The HTC One M8 is currently the most powerful Smartphone, powered by Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 801 processor, . The quad-core chip runs at 2.3GHz and is paired with 2GB of RAM, which translates to incredibly fast performance.
Even with Sense 6 running on
top of Android 4.4 KitKat, the phone feels incredibly responsive, loading apps quickly and drawing image- heavy websites like BBC News and The Guardian with no noticeable lag or slowdown. This translates to impressive benchmark scores too; the m8 managed 662ms in the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, making it the fastest Android-powered smartphone we've fully tested to date when it comes to web
browsing. The Adreno 330 GPU is also more than adequate for playing any game in the Google Play Store today; it played demanding 3D titles like Real Racing 3 smoothly and scored 20,465 in the 3DMark
Ice Storm test.
HTC has also added a microSD card slot to the HTC One (m8),
letting you add up to 128GB of extra capacity to the 16GB or
32GB of internal storage (depending on the model)
As one of the few Android phones to truly compete with Apple in terms of design, the HTC One (m8) is a beautiful handset.
The m8 is almost 90% metal, with the few slivers of plastic left only being used to ensure the best possible reception for the
internal antennae. The curved back fits your hand comfortably and the brushed metal finish on our metal grey review unit glints in the light, making no mistake that the phone is made from metal rather than plastic. The m8 is also
available in gold, silver, red and pink colours, but these have a
more subtle matte finish.
The HTC One (m8) is slightly larger than the original HTC One, to make room for the bigger 5in LCD display. Both phones have the same 1,920x,1,080 resolution, which means pixel density has dropped
from 469ppi on the 4.7in original to 441ppi here, but in practice it's still impossible to see individual pixels. The m8 looks incredibly sharp; even the tiniest of fonts are still legible and images are incredibly detailed. Image quality is fantastic, with natural colours and pure bright whites, along with impressively
deep blacks for an LCD panel. With a peak brightness of 491cd/m2 and an sRGB colour spectrum coverage of 93.7%, the M8 is among the best LCD screens we've seen in a smartphone, rivalling the iPhone 5s in terms of brightness and contrast.
