HTC ONE M9 32GB Unlocked (GSM Only, No CDMA) 20MP Camera Smartphone, Gunmetal Grey

I have now had this phone for about a month. I moved to this phone from an iPhone 4, which I moved to from an HTC One X.PROS:- The phone is very sleek and well designed, both on the outside and the design of the UI.- The UI is fast and looks great. It's slick and helps you get to what you want quickly. It is customizable with the Themes app, but I haven't used it much as it seems a bit complicated.- The screen is big and bright. Images look very sharp.- I really missed Android. I love the interaction with Google Now, the ability to use widgets, and the ability to get apps such as Twilight and Google Keyboard that really let you customize the phone.- Battery is decent. If I charge it all night, it is at about 40% by the end of the day, unless I leave it on battery saver all day, in which case it ends around 60%.- There's a slot for an SD card which is great if you have a lot of music and/or like to take a lot of pictures.- The speakers are loud. Very loud. There's not a ton of bass, but the quality of speakers is like none other I've ever seen in a phone.CONS:- The camera is likely the biggest con. Even at 20 Megapixels, it lacks a good dynamic range, and the pictures could definitely be sharper. The camera does serve it's basic purpose, but if you want phenomenal travel pictures, stick to a DSLR.- The phone has a tendency to get hot. It doesn't overheat but it can be a bit uncomfortable to hold. My case helps though, since I'm at least not holding hot metal but a warm-ish silicone now.- I do wish it had a personal dictionary that allows you to put in shortcuts. My old iphone let me set it up so that I could type "myaddress" and it would auto change to my full address. I also find that the personal dictionary for the Google Keyboard doesn't work with this phone for some reason.- Not sure how big a deal this will be to everyone, but I don't like the way the emojis look in this phone. I'm planning to root it so I can swap out the picture set. Another thing to mention is that the phone currently doesn't have the most updated emoji keyboard, meaning it's missing a few of my favorites such as the middle finger emoji. If that's important to you, keep that in mind.- I also really miss the visual voicemail that my iPhone had. Navigating through the voicemail on this phone feels so archaic.- Supposedly the 4G LTE doesn't always work if you're on T Mobile. I'm on AT&T so it's not a problem for me, but check which bands your network supports and compare them to this phone.FINAL THOUGHTSThe phone may not be perfect. It has a handful of cons. I don't think any phone is really perfect though, since you will always have to make a sacrifice whether it is camera quality, battery life, price, etc. However, this phone is really a powerhouse and $300 for a current-gen flagship phone from one of the major companies is a fantastic deal.

The phone works great and came with specs as ordered but the title is completely misleading. The phone is in fact GSM unlocked, but it's only GSM unlocked! The Phone came with an AT&T logo in the back, which then I thought maybe its just a marketing thing, after booting it up with my non .AT&T sim card, the first thing I see is and AT&T theme when powering up. Next an AT&T custom application phone setup, I basically skipped every step and got to the phones' home page, my non-AT&T sim card gets signal and works, "phew, was close", now I go ahead and go to settings and manually ask the phone to check for updates, since it came with Lollipop OS bu the phone is up-gradable to Nougat 7.0, and that setting option says "AT&T software update" and again I thought that to be weird! Moving on, pressed the software update button just to find the phone prompting "No update is available for you at this time.... bla bla bla".Same problem with creating hotspot from my phone for other to connect, that feature is blocked if you're not AT&T.Phone is very hard to flash with a custom ROM or even to convert it to android Developer Edition RUU and very high risk to getting it bricked so I'm basically stuck with the old OS and most of the features don't work!

Initially when I bought this device I was extremely worried from the bad reviews I saw out there: reviewers were saying the device overheats, the screen was awful, camera was terrible and many many other things. As an HTC user, I use to know the quality of the devices they make, so I find these statements totally shocking compared to what I bought in the past form them, so I decided after many hours of thinking and double thinking to give HTC a chance based on my previous experiences with their devices.After a month of use, I don't regret my decision: there have been several updates form HTC, and each one of them have improved the aspects people were complaining about:- Overheating got severely reduced without affecting the device performance (at least that I can notice)- With a cooler device, battery life also improved.- There have been some improvements to the camera, making it decent to use in auto mode, manual and RAW mode are impressive giving very good details on what you can control and edit after the photography has been taken- The screen rant was basically for nothing: the screen is bright enough to look over direct sunlight, viewing angles are very good and color reproduction is accurate.- Sound quality is superb, the best out there in a smartphone I've heard, hands down. This + a good gamepad + the good screen makes it an outstanding combo for media consumption and gaming.This doesn't means it's the perfect phone, with some competition like the Galaxy S6 and the LG G4, it will depend from you on which one to get, what you can be sure about is any of these will make you happy. As I said the updates don't mean the phone is perfect now, there is still space to improve and you should be aware of the following:- For some people, the screen looks so "washed out" because it doesn't has too much contrast, this can be improved by software though.- The camera still needs a lot of work on details when zooming, the closer you get to 100% zoom or crop the more serious the problem becomes. Normal scaled pictures are fine though.- Battery life it's not perfect yet, and data connection drains battery so much, making it last sometimes less than M8, however the duration is actually on par to the S6 or the G4.About these, there are some leaks from android 5.1.1 update already, and they show an insane improvement on camera and battery departments, so if you're still deciding, I'd encourage you to wait for this update to be released to confirm if they're true.