HTC One M8 for Windows, Gunmetal Grey 32GB (Verizon Wireless)

I have had this phone for about two months now. The first phone I received I had replaced because the phone would overheat. However, other than that little hiccup which could have simply been a bad one in the bunch, my second (replacement) phone has surpassed my expectations. Easily the best thing about this phone is the battery life. With moderate use running bluetooth, calling, web searching, and texting, the battery lasts anywhere from 1 and 1/2 to 2 days. Additionally, the speakers are the best I have ever heard on a phone. Great call reception and quality aside, while playing music I could hear audio crystal clear in another room overtop of other noises. Perhaps the only negative is the camera, although I say this as an extremely minor complaint. It's not that the camera is necessarily bad, just for a high-end phone there are some better alternatives if you're looking for high-end quality pictures on a mobile device (ie. Nokia Lumia Icon; 1020;1520; Samsung Galaxy S5, or iPhone 6 probably all take better photos than this phone). However, there is some nice editing software that spruces the photos up. For a phone camera the photos are still great quality, just not as good as they could be. A plus is that the camera shutter speed is the fastest I've seen, so although the photos aren't brilliant quality, you can take clear photos almost instantaneously. Regarding Windows Phone as the operating system, I love it. The best way to describe the OS is "simple, but elegant." I won't go into too many details because my focus is on the phone itself. You need an in depth review of the Windows Phone OS to know if it's right for you. As others have mentioned the Windows Phone OS doesn't have as many apps as its Android and iPhone counter-parts. However, I have found Windows Phone to have all the apps that I need (and any many cases viable third-party alternatives). I prefer the OS because it has a simplified and easy user-interface in comparison with Android and iOS (again my opinion). I strongly suggest, you give Windows Phone a test run, before writing it off. Regardless, the Android or Windows variation of this phone is a great choice for your next phone. It's sleek, with a wonderful build, and solid metal-like frame. It doesn't have a fake-plastic feel at all. Give it a try, and I don't think you will be disappointed with its strong quality.

phones a great phone. but EVERYTHING is out of date. never recieved the windows 10 update making the phone absolute garbage. no snapchat, no facebook messanger, no instagram, the app they have for instagram is complete trash, and makes you pay to post anything besides a picture. DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE is you want to be able to do anything besides listen to music, text, and call.

This is simply an excellent phone. At the moment I'm writing, Microsoft doesn't have all the apps that Android or Apple offer, but there are quite a few good ones. Cortana works well and "she" is able to handle followup questions without difficulty. The phone itself is generally easy to learn to use. It has excellent sound, better than my larger Lenovo tablet, making it great for music. Call sound is quite clear, although sometimes it suffers from too low volume even turned all the way up. The camera is much better than adequate and the HTC camera software is very good. The only downside is that on occasion the screen doesn't respond even to quite firm taps and some other times it is too sensitive, launching or changing apps without any apparent user input.

In summary, MS really brought Windows to the phone.... as in incompatibilities depending on which hardware platform you're running. Also note that I came from the Galaxy (Android) world and am a recovering Apple Fanboy of many years. Details are below - This device (for Windows) is just not ready for the prime time yet. I got it on a Thursday and spent the next couple days plus weekend trying to get it set up. I would rate myself somewhat advanced technical proficiency, and I just could not get the thing to run 30-40% of the apps I tried to install on it. CONS 1) Since I couldn't install / run ANY of the MS or Verizon apps out there to restore my contacts from my old phone (including phone to phone, Verizon Cloud, Verizon Backup, etc) I had no way to bring my contacts over. 2) Several apps that I tried to run simply stated that they were incompatible with this device. I'm assuming they were created with Nokia device in mind. 3) Very few apps - this is more a problem with the Windows Phone platform than this particular device. 4) My corporate email policy requires a password / PIN to be set on the homescreen. Sometimes it would prompt me for password, and sometimes not. Seemed random, as I couldn't figure out the logic here. May be a problem for those with top secret stuff on their phone or something to hide. 5) App store seemed to be down for hours at a time, twice for the 4 days I owned the phone. PROS 1) Very good physical feel to the phone, felt better quality than my Galaxy phone 2) Windows 8.1 has a great UI, and I prefer the (vertical) scrolling nature of the home screen to the Android horizontal scroll. 3) Because of the device quality, I would consider it for the Android platform. But then again, thinking I'll play it safe and get the Galaxy S5 or IPhone 6.... haven't decided yet.

I like having different phones just to switch it up from time to time. I recently bought the Galaxy Note 7 and a few weeks later I bought the iPhone 7 Plus. They are both excellent phones and if you have owned any Samsung or iPhone in the last 3 years you know exactly what you are going to get even the package hasn't changed much on either of these phones particularly the iPhone. I was searching for a new tablet for my wife and I bought a Surface Pro but I came across the HTC One running Windows OS, two caveats, first I haven't used a Windows Phone since the HTC HD2 and second I didn't even know there was an HTC One with Windows OS. The phone was 75 dollars so no big lose at all if its garbage. I got it in the mail and to my absolute surprise this thing is awesome. First off the phone was describe at decent at best, I was expecting it be dented and with scratches all over it, I opened the box and it is basically a brand new phone, there isn't a single scratch on it anywhere, the screen is perfect!!! The screen is very bright at its highest setting, build quality is perfect this is basically what we have come to expect from HTC, it feels really good in the hand with its curved back. The battery life is amazing, I would put it somewhere between the Note 7 and iPhone 7, I leave my house around 6:30 in the morning, I am texting and emailing all day long and at the end of the day I use my phone for music at the gym and when I get home at 630 at night I am hovering around 40-45%. The Windows UI is fantastic, it is very smooth and insanely fast, I love the animations and the live tiles are pretty cool too. With all that being said there are three reasons that I can't seriously be recommend this phone, first it will not be upgraded to Windows 10 which is ashamed because it clearly has very capable hardware. Second there are NO APPS, I mean none. I couldn't find Bank of America, Yahoo Fantasy Sports, a decent navigation app, barely any games, there are no stock tracking apps, Whats App nope, any Google apps such as YouTube nope, Instagram nope not here, there are a few staples such as Pandora, Twitter and FaceBook but for the most part if you buy a Windows phone don't expect to find your favorite apps here. The last reason this seems to be a dead operating system it basically got swallowed by Android and IOS , apps are no longer being developed for it and the ones that are there no longer being support, the OS itself isn't being supported by Microsoft and they have done a simply awful job of supporting the companies that supported them such as HTC, its sad because its a very good operating system that even today matches very well with the best of Android and IOS. As a side note the camera is awful its hard to say if I'm being subjective because I have been spoiled by the Galaxy Phone and iPhone cameras or if it is genuinely bad but bare in mind it is two years old but I suspect it was bad two years ago as well. So if you are a gamer, need your social media, looking for the latest or you are a photographer this is NOT the phone for you. However if you want something different, if you want a smooth reliable phone with a gorgeous bright screen, with a fantastic build quality and very cheap price tag then this IS the phone for you. Despite all of my cons I still give it a 4/5.

In case anyone is still looking at these; The phone is amazing. I love the M8 and have since the day I bought it. Not a single issue and adore the interface. DO. NOT. GET. THE. WINDOWS. VERSION. I can't stress this enough. I've been a Windows phone user for 6 years now and I can't take it anymore. Literally no first-party app support (AMAZON just discontinued their app. AMAZON. Think about that for a second.) Nothing works. Every app crashes. Reading an article? It'll probably crash. Checking twitter? That will crash. The Instagram app is STILL IN BETA! I thought this would be helped by the Windows 10 release. I held out for so long hoping that it could drive developers to care about WP. It didn't, and here we are. I write this with a heavy heart because the Windows phone interface is gorgeous perfection. The keyboard, lock screen, tile system, system sounds, are all the best available. It's too bad all you get that's even remotely functional is an email client.

SMOOTH......CLEAN....BRILLIANT.....FAST PROCESSOR.....PICTURES ARE AMAZING ESPECIALLY IN LOW LIGHT(Don't know where I read they weren't???) I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME (aside from the app selections) UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE WOULD FAVOR AN iPHONE 6 ...... IS IT THE FINGERPRINT SECURITY??? IS IT DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER FOUR DIGITS THAT YOU PROBABLY USE FOR OTHER APPLICATIONS ANYWAYS??? MAYBE PEOPLE JUST WANT THE LIMITED STORAGE CAPABILITY OF AN iPHONE ( HTC can store up to 128g with a micro sd card....iPhone manufacturers can only charge you more for a phone with a fixed storage amount.) EXTREMELY VERSATILE, RESPONSIVE AND WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!!! MICROSOFT HIT A HOMERUN WITH THIS 8.1 PROGRAM! SPREADSHEETS AND WORD PROGRAMS WORK WELL..... I WISH I COULD GIVE IT TEN STARS! PROS: EVERYTHING CONS: NOT ONE THING

Update: After about two months the phone died. Very light use and no abuse. Took it off the charger one morning and it emittted a vibrating sound and no screen whatsoever. Took it to Verizon to look at and they said the battery is sealed and can't be replaced along with the fact that the phone itself was shot. No return and no refund of my $$. This is my first smartphone and it arrived a few days ago. No where on the generic box does it show a manufacturers name. Generic box that says Smartphone on it. The phone itself arrived with no sim card which forced me to go to Verizon to activate and yes buy a sim card. And the phone arrived with no instruction manual in the box. Since this is my first smart phone I don't have a clue how to use the phone features or clear calls etc. Given a choice I would not repeat this purchase. Finally I work from home and have a basement office. I get ONE bar of signal strength upstairs and downstairs. I'm actually using our home phone. Didn't have to do that with my flip phone G'Zone I have owned these last eight years.