We would hope that such a low market share would light a fire under the company and that HTC would fight back with radical designs and new ideas. Globally it has something like two percent market share which, needless to say, puts it behind most smartphone brands you can name. Is HTC doing well, though? The company's market share is so small that most research firms just put HTC in "other" and forget about it. "Don't change was isn't broken" is a fine slogan when you're winning or at least doing well in the market. When we reviewed the HTC One M8 last year, we were disappointed by the company's lack of ambition. There isn't much to say about the One M9, but that's because HTC hasn't given us much to talk about. It's an odd choice in the hyper-competitive smartphone market to change so very little from year to year, especially for the One, where design was supposed to be a selling point.
Users can follow their favorite theme creators and be notified of updates and new designs in order to change the look of their device whenever they want. Sense had theme support for a while, but now there's a central, HTC-run repository of all these apps for users to browse. The other major addition is a theme store. So for instance, Netflix and entertainment apps could show at home, Email at work, and Maps and Yelp while you're on-the-go. You can have a set of app shortcuts for home, work, and on-the-go. There's a "Smart Launcher" which seems to be a widget of app shortcuts that changes based on your location.
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HTC's Android skin, Sense, has gotten a few new features. The battery is a little bigger (2840mAh versus 2600mAh), and the M9 still has a Micro SD slot and an IR blaster. The screen is the same size (5-inches) and resolution (1080p) as the M8. Our biggest complaint about the One M8 was the size of the bezels, and it's the same story with the M9. The M9 has massive bezels for the "BoomSound" speakers, which HTC now says have "Dolby Audio." The dimensions of 144.6mm x 69.7mm x 9.61 mm are nearly identical to the previous model, meaning it is still the bulkiest 5-inch phone you can buy. It looks like the M9 has a case on the back of it that stops halfway up the sides-so much so that many people at the event were trying to pull the back off. Imagine if the front and back of the M9 were separate pieces, but the bottom was a few millimeters bigger than the top.
The oddest change is the uneven side design. There's a coating on it that makes it not as cold as bare metal, but we've got to say among the M7, M8, and M9 we still prefer the bare-metal approach of the M7. It's similar to the brushed metal look of the M8, but the finish isn't as high-gloss as its predecessor. The device is still metal, but HTC has applied a different-feeling finish to the back. Also the lens cover has changed shape it's a square now. A few weeks later, the fake depth of field filter was replicated by Google but without the need for a whole extra rear camera. The front camera is the rear camera from the M8-it's a 4MP Ultrapixel camera. The M8 used the two camera system to apply some Photoshop-esque effects to pictures, the headline effect of which was a fake depth of field effect.
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Further Reading HTC One M8 Review: An unambitious update to a premium smartphoneThe other big change is the rear camera: the gimmicky Duo Camera system is gone. HTC has replaced it with a conventional 20MP camera.
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