HTC One M9 Plus Review

 HTC One M9 Plus Review & Introduction:  Earlier this year HTC launched its One M9 Plus smartphone, the mobile looks like the

exact same replica of HTC One M9, which is its parent device, with some miniature

changes in the hardware. HTC One M9 Plus comes with 5.2 inch Super LCD3

capacitive touch screen powered by a 2.2 GHz Octa-core processor and Mediatek

MT6795 Helio X10 chipset. The software it runs on is Android Lollipop, with

 

pre-installed HTC Sense version 7 in the smart phone. The phone is really powerful

and offers very fine picture quality with its 20 MP camera and crisp sound through

its Boombox speakers. The price of HTC One M9 Plus is justifiable with its amazing

features that made brought the smartphone the flora of achieving 87 score at

PriceJugaad.com. Lets us go through HTC One M9 Plus Review for better

understanding of the product.

Display Features: The HTC One M9 plus is provided with a 5.2 inches super LCD3 capacitive touch

screen providing 16M colors of resolution 1440 x 2560 pixels. The phone also has

approximately 560 pixels per inch, thus making the display a wonder. The display is

also multi-touch enabled. The display of M9 Plus is absolutely fantastic, you will

have no problem with the viewing angles and color reproduction while all credits go

to the Quad HD resolution this phone offers. The display of M9 Plus is so amazing

that it will really catch your eyes with the crispness and clarity of the images it

produces. The super LCD3 screen makes the viewing experience unlike anything

else. 

Design Specifications: If you were thinking of some out of the box innovation in the HTC One M9 plus then

you will be disappointed, there are no major changes in the size and body design of

One M9 plus and it looks just like that of HTC One M8and M9. The only prominent

difference that we felt was that the finishing of One M9 plus is really amazing. The

 

finishing is about the extent that the phone does not slip away easily from the hand,

to which HTC has always shown great concern for perfecting the finishing of its

products. The speakers are really amazing and one can easily say that they are the

best in class speakers right now. The fingerprint scanner present on the Home

Button is very sensitive and you have to manage your fingers through particular

angles for using it to unlock the device.

The phone is large as its dimensions are 5.94 x 2.83 x 0.38 inch and weighs 168

grams while the body of HTC M9 One Plus is made of metal body and the screen is

protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4. HTC One M9 available in 3 colors variants,

namely Gunmetal Gray, Amber Gold and Silver Gold.

Battery Backup Life: The HTC One M9 Plus is powered with Non-removable Li- PO 2840 mAh battery that

promises stand-by up to 598 h on 2G network while up to 626 h on 3G network and

talk time up to 23 h on 2G Network and 13 h on 3G Network. As the device has as

many as eight cores the battery levels are very much dependent on the number of

times you would use the power saving mode. When tested through the PCMark

 

battery test the value comes around 6 hours, which is really not a positive sign and

so we can say that all in all the battery in M9 Plus is just an average.

 

Memory Storage:  

The HTC One M9 plus comes with internal storage of 32GB which can be expanded

up to 128 GB using the MicroSD card slot provided in the phone. The phone also

comes with a 3 GB RAM, thus making it really powerful.

Camera Features: The HTC One M9 Plus is installed with the primary camera of 20 MP having dual

mode with Ultrapixel sensor of 5376 x 3752 pixels; the secondary camera having 4

MP with quality of 1080p@30fps. The video is recorded with quality of

2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@120fps, HDR and stereo sound rec. The camera

 

has auto-focus with dual-LED flash. The primary camera also features Geo-tagging

touch focus, HDR, panorama and the very unique face/smile detection. . The free

cloud storage of 100GB is really a plus that comes with the camera. Even though

HTC promises the above mentioned qualities in the camera it still lacks certain

attributes. The images clicked with M9 Plus were not very clear and it was really a

surprise coming from a flagship phone from HTC.

 

Processor: The HTC One M9 plus is powered by MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 chipset torqued

with Octa-core, 2200 MHz, 64-bit processor. This time HTC did not use Snapdragon

chipset instead they used the Mediatek chipset, this is a highly debated topic

amongst the experts, but what we thought of as the main reason HTC did this was to

get away from the shortcomings of the Snapdragon chipset that included

overheating problems. If you analyze the MediaTek chipset then you would find that

the Helio X10 is amongst the best chipset in the world. The MediaTek chipset works

really smooth and doesn’t lead to the phone heating up even after continuous use.

 

Technology Aspects: The phone runs on the latest version of HTC Sense while the primary software is

Android 5.0.2 Lollipop, there are not many changes from the previous version of UI

and the only difference we saw was in customization options and different types of

themes. The Geo-Tagging has been integrated in the phone so it can provide location

specific suggestions for the app and Blinkfeed. The pre-installed app on the phone

includes Polaris office v5, Fun Fit, Scribble etc.

Conclusion:

HTC One M9 Plus review had made it clear how powerful phone the phone is. But it’s

just not worth it to spend tons of money to buy this product. Having the same old

design with mediocre camera and not so amazing battery life, we advise you to be

very thoughtful before buying this phone even if you are a pro HTC fan. Though the

smartphone is loaded with ample features, it failed to obtain good reviews and that

is reflected in the review score which is 48. There are many other phones that offer

exactly the same capability as the M9 Plus but with half its price, if you want to

spend huge amount of money buying a smartphone then you can choose from

Google Nexus 6 or the Apple iPhone 6 and if you want to scale down on your budget

then you could consider One Plus and its contemporaries.