Casual photography has to be second activity next to text-communications. Most of my time on the phone is spent checking emails, Facebook or browsing the web. Ready? Specificationsįull HTC One M8 specifications Context: How I use my phonesīefore we get deep into this review, let me tell you how I use my phone: I don’t call much, maybe 5mn a day, if at all. I have spent a few weeks with the HTC One, and in this review, I’ll do my best to give you a clear picture of how it feels to use it in the real world and provide you enough information so that you can answer this question: is this your next phone? Let’s start with a short technical overview and move on to real-world usage.
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And since the original version (M7) had such a staunch -if not fanatical- following, the company has decided to double down on everything that made the One such a high-praise phone: design, performance, software and camera sensor have been improved.
I'll be taking a much closer look at the One's overall camera performance in my in-depth review, which will be wrapped up and online soon. The new One has a few other dual-camera-related effects, but the ones mentioned above strike me as the most unusual and - with the exception of the last two, perhaps - the most potentially useful in terms of real-world photo editing. But you can save a still from any altered perspective you create, which ends up looking something like this: The moving 3D version - which is the most impressive part - can't actually be shared anywhere outside of the phone, unfortunately. There's also a "Dimension" effect where you can tilt your phone to shift the perspective and make it look like the photo was taken from different angles. You can add floating rose petals, dandelions, leaves, or snow into an image, for instance - if for some reason you ever have such an urge - and then save it either as a still or as a video with the actual movement intact: The One (M8) has a few other options related to dual camera data, but most of them strike me as being more on the silly side. The last "Foregrounder" effect is "Colorize," which gives the background an artificially muted coloring effect that really makes the foreground pop.
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The "Cartoon" effect makes your entire background look like it was colored in by hand while leaving your subject in full normal focus - and again, all of this happens in a couple of seconds without any real work on your behalf. The next, "Zoom Blur," makes everything behind your subject look like it's subtly zooming off into the distance.
Some of the more interesting effects are under an option called "Foregrounder." The first, "Sketch," applies a sketch effect to everything in the background of your image but leaves the foreground in regular focus. You can tap anywhere on the image to change the point of focus - if we for some reason wanted to blur our extraordinarily handsome subject and focus on the area behind him, for instance - but the results seem to be less consistently clean in that scenario:
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