HTC today released its Dot View companion app for Sense 6 via Google Play, again signaling its intentions to decentralize built-in apps and make them easier to update. The app works alongside the new Dot View case for the HTC One M8 to deliver handy information to the lock screen.

Thanks to its Gorilla Glass 3 display, the new HTC One M8 is surprisingly strong. As you’ll see in the video torture test below, it won’t just withstand light scratches from keys and sharp knives — but also some impressive force from a hammer.

The handset’s aluminum unibody, on the other hand, isn’t quite so tough.

HTC One max owners on Sprint will wake up to an Android 4.4.2 KitKat update today. It weighs in at 344MB, and it brings everything you’d expect from a KitKat upgrade — including Google Cloud Print and security enhancements.

HTC may have just announced a stunning new flagship in the One M8, but the Taiwanese company actually vowed to place a greater focus on more affordable midrange offerings for 2014.

We’ve already seen two of those in the Desire 610 and the Desire 816, which were announced at MWC — and now a third, the Desire 616, has popped up in China ahead of its official unveiling.

HTC’s Executive Director of Product Management took to Twitter earlier today to announce that the AT&T-branded variant of the One Mini, is expected to receive the much-anticipated KitKat update by the end of this week. The upgrade will bring the latest build of Android 4.4.2 and Sense 5.5 to the handset, in addition to the usual multitude of bug fixes and stability improvements.