Smart Phone HTC M(8) is out,, get it.

HTC M(8) is the 'SmartPhone of the day'. It is out and you can get it. It challenges  similar phones recently released such as Samsung Galaxy S5 and Nexus 5. They are all in the ball park for most of the specs except some minor variation in physical dimensions with operating system the same for all three, Android KitKat.

Nice cool feature of HTC M(8) is that it can release you from a remote: M(8)  can be used as a remote. It has some very attractive APPS: HTC BlinkFeed; HTC Boom Sound (this appears to be big deal) and SenseTV. These are all very cool.

Quite a bit of price differential between Nexus 5 and M(8).

The color choices, if you want to actually  buy, are limited to Gunmetal Gray and Glacial Silver. Although you can buy from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, only Verizon can provide you the Glacial Silver. All carriers have similar plans.

It is always nice to have availability of external memory that you can attach to the phone.

Here are some screen shots copied over from HTC site at: http://www.htc.com/us/smartphones/htc-one-m8/

Complete Specs:



Exploded View

 
Great audio

 
BlinkFeed 1

 
BlinkFeed 2


Get rid of your remote


 
SenseTV


 

 

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