[One (M9) General] Chocolina:
I don't see whats to hate about the M9. It received a minor cosmetic change from a general design thats been winning awards for the last 2 years.

It has some hardware changes, and little changes that I REALLY agree with.

1st off the display is Full HD instead of 4K and we still havent transitioned into 4k media consumption on mobile. Most of the content you get on a 4k screen is just 1080, and the average user wouldn't notice much of a difference between the two resolutions on a 5-inch screen anyway. As someone with an M7 and a G3, year you're going to miss some screen-beauty by sticking to 1080, but youre going to get phenomenal battery, GPU, and temperature performance. Even if the Snap810 is a beast and is built to handle 4k swimingly, There are many power-management advantages that come with Full HD screens, especially when 4k media is in it's infancy.

2nd the step up to Dolby is a plus in the speaker department, so people who originally got the HTC One M7 solely for the speakers like me, the attention to the sound performance is something I greatly appretiate and I cant wait to experience that. I mean you can migrate to another phone brand, but good luck finding another model that focuses on sound more than HTC. There aren't that many Front-facing speaker options out there, let alone a speaker option that gives you STEREO speakers on the front.

3rd, and this kind of goes back to 2nd, but they're FINALLY taking advantage of Bluetooth 4.1 the way it was supposed to be used LAST year, and thats connecting to more than one device at a time. If you're into bluetooth speakers, to get Stereo-pairing over bluetooth, you either had to find a Bluetooth speaker that would do that feature for you, like UE Boom, or buy a 3.5mm splitter, and two BT transmitters, and run that ugly abomination that way. But with the M9 this would be possible for nearly all speakers or headsets. HOW IS NO ONE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT? And this is only assuming the ability to connect to only 2 sinks... I mean what if you could do more than 2? 3? 4? 5? and have a wireless Dobly 5.1 surround streaming off your phone? And what if the software in the phone could choose which sink device got which audio channel. Thats pretty dope.

4th The HTC One M7 and M8 had a decent camera, not the best, but pretty good none the less, well they moved that camera to the front and got an even better one for the back. What is there to complain about? Not that I personally care about a camera... And the back of the device looks much cleaner than the M8.

So they took everything great about the M8 and improved upon it in almost every way. Better processor, more ram, better cameras, slightly larger battery, better sound, better bluetooth usage, and you want to complain about something as trivial as cosmetics? Nigga the M8 was one of the best-looking phones of 2014, and you're getting your panties in a bunch because they're not fixing what isn't broke?

In my opinion, the M9 in all regards is almost perfect, with the exception that I wish the HTC Logo was reduced or relocated, I wish the screen was 5.4-5.6 inches, and maybe wish for a 2k display, but thats kind of wishful thinking. The HTC logo I can forgive because the display and speaker drivers gotta go somewhere. Some of you forget that the speakers on the HTC One are comparably larger than traditional phone speakers. They gotta fill space somewhere. If they would release an M9 Prime/Max version without going beyond 2k resolution, I'd consider it perfect.

Anyways the M9 is THE phone for me to get, especially for the sound and bluetooth buffs. And I cant wait to put Snapdragon 810 to the test against some PSP and Gamecube emulators. They said that the 805 performed worse than the 801 with the dolpin emulator because of the 4k screen in the Note 4. M9 being a Full HD screen, I'm expecting some good results.