![]() There's no means of gripping the HTC One (M8) the front or rear, making it a little difficult to get to grips with, especially since its unibody design is very smooth. In practice we found that we could still hand-hold the HTC One (M8) in fairly dark conditions and still get sharp results for both stills and video without resorting to using the rather ineffective built-in flash. Instead of the optical system of the original HTC One, the new M8 uses smart stabilization instead, as conventional image stabilization is incompatible with stereoscopic rangefinder ![]() The combination of the wide-angle lens, f/2 aperture, effective built-in smart stabilizer, relatively large pixel size and the maximum ISO speed of 1600 makes this smartphone much better suited to hand-held low-light photography than most other comparable devices. You can take a shot either by tapping on the subject to focus and then pressing the camera icon at the side of the screen to fire the shutter, or tapping on the subject to focus and fire the shutter at the same time. There's no physical shutter release button on the device, with the shutter fired instead via the touchscreen, which is a rather strange design decision on such a photographer-friendly smartphone. ![]() The HTC One (M8) offers 32Gb of built-in memory and also an external microSD memory slot. It works by making an instant light reading and firing the cool and warm LEDs in one of over a five hundred unique color temperature combinations that best match the scene, then automatically selecting the exact colour tone and light intensity for more natural skin tones. The lens is a 28mm equivalent optic with a fast maximum aperture of f/2, alongside which is a twin LED Smart Flash that's a big improvement on last year's model. It has a very solidly built unibody design that feels like it should more than withstand the odd knock or two, although we'd suggest investing in a suitable case to help protect it from scratches. The HTC One (M8) is a large but quite light smartphone that just about fits into a trouser or jacket pocket, weighing 160g and measuring 146.36 x 70.6 x 9.35mm, slightly heavier and bigger than the original HTC One. The HTC One (M8) is available now in Gunmetal Gray for around £530 / $649 unlocked. ![]() The HTC One (M8) also offers a 5-inch Full HD 1080p touchscreen with Touch AF, a 5 megapixel wide-angle front facing camera, 8fps burst shooting, fast autofocusing at a speed of 0.3 second, an LED dual flash, Geotagging, Full 1080p HD videos at 30fps, Slow Motion video mode, HDR mode for both stills and video, and the innovative Zoe shooting mode, which takes up to 20 shots and a 3 second video to create a "living photo" that you can share with friends and family. You can also alter the background with creative effects using Foregrounder, give your best shots a seasonal flavour using the Seasons animations, place your family and friends in a different photo entirely using Copy & Paste, and view your image from a different angle by simply tilting the screen using Dimension Plus. The new UFocus feature allows you to shoot first and focus later, as the HTC One (M8) has two independent lenses that allow it to detect and calculate the relative distance of subjects in the image. HTC's newly refined "UltraPixel" camera features a backside-illuminated sensor with a pixel size of 2.0 µm and sensor size of 1/3-inch, both much bigger than rival smartphones. The HTC One (M8) is an Android smartphone with with a 4-megapixel camera and a 28mm equivalent lens with a fast maximum aperture of f/2 and new "smart stabilization" system.
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