HTC ONE M9 REVIEW 2019 ANDROID
HTC ONE M9 REVIEW 2019 SOFTWARE
HTC ONE M9 REVIEW 2019 TV

This isnвЂ™t a case of overkill вЂ“ GoogleвЂ™s app has become all about buying into its streaming service, whereas HTCвЂ™s lets you listen to music stored locally on your phone or on media servers like your home PC. You can select apps that can only be used within the simple Kid Mode interface, while there are plenty of child-friendly videos and games included to keep youngвЂ™uns occupied.ДЄs well as the Google Play Music app you also get HTCвЂ™s own Music App. It includes channel guides so you can easily plan your viewing.ДЄs the name suggests, Kid Mode (made by Zoodles) lets you lock your phone down for young children to use.

HTC ONE M9 REVIEW 2019 TV

This smart remote app is one of the best around and makes the HTC One M9 a powerful smart remote that lets you control everything from a TV to your sound system and set-top box using the infrared blaster on the top of the phone. There are a number of other apps that make a return on the HTC One M9. WeвЂ™ve seen it working during a demonstration but try as we might we couldnвЂ™t get the One M9 to see our Raumfeld One S wireless speaker or Chromecast. HTC Connect lets you easily throw content to DLNA compatible devices using a three fingered swipe up on the screen. It aggregates photos youвЂ™ve stored online on Google Drive, Dropbox, Facebook or Flickr and creates a thumbnail gallery for you. If you love customising your phone then HTC has made it dead easy.Д¬loudex is a new app that comes with Sense 7 on the HTC One M9. Still, itвЂ™s a slick process to create a theme and tinkering with it to get acceptable results is just as simple. Several are so abstract that youвЂ™re left scratching your head whether youвЂ™re about to open the camera app or send an email, while otherвЂ™s crop third-party icons, like Chrome or Facebook so they look wrong. It does a great job of picking appropriate colours, but some of the icon styles miss the mark. Have a favourite photo you want to use as a lock screen? Themes analyses it and picks appropriate colours, icons and fonts to create a look that spans the whole phone.

Where it gets interesting is that any picture can be used to construct a theme. A few themes are preloaded, while others can be downloaded.

ThemeвЂ™s lets you customise the M9 from the lock screen all the way to the fonts. Forget hunting through pages of apps or using search вЂ“ HTCвЂ™s Sense Home is a mind-reader that surfaces what you need when you need it. What makes it particularly helpful are two app folders that provide homepage access to your last downloaded apps and app suggestions for your location. Home learns your habits and rearranges the apps appropriately, although you can also pin apps you find vital. The third location is simply called Out and promotes Google Maps and other helpful travel apps. At home? YouвЂ™ll might want the Remote app, Netflix and Spotify front and centre, while when youвЂ™re at work the calendar and email may be more useful. The Home widget adapts the eight main apps (or app folders) on your homescreen depending on where you are. In practice, though, Sense Home works brilliantly. Why would you want the core apps you keep on your homepage changing? Your homepage is your bastion вЂ“ a place you put all your most important apps. When we first heard about it we thought it could be more of an irritant than a help. The best new feature on Sense 7 is Sense Home. LetвЂ™s take a closer look at the new features Sense 7 brings to the HTC One M9.

HTC ONE M9 REVIEW 2019 SOFTWARE

These are all issues that we expect to be fixed with software updates. This isnвЂ™t something thatвЂ™s isolated to the One M9 вЂ“ weвЂ™ve experienced the same on the iPhone 6, Galaxy S5 and HTC One M8 вЂ“ but on other phones popping in and out of Airplane Mode would resolve the issue. A restart resolved the issue, but it was annoying nonetheless.ДЄ more fundamental problem was an issue that occurred about once a day where the phone would lose network signal entirely. For example, we found that, on occasion, we couldnвЂ™t swipe down to access the notification centre or quick settings.

HTC ONE M9 REVIEW 2019 ANDROID

These might have more to do with Android Lollipop, which still has a few kinks that need ironing out. ThatвЂ™s because itвЂ™s simple to use and doesnвЂ™t seem to impact the M9вЂ™s performance much at all, although we did experience some usability issues. HTCвЂ™s Android layer is one of the least offensive around, in fact weвЂ™d go as far to say that we rather like it. GoogleвЂ™s latest mobile operating system, Android Lollipop, graces the One M9, but it is customised via HTC Sense 7. HTC One M9: Sense 7 and Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Htc one m9 review 2019