

HTC has really picked its battles this year, and in the screen department it’s chosen the path of conscientious objector to the resolution war. It’s not a major change but every little helps.
LATEST HTC ONE M9 REVIEW MOVIE
Movie mode makes the sound bigger, Music does its best to get you a natural tone.

Dolby sound modes allow you to tweak the output (for the speakers and headphones alike) to suit music or movies. There has been a minor software update to the speakers this year, too. People’s voices no longer sound like a gang of angry wasps trapped in a bottle. It’s not that they’re super-duper loud, but rather just a lot richer-sounding than the competition. But they’re still just about the best mobile phone speakers around. These front-facing stereo speakers made their debut with the original HTC One a couple of years ago, and they haven’t changed a great deal since. Upgrading to the 128GB version of a phone would cost you a lot more than that. You already get 32GB of internal storage, but the memory card slot enables you to boost that up to a huge 160GB for around £60.

Unlike Samsung, HTC hasn’t thrown the baby out with the bathwater – the One M9 has a microSD memory card slot, the Galaxy S6 doesn’t.
