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The update will be going out in the US between April 10 (meaning today) and April 17. HTC America’s president Jason Mackenzie announced a software update to fix the camera problems on the One M9. HTC is well aware of the problems encountered by customers, and luckily, it is providing users with a fix. HTC rolls out software update to fix camera troubles The competition is also offering some strong alternatives. However, it seems that HTC needs to work on improving the camera experience, because users are pretty unhappy with it. The company abstained from using the UltraPixel technology we saw on the One M8 and included a new Toshiba-made 20MP BSI sensor in the new flagship. The HTC One M9’s camera doesn't seem to impress that much and we’ve heard reports that the phone has some issues with luminance and HDR.
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This new update makes things a touch better - and that can only be a good thing for anyone interested in the One M9.The HTC One M9 was made available for consumer pick-up not so long ago, and albeit the phone received mostly positive initial results, there has been a problem that has been frequently highlighted. We're still talking "okay" to "decent" as opposed to "great" in terms of overall quality - and there are still areas where the phone just plain struggles - but as I found in my initial assessment, it's certainly possible to get reasonably good-looking photos for sharing and printing much of the time (especially if you add in a little post-capture processing or Google Auto Enhance assistance). So that's a handful of examples to show you how things have evolved. All in all, it seems that HTC has indeed managed to deliver some meaningful if not entirely consistent improvements to the M9's imaging experience. That seems to bring things up to be equal to where they were before. The same low-light image, only with night mode manually activated (in both cases). Original M9 image on top post-update image on bottom. If anything, the light in this garage was actually better on the day of the post-update image - yet the new image looks significantly darker than the original. The all-important low-light test, with the phone's default camera settings. (And in real life, you don't usually take an image more than once consistency and reliability are crucial qualities in a smartphone camera.) I tried taking it several times, too, but each one seemed to turn out worse than the last. No two ways around it: This one did not go particularly well. I wouldn't necessarily say it's bad, but it's definitely a little.odd. There's something slightly strange about the new image - an almost unrealistic painting-like effect, as if the processing was taken a touch too far. Same as the previous image, only with HDR activated (in both cases). Noticeable (though still relatively subtle) improvements in coloring, clarity, and saturation. Once again, it's nowhere near the Galaxy's level: Samsung's equivalent photo is less washed out and generally superior in its overall composition, but HTC's has progressed from "ugh" to "pretty decent." Wow - definite difference on this one: The new image is far lighter, less murky, and less inappropriately colored. It's still nowhere near as sharp and color-realistic as the Galaxy S6's equivalent (look back at my original M9-S6 shootout if you want to do some cross-device comparisons) - but in and of itself, it really isn't half-bad. It's subtle, but there is some improvement here: The new image looks a little lighter and less muddied than the original.
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Let's check things out (and as usual, click on any image to view it in full resolution): But even with that caveat, the comparisons can give us a general idea of the phone's updated imaging capability and how much it has - or hasn't - changed. Now, keep in mind that the new photos were obviously taken on a different day than the originals - so lighting and other conditions (and even my exact positioning and framing) aren't identical.