I miss HTC😢

My friend in college had access to the engineering department's laser engraver, so we tattooed my M8 with a few extra designs. I'll never throw it out.

one of the best looking phones ever

I owned the M7, but to this day that is still one of my favorite phones of all time. The build quality was incredible, the stereo forward facing speakers sounded amazing for the time and its Android skin was refined compared to every other phone at the time.

IMO, M7 was the GOAT, but the M8 was also a great phone. Sad what happened to HTC

I can't believe Samsung won. HTC had so much better design, features, and OS

HTC M8 and Nexus 4 were optimization king. Every app remained on memory even after 2 OS updates.

HTC One M8 is my Roman Empire. I think about this device almost every day. It's the perfect phone, the size, the design, the software, it has it all.

I miss HTC thought they had a great thing going and sense was brilliant. I used to love when I unlocked my desire if you had the weather app you would get sunshine show or raindows and a windscreen wiper which wiped away the rain. That feature never got old and would love to have it again.

Still have a red HTC One M8 in my drawer. Physically, the look still can compete with the best of today’s flagship. Add the color red which no other brand is willing to do now. ❤❤❤❤

Man I Miss This Gaming Back Then HTC & Sony ERA

this phone was awesome! It looked so premium, with many people having plastic rectangles as phones, M8 really was a step ahead

I loved the M7 and M8 so much, I refused to throw them away.

The only phone I've owned that I've actually LOVED. To the point of feeling empty even after a "direct upgrade". This phone gave me a solid 4 years. Superb little piece of modern engineering.

Loved the M7-M8. The one that really wowed me was the LG G3. Revolutionary at that time, especially the screen quality.

Back then, I also got the HTC M8. It's the best Android phone I've ever had, alongside my still current Mate20 Pro. Dual speakers, metal body, and an innovative low megapixel camera that surprisingly captured great images with just 4MP. The UI was super sleek and ahead of its time, easily five years ahead back then.

I Had the M7 And M8 Greatest phone i ever had in my life them rooting/switching ROMS days was the best

I absolutely LOVED this phone! easily my favorite phone I ever used at the time. I miss HTC and would love for a comeback with a modern revision of this phone!

Im missing metal phones 😢 now is glass everywhere.

The M8 you picked up has blown speakers

I still have it and still feels like a tank. I wish they make it back with updated specs and trends

HTC fan here. I have my Sensation XE and M8. The good old days.

I miss this phone and the dot view case!

HTC M8 was my first Android phone, great-sounding from dual front stereo speakers, refocusing photo after shooting and aluminum body ect. Really good user experience, and I still missed it.

Need more of this retro series

I miss HTC so much, they were my favourite brand. My first Android phone was the HTC Hero. I also had the Desire, Sensation and Sensation XE as well.

I had the HTC One Mini 2 and loved it so much. I even had the mini sub-woofer stand that made it awesome for playing music (yes the speakers were much better than shown in this video). I missed it for years until i got thr Note 9 which was the first time i felt i could move on

i had an M8 when it came out and immediately flashed the Google Play Edition software on it. I loved this phone so much. I still have it and use it as a universal remote control for my CRT TV.

This is one of those pieces of technology that will be remembered for a long, long time to come. Similar to the Apple IIs and Commodore 64s of yesteryear. I distinctly remember this being my dream phone and my dad finally agreeing to get one for me for Christmas, only to realise that here in Australia the original had been replaced by a much weaker version called the M8S. What started as me getting my dream phone at the time ended up being one of the most frustrating experiences as a young tech enthusiast. It was slow, buggy and the camera unit was straight up abysmal in comparison to the original M8. The design of it still made me the coolest kid in class so I didn't complain too much 🤣

I have htc 10 in 5-6 years ago. Most durable phone i ever owned. I drop it like 20 times, all fours corner is very bad. But the screen never broken and working perfectly without any trouble. What a phone

My favorite and one of the first experiences with Android. My actual first was the HTC One M7 😂 I still have the M8 in my phone collection and it still powers on.. GREAT PHONE!

Such a great phone. The quality of the speakers was superb!

I have so much nostalgia for this phone! The Boomsound, the premium build, the heft... It was such a game changer. That being said, with the curves on the back going over the edge, this thing was so slippery

I still remember failing to buy this phone in Toronto bcos HTC did not launch it in Canada. A friend got it from US and it looked simply amazing. In the end, I bought Iphone 6 and got hooked on Apple since then.

HTC was the only smartphone company that was able to impress me with every flagship that they've made excluding the M9.HTC U12 was an excellent device!I miss LG and Nokia but I miss HTC more.

Still have my M7 and M8 and they still look brand new. Loved that design.

This phone is an absolute legend! Super cool video!

I loved this and the Droid DNA. Such amazing phones at the time. I miss that era, we had ground breaking android phones back to back from tons if brands

i have purchased one M8 with $10(700INR) at last year, this device is still functionable, how great HTC's hardware

I was 13 when I got this phone for Christmas. It was beautiful then, and it’s beautiful now. The UI was UNMATCHED for its time. Not to mention it was solid. Even the shape was so easy to hold. I would only consider going back to Android if HTC brought the m8 back.

Phones used to be so minimalistic back then

I snagged the HTC 10, that phone was really nice. I do miss the era of creativity and mainly solid devices without full glass on the back.

0:12 A wild Peter Chou appears 3:05 Apple uses M9 in their promo pictures, not M8

I was a huge HTC fan back on the day. My first smartphone was an HTC Evo.

Front facing speakers, 3.5mm headphone jack, IR blaster, sd card reader... All features no flagship has anymore. I miss the good old days

2009-2014 were some of the most exciting and competitive time for smartphones. There were so many players trying to outdo each other, and the rate of innovation was much larger at that time as well. Now we are just left with Apple and Samsung in the American market with Apple enjoying the lion's share.

Umm the HTC HD2 would like to have a word with you...that phone literally had everything except for iOS ported to it. All the Android roms, Windows XP, Windows 7, Linux, and support in XDA was insane for YEARS

I loved the design language of the phones and the software HTC used. It looks so classy.

HTC looks to have dropped a new phone teaser 👀 We're back

I had the successor to this phone, the One M9, and I still remember it VERY fondly. It was a spectacular, durable, and beautiful phone. One of my favorite that I ever had for sure. Being all aluminum was so badass

Legendary tech piece

The first phone I bought secondhand and rooted was the HTC Evo 3D when I was 18 years old (31 now). I initially bricked it because I wiped the internal memory (where I downloaded a custom OS) through TWRP as well as the current installed OS. Got stuck in a boot loop, ended up finding a way to load the custom OS from an external HD and flashed that. Back then you could change you DNS settings so your Wifi tether/hotspot came off your unlimited data plan with the same speed as the normal plan, rather than the capped and limited paid hotspot through T-Mobile. I lived on XDA forums, installing Cyanogen to every Samsung device I got after that.

M7 and M8 where the best phones I ever had!

I had both M7 and the M8 and loved both. They were so much nicer than anything my friends used back then. The sound quality was amazing and unheard of before.

nexus 5 is legit contender too

This was such a nostalgic throwback. Thanks for this great video!!

This is how you know you made a great device. 10 years down the line people still want "that" phone. I think the original Moto G and Moto X series had the same magic too.

I went for a flagship phone in 2014. I had to choose between Samsung Galaxy S5, Lg G3, Sony Xperia Z2 and HTC One m8. The S5 had a pretty good camera, the G3 had some awesome OS customization, the Z2 had almost stock Android experience and was very responsive and One m8 had a gorgeous design. At the end I went for the Z2 because overall it was the beast between all other beasts. It had an upgraded IPS display (the previous Z1 had a TFT), the same SD801, a whoping 3GB of LPDDR3 instead of 2GB, a nice 20MP sensor that took great daytime photos, MicroSD card slot, 3.5mm audio jack, front facing stereo speakers and a really big 3200mAh battery (most phones had under 3000mAh even flagship ones). I used this phone for over 7 years before going to a new one. And this Z2 still works today with the first battery from the factory that has around 70% of it's original capacity, just a crazy phone :-)

I prefer the M7. Was my favorite phone

Loved my developer days in XDA with this device. This is my all time favorite phone.

Like if you’re still using M8 in 2024.

I had an M8 Harman/Kardon edition. I loved that phone! It is easily one of my top five favorites that I've used.

What a throw back I remember wanting this device so badly and ended up getting a one plus one !

HTC should jump in the mid-range phone market. This video just brought back some great memories I had with M8

The M8 is probably still my favorite phone til this day! Way ahead of its time, from the camera, functionality, sound, and esthetic!!

My friend had the M7 I had the HTC eye and thought we were living in the future. I actually really loved these phones it was the only time I ever switched away from the main Samsung or apple for a phone and I would gladly do it again if they brought about that creativity that they had then. The M8 and M7 if they remade it with a bigger screen and kept the speakers would be probably the best thing to come out of android since 2017.

Those of us who were using Android in its growing-up years would know and remember how legendary this phone is, together with the M7. Good spot at 3:09 with the feature in Apple's ads, thought not many would have missed it.

Used to have the htc 1 m7. Loved that phone. Only Android I’ve ever owned, iPhones ever since. But I absolutely adored my htc one

i loved my M8 and all my previous HTC phones

I loved this phone and kept it years after on my coffee table as a TV and home theather remote.

I remember this phone. Always loved that HTC Sense UI

Absolutely no one talks about how good the Xperia series were back in those days. I was using an Xperia z2, and it was one of the best phones of all time in my opinion.

I had an M8 and loved it so freaking much. I miss HTC

I have an M7 that's still going strong. I never used it as a phone, though, but as a little boombox at work. I liked it so much, I bought a 2nd one as a backup.

I remember mine getting so hot sometimes but I loved HTC. You couldn’t tell me nothing about HTC, I was a ride or die.

My One M7 is still sitting in a drawer. It was pretty revolutionary at the time. They stuffed all the components into a milled aluminum body, and to get around the side effect of decreased cell reception, they added cutouts in the frame, something you still see on phones today. Dual front facing speakers, a luxury we barely have today with phones using a bottom firing and top front mounted speaker. Instead of adding more mexapixels to the camera, they used a sensor with lower resolution but larger photosites to increase low light sensitivity; low light imaging performance was going to become of great importance shortly after. It had a 1080p display, which was larger and higher resolution than what Apple was offering with the iPhone 5 at the time. HTC was absolutely on top of their game and creating the best hardware in the Android space.

those were the days. i had the pearl white version. it was such a fantastic phone. the contrast ration on the phone was unmatched, and the stereo speakers were unmatched.

htc build quality was timeless. Even today it's hands down the best design language of any cell phone manufacturer. The HTC UI was clean and well designed and from an experience standpoint HTC was the total package

I had this phone for about a year in 2014, and it was awesome and beautifully designed! Unfortunately, bugs with the software, like the stock messaging app crashing every 15 seconds make it very hard to use. I eventually switched back to iPhone with the iPhone 7, and never looked back! It helped that all my family had iPhones, and that the Apple eco system was starting to take off. Still, I’ll never forget this phone. What a beautiful design!

I somehow completely forgot about owning this phone. I now remember loving it as a freshman in high school. Really glad to see this honestly unlocked some memories for me.

I had this and the HTC 10 back in the day. Both are absolute tanks, must have dropped the 10 who knows how many times, all the corners chipped and bent but it still works to this day.

HTC was a great brand. Even of low end devices. I had a wildfire S, and that thing was beautiful. Aluminum body and glass display in a time when most entry level phones were all plastic and the screens became a black mirror on direct sunlight. HTC was far ahead of its time

I still ahve mine laying around and still amazed how well bult and fast it is for how old it is. I'm hoping they or another company goes back to thier design and have a well built, bomb proof phone with amazing speakers.

An HTC was my first smartphone my father bought for me when I turned 15 and it lasts until now (of course I can't update nadroid). ITS GREAT

Just found my Windows M8 a couple of days ago, still looks great and feels great in my hand, unfortunately it just boot loops for now I only had it working for half a year before it started bugging out I couldn't ever get texts on time had to text my mom to literally spam my phone with messages so I could get the ones I was trying to get all along. Still has a soft spot in my heart.

I think the LG G3, introducing a "slim-bezel" design, a 13MP camera with OIS, and the first phone with a 1440p display... this was the best phone of 2014. It was incredible to see how good the photos were that you were taking on the display, and the iPhone would take yeeeeears to catch up to that.

I wish HTC could keep up with the competition, I used 3 HTC phones. Loved their phones.

My first android phone was the HTC Sensation XL. Loved the brand so much that I got the M8 then the M10. Was so sad when my fave brand died.

I loved that phone so much. If HTC were to ever bring it out again it's an instant cop for me.

Got the M7 on launch day and upgraded to the M8 a year later. This along with the with the LG G5 were my favorite Android phones. And this was probably the best era for smartphones. Slight addendum The M8 wasn't the first phone to ship with two cameras. Though the Horner still goes to HTC. The first iirc was the HTC EVO 3D. Which used two cameras to make 3D pictures. This came out at the end of the 2000s when everyone was saying 3D is back and here to stay. Well it didn't, thank god.

As I proud user of HTC back in 2011-2014, I finally found the phone that gives me the same great feeling of having one of the greatests phones on the market - OPPO.

This mobile was peak android I had one for over 5 years in that time I got a Samsung and iPhone and kept going back to it. I got a new battery and it kept going strong until finally it couldn't keep up with the O/S upgrades. The front facing speakers were awesome 🙏

I had an HTC Sensation 4G, but moved to Samsung Galaxy S5 and onward since then. The Galaxy S5 had IP67, an AMOLED screen, as well as 16MP cameras and 4K video recording which swayed me from ever getting the HTC One M8.

HTC One M7 is my favourite phone ever, and I doubt a phone will replace that now. It was so groundbreaking in so many ways, phones can't really compete with that now.

The device that has most impressed me is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 from 2012. This tablet is a beast! No seriously, on android 12 it's butter smooth with animations and it doesn't feel slow at all, 12 YEARS LATER!!!. There is even android 13 but I haven't tried that custom rom yet. The tablet itself is awesome, has an IR blaster, SD card slot, SIM card slot, front facing stereo speakers and more. If anyone ever sees it being sold, I recommend getting it, you will not be disappointed and will be just as surprised as I was

I had just bought a Galaxy S5 when this one dropped and I came across it at a Target and decided to trade in for one just based off of the feel in the hand. It's still my favorite phone of all time. Still have it now running LineageOS.

I miss this phone so much. those speakers the durability. man what a time it was.

I had this phone, i was so impressed with it at the time! HTC used to be everywhere!

It's probably my favorite and the best phone I've ever had. Those front-facing speakers were game-changing, and that fast charging was mind-blowing at the time.

I still think about the M8 here and there. Absolutely loved that phone. The Sunshine Root S-Off was the best day