HTC One(M8)实测：最佳安卓手机要来了？

    全新HTC One被寄予厚望。台湾公司HTC最近一直在苦苦挣扎，由于它的手机产品受到消费者的冷落，近几年这家公司收入每个月都在减少。当苹果（Apple）和三星（Samsung）正在全球智能手机市场捉对厮杀的时候，远远落后的HTC却只能拼命寻找一款拳头产品，来稳定自己的收入。

    因此，三月底推出新HTC One手机并不是理想的时机。三星的新旗舰手机Galaxy S5二月份刚刚发布，并将在本周五正式发售，给HTC的庆典蒙上了一层阴影。不过，HTC有自己的杀手锏：新HTC One将在发布当天同步上市。

    正如漫画书中常说的：“看招吧！”

    HTC One M8的外观与上一代类似。机身采用金属外观设计（有三种颜色可供选择：金色、银色和青铜色），运行最新版谷歌（Google）安卓（Android）操作系统（4.2.2 KitKat），比上一代增加了一个摄像头，配有5寸1080p显示屏。

    M8配备四核高通（Qualcomm）骁龙801处理器和2G内存。这个组合使M8的运行速度远远超过去年的型号。在对M8进行测试时，笔者没有遇到任何卡顿的情况，只有一次例外：在已打开的应用之间切换时。笔者点击多任务按键时，在显示九个不同应用的缩略图之前会出现两至三秒的延迟。

    大多数版本的HTC One都采用专有的安卓皮肤——HTC Sense。M8首次运行HTC Sense 6.0版，其中有许多值得注意的新功能。HTC手机用户对于BlinkFeed肯定已经非常熟悉，这个功能将用户的社交摘要、日历和最喜欢的主题聚合成一个扼要的信息流：而新版本还支持用户通过Fitbit应用查看健康统计数据。（如果没有健身记录设备，M8还可以用作计步器。）此外，新版Sense中整合了Foursquare（注重本地的社交网络）的餐厅推荐。通过手势操作，用户可使用六种手势来执行某些日常任务——例如，在设备水平模式下按向下的音量键可以打开相机应用。双击屏幕，可以查看未读提醒、时间和气候。这是笔者最喜欢的新功能，在测试过程中一直在使用手势。

    There is a lot riding on the new HTC One. The Taiwanese company has struggled mightily as of late, watching its revenue fall month after month over several years as its mobile devices fell out of consumer favor. While Apple and Samsung wage war over the global smartphone market, HTC is behind them, desperately seeking a hit that will stabilize its fortunes.

    For that reason, the late March debut of HTC's new One wasn't ideal. Samsung's new flagship model, the Galaxy S5, was announced in February and is set to arrive in stores on Friday, casting a long shadow over HTC's festivities. But HTC had a trick up its sleeve: It made the One widely available on the same day of its announcement.

    As they say in comic books: "Kapow!"

    The look of the new One -- code-named M8 -- is similar to its predecessor of the same name. It has a metal exterior (available in three colors: gold, silver and gunmetal), runs the latest version of Google's Android operating system (4.2.2 KitKat), has an additional camera over the previous model, and carries a five-inch, 1080p-resolution display.

    Inside, there's a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor and two gigabytes of memory. The combination provides a much-needed speed boost over last year's model. In testing the new One, I rarely experienced any significant stuttering or sluggishness, with one exception: when I was switching between open apps. When I tapped on the multitasking button, there was a two- to three-second delay before the nine different app thumbnails would display.

    Most versions of the One come with HTC's proprietary Android skin, which it calls Sense. The new One is the first device to run version 6.0 of this software, and there are some new features worth mentioning. Owners of HTC phones are already familiar with BlinkFeed, which brings together your social feeds, your calendar and top interests into one, condensed stream of information; the feature now comes with the ability to view fitness stats using the Fitbit app. (Even if you don't own a fitness tracker of your own, the One doubles as a step counter.) Sense now integrates restaurant recommendations from the local-focused social network Foursquare. And Motion Gesture gives you the ability to use six different gestures to carry out certain mundane tasks -- for example, you can launch the camera app by lifting the device in landscape mode and pressing the volume-down button or you can see missed alerts, time, and weather by double-tapping the display. It's my favorite new feature, and I found myself using the gestures constantly during testing.