HTC One M8 and Xiaomi Mi 4 are both great phones. We compared these 2 on the main factors as mentioned below:

Aesthetics:

Both bold, metallic looking handsets feature 5.0-inch display with exceptional screen resolutions of 1,080 x 1,920 pixels and 441ppi pixel densities. While HTC uses Super LCD3, Xiomi has a Sharp/JDI OGS full lamination display. Talking about the exteriors neither of these phones are dust/water resistant.

Thickness and weight of the Xiaomi is 0.35inches and 149g respectively while the HTC is 0.37inches thick with a weight of 160g.

Hardware and Software:

Both the Mi4 and One M8 have quad-core Krait 400 processors as their primary power source. However, Xiaomi is measured at 2.5 GHz in comparison to HTC’s 2.3. Similarly, the Mi4 has 3GB of RAM while the One M8 provides only 2GB. Additionally, HTC uses Android v4.4.2 KitKat OS with HTC Sense 6 UI while Xiaomi has Android v4.4.3 KitKat OS with MIUI 6 UI.

Memory:

Xiaomi’s handset internal storage provides 16GB and 64GB, considerably more than HTC’s 16GB and 32GB. Conversely, the One M8 has up to 128GB of expandable memory while the Mi8 does not support microSD.

Battery and Camera:

Xiaomi’s Mi4 has a rear facing 13 MP cameral with dual-LED flash while the One M8 has a 4 UltraPixels camera with the same features. Additionally, the HTC camera has two lenses to provide better pictures while the Xiaomi outpaces it with an 8MP camera compared to HTC One M8’s 5MP camera. Xiaomi also trumps HTC with its ability to shoot 4K videos while the HTC cannot.

Xiaomi’s Mi4 has a Li-ion 3080 mAh battery while HTC has only a Li-Ion 2600 mAh. Neither battery units are user-replaceable.

Color, Connectivity and SIM:

Wi-Fi 802.11, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth v4.0, infared and microUSB ports and NFC support are provided by both phones. The HTC handset backs nano-sim while Xiaomi’s backs micro-sim.

In addition to this, the HTC One M8 is available in grey, gold and silver variations while the Xiaomi Mi4 comes in just 2 colours – black and white.

Price:

The 16 GB HTC One M8 is priced at AU$649.95 in Australia whereas the Mi4 is costs AU$482. The handset can now be purchased in Oppsmart as well as from Xiaomi World for approximately ten addition dollars.

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HTC has officially announced that it will release a dual-SIM variant of its flagship – HTC One. This HTC One (M8) Dual SIM will be available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, starting from next week. It will be priced at €799, with the single-SIM HTC One (M8) priced at €570.

Besides the dual-SIM feature, HTC One (M8) Dual SIM has the same specifications as its single-SIM variant. They are both equipped with a 5-inch display, powered by the Snapdragon801 processor and run on Android Kitkat with its Sense 6.0 UI. However, for photo lovers, the selling point of HTC One (M8), both single-SIM or dual-SIM, should be its dual rear cameras, including a 4-UltraPixel camera and a depth sensing camera.

It is likely that HTC One (M8) Dual SIM will come only in the color of Gunmetal Grey. HTC does not say whether this dual-SIM flagship smartphone will come to other countries, but we are sure that it will be available soon in Russia and will not make it in the US.

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HTC is the first handset manufacturer which ready to update their system to the newer version, HTC is the first manufacturer to uses Android 4.4 KitKat and now they also ready to brings Android L in their devices.

HTC is now ready to roloing out the Android L operating system in their 2013 product lineup, such as HTC One M7 and HTC One M8. HTC has been announce in their microblogging site.

HTC said “Our approach will be the same with the Android L release from Google. This release promises to bring new features and tools to Android and we are excited to bring it to you and your HTC. As part of our HTC Advantage commitment globally, we pledge to update all of our HTC One (M8) and HTC One (M7) smartphones within 90 days of receiving final software from Google.”

HTC promises that the upgrade for both flagship handsets will be done in less than 90 days after they receive the final version of Google. This is a commitment in the HTC Advantage program globally.

For information, HTC smartphones M7 has recently obtained KitKat 4.4 Android update that comes with the HTC Sense UI 6.0 in May. While the latest smartphone HTC One M8 was launched with the Android OS 4.4.2 KitKat out-of-the box.

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HTC has officially launching their new HTC One E8 Android smartphone, this is the budget-phone that comes from HTC, that’s why this phone is uses plastic cases rather than metal material.

HTC has reportedly their sales with the new HTC One E8 devices, according to HTC Weibo account, this Taiwanesse company is successfully to sold 50 thousand unit of HTC One E8 only less than 15 minutes, this devices is sold in CHinese market only.

In Chinese market, HTC One E8 is sold for 2,999 yuan or about $481 USD price tag. This phone has similar specs with the HTC One M8 flagship smartphone that already release recently, the different is only in the material casing, while the One E8 is more lighter than the predecessor. This phone is only packs with 13 megapixel camera and uses dual sim card slot.

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Russian version of the FCC site or also known as the Russian Federal Communications Agency (ROSCOM), has revealed HTC One M8 smartphone with Dual SIM feature.

This indicates that these phones will soon be available in the market, but what makes us a little surprised is that the mobile phone with Dual SIM card feature is actually available in Russia and not in the Asian region that in fact most Asian users more interesting to Dual SIM cards smartphone.

Just like HTC M7, the HTC One M8 is also available in the Dual SIM version, and the interesting things is the HTC One M8 Dual SIM version will be used the removable battery, so the user can change and replace the battery by themself. While the previous single SIM version is uses non-removable battery.

Unfortunately there is no information about the release date and the price tag, so we have to wait until HTC is officially release this phone to domestic market.

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Gold is growing in popularity as a color choice for smartphones. Apple’s iPhone 5s in gold has sold well, and HTC now sells a gold version of their One M8. For some, gold coloring is not enough, and thanks to companies like Goldgenie, you can now give your high-end electronics the true Midas’ touch.

To plate an HTC One M8 in 24-carat gold, Goldgenie charges $3225. The rose gold variation costs $3400, and platinum cost $3565. These prices are phone inclusive, if you already have a device and want it plated it will cost close to $1,700.

Other smartphones are also eligible to be plated by Goldgenie.

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HTC M8 is a very beautiful smartphone in this year, HTC has clearly decided that the look and quality of materials matter, and has made them a top priority. Of course, it also is China phone factory’s item to copy. Yes, the knock-off HTC M8 arrived my hand and here is the testing video.

This fake HTC M8 has double camera on the back, but with plastic case. This phone specs also just an entry-class device: 5-inch HD screen, 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582 quad-core processor, 1GB RAM and 4GB ROM, 8MP rear camera. I don’t know the price details yet, but I think it will be under $100.

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HTC has released an update which was scheduled to be launched along with mobile HTC One (M8). The update has a feature called Extreme Power Saving.  Now, the feature will be available to mass audience thanks to feature release. This will be available to the developers and unlocked HTC mobile phones.

Although the size has been increased to 117.98 MB but the Android version is the same. The Magnum Opus of the launch is the feature called “Extreme Power Saving Mode”, which keeps the mobile on the go for longer duration. There are some modification in “the camera and gallery feature” albeit not extended much.

If you have HTC, go to settings > About to check for updates or wait for the notiifcation. This may take some time and you may have to wait. Please tell your opinion after using the phone.

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Goldgenie has been modified the new HTC One m8 smartphone that covered with 24 carat gold cover, that makes the HTC One M8 is becoming more luxurious and expensive price.

The London based company, Goldgenie, has offered three version of modification HTC One M8, those are; gold, rose gold and platinum.

Goldgenie has presented the HTC One M8 with luxurious material, the gold version is offers with $2,560 USD, and the rose gold version is offers with $2,695 USD.

Which is the most expensive customized HTC One M8 uses platinum covered material for whole body, this version is offers with $2,830 USD.

Goldgenie is also has modified the iPhone 5S, BlackBerry Q10 and samsung Galaxy S4 that also covers with gold recently.

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While HTC releasing the HTC One M8, the phone is only available in three color version, those of color are; gunmetal grey, glacial silver abd amber gold. And now we heard the rumor that the HTC is reparing another color covers.

According to Evleaks, HTC is now preapring the other color cover, the new three covers is blue, pink, and red. Those three new color is heading to Verizon Wireless carrier.

But we also heard that the all three new color is not available in every carrire, since the blue color will heading to AT&T and the Pink version is targeting for T-Mobile operator.

So we have to wait untill the all new three color is available in the market soon.

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While we all know that HTC is already release their new flagship smartphone HTC One M8 to the market, the Taiwanese company is also has a planning to release the next generation phone (aka One M9) as the successor from previous model.

According to leaked picture, the upcoming HTC One M9 phone will has photography feature, this phone will becoming the camera-centric smartphone since packs with the optical-zoom capability.

HTC’s imaging specialist Symon Whitehorn said that it is the company’s goal to replace a “big camera” as well as compact cameras in the eyes of its customers.

He says that the Optical Zoom capability in the smartphone camera will becoming popular in the near future, and this technology will be hype in next year. So you can put your bulky DSLR camera and using your smartphone for taking the picture. What do you think?

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Samsung has already release the Galaxy S5 smartphone, and HTC is also unveiled the HTC One M8 smartphone, both phone offers the best features and specs.

Some people may ask, which is the better smartphone between Samsung Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8? — The internal training materials of HTC One M8 for the employees had surfaced and they explain the top 5 reasons why the HTC One M8 is better than the Samsung Galaxy S5.

The first is the HTC One M8 is used metal material rathen than plastic that we found on Galaxy S5 smartphone, the metal feel more solid and elegance as premium phone.

The second is the speaker is placed at front panel of HTC One M8, and support for HTC BoomSound that makes the sound is 20% more louder than HTC One previous model.

The third aspect is the user experience, since HTC One M8 can operate by one handed with fast access since the HTC One M8 has Motion Launch feature so the user can swipe the screen to launch their apps.

The fourth, HTC One M8 has dual camera on rear, this camera offers the best picture and has UltraPixel camera which can make object more clear and crisp in dim environment.

The Fifth, there is a free replacement screen for first six month, so the user not to worry if tehy crack the screen.

Is that point is worthed for you? Please give me your comments below.

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HTC has been officially announced the score points of benchmark test HTC One M8 recently, the score is beat the other flagship smartphone on the market.

However, it turns out the results are listed in AnTuTu benchmark 4 turned out that HTC is using the “cheating” techniques and provide a more authentic measure of how a phone might perform under real-world conditions, as same as Samsung did on a few months ago.

HTC has recognized that the HTC M8 features to maximize the performance of the handset. According to HTC, as well as car racing, HTC M8 is designed for ‘running in a top speed’ in certain situations to produce the best performance that may be achieved.

Also stated that HTC has provided a simple way to maximize the power of the HTC One M8 to go to settings and enable developers to manually High Performance Mode. HTC M8 is designed to provide the best balance between performance and battery life, but performance can be maximized at the expense of battery endurance.

AnTuTu has already provides a newer benchmark with AnTuTu X. Through AnTuTu X benchmark test, obtained by different benchmark scores. If in AnTuTu scores HTC M8 able to beat Samsung Galaxy S5, Sony Xperia Z2 and LG G Pro 2.

Actually, the real benchmark test is revealed that the HTC One M8 is got lower than the three of smartphone competitor, and the test is targeting for HTC One M8 Asian version.

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HTC One M8 has been launch recently, and now the phone is also launch in Japanese market and change the phone name with adding “J” in the name of its devices.

This is not the first time that HTC adding the J in their products, the HTC Butterfly for Japanese market is also called as HTC J Butterfly and now HTC J One M8. It’s seems that the J is short for Japan or Japanese.

HTC J One M8 will works with Japanese KDDI network, according to Japanese Media, Spigen. The HTC J One M8 will ready to ship to japanese market on April 25th this year. But the recent rumor says that the KDDI or HTC will revealed the phone before April 25th,  probably April 24th, while for now there is no official confirmation from both KDDI and HTC.

The HTC One M8, also known as HTC One 2014 or HTC All New One will be packs with 5 inch FHD screen display, sports with 2GB of RAM, and the unique dual Ultrapixel rear camera, sports with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, and running HTC Sense 6.0 UI based on Android 4.4.2 KitKat and powered by 2,600mAh battery.

There is two processor model that ready powered in those smartphone, 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC quad-core processor and 2.3GHz Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AB processor.

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Early rumor is says that Samsung will using the metal body in their new Galaxy S5 smartphone, but as we can see on the Samsung commercial launch, the company is still using plastic in their new flagship Smartphone.

But there is another rumor that Samsung will release a new variant of Galaxy S5 Premium model which will be using metal body. HTC American President, Jason Mackenzie insinuated to criticize Samsung products.

He says about Samsung “a company that’s focused on investing in advertising rather than on advancing its smartphones, a choice that’s evident when you look at that product.”

HTC is talk about premium materials all it wants, HTC is “going after a different customer, someone who wants the best.”

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HTC has been officially release the new flagship smartphone HTC One M8, the phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 801. But the phone that sold in Asia and US has suing different processor.

For HTC One M8 that sold in Asian reagion, HTC has uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974 AC variant with 2,5Ghz clock speed, while for US, Europe, Middle East and dan Africa (US-EMEA), HTC is uses AB variant that has 2,3Ghz clock speed.

In theory, with the more higher clcok-speed, the HTC that sold in Asia has more speed that US-EMEA version. But the recent benchmark test show that the US-EMEA version has got higher score point that the Asia version.

The HTC One M8 that available in China is the prototype model, while the HTCOne M8 that available in US-EMEA is the final version, although the score point is not too different, so what do you think?

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After launching the new HTC M8 smartphone that comes with a number of top-tier specs, HTC seems ready to release theHTC One M8 Mini and HTC M8 Ace phablet.

According to the @evleaks website, the upcoming HTC One M8 will be packs with the 4,5 inch screen size, the phone will also has BoomSound technology speaker on front.

The HTC One M8 Mini will has 720 sceen HD display resolution, powered by Qialcomm Snapdragon 400 that runing on 1.4Ghz clock-speed, sports with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage with microSD card support. Coupled with 13 megapixel rear facing camera and 5 megapisel front facing camera. The phone wil also running Android 4.4.2 KitKat operating system along with HTC Sense UI 6.0 with Blinkfeed.

Along with the scaled-deon HTC One M8, we also hear the rumor about the upcoming HTC One M8 with codename Ace, it might be the succesor of HTC One Max, this device is entering phablet device category but  we don’t has any detailed information for a while now.

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HTC One (M8) has been officially announced. The new smartphone with dual-rear camera phones has comes with a number of top-tier specs are ready to fight with rivals. Utilizing those situation, the OnePlus claims that their smartphone is provide more better specs.

From the latest teaser, OnePlus comparing the phone specifications are equally has called as ‘One’. According OnePlus, their smartphone has a higher specification than the HTC One in some parts, such as a bigger screen, better camera, better battery, and offers with more affordable price.

“One Which is better?,” Wrote a brief OnePlus on his Facebook account.

Unfortunately, the OnePlus One design is still unknown. Previously Pete Lau has said that although the screen size of 5.5 inches, the but has slimmer size that Xperia Z1. The device is scheduled to be introduced on April 23rd. So let’s wait.

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After we’ve covered the news about the new flagship smartphone from HTC, HTC M8 smartphone. Is now we have a couple video of that phones has been tested on extreem condition.

While we ever show you the HTC M8 that has waterproof capability, is now we shong again that video aling with the other video that show the HTC M8 is tested with hammer, knife and drop test.

Here are the video:

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The battle of the premium class smartphone will increasingly fierce with the emergence of HTC M8. This new flagship smartphone from HTC is also has another name the HTC All New One, this phone is finally introduced in New York and London.

HTC has been introucing the Ultra Pixel technology last year, this camera technology is make the picture look gogeous, and HTC is leading to adopt this technology with their own products. While the New HTC M8 is also has dual camera lenses and then focus technology introduction is also very compelling.

HTC is focuses on making the individual pixel sensors larger, so that they can capture more light and offer better shots in low-light settings. The front camera, for selfies, is improved, though — at 5 megapixels, compared with 2.1 megapixels before.

And the phone is alsi has autofocus feature that can take the object very quickly and the lense will take the main object to get focus.

Meanwhile the new HTC One M8 camera also comes with a very rich filter. In the Dimension Plus mode shake the phone, the phone will follow the transformation angle of picture, showing vignettes and  3D effect. And this feature is very awesome. So You don’t need to add 3rd party apps to get more filter. and this is very awesome.

You can see the HTC One M8 camera technology continues to walk the path of the stream, in addition to UltraPixel, re-focus and other fresh gameplay but also people have a sense of freshness. The new phone also makes it easier to use the camera’s Zoe assistant, which takes several shots over a few seconds and lets you pick the best ones. It also lets you save frequently used combinations of manual settings, so that you don’t miss the shot trying to set it each time.

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