-screen, which means they occupy a part of the display. Inputs are executed quickly and reliably, and there are no problems in the peripheral areas, either. It supports up to 10 inputs simultaneously and has convenient gliding capabilities. The main input device of the HTC One M9 is, as usual, the capacitive touchscreen. Unfortunately, the frame rate cannot be adjusted. The results are actually pretty good if you avoid quick movements. Videos with the HTC One M9 can be recorded in UltraHD (3840x2160 pixels, 16:9, 30 fps). If you use the flash (scene 4), the colors will look washed-out and unnatural, but the result is still not really sharp. The Taiwanese smartphone quickly reveals issues in low-light environments (scene 3) and the pictures are blurry.
The colors are too pale and details look frayed. The review unit cannot quite keep up with the rivals in the second scene, either. The LG G3 is a bit sharper, and the performance of the Lumia 1020 is pretty impressive. The grass is just a green area on the picture from the M9. The environment pictures (scene 1) suffer from blurry contours like the roof tiles. The camera is decent, but still noticeably behind other top smartphones. But a high resolution does not always help a lot, which is, unfortunately, also the case for the review unit. The main camera at the back of the HTC One M9 takes pictures with up to 20.1 MP (5376x3752 pixels), which means the number of pixels is five times higher compared to the predecessor. The pictures are decent in good lighting conditions, but you can see a red cast as soon as there is some back-light and the sharpness, which is not great to begin with, will decrease a bit. It has a 4 MP sensor (1688x1520 pixels) and cannot convince us completely. The UltraPixel camera of the One M8 is now located at the front and is supposed to take good selfies. The transmission even worked without problems in another room.
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The Bluetooth signal was very stable during our review and it was no problem to move away from the speaker during music streaming without distortions. Websites are still opened quickly, and subjectively there is no difference whether we are 20 meters away from the AP or right next to it.īesides NFC, the HTC One M9 also supports the current Bluetooth standard 4.1. The signal quality of the Wi-Fi connection is good, and we still had an average signal pretty far away from the Access Point (Devolo dLAN 1200+ Wi-Fi ac, 2.4 GHz). The smartphone also has a WLAN module that supports the IEEE-802.11 standards a/b/g/n/ac in 2.4 as well as 5 GHz networks. It is also possible to use HSPA+ (up to 42 Mbps) for Internet connections. It is just a matter of time before it will be available. This is not supported by the network carriers yet, but it would have been nice if it was supported by the One M9. In theory, the MSM8994 even supports LTE Cat. 6 (up to 300 Mbps), that is, of course, if your provider supports those high transfer rates. The HTC One M9 can establish mobile Internet connections via fast LTE Cat.
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