htc was more expensive, smaller batteries, worse screens, worse specs. I talk about their whole line, not only flagship. Most cash they get from budget phones.
I owned the M7, but to this day that is still one of my favorite phones of all time. The build quality was incredible, the stereo forward facing speakers sounded amazing for the time and its Android skin was refined compared to every other phone at the time.
when display was off, yes. Always thought it looked pretty stupid on the bottom to have the speaker, then useless glass part and then the display controls on the display, and only then the actual display to display stuff.
My friend in college had access to the engineering department's laser engraver, so we tattooed my M8 with a few extra designs. I'll never throw it out.
Choppy performance, giant bezzles that were made that way for better speakers, speakers were good but not great, the software was trash at that time, the phone took forever to charge, didnt last a day, the screen was mid, and it got heated very very fast for the most minimal tasks. Stop living in nostalgia world lol
@@HelloImCrimson Average 2014 android experience. Then you proceed to install some weird XDA rom because the manufacturer didn't bother to release any OS updates, only to find out that it has critical bugs like not being able to make a phone call 💀
@@shanemitchellspencer Android has always been unique, it definitely doesn't look like Windows Phone and it's very different from IOS. Android is definitely the most unique linux dist.
I miss HTC thought they had a great thing going and sense was brilliant. I used to love when I unlocked my desire if you had the weather app you would get sunshine show or raindows and a windscreen wiper which wiped away the rain. That feature never got old and would love to have it again.
I don't know if you remember but in sense if you spun between your home screens fast enough they would spin as a carousel you could see you screen, amazing effect
I have a US VZW M8 modified beyond description. I've had it since 2014. I have 132 different custom and stock Android OSes installed and all work great. In the Viper OS (kitkat 4.4.4 Sense 6), there is a mod that enables the Sense 5 Weather animation when you wake the phone or unlock, I STILL enjoy it. With the MIUI tweak from Viper devs, if the weather condition is WINDY in the fall, you get super pretty golden, red, and brown leaves floating around your screen in the wind animation, it sooo frekin cool! In the winter your screen gets frosty, it snows, and it gets lightning strikes during thunderstorms. It uses Accuweather provider which STILL works on kitkat. The M8 is the greatest smartphone ever made in my opinion (if you look at it in its time, not in the present with its dinosaur hardware)
Back then, I also got the HTC M8. It's the best Android phone I've ever had, alongside my still current Mate20 Pro. Dual speakers, metal body, and an innovative low megapixel camera that surprisingly captured great images with just 4MP. The UI was super sleek and ahead of its time, easily five years ahead back then.
Still have a red HTC One M8 in my drawer. Physically, the look still can compete with the best of today’s flagship. Add the color red which no other brand is willing to do now. ❤❤❤❤
I still use mine daily I'm actually writing this comment from one. It has all the Hallmarks that I think a good phone should have from front facing speakers a good screen decent size not too big and solid construction. Those are the things that actually matter in a phone in my opinion. The only thing that I'm missing is perhaps waterproofing.
Same here! The battery in my M7 got swollen up and made the phone bulge, so I took it out and reassembled the phone's frame. I still have it as a shelve ornament. Such a masterpiece of a design.👌
I absolutely LOVED this phone! easily my favorite phone I ever used at the time. I miss HTC and would love for a comeback with a modern revision of this phone!
HTC M8 was my first Android phone, great-sounding from dual front stereo speakers, refocusing photo after shooting and aluminum body ect. Really good user experience, and I still missed it.
I was a phone repair technician back then and I hated the HTC, they were impossible to tear appart. I always prefered samsung and even the iPhones were not so terrible to disassemble yet.
I have htc 10 in 5-6 years ago. Most durable phone i ever owned. I drop it like 20 times, all fours corner is very bad. But the screen never broken and working perfectly without any trouble. What a phone
The only phone I've owned that I've actually LOVED. To the point of feeling empty even after a "direct upgrade". This phone gave me a solid 4 years. Superb little piece of modern engineering.
HTC EVO was the real GOAT! HTC sense UI was the first to have quick settings accessed from the status bar. It was a real game changer that we take for granted today. HTC created many of our common features every phone uses today. Personally I believe the death of HTC was is deal to make the google phone. It was a rushed device that had poor specs with poor quality at a premium price. When other companies were making better and cheaper devices it feel behind and never came back. Which is a shame because it really did have the best android skins at its peak. Sense 2.5 and above were years ahead.
i had an M8 when it came out and immediately flashed the Google Play Edition software on it. I loved this phone so much. I still have it and use it as a universal remote control for my CRT TV.
I have so much nostalgia for this phone! The Boomsound, the premium build, the heft... It was such a game changer. That being said, with the curves on the back going over the edge, this thing was so slippery
The m8 was a masterpiece but you were completely right about the back end being too slippery. The m10 took everything I loved about the m8 and improved it tenfold. The chamfered back was AMAZING
I still remember failing to buy this phone in Toronto bcos HTC did not launch it in Canada. A friend got it from US and it looked simply amazing. In the end, I bought Iphone 6 and got hooked on Apple since then.
hey, im from india too and a past user of htc one e8 the polycarbonate version of one m8. i’m very keen to hear where and how you purchased a working m8 in 2024, would love to do the same to bring back the memories of this beautiful phone. thank you, do hit me up if you read this.
I had the HTC One Mini 2 and loved it so much. I even had the mini sub-woofer stand that made it awesome for playing music (yes the speakers were much better than shown in this video). I missed it for years until i got thr Note 9 which was the first time i felt i could move on
This is one of those pieces of technology that will be remembered for a long, long time to come. Similar to the Apple IIs and Commodore 64s of yesteryear. I distinctly remember this being my dream phone and my dad finally agreeing to get one for me for Christmas, only to realise that here in Australia the original had been replaced by a much weaker version called the M8S. What started as me getting my dream phone at the time ended up being one of the most frustrating experiences as a young tech enthusiast. It was slow, buggy and the camera unit was straight up abysmal in comparison to the original M8. The design of it still made me the coolest kid in class so I didn't complain too much 🤣
My favorite and one of the first experiences with Android. My actual first was the HTC One M7 😂 I still have the M8 in my phone collection and it still powers on.. GREAT PHONE!
@@timothyxxxpaulwell, tbh, android at that time barely has any features or apps 😅. I used to have the Nexus 7 and while it's what made me prefer pure android over any others to this day I kinda understand why back then people would preferred those heavily customized UI over the pure android.
Umm the HTC HD2 would like to have a word with you...that phone literally had everything except for iOS ported to it. All the Android roms, Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, and support in XDA was insane for YEARS
This is true nostalgia, I had the pleasure of owning this phone since day one, It is one of the best phones I've ever owned. It is really sad that htc lost their track, I'd love to see them coming back with a great phone once again. They were the top dog Android phone.
I was 13 when I got this phone for Christmas. It was beautiful then, and it’s beautiful now. The UI was UNMATCHED for its time. Not to mention it was solid. Even the shape was so easy to hold. I would only consider going back to Android if HTC brought the m8 back.
HTC was the only smartphone company that was able to impress me with every flagship that they've made excluding the M9.HTC U12 was an excellent device!I miss LG and Nokia but I miss HTC more.
@@RootSystemHashMay be we will get flagship Nokia from HMD now, as they already confirmed 17 new models will be launched under Nokia as they are going for budget-midrange phones with their HMD tag.
@@harishbista7525 Hopefully. But I greatly doubt those would be real flagships other than the Nokia tag and top specs. What I mean is that it could lack the software refinement and features we get from brands like Samsung and Sony. When they went under they sold most of their intellectual properties to Microsoft except the most significant network related IPs. So, they aren’t in a good position to make real flagships with any real value. They’d basically be a One Plus with a Nokia tag and a more premium price.
I loved this and the Droid DNA. Such amazing phones at the time. I miss that era, we had ground breaking android phones back to back from tons if brands
Unfortunately HTC is committed to only making mid-range devices once or twice a year, but at least we have that, better than nothing. I would love to see them come back but I don't think they'll ever be the same since they sold off their engineering department to Google
This is how you know you made a great device. 10 years down the line people still want "that" phone. I think the original Moto G and Moto X series had the same magic too.
2009-2014 were some of the most exciting and competitive time for smartphones. There were so many players trying to outdo each other, and the rate of innovation was much larger at that time as well. Now we are just left with Apple and Samsung in the American market with Apple enjoying the lion's share.
The m7 cost HTC a lot of money, it was highly unreparable due to the design, they had camera module issues, and it was the only HTC to lack removable storage. the m8 was better in every single conceivable way
I went for a flagship phone in 2014. I had to choose between Samsung Galaxy S5, Lg G3, Sony Xperia Z2 and HTC One m8. The S5 had a pretty good camera, the G3 had some awesome OS customization, the Z2 had almost stock Android experience and was very responsive and One m8 had a gorgeous design. At the end I went for the Z2 because overall it was the beast between all other beasts. It had an upgraded IPS display (the previous Z1 had a TFT), the same SD801, a whoping 3GB of LPDDR3 instead of 2GB, a nice 20MP sensor that took great daytime photos, MicroSD card slot, 3.5mm audio jack, front facing stereo speakers and a really big 3200mAh battery (most phones had under 3000mAh even flagship ones). I used this phone for over 7 years before going to a new one. And this Z2 still works today with the first battery from the factory that has around 70% of it's original capacity, just a crazy phone :-)
Those of us who were using Android in its growing-up years would know and remember how legendary this phone is, together with the M7. Good spot at 3:09 with the feature in Apple's ads, thought not many would have missed it.
I had the successor to this phone, the One M9, and I still remember it VERY fondly. It was a spectacular, durable, and beautiful phone. One of my favorite that I ever had for sure. Being all aluminum was so badass
My One M7 is still sitting in a drawer. It was pretty revolutionary at the time. They stuffed all the components into a milled aluminum body, and to get around the side effect of decreased cell reception, they added cutouts in the frame, something you still see on phones today. Dual front facing speakers, a luxury we barely have today with phones using a bottom firing and top front mounted speaker. Instead of adding more mexapixels to the camera, they used a sensor with lower resolution but larger photosites to increase low light sensitivity; low light imaging performance was going to become of great importance shortly after. It had a 1080p display, which was larger and higher resolution than what Apple was offering with the iPhone 5 at the time. HTC was absolutely on top of their game and creating the best hardware in the Android space.
I had both M7 and the M8 and loved both. They were so much nicer than anything my friends used back then. The sound quality was amazing and unheard of before.
I think the LG G3, introducing a "slim-bezel" design, a 13MP camera with OIS, and the first phone with a 1440p display... this was the best phone of 2014. It was incredible to see how good the photos were that you were taking on the display, and the iPhone would take yeeeeears to catch up to that.
I somehow completely forgot about owning this phone. I now remember loving it as a freshman in high school. Really glad to see this honestly unlocked some memories for me.
Just found my Windows M8 a couple of days ago, still looks great and feels great in my hand, unfortunately it just boot loops for now I only had it working for half a year before it started bugging out I couldn't ever get texts on time had to text my mom to literally spam my phone with messages so I could get the ones I was trying to get all along. Still has a soft spot in my heart.
The first phone I bought secondhand and rooted was the HTC Evo 3D when I was 18 years old (31 now). I initially bricked it because I wiped the internal memory (where I downloaded a custom OS) through TWRP as well as the current installed OS. Got stuck in a boot loop, ended up finding a way to load the custom OS from an external HD and flashed that. Back then you could change you DNS settings so your Wifi tether/hotspot came off your unlimited data plan with the same speed as the normal plan, rather than the capped and limited paid hotspot through T-Mobile. I lived on XDA forums, installing Cyanogen to every Samsung device I got after that.
I got a day one Evo 3D on Sprint. It was exactly what I wanted in terms of spec upgrades from the original Evo, literally all the specs had doubled. The original Evo was incredible but sorely lacking in ram and storage. The 3D improved on it so much, and watching Green hornet on it in 3D, and having the 3D option in the UA-cam apps was awesome
Absolutely no one talks about how good the Xperia series were back in those days. I was using an Xperia z2, and it was one of the best phones of all time in my opinion.
HTC One M7 is my favourite phone ever, and I doubt a phone will replace that now. It was so groundbreaking in so many ways, phones can't really compete with that now.
I had an HTC Sensation 4G, but moved to Samsung Galaxy S5 and onward since then. The Galaxy S5 had IP67, an AMOLED screen, as well as 16MP cameras and 4K video recording which swayed me from ever getting the HTC One M8.
It's probably my favorite and the best phone I've ever had. Those front-facing speakers were game-changing, and that fast charging was mind-blowing at the time.
I had 4 htcs in my time, an m8 was one of them. I have a brand new htc one x. I switch it on every now and again, never really used it, and definitely cant use it today. I miss htc, i hope they would come back
Nice review btw, i liked the information of what happened with the people there, tracking where they went. I liked HTC's early days, the Dream was my dream phone lol , and i remember the Desires being quite dope. Friend of mine flexed on us by having two of them lol
I had an HTC one M8, it was the best phone i ever had, everything was at the peak for the year it came, the camera was really good and the multiple available features made me feel i had the best phone on the planet, i regret it is dead, i miss it...
I had this phone for about a year in 2014, and it was awesome and beautifully designed! Unfortunately, bugs with the software, like the stock messaging app crashing every 15 seconds make it very hard to use. I eventually switched back to iPhone with the iPhone 7, and never looked back! It helped that all my family had iPhones, and that the Apple eco system was starting to take off. Still, I’ll never forget this phone. What a beautiful design!
I have an M7 that's still going strong. I never used it as a phone, though, but as a little boombox at work. I liked it so much, I bought a 2nd one as a backup.
IMO, M7 was the GOAT, but the M8 was also a great phone. Sad what happened to HTC
I still think the M7 is the best designed phone of all time.
Team M7 here.
M7, for sure. I'd buy that now, if scaled up to (at least) 6" and with modern hardware. What a phone. ❤
M7 had so many build quality issues around the top white antenna area. M8 was essentially the design perfected, so I think it’s still the better one
Thats what happens when you copy crapple
I can't believe Samsung won. HTC had so much better design, features, and OS
Samsung putting 2013 screens in their 2023 phones 😭
@@Anthony-dk7dehow is that ??
My boy Samsung is putting screens in almost every phone at this point @@Anthony-dk7de
@@amazingamazigh1538 Look at the bezels in budget and fe series smartphones , it will feel like yo have travelled back to 2014-15.
htc was more expensive, smaller batteries, worse screens, worse specs. I talk about their whole line, not only flagship. Most cash they get from budget phones.
I miss HTC😢
Sameeeee
They still make phones.
Buy a pixel...
@@AdityaSingh-gb2lk Xiaomi is better.
@@AdityaSingh-gb2lk nah, I have a few Samsung and OnePlus. I hate pixel has horrible CPU
I owned the M7, but to this day that is still one of my favorite phones of all time. The build quality was incredible, the stereo forward facing speakers sounded amazing for the time and its Android skin was refined compared to every other phone at the time.
one of the best looking phones ever
It's sure is
Not even one of the best looking but one of the best feeling too! In germany we call it Handschmeichler :D
Banging audio
So good looking, Apple literally used it as the model for the iPhone 6
when display was off, yes. Always thought it looked pretty stupid on the bottom to have the speaker, then useless glass part and then the display controls on the display, and only then the actual display to display stuff.
Front facing speakers, 3.5mm headphone jack, IR blaster, sd card reader... All features no flagship has anymore. I miss the good old days
My friend in college had access to the engineering department's laser engraver, so we tattooed my M8 with a few extra designs. I'll never throw it out.
pls share some pics of it
That is cool .... Want to see it too
so nice your M8 let you tattoo him, and i am sure he appreciates that you will never throw him out 🐸
HTC One M8 is my Roman Empire. I think about this device almost every day. It's the perfect phone, the size, the design, the software, it has it all.
Choppy performance, giant bezzles that were made that way for better speakers, speakers were good but not great, the software was trash at that time, the phone took forever to charge, didnt last a day, the screen was mid, and it got heated very very fast for the most minimal tasks. Stop living in nostalgia world lol
@@HelloImCrimson Ok Crimson.
@@HelloImCrimson Average 2014 android experience. Then you proceed to install some weird XDA rom because the manufacturer didn't bother to release any OS updates, only to find out that it has critical bugs like not being able to make a phone call 💀
HTC M8 and Nexus 4 were optimization king. Every app remained on memory even after 2 OS updates.
I miss the first Nexus
So good. Back ion the day when Android was unique.
@@shanemitchellspencer Android has always been unique, it definitely doesn't look like Windows Phone and it's very different from IOS. Android is definitely the most unique linux dist.
Indeed, a good generation for Android. Enjoyable times!
@@ObscEst I miss my LG Optimus G.
The M8 you picked up has blown speakers
Concurred, my M8 sounded much better, the unit he has sounds almost water damaged
I miss HTC thought they had a great thing going and sense was brilliant. I used to love when I unlocked my desire if you had the weather app you would get sunshine show or raindows and a windscreen wiper which wiped away the rain. That feature never got old and would love to have it again.
Took me back a decade 😅
We need an HTC comeback
I don't know if you remember but in sense if you spun between your home screens fast enough they would spin as a carousel you could see you screen, amazing effect
I have a US VZW M8 modified beyond description. I've had it since 2014. I have 132 different custom and stock Android OSes installed and all work great. In the Viper OS (kitkat 4.4.4 Sense 6), there is a mod that enables the Sense 5 Weather animation when you wake the phone or unlock, I STILL enjoy it. With the MIUI tweak from Viper devs, if the weather condition is WINDY in the fall, you get super pretty golden, red, and brown leaves floating around your screen in the wind animation, it sooo frekin cool! In the winter your screen gets frosty, it snows, and it gets lightning strikes during thunderstorms. It uses Accuweather provider which STILL works on kitkat.
The M8 is the greatest smartphone ever made in my opinion (if you look at it in its time, not in the present with its dinosaur hardware)
Back then, I also got the HTC M8. It's the best Android phone I've ever had, alongside my still current Mate20 Pro. Dual speakers, metal body, and an innovative low megapixel camera that surprisingly captured great images with just 4MP. The UI was super sleek and ahead of its time, easily five years ahead back then.
Man I Miss This Gaming Back Then
HTC & Sony ERA
Sony is still making pretty great phones the problem being that none of the US carriers wanna pick it up for monthly contracts only full price...
@@6thHokageJuan their software support is still shit though
@Nastable how?
@@SeikGames and what do you mean by software support?
Still have a red HTC One M8 in my drawer. Physically, the look still can compete with the best of today’s flagship. Add the color red which no other brand is willing to do now. ❤❤❤❤
I have a red Lumia 520
Same! Rarely anyone had a red one, and it always stood out
Had a blue m7 unfortunately started falling apart and had overheating issues
Zenfone have red one 😅
I Had the M7 And M8 Greatest phone i ever had in my life them rooting/switching ROMS days was the best
I still have it and still feels like a tank.
I wish they make it back with updated specs and trends
I loved the M7 and M8 so much, I refused to throw them away.
Me too i sold my m7 to buy the m8 and it just died on me a few weeks ago after so many years.
I still use mine daily I'm actually writing this comment from one. It has all the Hallmarks that I think a good phone should have from front facing speakers a good screen decent size not too big and solid construction. Those are the things that actually matter in a phone in my opinion. The only thing that I'm missing is perhaps waterproofing.
Same here! The battery in my M7 got swollen up and made the phone bulge, so I took it out and reassembled the phone's frame. I still have it as a shelve ornament. Such a masterpiece of a design.👌
I absolutely LOVED this phone! easily my favorite phone I ever used at the time. I miss HTC and would love for a comeback with a modern revision of this phone!
this phone was awesome! It looked so premium, with many people having plastic rectangles as phones, M8 really was a step ahead
i had an M8 and it is still to this day my FAVORITE phone i’ve ever had. i had the black and red one i loved it so much.
Im missing metal phones 😢 now is glass everywhere.
It’s a requirement for wireless charging
Can’t have it with metal back
Most Phones are large now, it'll be heavier and conduct heat and degrades battery life
@@Juanguar then make a cut out for the wireless charging and blend in the metal and plastic together
Plastic better
@@Juanguar Yeah, but they put the shitty glass or shiny cheap looking plastic on phones that don't even have wireless charging...
HTC M8 was my first Android phone, great-sounding from dual front stereo speakers, refocusing photo after shooting and aluminum body ect. Really good user experience, and I still missed it.
Loved the M7-M8. The one that really wowed me was the LG G3. Revolutionary at that time, especially the screen quality.
I remember the g3 as a badass piece of hardware. The ui was nice too. It's amazing how tech has evolved
I remember the g3 as a badass piece of hardware. The ui was nice too. It's amazing how tech has evolved
I owned all them at that time. good times
I was a phone repair technician back then and I hated the HTC, they were impossible to tear appart. I always prefered samsung and even the iPhones were not so terrible to disassemble yet.
G3 with the leather casing was amazing but UI was quiet shit tbh
I miss HTC so much, they were my favourite brand. My first Android phone was the HTC Hero. I also had the Desire, Sensation and Sensation XE as well.
Need more of this retro series
I have htc 10 in 5-6 years ago. Most durable phone i ever owned. I drop it like 20 times, all fours corner is very bad. But the screen never broken and working perfectly without any trouble. What a phone
The only phone I've owned that I've actually LOVED. To the point of feeling empty even after a "direct upgrade".
This phone gave me a solid 4 years. Superb little piece of modern engineering.
HTC EVO was the real GOAT!
HTC sense UI was the first to have quick settings accessed from the status bar. It was a real game changer that we take for granted today. HTC created many of our common features every phone uses today.
Personally I believe the death of HTC was is deal to make the google phone. It was a rushed device that had poor specs with poor quality at a premium price. When other companies were making better and cheaper devices it feel behind and never came back. Which is a shame because it really did have the best android skins at its peak. Sense 2.5 and above were years ahead.
I miss this phone and the dot view case!
I killed the hinge on those dot view cases so quickly. So cool though!
@@phillxor I forgot about that!
Yes! That case was great! If they made another id buy it today
i had an M8 when it came out and immediately flashed the Google Play Edition software on it. I loved this phone so much. I still have it and use it as a universal remote control for my CRT TV.
Such a great phone. The quality of the speakers was superb!
I have so much nostalgia for this phone! The Boomsound, the premium build, the heft... It was such a game changer. That being said, with the curves on the back going over the edge, this thing was so slippery
The m8 was a masterpiece but you were completely right about the back end being too slippery. The m10 took everything I loved about the m8 and improved it tenfold. The chamfered back was AMAZING
This phone is an absolute legend! Super cool video!
Still have my M7 and M8 and they still look brand new. Loved that design.
0:12 A wild Peter Chou appears
3:05 Apple uses M9 in their promo pictures, not M8
M9 still has the same design language.
@@dimancor2925 Language is generally same yes, but button placement is different for example
@@tahasaglam6138congrats you found maybe the only difference in design.
I still remember failing to buy this phone in Toronto bcos HTC did not launch it in Canada. A friend got it from US and it looked simply amazing. In the end, I bought Iphone 6 and got hooked on Apple since then.
i have purchased one M8 with $10(700INR) at last year, this device is still functionable, how great HTC's hardware
hey, im from india too and a past user of htc one e8 the polycarbonate version of one m8. i’m very keen to hear where and how you purchased a working m8 in 2024, would love to do the same to bring back the memories of this beautiful phone.
thank you, do hit me up if you read this.
hey, could you share where and how you purchased the device? i’m really interested too. 🇮🇳
@@vlonebored bro I owned one e8 too, I purchased m8 because of e8 only.
Actually I purchased in Chennai burma bazar
@@dhinakaran_d_na ohh thats awesome, thanks for letting me know. will try to get my hands on it 🙌
@@vlonebored I really want to interact with you regarding htc one e8, any possibility to connect
I had the HTC One Mini 2 and loved it so much. I even had the mini sub-woofer stand that made it awesome for playing music (yes the speakers were much better than shown in this video). I missed it for years until i got thr Note 9 which was the first time i felt i could move on
This is one of those pieces of technology that will be remembered for a long, long time to come. Similar to the Apple IIs and Commodore 64s of yesteryear. I distinctly remember this being my dream phone and my dad finally agreeing to get one for me for Christmas, only to realise that here in Australia the original had been replaced by a much weaker version called the M8S. What started as me getting my dream phone at the time ended up being one of the most frustrating experiences as a young tech enthusiast. It was slow, buggy and the camera unit was straight up abysmal in comparison to the original M8. The design of it still made me the coolest kid in class so I didn't complain too much 🤣
My favorite and one of the first experiences with Android. My actual first was the HTC One M7 😂 I still have the M8 in my phone collection and it still powers on.. GREAT PHONE!
Phones used to be so minimalistic back then
Not software wise tho lol
@@timothyxxxpaulwell, tbh, android at that time barely has any features or apps 😅.
I used to have the Nexus 7 and while it's what made me prefer pure android over any others to this day I kinda understand why back then people would preferred those heavily customized UI over the pure android.
Today's phone are even more minimalist
No charger
No sd card slot
No replacable battery
Thanks apple!
@@timothyxxxpaul but that made each OEM stand out from each other.
@@Archontasil You forgot about the headphone jack
This was such a nostalgic throwback. Thanks for this great video!!
Umm the HTC HD2 would like to have a word with you...that phone literally had everything except for iOS ported to it. All the Android roms, Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, and support in XDA was insane for YEARS
Sadly it was succeded by HTC's Windows 7 Phone OS phones
This is true nostalgia, I had the pleasure of owning this phone since day one, It is one of the best phones I've ever owned.
It is really sad that htc lost their track, I'd love to see them coming back with a great phone once again. They were the top dog Android phone.
I was a huge HTC fan back on the day. My first smartphone was an HTC Evo.
The Evo was awesome. Usb video out was a great feature. I used it all the time to stream Netflix with VPN to access a massive selection of movies.
I was 13 when I got this phone for Christmas. It was beautiful then, and it’s beautiful now. The UI was UNMATCHED for its time. Not to mention it was solid. Even the shape was so easy to hold. I would only consider going back to Android if HTC brought the m8 back.
HTC fan here.
I have my Sensation XE and M8.
The good old days.
Loved my developer days in XDA with this device. This is my all time favorite phone.
HTC was the only smartphone company that was able to impress me with every flagship that they've made excluding the M9.HTC U12 was an excellent device!I miss LG and Nokia but I miss HTC more.
Nokia is still making phones
@@Extra6621Yes they still call it “Nokia”.
@@RootSystemHashMay be we will get flagship Nokia from HMD now, as they already confirmed 17 new models will be launched under Nokia as they are going for budget-midrange phones with their HMD tag.
@@harishbista7525 Hopefully. But I greatly doubt those would be real flagships other than the Nokia tag and top specs. What I mean is that it could lack the software refinement and features we get from brands like Samsung and Sony. When they went under they sold most of their intellectual properties to Microsoft except the most significant network related IPs. So, they aren’t in a good position to make real
flagships with any real value. They’d basically be a One Plus with a Nokia tag and a more premium price.
Sony Xperia, Htc, Nokia,LG, Motorola,
When we had so many good options to pick
What a throw back I remember wanting this device so badly and ended up getting a one plus one !
Legendary tech piece
I loved this and the Droid DNA. Such amazing phones at the time. I miss that era, we had ground breaking android phones back to back from tons if brands
HTC looks to have dropped a new phone teaser 👀 We're back
Can't wait!
Unfortunately HTC is committed to only making mid-range devices once or twice a year, but at least we have that, better than nothing. I would love to see them come back but I don't think they'll ever be the same since they sold off their engineering department to Google
@@jay.fromthebaywait, they sold their engineering department?
I had an M8 Harman/Kardon edition. I loved that phone! It is easily one of my top five favorites that I've used.
M7 and M8 where the best phones I ever had!
I snagged the HTC 10, that phone was really nice. I do miss the era of creativity and mainly solid devices without full glass on the back.
nexus 5 is legit contender too
That's my favorite phone of all time🙂👍
I loved the design language of the phones and the software HTC used. It looks so classy.
This is how you know you made a great device. 10 years down the line people still want "that" phone.
I think the original Moto G and Moto X series had the same magic too.
2009-2014 were some of the most exciting and competitive time for smartphones. There were so many players trying to outdo each other, and the rate of innovation was much larger at that time as well. Now we are just left with Apple and Samsung in the American market with Apple enjoying the lion's share.
Google is kinda hanging on by a thread, Ive loved my pixel 1, 4, & 6
I prefer the M7. Was my favorite phone
The m7 cost HTC a lot of money, it was highly unreparable due to the design, they had camera module issues, and it was the only HTC to lack removable storage. the m8 was better in every single conceivable way
@@jay.fromthebayit had removable storage in japanese and chinese variants
I went for a flagship phone in 2014. I had to choose between Samsung Galaxy S5, Lg G3, Sony Xperia Z2 and HTC One m8. The S5 had a pretty good camera, the G3 had some awesome OS customization, the Z2 had almost stock Android experience and was very responsive and One m8 had a gorgeous design. At the end I went for the Z2 because overall it was the beast between all other beasts. It had an upgraded IPS display (the previous Z1 had a TFT), the same SD801, a whoping 3GB of LPDDR3 instead of 2GB, a nice 20MP sensor that took great daytime photos, MicroSD card slot, 3.5mm audio jack, front facing stereo speakers and a really big 3200mAh battery (most phones had under 3000mAh even flagship ones).
I used this phone for over 7 years before going to a new one. And this Z2 still works today with the first battery from the factory that has around 70% of it's original capacity, just a crazy phone :-)
Like if you’re still using M8 in 2024.
Watching on it now. Daily driving it again. Cracked screen and slower performance made me put it down but now it's awesome to use it again
Those of us who were using Android in its growing-up years would know and remember how legendary this phone is, together with the M7. Good spot at 3:09 with the feature in Apple's ads, thought not many would have missed it.
I had the successor to this phone, the One M9, and I still remember it VERY fondly. It was a spectacular, durable, and beautiful phone. One of my favorite that I ever had for sure. Being all aluminum was so badass
My One M7 is still sitting in a drawer. It was pretty revolutionary at the time. They stuffed all the components into a milled aluminum body, and to get around the side effect of decreased cell reception, they added cutouts in the frame, something you still see on phones today. Dual front facing speakers, a luxury we barely have today with phones using a bottom firing and top front mounted speaker. Instead of adding more mexapixels to the camera, they used a sensor with lower resolution but larger photosites to increase low light sensitivity; low light imaging performance was going to become of great importance shortly after. It had a 1080p display, which was larger and higher resolution than what Apple was offering with the iPhone 5 at the time. HTC was absolutely on top of their game and creating the best hardware in the Android space.
I had both M7 and the M8 and loved both. They were so much nicer than anything my friends used back then. The sound quality was amazing and unheard of before.
The One M8 is the phone I am the most nostalgic for from my past.
I think the LG G3, introducing a "slim-bezel" design, a 13MP camera with OIS, and the first phone with a 1440p display... this was the best phone of 2014. It was incredible to see how good the photos were that you were taking on the display, and the iPhone would take yeeeeears to catch up to that.
I had an M8 and loved it so freaking much. I miss HTC
I had the Windows version and I absolutely adored that phone!
Phones back then were exciting and fun
I was the owner of this phone... loved it... I miss HTC days when everyone in my home used to buy only HTC phones... They must make a comeback...
I loved this phone and kept it years after on my coffee table as a TV and home theather remote.
Xiaomi was the last one who had the IR blaster but now Oppo and Vivo brought it back on the top models.
I somehow completely forgot about owning this phone. I now remember loving it as a freshman in high school. Really glad to see this honestly unlocked some memories for me.
I remember this phone. Always loved that HTC Sense UI
I loved that phone so much. If HTC were to ever bring it out again it's an instant cop for me.
The M8 is probably still my favorite phone til this day! Way ahead of its time, from the camera, functionality, sound, and esthetic!!
Just found my Windows M8 a couple of days ago, still looks great and feels great in my hand, unfortunately it just boot loops for now I only had it working for half a year before it started bugging out I couldn't ever get texts on time had to text my mom to literally spam my phone with messages so I could get the ones I was trying to get all along. Still has a soft spot in my heart.
The first phone I bought secondhand and rooted was the HTC Evo 3D when I was 18 years old (31 now). I initially bricked it because I wiped the internal memory (where I downloaded a custom OS) through TWRP as well as the current installed OS. Got stuck in a boot loop, ended up finding a way to load the custom OS from an external HD and flashed that. Back then you could change you DNS settings so your Wifi tether/hotspot came off your unlimited data plan with the same speed as the normal plan, rather than the capped and limited paid hotspot through T-Mobile. I lived on XDA forums, installing Cyanogen to every Samsung device I got after that.
I got a day one Evo 3D on Sprint. It was exactly what I wanted in terms of spec upgrades from the original Evo, literally all the specs had doubled. The original Evo was incredible but sorely lacking in ram and storage. The 3D improved on it so much, and watching Green hornet on it in 3D, and having the 3D option in the UA-cam apps was awesome
I had both the evo and 3d. I personally liked the evo better but I did enjoy streaming 3d shows off a pirate china site.
HTC should jump in the mid-range phone market. This video just brought back some great memories I had with M8
My first android phone was the HTC Sensation XL. Loved the brand so much that I got the M8 then the M10. Was so sad when my fave brand died.
Absolutely no one talks about how good the Xperia series were back in those days. I was using an Xperia z2, and it was one of the best phones of all time in my opinion.
I wish HTC could keep up with the competition, I used 3 HTC phones. Loved their phones.
HTC One M7 is my favourite phone ever, and I doubt a phone will replace that now. It was so groundbreaking in so many ways, phones can't really compete with that now.
The 8 year old HTC 10 was peak HTC.. 24-bit/192kHz audio, 1440 x 2560 pixel display, 4K video recording.
Used to have the htc 1 m7. Loved that phone. Only Android I’ve ever owned, iPhones ever since. But I absolutely adored my htc one
I had an HTC Sensation 4G, but moved to Samsung Galaxy S5 and onward since then. The Galaxy S5 had IP67, an AMOLED screen, as well as 16MP cameras and 4K video recording which swayed me from ever getting the HTC One M8.
It's probably my favorite and the best phone I've ever had. Those front-facing speakers were game-changing, and that fast charging was mind-blowing at the time.
I remember mine getting so hot sometimes but I loved HTC. You couldn’t tell me nothing about HTC, I was a ride or die.
I had 4 htcs in my time, an m8 was one of them. I have a brand new htc one x. I switch it on every now and again, never really used it, and definitely cant use it today. I miss htc, i hope they would come back
I still think about the M8 here and there. Absolutely loved that phone. The Sunshine Root S-Off was the best day
Nice review btw, i liked the information of what happened with the people there, tracking where they went. I liked HTC's early days, the Dream was my dream phone lol , and i remember the Desires being quite dope. Friend of mine flexed on us by having two of them lol
I had an HTC one M8, it was the best phone i ever had, everything was at the peak for the year it came, the camera was really good and the multiple available features made me feel i had the best phone on the planet, i regret it is dead, i miss it...
Made me remember my HTC One E8, that I used at my first Job. Such a beautiful phone! Did the job pretty well for its price!
This is such a classic phone designwise. it still looks fresh and crisp and beautiful today
An HTC was my first smartphone my father bought for me when I turned 15 and it lasts until now (of course I can't update nadroid). ITS GREAT
I had this phone for about a year in 2014, and it was awesome and beautifully designed! Unfortunately, bugs with the software, like the stock messaging app crashing every 15 seconds make it very hard to use. I eventually switched back to iPhone with the iPhone 7, and never looked back! It helped that all my family had iPhones, and that the Apple eco system was starting to take off. Still, I’ll never forget this phone. What a beautiful design!
I have an M7 that's still going strong. I never used it as a phone, though, but as a little boombox at work. I liked it so much, I bought a 2nd one as a backup.
i loved my M8 and all my previous HTC phones