The HTC One M8 features a rounded chassis and has a 5-inch 1,080-pixel display. It is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, a depth of field sensor which can be used to individually refocus and apply various effects to the foreground and background elements of photos taken from the smartphone’s higher-resolution front-facing camera.
Just a few weeks after its release, an update has made it to the HTC One M8 which featured improvements to the device’s front-facing stereo speakers, expandable storage, new gesture functionality, and a refreshed version of HTC’ Sense software.
In August 2014, HTC has unveiled a software variant of the HTC One M8 running on Windows Phone 8.1 instead of Android, aiming to adapt the operating system’s experience to the device without any compromises.
The HTC One M8 received mostly positive reviews with particular praise devoted to the design improvements within its hardware and software, and its upgraded internals in comparison to the first generation HTC One.
But it also has some share of criticisms including its large bezels, the lack of significant improvements to the main camera’s image quality and the inconsistent quality of the effects enabled by the depth sensor.