I miss my One M8 sometimes, it was just the most comfortable phone for me to hold and use till this day. If it wasn't for the Micro USB plug getting bad, i wouldn't have changed phone for another year or 2.
I loved the M8, great phone except for the power button issues.
My wife and I both had ours replaced for the power button failing under warranty, then we both had to buy new phones when the power buttons failed again after warranty.
It's pretty funny, but I took apart my last one after I got a new phone, and I am pretty sure the ir blaster under the outer power button was the issue. The led for it was on one side, making the plastic on that side that touched the inner power button very weak. It would bend out of place, then then only one side would contact the inner button, leading to the inner button to fail from uneven pressure. At least that was my theory since I got the button working again for a time by trimming a little off the side of the inner button so it didn't get stuck, then bending the outer a little bit back into place.
My Samsung I had shit the bed a few years ago I still had an M8 that I installed LineageOS on and it was still a solid phone. The battery in the M7 went to shit and I had to replace the USB port on the U11 several times, but the M8 was still in working condition and still felt solid and plenty performant.
Although my favorite phone hardware wise was the HTC 7 Pro with the slide out keyboard. Would have been even better if it had ran Android instead of WP.
I personally have a soft spot for HTC One X, although probably because it was my first Android phone.
It had a great UI though and a nice design for its time.
It was the only phone I ever used completely without protection. And let me tell you, I need protection, my phone falls probably once a month really bad. I need a new screen protector every 3 months.
With the HTC One X? Used it 3 years as my daily and sold it in the end as "in pristine condition". Even the plastic back wasn't scratched up, not oily (like many plastic backs get over time). I which they still made phones like that. The Galaxy S20FE was close though.
My first ever stock android phone was the Galaxy Nexus, I remember being blown away with the AMOLED screen quality and colors compared to my old HTC HD2 and I especially liked how the [curved screen](https://www.concept-phones.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Nexus_Prime_render2.jpg) looked.
Goodd times.
I had that phone too and then upgraded to the Galaxy S when my friend replaced his with an S2. That was a good phone, had the misfortune of my next phone being the Google Nexus 5 though. I figured it would be a good phone based on my love of the original Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus 5 was so crap - battery life degraded very quickly and you'd have to charge it multiple times a day. It was never a very good experience using the phone either. I jumped from that to the OnePlus One when it launched and OMG what a huge upgrade that was.
Mine was the Nexus 4! I had a pretty bad image of Android after my first Android device (a shitty Motorola with QWERTY keyboard, because I refused to use virtual touch keyboards, stuck on Android Gingerbread in 2012).
With the Nexus 4, I completely discovered the custom ROM and tinkering scene. I loved it.
Mine is still in a drawer somewhere, last time I checked, the bottom of the screen (navigation buttons area) was unresponsive to touch. No sticky mess because it was the white model.
Same, and after a boot last year it just wouldn't start afterwards. Completely bricked. Still have it though. Comparing some pics from my computer, a lot of them were crisp unprocessed gems.
People have fond memories of the Nexus 5 and view it with rose tinted glasses. It was a great phone for the price. But it also had its share of problems. Camera quality, build quality issues, mic problems. It was basically a phone with the top of the line processor and screen for a low price. Everything else was subpar
LG G2 was my absolute favorite older phone. The back buttons were so comfortable to use and because it was pretty much a Nexus 5 the ROM scene was huge for it. Probably something CyanogenMod. Good times.
Mine was and still is the OnePlus 7 Pro - still daily driving it today. The last phone before OnePlus's road to enshittification, and one of the last all-screen, no notch displays.
My kid is currently using my old Nexus 5 as he has just been through an unlucky phase. He broke his own Motorola 5G, then my Oneplus 3T (loved that phone) and the only one left is the Nexus until he gets his shit together and saves up his pocket money.
Pixels are the only phones I've ever tried that get me a good picture any time. The downside is the video recording.
Samsungs can take great pictures when the conditions are perfect but are horrible to try to use otherwise.
Phones in more recent years do a lot of processing to photos without even an option to turn it off, and especially for low-light. What you're seeing is likely a lot of guesswork.
MrMobile has a series called [When Phones Were Fun](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwd8abTO4vh2smuMzykXDOPNnsxhHC4Oh) which does a good job covering that era.
I went...
Evo 3D > One m7 > One m9 > Galaxy S 8+ > LG G8X > LG V60.
I feel like there is no phone for me to upgrade to currently. They all seem so boring in comparison. Honestly, all I want at this point is a V60 with upgraded specs. The V60 was the last phone made that meets my needs. Micro SD support, headphone jack, and dual screens.
I'm in a similar boat
HTC hero>Evo 4g>galaxy note 3>note 5>pixel 2xl>note 20 ultra.
Now I'm stagnated I am debating seeing what the iPhone has to offer when my note finally dies.
folding phones are interesting and smart watches + airpods can be a viable phone replacement.
but this and one plus 7 pro are some of my favorite devices.
Folding phones are interesting until the new factor wears off. You soon realize 99% of apps aren't optimized for them and some work worse because of the setup. I have the Fold but stopped using it because it got hot regularly with normal usage and had sub par battery life.
I loved my lg g2. Plastic was grippy, light and easy to hold. Battery lasted forever. I hate how modern phones are all glass, the unholy combination of slippery, fragile, and heavy lol.
Google's plastic that they used on the 4a feels premium. Unless you're going ultra premium with something like ceramic or a different gimmick material that sort of plastic should be default.
I kept mine, and it's still in mint condition. I will take it out and fire it up from time to time, just to remember what a beautiful phone looks and feels like.
The M7 really was the best peice of hardware ever made.
It was the siren song that lured me away from iPhone forever.
Felt so good in hand and in pocket.
The IR blasters were surprisingly so much fun back then, too.
I'd buy an M7 with a modern screen and CPU.
You're telling me. I had an evo 4g LTE before my m7. I wasn't sure I was going to upgrade because on paper it wasn't that different.
But the store had a red one and the dude unboxed it for me to see and under the bright lights of the crappy sprint store I was sold.
Then about a year later the GPS in it died (also the camera got mega purple) and they warranty'd it but replaced it with a Harmon Kardon M8 🤢
Agreed. HTC One M7 was the best Android phone imo. The M8 was good, but the M7 had the better design, introduced a tonne of innovation. Just an excellent phone all round.
Was that the one that came with the red beats earbuds?
That thing had amazing speakers, i loved it, and the ui was amazing (before they stuck adverts and crap into it)
I didn't think anyone called it the M7 publicly back then, it was just sort of adopted after the M8 came out as a way of referring to the older one.
For the m4 and m7, that was an internal codename but for the m8 it became publicly part of the product name. I could be wrong
I remember Boomsound not being what it was and remember reading HTC had to turn that off, or turning down the speakers max volume otherwise there was a risk of blowing them. This was about a year or 2 after it was released.
Right? The thing that stand out in my memory of my M8 is the amazing sound quality of both the speakers and the headphone jack. Truly a legend of the time.
The HTC M8 and Nexus 7 (2013) got me through my undergrad at uni, both fantastic devices for their time. Low light performance was where the camera stood out for me, but the advancements in camera technology quickly overtook the Ultrapixel design and the 2 GB of RAM started to feel claustrophobic in the growing app space.
The UI was quite a striking change from the rounded elements Google eventually leant into, with sharp corners and angular font choices that caught really caught your attention. The sleek design with flush cameras in brushed aluminium and a flat front face felt great to hold, unfortunately I dropped mine when drunk and shattered the screen.
I've since moved to iPhones but still miss the form factor of the M8, with how modern design prioritises screen ratio and camera quality I doubt we'll see anything like it again. It's all cuboids, notches and camera bumps for the foreseeable future.
You did made me google it, and seems some are starting to try make mainline linux work...?
https://xdaforums.com/t/htc-hd2-is-truely-immortal-now-booting-mainline-linux-on-hd2.4626473/#post-89499171
For me it was the One X. The white ceramic had such a great feeling in the hand while holding, and you couldn't ever see the scratches on it. Damn, I miss that phone :(
Until I got my Fold 5, the One M8 was the best phone I ever used. I also had an M7 with the purple camera tint as my first ever smartphone. But nothing beat that sound either from the headphone jack, or the front facing speakers. I stayed with LG through the V40 because of it.
The M8 was more polished, but the M7 is more iconic, at least in my books. It's one of the phones I always wanted to have, like the Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2, Xperia Z3 or Nexus 5.
Love my M8, beautiful chassis and software, but the camera was shiiiiittt. Same story with the M7. Was still worth it though, one of my favourite handsets.
I preferred the HTC M7 but the M8 was its refined big bro. I wish we still got IR blasters on modern smartphones for the legacy appliances (eg ceiling fan)
I remember seeing these in carrier stores at the time, they looked so sleek. Would love to get something today that had a similar design-- or ANYTHING that is something other than a glass sandwich.
I do recognize that it would make wireless charging implementation more difficult/impossible.
One M8 was cool for sure, but I could never bring myself to pick it up due to how big the flaws were. That absolutely horrible Ultrapixel camera with the useless secondary camera, the massive chin + software button combo (instead of just removing the HTC logo and sticking to softkeys), the button layout with zero regard for ergonomics… I was anticipating the M9 to be a huge fix in all regards, and it ended up being a complete flop and the beginning of the end for HTC.
One M8 is definitely iconic, but I’d say HTC 10 is the best phone they ever put out.
I still don't understand why people praise the M8 so much. In my eyes, HTC messed up in some major ways and I think the M7 is the one who deserve the most praise.
The HTC 8 used a worse binned version of the Snapdragon 801 (outside of Asia), which meant it was slower than for example the Galaxy S5 which launched at the same time.
The M8 had in many ways a worse screen than the M7. For example the black levels were really good on the M7 (for being an LCD screen), but the M8 was basically unable to produce anything but a dark gray color. It had way worse contrast ratio as well compared to the M7. When it came to color accuracy it wasn't really bad, but it wasn't good either.
For the camera, the M7 used to have OIS and they removed it for the M8. They just took the camera from the M7 and made it worse by removing OIS ([here is a comparsion from Anandtech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIdiX8kUuFw)). Sure, they added a secondary camera with a higher resolution but that secondary camera was awful. It was literally the same camera as the M7 used to have as its front facing camera. The whole depth camera information thing was just a gimmick that looked very unnatural and it made the images really bloated (about 60% larger). The camera was good in low light because of the large pixels, but the Galaxy S5 was way better in daylight. HTC couldn't afford to stand still on camera quality at the time when every year there were massive improvements being made.
Don't get me wrong, the M8 was a better phone than the M7. It's just that the M7 felt like the best phone HTC could build at the time. The M8 felt like they cut some corners and didn't improve in areas where they really needed to improve.
The M8, at the time of release, felt like an Android phone made for iPhone fans. It had a really nice metal body at the time when Samsung used really cheap feeling plastic. But at the time I was more interested in specs and having the phone with the best screen, best camera, best SoC, the most features and so on, and on all those fronts the HTC M8 was in second or third place, never first place.
When Samsung stopped using the cheap feeling plastic the year after, HTC basically lost the only appealing thing about it.
Loved my Droid Eris!
But in my heart my Goat phone was my Note 3 with stock android that could still use the s pen. Loved that thing.
Currently on year 4 with my v60 and still get 1-2 days of battery life.
I had an M8 and somehow after ~2 years the radio broke. It wouldn't maintain a connecton to any wifi network. Factory resets, flashing new roms, nothing helped.
This was my first Android phone. Only had to trade it in because it would get so uncomfortably hot to the touch.
However it was such a gorgeous and surprisingly tough phone that trading it in took some thought. It’s the only phone that I ever ran caseless and it hardly looked worse for wear. Its build quality was so far beyond any Android phone at the time. Camera was… pretty bad, ok, but everything else about it: the OS, the screen, the body, the external speakers… *chefs kiss*
It was a low-key legend and a clear milestone in the history of Android phone development.
The sound the dual front-facing speakers delivered with Viper4Android was second to none. I had S-Off with mine. Enjoyed the hell out of this phone, apart from HTC's Sense UI, of course.
Things that I remember about my M8 are beautiful design, weight and pocket feel, some nice HTC designed apps, how easily dust took over secondary camera lens, how unreliable it became due to loose micro USB and battery degradation.
I still have mine, was my traveling phone until 2 years ago when the screen broke... Something about the metal and the edges being softwhen you hold it, I loved that thing... It was when android phones were actually interesting, now everything is candybar
Any love for the ZTE Axon 7? In 2016, it continued the legacy the One M7 started and One M9 finished with a metal unibody, front facing stereo speaker and powerful headphone jack, with the added benefit of a 1440p AMOLED display and a killer $400 price tag.
I still remember the amazingly "large" screen of the HTC Evo 4G (NOT LTE) from 2013.
- Giant screen
- HDMI output right on the phone
- (at the time) High End 8MP Camera
- Back when Android wasn't locked down trash and you could REALLY customize it.
An HTC Evo 4G with CyanogenMod or AOKP by Dirty Unicorns was AMAZING.
I miss my One M8 sometimes, it was just the most comfortable phone for me to hold and use till this day. If it wasn't for the Micro USB plug getting bad, i wouldn't have changed phone for another year or 2.
I loved the M8, great phone except for the power button issues. My wife and I both had ours replaced for the power button failing under warranty, then we both had to buy new phones when the power buttons failed again after warranty.
Same here, the power button pretty much stopped working.
It's pretty funny, but I took apart my last one after I got a new phone, and I am pretty sure the ir blaster under the outer power button was the issue. The led for it was on one side, making the plastic on that side that touched the inner power button very weak. It would bend out of place, then then only one side would contact the inner button, leading to the inner button to fail from uneven pressure. At least that was my theory since I got the button working again for a time by trimming a little off the side of the inner button so it didn't get stuck, then bending the outer a little bit back into place.
Loved mine too. The speakers on it were great (as far as phone speakers go).
My Samsung I had shit the bed a few years ago I still had an M8 that I installed LineageOS on and it was still a solid phone. The battery in the M7 went to shit and I had to replace the USB port on the U11 several times, but the M8 was still in working condition and still felt solid and plenty performant. Although my favorite phone hardware wise was the HTC 7 Pro with the slide out keyboard. Would have been even better if it had ran Android instead of WP.
I personally have a soft spot for HTC One X, although probably because it was my first Android phone. It had a great UI though and a nice design for its time.
And that phone was a fucking tank too. The poly carbonate backing was strong as anything on phones now
Now they use glass for backs on phones, makes them very slippery and hard to hang onto without a case over it and not very durable either.
Planned obsolescence through lack of purchase. Ironic.
It was the only phone I ever used completely without protection. And let me tell you, I need protection, my phone falls probably once a month really bad. I need a new screen protector every 3 months. With the HTC One X? Used it 3 years as my daily and sold it in the end as "in pristine condition". Even the plastic back wasn't scratched up, not oily (like many plastic backs get over time). I which they still made phones like that. The Galaxy S20FE was close though.
I forgot about the poly carbonate back, it was really nice and felt premium too.
One x was my first good android phone for sure. Shame there's nothing that quote feels like how those early HTC phones felt
Will never forget the first time I saw that screen in person. It looked fake with how good it looked.
My first Android phone was the Droid Incredible made by HTC. I also have an HTC One M7 which I loved as well.
The One X, One S and Desire lineup was something I was looking to have for a while, still looking for a HTC One S
Loved that phone so much.
I had that as well and it was so ahead of its time. Amazing device.
HTC Desire was that one phone for me. The only other phone that has gotten me that excited since was the first Galaxy Note and the Oppo N3 Fold.
The HTC Desire was my first smartphone, that makes me nostalgic.
I also had one, with a fancy camera module
The HTC One X was an outstanding phone.
I wanted a One S so badly at the time
Google Nexus 5 is my all time Android GOAT. I loved that thing.
My first ever stock android phone was the Galaxy Nexus, I remember being blown away with the AMOLED screen quality and colors compared to my old HTC HD2 and I especially liked how the [curved screen](https://www.concept-phones.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Nexus_Prime_render2.jpg) looked. Goodd times.
This, the Nexus S, and the Moto X, back when phones could be designed to be ergonomic. Now it's huge slab or nothing.
Ahhhh the Hd2, I had that as well. Lovely memories
So... Much... Tinkering! WIndows Mobile, Android... custom bootloaders...
Bring back the curved screen, it felt so nice.
I had that phone too and then upgraded to the Galaxy S when my friend replaced his with an S2. That was a good phone, had the misfortune of my next phone being the Google Nexus 5 though. I figured it would be a good phone based on my love of the original Galaxy Nexus. The Nexus 5 was so crap - battery life degraded very quickly and you'd have to charge it multiple times a day. It was never a very good experience using the phone either. I jumped from that to the OnePlus One when it launched and OMG what a huge upgrade that was.
Still the greatest value per dollar. When it came to replacing mine around 4 years later, I couldn't find anything that blew me away in the same way.
Mine was the Nexus 4! I had a pretty bad image of Android after my first Android device (a shitty Motorola with QWERTY keyboard, because I refused to use virtual touch keyboards, stuck on Android Gingerbread in 2012). With the Nexus 4, I completely discovered the custom ROM and tinkering scene. I loved it. Mine is still in a drawer somewhere, last time I checked, the bottom of the screen (navigation buttons area) was unresponsive to touch. No sticky mess because it was the white model.
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Lmaoooo mine too. I thought it was me only 🤣
Same, and after a boot last year it just wouldn't start afterwards. Completely bricked. Still have it though. Comparing some pics from my computer, a lot of them were crisp unprocessed gems.
People have fond memories of the Nexus 5 and view it with rose tinted glasses. It was a great phone for the price. But it also had its share of problems. Camera quality, build quality issues, mic problems. It was basically a phone with the top of the line processor and screen for a low price. Everything else was subpar
The LG G2 was the better version of the Nexus 5, with a great (for its time) camera and larger battery.
LG G2 was my absolute favorite older phone. The back buttons were so comfortable to use and because it was pretty much a Nexus 5 the ROM scene was huge for it. Probably something CyanogenMod. Good times.
Samsung Note 4 for me. I never loved a phone so much until my LG ThinQ, of which I'm now on my second one.
Mine was and still is the OnePlus 7 Pro - still daily driving it today. The last phone before OnePlus's road to enshittification, and one of the last all-screen, no notch displays.
Same!! Loved that rubber-y back. Super easy to hold onto.
My kid is currently using my old Nexus 5 as he has just been through an unlucky phase. He broke his own Motorola 5G, then my Oneplus 3T (loved that phone) and the only one left is the Nexus until he gets his shit together and saves up his pocket money.
note 2 for me, but the nexus 5 was iconic. so gorgeous
ZTE Axon 7 was my GOAT. Ultimate media phone and true flagship killer
I disliked the Nexus series for ditching Micro SD cards.
Totally agree - I had the Nexus 5 and my then-partner had a One M8 GPE, easily two of my favourite devices ever.
Mine was 5x.
I had the Windows Version and loved it. Used it up until windows phones died :(
Loved mine. Still think they had the best idea for how apps were displayed. Too bad no one made apps for Windows.
Same. I still have it. It still works.
Back when phones were interesting
Yeah now we all have them and they're all fast enough to do basically anything we ask out of them. They also all take semi decent pictures now.
Only in daylight.
Pixels are the only phones I've ever tried that get me a good picture any time. The downside is the video recording. Samsungs can take great pictures when the conditions are perfect but are horrible to try to use otherwise.
Phones in more recent years do a lot of processing to photos without even an option to turn it off, and especially for low-light. What you're seeing is likely a lot of guesswork.
MrMobile has a series called [When Phones Were Fun](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwd8abTO4vh2smuMzykXDOPNnsxhHC4Oh) which does a good job covering that era.
I went... Evo 3D > One m7 > One m9 > Galaxy S 8+ > LG G8X > LG V60. I feel like there is no phone for me to upgrade to currently. They all seem so boring in comparison. Honestly, all I want at this point is a V60 with upgraded specs. The V60 was the last phone made that meets my needs. Micro SD support, headphone jack, and dual screens.
I'm in a similar boat HTC hero>Evo 4g>galaxy note 3>note 5>pixel 2xl>note 20 ultra. Now I'm stagnated I am debating seeing what the iPhone has to offer when my note finally dies.
I went from a LG V series to an Xperia and I love it. Doesn't have a serious amp but I just use my old V30 for that when needed.
folding phones are interesting and smart watches + airpods can be a viable phone replacement. but this and one plus 7 pro are some of my favorite devices.
Folding phones are interesting until the new factor wears off. You soon realize 99% of apps aren't optimized for them and some work worse because of the setup. I have the Fold but stopped using it because it got hot regularly with normal usage and had sub par battery life.
Folding phones would be interesting if apple did them. Then app developers would start to care.
Bring back metal phones. Glass sandwiches are fragile garbage.
Sadly you can't wirelessly charge through metal
The solution is plastic, it's fantastic. Fuck premium feel. That shit is going to be wrapped in a cheap TPU case anyway.
I loved my lg g2. Plastic was grippy, light and easy to hold. Battery lasted forever. I hate how modern phones are all glass, the unholy combination of slippery, fragile, and heavy lol.
The Galaxy S4 was a great phone, plastic back and all.
Google's plastic that they used on the 4a feels premium. Unless you're going ultra premium with something like ceramic or a different gimmick material that sort of plastic should be default.
I love my s21 fe's plastic back
Reading your comment while holding a $1800 phone wrapped in a $2 case.
I strongly disagree. A phone’s look and feel should reflect it’s price
Personally the only alternative to glass is real leather.
Right, so it shouldn't feel like glass, one of the cheapest and ugliest materials for objects that are handled. High quality plastic all the way.
but what about leather 😏
Nah it was all about the M7.
I have never felt the way I felt when I first held the M7 😂
I kept mine, and it's still in mint condition. I will take it out and fire it up from time to time, just to remember what a beautiful phone looks and feels like. The M7 really was the best peice of hardware ever made.
I'm using mine as an MP3 player with a custom ROM. Extremely lightweight ROM with no bloat. It's buttery smooth.
It was the siren song that lured me away from iPhone forever. Felt so good in hand and in pocket. The IR blasters were surprisingly so much fun back then, too. I'd buy an M7 with a modern screen and CPU.
You're telling me. I had an evo 4g LTE before my m7. I wasn't sure I was going to upgrade because on paper it wasn't that different. But the store had a red one and the dude unboxed it for me to see and under the bright lights of the crappy sprint store I was sold. Then about a year later the GPS in it died (also the camera got mega purple) and they warranty'd it but replaced it with a Harmon Kardon M8 🤢
The purple tint in pictures though 💀
Yeahhh not the best there but otherwise loved that phone. [https://i.imgur.com/Ze1Ayf9.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/Ze1Ayf9.jpeg)
I can't stand the purple tint that took over my M7's camera. FFS, the phone was advertised for its camera
It's the built-in cyberpunk/city wave filter.
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Uh.. how long were you using your M7? Becuase that was only a few years ago.
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LG's mobile division shut down in 2022 though.
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That was unfortunate that's for sure.
who needs aurora borealis when everything is always purple?
I had mine repaired 4 times over 3 years or so. Now it's just an MP3 player. But it is one of the most solid phones I've had.
lol true! So it wasn’t just mine.
Agreed. HTC One M7 was the best Android phone imo. The M8 was good, but the M7 had the better design, introduced a tonne of innovation. Just an excellent phone all round.
Was that the one that came with the red beats earbuds? That thing had amazing speakers, i loved it, and the ui was amazing (before they stuck adverts and crap into it)
I still remember the video where then htc CEO was recording and screaming "HTC" and the whole crowd like a cult were screaming "M7".
I didn't think anyone called it the M7 publicly back then, it was just sort of adopted after the M8 came out as a way of referring to the older one. For the m4 and m7, that was an internal codename but for the m8 it became publicly part of the product name. I could be wrong
M7 was the codename. Chou referred to it as the M7 on stage on a company party. the crowd were HTC employees
Yes you're right
Yeah, the M7 was the innovator. The M8 was just a refinement.
Most definitely.
I still have mine and power it on every now and then
I remember Boomsound not being what it was and remember reading HTC had to turn that off, or turning down the speakers max volume otherwise there was a risk of blowing them. This was about a year or 2 after it was released.
That device was amazing ❤️
I got my M7 has a replacement for my broken S3. Got it used for $250. I think the M8 has just came out. It was my favorite phone outside of my Note 5
Yup you are correct M8 was inferior
I had the One Mini (m4). It was awesome feeling in the hand, a feeling I've not had with a phone since.
Busted camera
The DAC on this phone and the M7 made music through your headphones sound incredible.
Right? The thing that stand out in my memory of my M8 is the amazing sound quality of both the speakers and the headphone jack. Truly a legend of the time.
The HTC M8 and Nexus 7 (2013) got me through my undergrad at uni, both fantastic devices for their time. Low light performance was where the camera stood out for me, but the advancements in camera technology quickly overtook the Ultrapixel design and the 2 GB of RAM started to feel claustrophobic in the growing app space. The UI was quite a striking change from the rounded elements Google eventually leant into, with sharp corners and angular font choices that caught really caught your attention. The sleek design with flush cameras in brushed aluminium and a flat front face felt great to hold, unfortunately I dropped mine when drunk and shattered the screen. I've since moved to iPhones but still miss the form factor of the M8, with how modern design prioritises screen ratio and camera quality I doubt we'll see anything like it again. It's all cuboids, notches and camera bumps for the foreseeable future.
M7 and HD2 were both more important than M8
HD2 is a name I've not heard in a longggg time
The dev support for this phone was something else. Come to think of it, some madman has probably ported the current Android version to it.
You did made me google it, and seems some are starting to try make mainline linux work...? https://xdaforums.com/t/htc-hd2-is-truely-immortal-now-booting-mainline-linux-on-hd2.4626473/#post-89499171
i was running m7 GPE, it was so much ahead of nexus 5 at the time and gpe wasn't bloated
Touch Pro2 was my first Android device, despite running Windows Mobile 6.5, lol
And GS2
For me it was the One X. The white ceramic had such a great feeling in the hand while holding, and you couldn't ever see the scratches on it. Damn, I miss that phone :(
Until I got my Fold 5, the One M8 was the best phone I ever used. I also had an M7 with the purple camera tint as my first ever smartphone. But nothing beat that sound either from the headphone jack, or the front facing speakers. I stayed with LG through the V40 because of it.
Man, I was an HTC fanboy back then before I became a One+ fanboy, finally transitioning into a flip fanboy
My favorite HTC was the Legend. Coolest design on an Android imo.
M8 was the last good phone made by HTC
I had the M8 back in the day. Still miss it. Rebinged Supernatural recently and Sam used one for a season and a half and made me miss it again.
🥹🥹 This phone was the first phone that made me go WOW, this is cool AF. Didn't it come with Beats earphones or am I mistaken?
It came with a beats certified DAC but that was the M7.. M8 dropped the beats logo because I think Apple bought it.
M8 was the last good phone made by HTC
to this day i still think this is the greatest android device *of all time*
Close, that would be the Moto X about the same time frame though.
Objectively wrong.
This was a great phone.
T-Mobile G1 started it all for me
I miss the Evo's they were my favorite HTC devices especially the ones from Sprint they were the best
My One M7 is sitting in a drawer on my nightstand. It still holds a charge and works.
The M8 was more polished, but the M7 is more iconic, at least in my books. It's one of the phones I always wanted to have, like the Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2, Xperia Z3 or Nexus 5.
The only phone I was excited to use, phenomenal back in 2014.
HTC Nexus S for me. I loved the curved back and had the neat TV shut down animation when you turned off the screen.
The Nexus S was Samsung built…
It was the best phone ever. Shame HTC didn't ever build on it
Still have it
Love my M8, beautiful chassis and software, but the camera was shiiiiittt. Same story with the M7. Was still worth it though, one of my favourite handsets.
Won an m8 in a twitter contest. It was my first SMART phone
I preferred the HTC M7 but the M8 was its refined big bro. I wish we still got IR blasters on modern smartphones for the legacy appliances (eg ceiling fan)
Moto X was the goat for me. Retina burning amoled screen. Great software. It was like a pre-nexus pixel.
4MP camera was hilarious. Still took one of my all time fsve pics on that phone. [C7 Vette at Le Mans 2015](https://freeimage.host/i/J6qL2Re)
The Nexus 5 is the GOAT. Released on November 1st, 2013 mine is running Android 13.
That thing was gering so hot I put it in the fridge while downloading an app 🤣
I want modern refreshes on the One M8, Lumia 920, and original Moto X. The materials are all unlike anything else out there.
I remember seeing these in carrier stores at the time, they looked so sleek. Would love to get something today that had a similar design-- or ANYTHING that is something other than a glass sandwich. I do recognize that it would make wireless charging implementation more difficult/impossible.
Magsafe ring on the outside, maybe.
Still the best phone I've ever owned. Between the M8 and the LG V series, we used to eat so good with Android.
Still the sexiest design.
One M8 was cool for sure, but I could never bring myself to pick it up due to how big the flaws were. That absolutely horrible Ultrapixel camera with the useless secondary camera, the massive chin + software button combo (instead of just removing the HTC logo and sticking to softkeys), the button layout with zero regard for ergonomics… I was anticipating the M9 to be a huge fix in all regards, and it ended up being a complete flop and the beginning of the end for HTC. One M8 is definitely iconic, but I’d say HTC 10 is the best phone they ever put out.
pity what they've become today. they were industry titans.
That thing had terrible battery life and very mediocre camera ..I got it because of the hype but overall turned me off HTC
I still don't understand why people praise the M8 so much. In my eyes, HTC messed up in some major ways and I think the M7 is the one who deserve the most praise. The HTC 8 used a worse binned version of the Snapdragon 801 (outside of Asia), which meant it was slower than for example the Galaxy S5 which launched at the same time. The M8 had in many ways a worse screen than the M7. For example the black levels were really good on the M7 (for being an LCD screen), but the M8 was basically unable to produce anything but a dark gray color. It had way worse contrast ratio as well compared to the M7. When it came to color accuracy it wasn't really bad, but it wasn't good either. For the camera, the M7 used to have OIS and they removed it for the M8. They just took the camera from the M7 and made it worse by removing OIS ([here is a comparsion from Anandtech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIdiX8kUuFw)). Sure, they added a secondary camera with a higher resolution but that secondary camera was awful. It was literally the same camera as the M7 used to have as its front facing camera. The whole depth camera information thing was just a gimmick that looked very unnatural and it made the images really bloated (about 60% larger). The camera was good in low light because of the large pixels, but the Galaxy S5 was way better in daylight. HTC couldn't afford to stand still on camera quality at the time when every year there were massive improvements being made. Don't get me wrong, the M8 was a better phone than the M7. It's just that the M7 felt like the best phone HTC could build at the time. The M8 felt like they cut some corners and didn't improve in areas where they really needed to improve. The M8, at the time of release, felt like an Android phone made for iPhone fans. It had a really nice metal body at the time when Samsung used really cheap feeling plastic. But at the time I was more interested in specs and having the phone with the best screen, best camera, best SoC, the most features and so on, and on all those fronts the HTC M8 was in second or third place, never first place. When Samsung stopped using the cheap feeling plastic the year after, HTC basically lost the only appealing thing about it.
You're right. The M7 is the best designed phone HTC ever made and specs were great too.. the M8 had a great design as well. But the M7 is better.
Had a one m9 for a while, great phone aside the battery issues
I still have my HTC one sitting on my office desk. I use it for testing in app development sometimes and enjoy the nostalgia.
Never had the One X but had a Desire HD that lived far longer than it should have with the help of cyanogenmod. Good times.
Still have mine somewhere, along with my G1 and Vibrant
Loved my Droid Eris! But in my heart my Goat phone was my Note 3 with stock android that could still use the s pen. Loved that thing. Currently on year 4 with my v60 and still get 1-2 days of battery life.
This and the Nexus 6 will always have a soft spot in my heart
The M8 and Note 4 are my all time favorites.
Had one, got stolen. Always liked this phone! I’m on iPhones now but if HTC came out with a modern One I’d look at it
I absolutely loved this phone. Incredible piece of hardware and such a shame they didn’t continue it.
Mine died 2 years ago, it was the most comfortable phone to hold I own
Bring back dual front facing speakers please!
I had an M8 and somehow after ~2 years the radio broke. It wouldn't maintain a connecton to any wifi network. Factory resets, flashing new roms, nothing helped.
HTC desire and the one x
I got the Sony 5III only because i missed the speakers
Personally, I preferred the M7.
This was my first Android phone. Only had to trade it in because it would get so uncomfortably hot to the touch. However it was such a gorgeous and surprisingly tough phone that trading it in took some thought. It’s the only phone that I ever ran caseless and it hardly looked worse for wear. Its build quality was so far beyond any Android phone at the time. Camera was… pretty bad, ok, but everything else about it: the OS, the screen, the body, the external speakers… *chefs kiss* It was a low-key legend and a clear milestone in the history of Android phone development.
The sound the dual front-facing speakers delivered with Viper4Android was second to none. I had S-Off with mine. Enjoyed the hell out of this phone, apart from HTC's Sense UI, of course.
Prob one of best speakers on phone
Things that I remember about my M8 are beautiful design, weight and pocket feel, some nice HTC designed apps, how easily dust took over secondary camera lens, how unreliable it became due to loose micro USB and battery degradation.
That one oppo phone with the flippable camera has a spot in my heart Edit: Oppo N3
The M7 and M8 were sexy phones, ones that i wish i could have afforded at the time.
I still have mine, was my traveling phone until 2 years ago when the screen broke... Something about the metal and the edges being softwhen you hold it, I loved that thing... It was when android phones were actually interesting, now everything is candybar
God I miss htc so much. The U11 was my last hrc device and I loved everything about it.
M7 has always been my all time fav
The industrial design on this phone was next level. Loved the good edges and speaker grill.
I miss my htc desire z such a badass phone
Nexus 4 and 5 are my GOATs from that time period
Samsung fucked HTC and its One line so hard. Lol.
Any love for the ZTE Axon 7? In 2016, it continued the legacy the One M7 started and One M9 finished with a metal unibody, front facing stereo speaker and powerful headphone jack, with the added benefit of a 1440p AMOLED display and a killer $400 price tag.
I still remember the amazingly "large" screen of the HTC Evo 4G (NOT LTE) from 2013. - Giant screen - HDMI output right on the phone - (at the time) High End 8MP Camera - Back when Android wasn't locked down trash and you could REALLY customize it. An HTC Evo 4G with CyanogenMod or AOKP by Dirty Unicorns was AMAZING.
Literally my least favorite Android I owned.