According to a new finding from a French site, the HTC One (M8) has the best touch latency ever recorded on a smartphone so far and by a fair distance. During the tests which didn’t include newer flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S5 or the Sony Xperia Z2, the new HTC One was revealed to have a touch response time of 46ms.
HTC today posted its second loss in three quarters in another dismal earnings report, but things are beginning to look up for the Taiwanese company. Its new One M8 smartphone helped increase sales in March, and HTC has projected a profit for next quarter.
If you live outside of the United States, then you don’t get the option to buy the new HTC One M8 Google Play Edition. That’s a shame if you prefer a pure Android experience over HTC’s Sense 6 user interface — but you can now take matters into your own hands.
The official Google Play Edition ROM is now available to download, and with a bit of hackery, it can be flashed to the regular M8.
At $50, HTC’s official Dot View case for the One M8 is pretty expensive. Especially when you consider it’s essentially just a regular case with some holes in the front. In fact, all you need is a drill and a steady hand and you can hack together your own for as little as $10.
If you didn’t order your unlocked or Developer Edition HTC One M8 before today, then you’re going to have to pay an extra $50 for it. The early bird promotion that allowed customers to bag one of these handsets for $649 for a limited time has now ended.
