If you spend about 50 per cent of your time with a phone watching Netflix or iPlayer, consider a 5.5-inch-or-larger alternative such as the LG G3 or Samsung Galaxy Note 4 as well. Screen obsessives are welcome to get hung up on the numbers, but there’s really no need to.Īnd once you put the figures to one side you realise that the One M9 has a great screen – one with natural-looking colours, excellent viewing angles and decent contrast.
If you’re a spec hunter the Samsung Galaxy S6 and LG G4 have displays with way more pixels.īut the difference in real life is far from massive, mostly because at 5.0 inches the One M9 screen just isn’t big enough to really benefit from loads of extra pixels.Īfter all, it’s still got a pixel density of 441ppi, light years ahead of the iPhone 6’s 326ppi. LG has been making QHD-resolution phones for ages now, but HTC has once again decided to stick with Full HD. HTC has really picked its battles this year, and in the screen department it’s chosen the path of conscientious objector to the resolution war. It’s not a major change but every little helps.
Movie mode makes the sound bigger, Music does its best to get you a natural tone. Dolby sound modes allow you to tweak the output (for the speakers and headphones alike) to suit music or movies.
There has been a minor software update to the speakers this year, too. People’s voices no longer sound like a gang of angry wasps trapped in a bottle. It’s not that they’re super-duper loud, but rather just a lot richer-sounding than the competition. But they’re still just about the best mobile phone speakers around. These front-facing stereo speakers made their debut with the original HTC One a couple of years ago, and they haven’t changed a great deal since. Upgrading to the 128GB version of a phone would cost you a lot more than that. You already get 32GB of internal storage, but the memory card slot enables you to boost that up to a huge 160GB for around £60. Unlike Samsung, HTC hasn’t thrown the baby out with the bathwater – the One M9 has a microSD memory card slot, the Galaxy S6 doesn’t.