HTC One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Glacial Silver

Excellent phone! HTC has worked for me and several friends for years - and the M8 so far has been great for me. The price was good value through Amazon, and I've calculated it will work out as saving me money, purchasing a phone myself and going SIM only with a network rather than going onto another contract for 24months!! Especially as I'm hoping this phone lasts me a good few years if I look after it properly, with no need to upgrade after 2. I love the colour - as I was after something a bit different from the normal greys and silvers. The size isn't too big either - I had the M7 previously, which is slightly smaller but not much. And as always Android is so much easier to use and get on with than a certain fashionable brand which teenagers flock to. The HTC has a great camera and often takes better photos than my little digital camera, lots of storage, great screen organisation, and battery life is really good - On a normal day I often only use around 50% and even using my phone as a Sat Nav without charging it in the car I still have battery life left at the end of the day!! I imagine this will wane as the phone ages, but for now it's great. The HTC also has the best speakers of any phone on the market, no matter what model you have, and on the M* there's no exception. Fantastic sound from this phone! As with all phone changes there are some differences to get used to - but these are minimal here and easy to get used to - such as the home and back buttons no longer being physical buttons but part of the touch screen, and the power button on the top of the phone being on the opposite side to what I was used to! I had been toying with getting the more up to date M9 but after lots of comparison reading I decided on the M8, and am glad I did. I think for the hike in price for an upgrade to the M9 it's not worth it. The cost was a big factor for me - esp after finding that after 2.5 yrs the M7 had lost nearly all its value (originally £600 brand new down to £25!!!), so don't weant to invest such a huge amount when it's not going to be worth much in a couple years. And from what I've read it seems that the M9 doesn't have much of an edge over the M8 for me to warrant paying out for it. This phone is great, and in my opinion should be outselling the Samsungs and Apples out there!

The phone arrived way earlier than expected. Was absolutely over the moon. It was packed so well I could've dropped it from a roof and it'd be fine. The phone was described as grade B, but in all honestly I'd call it a grade a. It's immaculate. However, the major sting in the tail was that it was listed as unlocked but came locked to Vodafone. So I had to pay to get it unlocked. It's a real shame as these guys had awesome reviews and very happy previous customers. Furthermore, I've replied to all of thier courtesy emails and they've ignored them all.

My HTC One M8 has just failed completely so whilst I look for what my next phone will be, this is my final verdict on this. When I first purchased this phone it was £485, this was in June 2014, so it has lasted me almost exactly 4 years before it gave up completely though I think the really hot weather we have been having finally finished it off. ----------------- Good Points ----------------- - Large Screen, amazing speakers and headphone hack, makes it a great phone to have with you on long journeys as you can use it to watch movies and listen to music - Headphone jack, though I have said this already, with new models getting rid of the headphone jack, I think it's important to mention this one hasn't done that - Great camera, it has dual camera which I never made use of but the picture quality was amazing - Great user interface, I had my main pane where I select what apps I wanted set up really easily and it would easy to turn off any notifications I didn't want to see - Notifications were easy to see, e.g. if someone sent a message on a particular application or someone posted a new video, it was very good at notifying you of the news --------------- Bad Points --------------- - Large screen, this is a good point and a bad point, being so big combined with it's slim design means it feel a bit over the top, the phone could easily fall out of your pocket if you have other things at the bottom of it - Poor battery life, towards the end my phone started cutting out at 20%, the battery would go down so quickly especially if you watched any videos, the battery life was never great to begin with - Poor phone reception, people calling me couldn't always get through, I had another phone to compare it to so I know it's not the greatest in this area - Confusing contact list, when adding people to my contact list, I didn't find this so user friendly - Slim design, it's great that it is so light and thin but it's so thin you can easily drop it which meant I always used a case, in turn this meant I never felt motivated to test out the dual camera as the second camera was always covered - Difficult to repair, I took this to a repair shop and they wouldn't repair it and if you watch a video of someone replacing the battery, you'll see what I mean, it's like mission impossible, I know people have successfully replaced their battery however, in my case the phone is completely dead so I think it's destined for the scrap heap - Screen Time Out function kept resetting, meaning my phone would go into sleep mode sooner than I would like and when I changed the settings, one day it would randomly reset and I would have to set it again. - Unwanted notifications, though I could turn this off easily, there were way too many and HTC kept asking if I wanted to share my data and every time I let it know and it wouldn't be long before it asked again, I found this bit a little intrusive. - Small Internal Storage, the amount of updates that come through, I barely had anything installed on my phone so expect to run out of space, though you can purchase an external memory card to compensate for this. ---------- Overall ---------- Though I gave this lots of bad points, I was happy with the experience this phone gave me and definitely helped me decide what type of phone I want to buy next. It was a series of little things that let this phone down but the things it did well at, it did them very well. The fact that this phone is a lot cheaper now, if you want a good experience without paying a mountain of cash and you are okay with the bad battery life then you will like this phone. It's an inspirational model and worth a look.

I had HTC DESIRE HD, great phone got it 2010 and still working, battery last about 50%, and the phone lags but after 4 years of work is amazing that still works. That's the first reason I decided to stick with HTC, and the one M8 promise to be handsome phone. Comparing with the competitions S5, as far as performance they are quite the same, maybe a difference in the camera. The Samsung has extra features like the fingerprint scanner, the hart rate monitor, etc that can make the difference if you enjoy having a phone with many feature. But for me is the daily working, and I got to say the phone beats S5 in daily use, the sound is amazing never heard a cell sound like it, the phone is the best looking phone in the market, the screen performs great outdoor with direct sunlight. And about the camera, maybe not that much megapixels but ultra-pixels performs better in low light environments and many pictures are taken in those conditions, in other conditions you will get good pictures. I'm getting about two days of battery life with regular/high use, remember I just got the phone, and when you get new toy, you usually play with it extra time to learn all the features. I got de European model because of the 4g band with Digitel in Venezuela. The phone picks 4g, and I got to say it really makes a difference upgrading to 4g, my patience is less stress. I recommend these phone.

Great phone. Sense UI is very intuitive and looks great. Love the news feed. The screen is very responsive. Battery lasts ~1day under heavy use; moderate use 2/3 days (which i'm satisfied with). HTC regularly updates the dot view (wich i very much love) for the dot case with charming themes. The camera is really good; i don't really use the 3D thingy; i brag about it though (and ppl are like wtf. Aliens!). The sound is really good. I also had the M7 with beats audio and the Boomsound on M8 sounds better; +bass and +sweeter sounds overall. The phone looks so darn good i hate to wear a case; it has the right weight so it does not feel like a cheap toy wheb holding it. I am also glad that it has a card slot which it's rly useful. Everything starts up fast and runs well. The phone is rootable and s-off-able. The signal is strong, wireless as well. The only small downside would be that the screen is too responsive at times and it detects your finger when it's just above the screen (very very very close to screen, i'm talking about 0.2mm); after i got used with the keyboard layout I magically managed to get over this. A friend just bought Note 4 and it has the same issue; maybe it's from gorilla glass I have the phone for half a year now and i'm still in love with it. I dropped it once from ~1m, without case, on gritstone and it just got 2 tiny tiny white spots. I bought this phone along with 2 other friends of mine. I liked it so much that i bought for my dad one too

Bonjours cher futurs acheteurs! Je vous conseil vivement d'acheter ce portable pour de multiples raisons: La qualité HTC avant tout: son merveilleux, pixels impressionnant, photos bluffantes,taille remarquable .... Bref cette marque à vraiment tout pour plaire et la prise en main est très facile! Le seule petit hic est que cet acheteur propose une version anglophone du portable, et il n'y a pas moyen de l'avoir en français... Personnellement ça ne m'a pas dérangé mais pour les non bilingues la compréhension peut être difficile.... A part ça, il semble plutôt solide (est déjà tombé 4 fois en 2 jours sur le sol est rien n'a bougé) ^^ Alors si vous hésitiez, et bien n'hésitez plus! Ce portable est parfait et pour tout vous dire c'est le meilleur que je n'ai jamais eu! Comme toujours il est arrivé à temps, avec 2 jours d'avance, super bien emballé! PS: prévoir une carte sim Nano (ils vous suffit d'aller la demander chez votre opérateur, c'est gratuit). PS2: vous trouverez aussi une coque très résistante pour le portable dans la boîte. HTC toujours fidèle à lui même et au petit soins de ses acheteur ^^

Trovo che sia stata una delle migliori scelte quella di acquistare questo telefono, che reputo un ottimo dispositivo, con pochissimi difetti. Premetto che il MIGLIORE smartphone a mio avviso non esiste, si cerca quello che si adatta meglio alla persona, e questo cellulare è riuscito a stupirmi,lo valuto come la migliore opzione per quanto riguarda il mio conto. Un fulmine in tutte le attività con minimo lag anche nelle operazioni più pesanti (giochi, video...), grazie allo snap.801 ma anche alla sense, che credo sia una tra le interfacce più reattive e simili ad android stock. Schermo fantastico con riproduzione colori magnifica, ottimi anche angoli di visione e ppi; casse frontali da paura, le migliori nel settore; una batteria che mi ha parecchio soddisfatto, con cui si riescono a compiere due giorni di uso intenso. Da non dimenticare è il look, moderno, rifinito, dotato di materiali ricercati... Nulla da criticare a riguardo, se non che si rovina visibilmente se lasciato cadere . L'unico difetto è la fotocamera (posteriore, quella anteriore, per amanti di selfie, è moto buona), non eccellente ma nemmeno così scarsa come è stata venduta da alcuni recensori, che si è rivelata più che decente per il mio utilizzo, anche se spesso bisogna aggiustarla manualmente per ottenere buoni risultati (in condizioni in cui ci sono luci forti fa fatica a sistemare correttamente colori, contrasto...). Non è un problema per il sottoscritto poichè è di livello sufficiente per condividere, fare video per amici, divertirsi con effetti, slow-motion incredibili, editare con re-focus... Insomma, se volessi fare foto professionali, preferirei portarmi dietro la mia macchina fotografica. A chi consigliarlo? A chi, avendo valutato gli altri top di gamma, preferisce fluidità, velocità, ottimo comparto multimediale e design e materiali da fare invidia a tutti gli altri.

Great phone except can't make or accept phone calls on any local carriers. Shame. Will likely factory reset and drop in one of those electronic recycling boxes.