The HTC One M8 1 Max: A High-End Android Smartphone Review

The back cover of the HTC One M8 1 Max is openable, but unfortunately, the battery is sealed and not user replaceable. The phone comes equipped with a large 3,300mAh battery, which may seem like an unusual choice for a high-end smartphone. While it's understandable that HTC may have wanted to minimize weight and size in their design, it would have been nice to see a removable battery option.

One of the notable features of this phone is its screen quality and looks. The display is great, with vibrant colors and excellent brightness levels. However, as we can see from the video review, the HTC One M8 1 Max comes out of the box with Android 4.3 and HTC Sense 5.5. While it's a nice update to Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean that was available on previous HTC phones, some users may be disappointed by the lack of recent updates and improvements.

The phone is also available in two variants: 16GB and 32GB of internal storage. The good news is that this storage can be expanded up to 64GB via a microSD card slot. However, it's worth noting that the phone still uses the Snapdragon 600 chipset, which may seem outdated compared to some of the latest high-end Android smartphones.

The HTC One M8 1 Max also features a sleek and futuristic design, complete with a metal body and a unique fingerprint scanner on the back. The fingerprint scanner is set up quickly and easily, and it provides fast and accurate biometric security. The phone also comes equipped with a standard keyboard, which can be accessed by sliding up from the bottom of the screen.

In terms of performance, the HTC One M8 1 Max delivers smooth and responsive performance, even with demanding tasks like gaming and video playback. The phone's quad-core processor is clocked at 1.7GHz, and it's paired with 2GB of RAM for a total of 4GB of system memory.

When it comes to storage, the HTC One M8 1 Max is available in two variants: 16GB and 32GB. The good news is that this storage can be expanded up to 64GB via a microSD card slot. However, as we can see from the specifications, only 10.43GB of that expansion space is actually available due to the way Android handles file allocation.

One of the standout features of the HTC One M8 1 Max is its camera. The phone features a 4 ultra pixel camera on the back, which delivers excellent results in low-light conditions. However, as we can see from the video review, the camera may struggle with focus and color accuracy at times. Still, overall, the camera does a great job of capturing high-quality images.

In terms of connectivity, the HTC One M8 1 Max supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC. It also features a USB port for charging and data transfer.

Finally, it's worth noting that the HTC One M8 1 Max has received some mixed reviews from critics and users alike. While some have praised its sleek design and camera performance, others have criticized its lack of recent updates and improvements, as well as its outdated chipset.

Overall, the HTC One M8 1 Max is a solid choice for those looking for a high-end Android smartphone with a unique design and excellent camera performance. However, it's worth considering whether or not this phone meets your specific needs and expectations.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is ranit from tech2b us.com and we're going to do the unboxing and first boot for HTC1 Max so this is the box for the HTC1 Max and uh it says that this one is very similar to the HTC1 but it's a bigger version it has a 5.9 in screen and it also has the fingerprint scanner and let's look at the back and here it gives us some more info another thing with this HTC 1 Max is that uh now it has a mic SD card slot so you can put micro SD cards up to 64GB and before we proceed I just want to thank Fel Communications for providing this HTC1 Max for testing and it's based on the same old Snapdragon 600 chipset it has a 1.7 GHz quad core processor and the GPU is adreno 320 the battery on this is uh 3,300 mamp battery so let's quickly just open up the box and we get this beautiful HTC 1 Max itself it's huge it's big huge and and initial Impressions it's also pretty heavy let's move inside and we get some documentation uh and this one shows us how to open the back cover the back cover is openable add the micro SD card and our micro SIM so again some more documentation uh and we have the standard uh what is this micro USB cable and this is the earphones and this will the power PL so let me put all these things to the side and let's have a look at the interesting thing that's this HTC 1 Max itself so this is the HTC 1 Max let's take this out and again it's huge and to give you an idea let me bring this this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 which has a 5.7 in screen and this 1 Max has a 5.9 in screen so still it looks big and one thing is that as I said earlier it's actually a little bit heavy and the weight for this HTC 1 Max is 2117 G but the Note 3 weighs just 168 G so it's a pretty heavy phone so if you like heavy phones some people like the heft of those heft on the phones so you might uh like this a Max one and now let me give you a physical overview first uh on the top we have this IR Blaster this is not the power button and one thing I noticed right away is that uh these are made up of plastic not metal chamford like we had on the HTC1 we have the 3.5mm headphone jack over here and this is the volume rocker it's uh made up of metal and the power button also has been shifted over here so it's easy to use it easily reaches here to your hand the power button nothing else over here again that plastic finish we have the main microphone micro USB slot that'll be used for charging and syncing the phone and on this end uh we just have this slot and using this we can open the back cover I'll come back to it a bit later and on the back we have a secondary microphone uh this is the four Ultra pixel camera that we found on the HTC One it's the same one and we have LED flash and this is the fingerprint scanner and um actually I heard mix reports about this they say it's not as good as the iPhone 5S it's a little bit patchy and we have the HTC branding again that uh aluminium finish and uh so it looks great but one thing I noticed is that beachs audio labeling is simply missing on this HTC 1 Max on the front we have this 2.1 megapix camera this can also shoot video up to 1080P and we have those two speakers I connect with the most of the HTC1 uh uh HTC1 mini and also the Max has so I'm hoping that the sound quality will be very good we have additional sensors and the huge 5.9 in screen and the glass is made up of Gorilla Glass and it's a 1080p screen again on the bottom we have two touch type capacitive buttons that's the back and this is for the home and let's try to open up the back cover you you need to slide this they and this should uh open up the back cover and indeed it is opening up the back cover so the back cover comes out and uh it's not made up of plastic it's the aluminium finish and uh interesting thing is that we can add a Sim over here and a Micro SD card also uh one thing I found very interesting is that though the back cover is openable but still HTC decided not to put a user replaceable battery the battery battery is sealed here and that's a 3,300 mamp battery so interesting choice they should have provided a removable what do you say battery as uh now they are providing what do you say removal back cover but you can add a micro uh SD card up to 64 GB on this one regarding internal storage uh you get this model in two variant 16 and 32 gigs and let's try to power it on and let's see if it has some charge and as you can see again I always love the HTC what do you say uh screen quality and looks like this one is also great right now it's in the Chinese language oh God I got to adjust it to English here we have and I'll just quickly just set this up we are right now in India regarding the pricing as of now uh this phone hasn't been launched yet in India and on Amazon us it was retailing unlocked version for around $780 to $790 so uh it's not a cheap phone it's a pretty expensive phone uh high-end phone from HTC but it's hard to see that HTC is still using the Snapdragon 600 chipset because most of the latest high-end Android phones have started using uh what do you say the Snapdragon 600 uh 800 chipset and these this is it still comes with the HTC One blink feed and you just swipe here to get back to your uh other home screens and this this is the app tray already we have some folders that are built in like this and some specific apps are pre-installed Google Apps obviously and let's look at the uh settings let's go to the Android settings here and from here let's go to about the device and let's look at the software info and as you can see it comes out of the box with Android version 4.3 that's nice and it also comes with the HTC Sense 5.5 so let's go back and also let's look at the storage we did not add any micro SD card and so it looks like out of that 16 GB uh the available storage that you get is 10.43 GB U but you can add a Micro SD card up to 64 GB let's also look at uh what do you say here is the interesting thing that is the fingerprint scanner and here it shows us how to uh set it up I'll set it up a bit later and uh let's also uh look at some other things as we are connected right now to my Wi-Fi connection Let's uh check out uh and see how the browser holds this is the standard keyboard I don't want in all these languages I just want it in English thank you and let's go to tech.com our website one thing I found annoying is is that the keyboard is wide enough why don't they have a dedicated Row for the numbers and let's go to our website this is the first time that we are visiting uh this te tubs.com on this HTC uh 1 Max again as I expected it will be very smooth uh still the configuration is pretty uh powerful it holdes a 1.7 GHz quadcore processor the RAM on this is 2 gigs and the GPU is adreno 320 so let's try to open up one of the stories now uh let's open up this Note 3 story and move into uh this orientation again the orientation uh change was very smooth no issues let's try to play this P let me increase the volume to max very loud very loud and very clear hi there this is rajit and in this video we're going to do the in-depth review for the Samsung Galaxy so let me get R of this one again as expected the sound output from these dual speakers is excellent and also it has a little bit of Base so pretty nice and it looks like uh for web browsing also it'll do a great job and let's also quickly just look at the camera on this one that's the 4 ultra pixel one and it gives us some HP let me get out of this one and let me just try to take a photo of this HTC1 Max box itself and it's pretty quick there's no shutter lack as usual uh again uh little bit blurry the first one but overall yeah the camera it's a 4 ultra pixel one uh and it does a decent job in low lighting conditions so I'll be doing a gaming review also with this HTC1 Max very soon and I'll also try to do a a full review I'm not very sure if I'll do a full review or not so if you have any particular questions regarding in this HTC 1 Max do let me know in the comment section thank you for watching this unboxing video that's it for now this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next videothis is ranit from tech2b us.com and we're going to do the unboxing and first boot for HTC1 Max so this is the box for the HTC1 Max and uh it says that this one is very similar to the HTC1 but it's a bigger version it has a 5.9 in screen and it also has the fingerprint scanner and let's look at the back and here it gives us some more info another thing with this HTC 1 Max is that uh now it has a mic SD card slot so you can put micro SD cards up to 64GB and before we proceed I just want to thank Fel Communications for providing this HTC1 Max for testing and it's based on the same old Snapdragon 600 chipset it has a 1.7 GHz quad core processor and the GPU is adreno 320 the battery on this is uh 3,300 mamp battery so let's quickly just open up the box and we get this beautiful HTC 1 Max itself it's huge it's big huge and and initial Impressions it's also pretty heavy let's move inside and we get some documentation uh and this one shows us how to open the back cover the back cover is openable add the micro SD card and our micro SIM so again some more documentation uh and we have the standard uh what is this micro USB cable and this is the earphones and this will the power PL so let me put all these things to the side and let's have a look at the interesting thing that's this HTC 1 Max itself so this is the HTC 1 Max let's take this out and again it's huge and to give you an idea let me bring this this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 which has a 5.7 in screen and this 1 Max has a 5.9 in screen so still it looks big and one thing is that as I said earlier it's actually a little bit heavy and the weight for this HTC 1 Max is 2117 G but the Note 3 weighs just 168 G so it's a pretty heavy phone so if you like heavy phones some people like the heft of those heft on the phones so you might uh like this a Max one and now let me give you a physical overview first uh on the top we have this IR Blaster this is not the power button and one thing I noticed right away is that uh these are made up of plastic not metal chamford like we had on the HTC1 we have the 3.5mm headphone jack over here and this is the volume rocker it's uh made up of metal and the power button also has been shifted over here so it's easy to use it easily reaches here to your hand the power button nothing else over here again that plastic finish we have the main microphone micro USB slot that'll be used for charging and syncing the phone and on this end uh we just have this slot and using this we can open the back cover I'll come back to it a bit later and on the back we have a secondary microphone uh this is the four Ultra pixel camera that we found on the HTC One it's the same one and we have LED flash and this is the fingerprint scanner and um actually I heard mix reports about this they say it's not as good as the iPhone 5S it's a little bit patchy and we have the HTC branding again that uh aluminium finish and uh so it looks great but one thing I noticed is that beachs audio labeling is simply missing on this HTC 1 Max on the front we have this 2.1 megapix camera this can also shoot video up to 1080P and we have those two speakers I connect with the most of the HTC1 uh uh HTC1 mini and also the Max has so I'm hoping that the sound quality will be very good we have additional sensors and the huge 5.9 in screen and the glass is made up of Gorilla Glass and it's a 1080p screen again on the bottom we have two touch type capacitive buttons that's the back and this is for the home and let's try to open up the back cover you you need to slide this they and this should uh open up the back cover and indeed it is opening up the back cover so the back cover comes out and uh it's not made up of plastic it's the aluminium finish and uh interesting thing is that we can add a Sim over here and a Micro SD card also uh one thing I found very interesting is that though the back cover is openable but still HTC decided not to put a user replaceable battery the battery battery is sealed here and that's a 3,300 mamp battery so interesting choice they should have provided a removable what do you say battery as uh now they are providing what do you say removal back cover but you can add a micro uh SD card up to 64 GB on this one regarding internal storage uh you get this model in two variant 16 and 32 gigs and let's try to power it on and let's see if it has some charge and as you can see again I always love the HTC what do you say uh screen quality and looks like this one is also great right now it's in the Chinese language oh God I got to adjust it to English here we have and I'll just quickly just set this up we are right now in India regarding the pricing as of now uh this phone hasn't been launched yet in India and on Amazon us it was retailing unlocked version for around $780 to $790 so uh it's not a cheap phone it's a pretty expensive phone uh high-end phone from HTC but it's hard to see that HTC is still using the Snapdragon 600 chipset because most of the latest high-end Android phones have started using uh what do you say the Snapdragon 600 uh 800 chipset and these this is it still comes with the HTC One blink feed and you just swipe here to get back to your uh other home screens and this this is the app tray already we have some folders that are built in like this and some specific apps are pre-installed Google Apps obviously and let's look at the uh settings let's go to the Android settings here and from here let's go to about the device and let's look at the software info and as you can see it comes out of the box with Android version 4.3 that's nice and it also comes with the HTC Sense 5.5 so let's go back and also let's look at the storage we did not add any micro SD card and so it looks like out of that 16 GB uh the available storage that you get is 10.43 GB U but you can add a Micro SD card up to 64 GB let's also look at uh what do you say here is the interesting thing that is the fingerprint scanner and here it shows us how to uh set it up I'll set it up a bit later and uh let's also uh look at some other things as we are connected right now to my Wi-Fi connection Let's uh check out uh and see how the browser holds this is the standard keyboard I don't want in all these languages I just want it in English thank you and let's go to tech.com our website one thing I found annoying is is that the keyboard is wide enough why don't they have a dedicated Row for the numbers and let's go to our website this is the first time that we are visiting uh this te tubs.com on this HTC uh 1 Max again as I expected it will be very smooth uh still the configuration is pretty uh powerful it holdes a 1.7 GHz quadcore processor the RAM on this is 2 gigs and the GPU is adreno 320 so let's try to open up one of the stories now uh let's open up this Note 3 story and move into uh this orientation again the orientation uh change was very smooth no issues let's try to play this P let me increase the volume to max very loud very loud and very clear hi there this is rajit and in this video we're going to do the in-depth review for the Samsung Galaxy so let me get R of this one again as expected the sound output from these dual speakers is excellent and also it has a little bit of Base so pretty nice and it looks like uh for web browsing also it'll do a great job and let's also quickly just look at the camera on this one that's the 4 ultra pixel one and it gives us some HP let me get out of this one and let me just try to take a photo of this HTC1 Max box itself and it's pretty quick there's no shutter lack as usual uh again uh little bit blurry the first one but overall yeah the camera it's a 4 ultra pixel one uh and it does a decent job in low lighting conditions so I'll be doing a gaming review also with this HTC1 Max very soon and I'll also try to do a a full review I'm not very sure if I'll do a full review or not so if you have any particular questions regarding in this HTC 1 Max do let me know in the comment section thank you for watching this unboxing video that's it for now this is ranit and I hope to see you in my next video\n"