#Htc one m9 review australia plus#

In addition to letting you easily change the ISO, exposure and white balance, the M9's camera app has a few other neat tricks.

#Htc one m9 review australia plus#

MORE: Galaxy S6 Camera Takes Better Pictures Than iPhone 6 Plus On top of that, the M9 would take a few seconds to process each HDR photo, which rules it out for spontaneous shoots. While the iPhone was able to keep both the skyscraper and the dark street in the foreground properly exposed, the M9 either blew out the sky - making the ESB impossible to see - or made the street so dark that you couldn't see passersby. I took a photo looking up Fifth Avenue, with the Empire State Building in the background lit up in the afternoon glow of the sun. I also wasn't impressed with the One M9's HDR mode. (Image credit: Click to enlarge | Credit: Sam Rutherford) Likewise, launching the camera app from the home screen was a hair slower than the S6. However, opening Recent Apps took a beat too long the thumbnails faded into view. The phone generally performed well - games such as Modern Combat 5 streamed smoothly, and I could swipe from BlinkFeed to the home screen swiftly. The HTC One M9 runs on QualcommвЂ™s newest mobile processor, the Snapdragon 810, with 3GB of RAM. In Settings, you can change between Music and Theater mode - the former concentrates the sound directly in front of you, while the latter spreads it out - but considering audio is such a big component of this phone, I wish there were an easier way to access these settings, and make other adjustments. Gunfire and explosions really leapt out of the phone in way I didn't expect. When playing Modern Combat 5, the speakers were startlingly loud. While bass wasn't booming, it was more than present in Jay-Z's 'Run This Town' without overwhelming Rihanna's vocals, which floated over the beats.

Likewise, you could hear every strum in the intro of Rick Springfield's 'JessieвЂ™s Girl.' Kenny Loggins' twangy guitar balanced well with vocals on 'Footloose,' and there was better-than-average bass.

The speakers performed well across a variety of genres. (Image credit: Jeremy Lips / Tom's Guide)