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This is a part of our coverage of B Dash Camp Fukuoka 2014.
At the reception party for the B Dash event, we heard from the organizer and B Dash Ventures CEO Hiroyuki Watanabe that they are currently forming a new fund. He told us it will be valued at around 6 billion yen (about $59 million) and has secured almost 50% of funding towards its planned closing by end of 2014.
Their previous fund formed in September 2011 was worth 2 billion yen ($20 million) and attracted investment from big companies like Docomo Ventures, Gree, Septeni, Biglobe, and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.
The have invested to date in startups including Gumi (game publishing), Gunosy (news curation app), Oh My Glasses (glasses-focused vertical e-commerce), and our readers may recall their portfolio startup ScaleOut was acquired by Mediba, a KDDI company, back in August last year.
The Bridge: Are investors in the new fund the same as those for the previous one?
Watanabe: We can't disclose that yet. But our investors include internet companies and their executives. We'll let more corporate investors join the fund from now on.
The Bridge: Your portfolio companies range widely from undisclosed investees to rapidly growing companies like Gumi or Gunosy. Do you have a focus for the new fund?
Watanabe: While the previous fund was focused on seed-, early-, and later-stage companies, the fund will include middle-stage companies as our investee. Because of the huge funding needs from middle- and later-stage companies, we'll invest several million dollars in them respectively, and strengthen relatively smaller investments in seed- and early-stage companies as well.
The Bridge: We've seen several exits like ScaleOut (acquired by Mediba) and FreakOut (recently IPO-ed) in the ad-tech space, and gaming publisher Gumi, one of your portfolio companies, is planning to go IPO by yearend. Do you have any focus on specific spaces to invest in?
Watanabe: I'm keeping my eyes on smartphone-based media startups like Gunosy and Iemo, as well as the other spaces like Adtech, gaming, and e-commerce. I'm sure that more new smartphone services will disrupt conventional businesses, so we'll invest in various startups taking that approach.
The Bridge: Thank you.
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Japan's job search startup LiB raises $700,000, offering more options for working women
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See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-baed LiB, an executive job search site for women, announced today that it has raised 70 million yen ($688,000) from CyberAgent Ventures and East Ventures. Since its launch two months ago, LiB will soon surpass 4,000 users, mainly women who earn an annual income of more than 4 million yen ($39,000). In my recent interview with LiB planner Rina Takei, she said that LiB is an IT company rather than a human resources company, so they will hire more engineers to strengthen their team. She elaborated: From our experience over the last couple of months, we realized that women users tend to acclaim a service that gets many inputs from users and provides good agents to consult with. Our website allows users to easily send a message to our agent just by clicking a button, and this function is popular. To make up for a declining workforce in Japan, the Japanese government has been pushing for more women to join the workforce. As a result, many companies are keen to see how the LiB platform fares in cultivating the women's labor market. She said: Our platform can reach many people not covered by conventional…
Tokyo-baed LiB, an executive job search site for women, announced today that it has raised 70 million yen ($688,000) from CyberAgent Ventures and East Ventures. Since its launch two months ago, LiB will soon surpass 4,000 users, mainly women who earn an annual income of more than 4 million yen ($39,000).
In my recent interview with LiB planner Rina Takei, she said that LiB is an IT company rather than a human resources company, so they will hire more engineers to strengthen their team. She elaborated:
From our experience over the last couple of months, we realized that women users tend to acclaim a service that gets many inputs from users and provides good agents to consult with. Our website allows users to easily send a message to our agent just by clicking a button, and this function is popular.
To make up for a declining workforce in Japan, the Japanese government has been pushing for more women to join the workforce. As a result, many companies are keen to see how the LiB platform fares in cultivating the women's labor market. She said:
Our platform can reach many people not covered by conventional job search sites. They are not looking for an immediate job change, but want to think further about their carrier path in order to prepare a better future.
Coinciding with the fundraising, LiB set up an in-house research project aiming to assist companies in hiring more women and offering advice to the government.
A recent survey by the company shows that 80% of users want to keep working after the age of 50 and 90% prefer working at a job that is fulfilling rather than working at a job just to make money. Takei pointed out how LiB supports the needs of working women:
Many people expect companies to have well-organized welfare systems. 80% of working women want options, such as working from home or part-time work after getting married or having a baby. […] So, we aim to support them by giving them more work-style options.
Japan's Travee secures seed funding, offering more activity options for Western travelers to Asia
Japanese women's fashion media site 4meee raises $500,000
Singapore's wearable vest startup T.Ware wins top Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2014
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See the original story in Japanese. Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2014 (AEA2014) was held at Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City in a Tokyo suburb yesterday, where Singaporean wearable startup T.Ware won the first prize in the startup pitch competition. This three-day event is organized each year by a local non-profit organization and an incubator as well as the University of Tokyo and Mitsui Fudosan real estate company. Entrepreneurs with promising ideas gathered from all over Asia, where they enjoyed networking and received mentoring, in addition to competing with their pitches against each others. Let's take a brief look at the top three pitch teams. T.Ware (Singapore) won the top prize and received 3 million yen Singapore's T.Ware developed a wearable vest called T.Jacket in collaboration with therapists, university researchers and clinical psychologists, aiming to help people suffering from sensory ailments — such as sensory over-responsiveness — through use of controlled air pressure. T.Jacket simulates the feel of being hugged, as controlled by a smartphone app. It helps people recover from mental disorders like sensory processing difficulties (SPD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's dementia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Gissco (Thailand) was the runner-up and received 1 million yen…
Asian Entrepreneurship Award 2014 (AEA2014) was held at Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City in a Tokyo suburb yesterday, where Singaporean wearable startup T.Ware won the first prize in the startup pitch competition.
This three-day event is organized each year by a local non-profit organization and an incubator as well as the University of Tokyo and Mitsui Fudosan real estate company. Entrepreneurs with promising ideas gathered from all over Asia, where they enjoyed networking and received mentoring, in addition to competing with their pitches against each others.
Let's take a brief look at the top three pitch teams.
T.Ware (Singapore) won the top prize and received 3 million yen
Singapore's T.Ware developed a wearable vest called T.Jacket in collaboration with therapists, university researchers and clinical psychologists, aiming to help people suffering from sensory ailments — such as sensory over-responsiveness — through use of controlled air pressure.
T.Jacket simulates the feel of being hugged, as controlled by a smartphone app. It helps people recover from mental disorders like sensory processing difficulties (SPD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's dementia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Gissco (Thailand) was the runner-up and received 1 million yen
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YouthsToday (Malaysia) came in third and received 500,000 yen
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The service is still only available for events in Malaysia, but they are planning to expand into other Asian countries, the European region as well as the US.
The AEA event allows entrepreneurs from the Asian region to further market themselves through the pitch competition. Some Japanese firms competed but unfortunately none made it to the finals. As most attending startups had been recommended and backed by local incubators or universities in the respective Asian countries, they were relatively mature enough to offer a solid technology or a monetizable business model.
I think many these days have tended to introduce intangible products on the Asian startup scene. However, this event was a great opportunity where I could meet up with many startups from Asia having solid technical backgrounds.
The application deadline for this competition is set annually in early May. Should you be interested in competing during the 2015 event, remember to check their website next spring and ready yourself to pitch.
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Japan's SmartDrive unveils vehicle analytics solution, poised for operational testing
This is the abridged version of our original article in Japanese. Our readers may recall that we recently reported on Japanese stealth startup SmartDrive. The startup has been developing vehicle tracking and bigdata analytics solutions, and fundraised tens of millions yen (or a few hundreds thousands dollars) from Japanese startup investment fund Anri back in February. The company unveiled the details of their service and announced today that it will launch a test operation by nstalling their device in test vehicles next month. The test will be conducted for one month in Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City, a new city in suburban Tokyo. SmartDrive will distribute their device to about 20 testers in the area and ask them to track the condition of their cars and driving data, which will be used to improve the product. Health tracking app for your car Their solution is comprised of a small accessory and a smartphone app. By connecting the accessory to an OBD (on-board diagnostics) interface to a car, it will be synced via BlueTooth with the app on a smartphone. Various metrics, like fuel efficiency or engine stats, will then be transferred to your smartphone. This process is similar to health tracking apps…
Our readers may recall that we recently reported on Japanese stealth startup SmartDrive. The startup has been developing vehicle tracking and bigdata analytics solutions, and fundraised tens of millions yen (or a few hundreds thousands dollars) from Japanese startup investment fund Anri back in February.
The company unveiled the details of their service and announced today that it will launch a test operation by nstalling their device in test vehicles next month. The test will be conducted for one month in Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City, a new city in suburban Tokyo.
SmartDrive will distribute their device to about 20 testers in the area and ask them to track the condition of their cars and driving data, which will be used to improve the product.
Health tracking app for your car
Their solution is comprised of a small accessory and a smartphone app. By connecting the accessory to an OBD (on-board diagnostics) interface to a car, it will be synced via BlueTooth with the app on a smartphone. Various metrics, like fuel efficiency or engine stats, will then be transferred to your smartphone. This process is similar to health tracking apps that obtain data via body sensors.
We've seen several startups like Y Combinator-backed Automatic (launched in 2013) and New York-based Dash Labs (launched back in June 2013) as well as several Kickstarter campaigns like this and that providing similar tracking solutions using the OBD interface.
Bigdata solution on top of people's driving records
SmartDrive does not have a clear business model, but CEO Retsu Kitagawa aims to monetize it via B2B2C.
For example, if an auto insurer, or a car dealer uses the SmartDrive solution and lets customers use it, they will be able to get details from customers' vehicles and provide a cheaper insurance package or better follow-up services. US auto insurer Progressive provides an OBD device called SnapShot to better serve customers. The more types of cars these companies can acquire data from, the more fields the solution can be applied to.
SmartDrive is repeating stress tests to prepare for the operational test. We will feature them as soon as more details become available.
SmartDrive: Exploring the future of the car through big data
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Line reported to submit IPO application to Tokyo Stock Exchange
According to several news sources, Line, the Japanese messaging app company and a subsidiary of Korea internet company Naver (TSE:035420), was reported today that it has submitted an IPO application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The company and its potential underwriter Nomura Securities have not approved the report. Bloomberg reported last month that Line has been in talk with Morgan Stanley and Nomura Securities to explore possibilities to go IPOs at Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ simultaneously.
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According to several news sources, Line, the Japanese messaging app company and a subsidiary of Korea internet company Naver (TSE:035420), was reported today that it has submitted an IPO application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The company and its potential underwriter Nomura Securities have not approved the report.
Bloomberg reported last month that Line has been in talk with Morgan Stanley and Nomura Securities to explore possibilities to go IPOs at Tokyo Stock Exchange as well as New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ simultaneously.
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This mobile app from Japan's Muji helps you relax and sleep wherever
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Ryohin Keikaku, the Japanese company best known for its consumer goods-focused retail chain Muji, recently introduced a sleep-inducing app called 'Muji to Sleep'. It is available in several different languages for Android and iOS. The company introduced a series of neck cushion products last year, which have been getting a good reputation, especially from frequent travelers who take long-haul flights. The mobile app was recently introduced as a sister product of the cushion products. Muji to Sleep offers six different relaxing natural sounds recorded around Japan using the binaural recording method, where the audio frequency gap between left-ear and right-ear channels syncs with the brainwave cycle and induces a sound sleep.
Ryohin Keikaku, the Japanese company best known for its consumer goods-focused retail chain Muji, recently introduced a sleep-inducing app called 'Muji to Sleep'. It is available in several different languages for Android and iOS.
The company introduced a series of neck cushion products last year, which have been getting a good reputation, especially from frequent travelers who take long-haul flights. The mobile app was recently introduced as a sister product of the cushion products.
Muji to Sleep offers six different relaxing natural sounds recorded around Japan using the binaural recording method, where the audio frequency gap between left-ear and right-ear channels syncs with the brainwave cycle and induces a sound sleep.
Muji's minimalist wall-mounted speaker plays music straight from your mobile
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To request more information about the program or to apply, call:
Melissa Sharlat, 410-362-3683
Benefits of volunteering at Bon Secours Baltimore Health System include:
Free parking - garage on site
Free annual flu shot
Up to $5.50 towards a meal for a minimum 4-hour shift
Invitation to two volunteer recognition events: Christmas Luncheon and Annual Volunteer Recognition Luncheon in the Spring
Great feeling of satisfaction knowing you have given Good Help to Those In Need.
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Email your completed application to melissa_sharlat@bshsi.org or fax to (410)947-3210.
Volunteer Requirements:
Passion and motivation to provide Good Help to our patients and staff
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Minimum commitment of four (4) hours per week for at least six (6) months per year
Complete and submit volunteer application
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One-hour orientation
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Q: GET request from rails app with permanent access_token I wish to access a web services api from within a rails application and display the data from the api. The api uses a permanent access_token and a parameter full_access=true. So the url i wish to access is similar to
http://.......com/lists.json?access_token=d10884g521fc4dc964fd9v06a9121f63&full_access=true

I'm having trouble creating a simple get request which includes the access_token so any advice would be helpful. Can I use a simple get request or do I need to implement oauth2?
If so a sample of a very simple client would be helpful

A: You can use the Net::HTTP class:
require 'net/http'

url = URI.parse('http://www.example.com/index.html')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url.path)
res = Net::HTTP.start(url.host, url.port) {|http|
  http.request(req)
}
puts res.body

Hope this helps!

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The HTC 10 Review
by Joshua Ho on September 19, 2016 8:00 AM EST
Android M
Introduction and Design Display System Performance System Performance Cont'd and NAND Performance Battery Life and Charge Time Camera Architecture and UX Still Image Performance Video Performance Software UX: HTC Sense WiFi Performance with Ixia IoT Latency with Google WALT and Misc. Final Words
It probably goes without saying right now that HTC has been a troubled company for some time now. With the One M8 we finally saw that they were making a recovery, but with the Snapdragon 810 and One M9 HTC suffered a massive blow as their offerings just weren't competitive with the Galaxy S6 or Galaxy Note5 for the time. Realistically speaking, any phone with a Snapdragon 810 or 808 just couldn't really compete. With the launch of the Snapdragon 820, it seems that Qualcomm had finally launched an SoC that was a real improvement over the Snapdragon 801 and 805, and in the time since then we've seen a return to normalcy in the smartphone market.
A a result, HTC has been under fairly enormous pressure to perform this product cycle. Their attempt to meet that pressure is the HTC 10, which is the best of what HTC has to offer distilled into a single package. That distillation starts at the name, it seems, as this phone isn't called the One M10. There's no One branding anymore, and the phone is just their tenth, and HTC is hoping that it's a "perfect 10" in every respect.
HTC One M9 HTC 10
SoC Snapdragon 810
4x Cortex-A57 @ 2Ghz
4x Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz
(TSMC 20SoC) Snapdragon 820
2x Kryo @ 2.15GHz
2x Kryo @ 1.6GHz
(Samsung 14LPP)
RAM 3GB LPDDR4 4GB LPDDR4
NAND 32GB NAND + microSD 32/64GB NAND + microSD
Display 5" 1080p
Super LCD3 5.2" 1440p
Super LCD5
Network 2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Category 6/9 LTE) 2G / 3G / 4G LTE (Category 6/9 LTE)
Dimensions 144.6 x 69.7 x 9.61mm, 157g 145.9 x 71.9 x 3-9mm, 161g
Camera 20MP Rear Facing f/2.2, 1.12µm, 1/2.4" (Toshiba T4KA7) 12MP Rear Facing w/ OIS and laser AF, f/1.8, 1.55µm, 1/2.3"
(Sony IMX377)
4MP Front Facing, f/2.0, 2µm
(OmniVision OV4688) 5MP Front Facing w/ OIS, f/1.8, 1.34µm
(Samsung S5K4E6)
Battery 2840 mAh (10.93 Whr) 3000 mAh (11.55 Whr)
OS Android 5 w/ HTC Sense 7
(At Launch) Android 6 w/ HTC Sense
(At Launch)
Connectivity 1x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac,
BT 4.1, (BCM4356),
USB2.0, GPS/GLONASS, NFC 2x2 802.11a/b/g/n/ac,
BT 4.2, (BCM4359)
USB-C, USB3.1,
GPS/GLONASS (US, JP)
GPS/GLONASS/Beidou (EU, Asia)
Fingerprint Sensor N/A Capacitive
SIM NanoSIM NanoSIM
LTE Bands Global: FDD 1/3/5/7/8/20/28
TDD 38/40/41 US: FDD 1/2/3/4/5/7/12/13/17/20/28/29/30
JP: FDD 1/3/5/7/13/17/19/21/26
TDD 38/41
Asia/EU: FDD 1/3/5/7/8/12/20/28/32
TDD 38/40/41
To figure out whether it really is we can start with the basic specs. HTC 10 shares quite a bit on paper with the Galaxy S7, but even here it's obvious that HTC is putting their own sort of spin on things, going with LCD rather than AMOLED. I suspect that HTC is limited by what they can get from suppliers here though, as we'll soon see. The other notable changes include the camera setup, as HTC goes with a larger sensor with laser AF rather than the somewhat exotic dual pixel system seen in the Galaxy S7 for PDAF on every pixel. If you were to just look at the spec sheet and play with the HTC 10 for a few days you might be inclined to think that it's basically identical to the Galaxy S7, but as we'll soon see there is a fair amount of differentiation when looking at the details.
To start our examination of the HTC 10 the easiest place to look is the external design, which is probably something you'll notice as soon as you take it out of the box. The HTC 10 is pretty much the first time since the original HTC One that HTC has done a major design refresh of their flagship. While it is still an aluminum unibody, with the HTC 10 the phone is basically all aluminum and glass to the touch, which is a noticeable contrast to the One M7, M8, and M9 which were all noticeably plastic in some way. While the One M8 may have seemed to be all aluminum, the speaker grilles were very obviously plastic if you looked too closely, and the One M9 had a very obvious and somewhat cheap-feeling plastic cover on the front of the phone.
In contrast, the HTC 10 basically only has plastic injection molded to demarcate the external antennas, and a plastic RF window on top of the phone for its GPS antenna. The top and bottom "strips" of aluminum function as the antennas for all cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, and NFC connectivity. HTC has also gone back to a circular camera cutout, which is definitely more HTC-like than the square cover lens seen in the One M9. In addition to an LED flash, there's also an STM VL53L0 time of flight sensor which is used to help guide contrast AF search. However, unlike the dual pixel arrangement of the Galaxy S7's sensor it's important to note that distance cannot be mapped to focus in an open-loop fashion so a focus sweep is still needed to reach the final focus target.
Moving past the camera, the back cover's curved design ends with a fairly exaggerated glossy bevel that is unique for a smartphone. I thought that it wasn't a particularly elegant design at first but with time it's been growing on me as there's a nice contrast between the sandblasted matte surface of the back and the glossy chamfer. The side and back of the phone are all integrated into a single piece, and side is a flat sandblasted surface with yet another glossy chamfered edge that meets with the glass. However, unlike an iPhone 6s the edge of the metal is slightly higher than the edge of the glass, which does cause a noticeable felt edge if you swipe off the edge of the phone. I suspect that this is done for durability reasons or something similar because the edge of the cover glass is curved, so it would be fairly easy and probably cheaper to have completely flat cover glass that wouldn't have the felt edge. It's also worth mentioning that the 2.5D glass only begins to curve after the end of the display and capacitive buttons so a flat screen protector will cover pretty much everything important on the cover glass. While I'm not sure this is really intentional on HTC's part, it's helpful for those that use screen protectors after my experiences with the Galaxy S7.
When it comes to ports and buttons, pretty much everything is along the sides of the phone. The top has the 3.5mm headphone jack, the right side has the power and volume buttons, and the bottom has the USB-C port and one of the two speakers. The feel of the buttons is dramatically improved relative to the One M9 which were rather soft and uncommunicative, and while the power button is still a bit too low for my taste the ridged design and increased resistance of the buttons means I'm no longer accidentally pressing the power button when I pick up the phone. The buttons themselves are also made of aluminum and break more cleanly when you press on them, which helps to make the phone feel more solid.
The front of the phone is now all glass unlike previous designs, and honestly as a result it looks much cleaner than before. The top of the phone contains the second of the two speakers and the optically-stabilized front-facing camera. Under the display, there is a Fingerprint Cards fingerprint sensor that is purely capacitive and functions as a home button as well as capacitive buttons that are enabled by a Cypress CapSense controller. HTC retains their traditional layout with their display driver on the bottom between the display and fingerprint sensor/capacitive buttons, but due to a move back to capacitive buttons the typing ergonomics of the HTC 10 are dramatically improved and on par with the One M7. While it is possible to enable front-facing speakers without the kind of bezel requirements seen in the One M8 and M9, for a ~5" class device it seems that it's realistically only possible to fit in one front-facing speaker, while phablets generally have more internal volume in the x and y directions to enable more creative speaker placements to enable the second front-facing speaker without major increases in bezel. It's notable that HTC has finally eliminated their logo from the cover glass of the HTC 10, which is something I'd say is worthy of mention here as it makes the design of the phone much cleaner from the front. It would be pretty impressive if HTC could move the fingerprint scanner under the cover glass for next year here to have a truly seamless design.
While simple description of the design is one thing, after a few months of use one thing that really sticks out to me is just how incredibly solid the design of the HTC 10 is. It's just incredibly stiff and doesn't seem to give like any other phone. I usually can feel or hear the back cover or the display assembly flex slightly when I'm applying pressure to these areas on most phones, but the HTC 10 is basically completely free of flex. I don't really mind if a phone isn't completely solid, but it is still impressive to see how strong the HTC 10 is. I don't think this has an impact on drop protection but I don't think you're going to accidentally bend the HTC 10 putting it in your back pocket or something similar.
The HTC 10 also seems to have a remarkably symmetrical design for an Android device. Visually, the 3.5mm jack is centered both horizontally and vertically. The laser AF module and LED flash join together with a line that appears to bisect the camera lens.The bottom microphone hole, speaker holes, and USB port appear to all be the same distance from the display. The USB port itself is visually centered the same way the 3.5mm jack is. The front-facing speaker on the display is also visually centered, and the front-facing camera is bisected by the speaker grille visually. The one notable area where the design has some asymmetry is the placement of the fingerprint scanner and capacitive buttons due to the display driver. There's also some asymmetry with the SIM tray and microSD tray due to the pyramidal stack that HTC retains with the HTC 10. I suspect that symmetry would be possible for the home button, but would cost additional bezel that would affect ergonomics. The LED notification and ALS/proximity sensors are not really aligned with anything, but HTC has managed to hide these things fairly well. Regardless, the design feels more thoughtful than what we've seen on the Galaxy S7, which is acceptable and doesn't affect function but basically nothing is aligned. I would argue that it's also more thoughtful than the Note7, but your mileage may vary here.
Display Introduction and Design Display System Performance System Performance Cont'd and NAND Performance Battery Life and Charge Time Camera Architecture and UX Still Image Performance Video Performance Software UX: HTC Sense WiFi Performance with Ixia IoT Latency with Google WALT and Misc. Final Words
edlee - Wednesday, September 21, 2016 - link
i loved my m8, nothing i got recently feels as good as that phone did.
Since that phone, i have had s6, and s7 edge, but for some reason m8 will always stick with me
bennyadamo - Thursday, October 6, 2016 - link
Agreed. The One M8 was a smartphone masterpiece. I owned both the M8 and a Galaxy S5 (and numerous iphones) and in terms of design, performance and user interface you still can't beat the M8. And HTC's Sense UI absolutely blows iOS and "Touchwiz" out of the water (just an aside, but how idiotic is "touchwiz" as a name for a UI? Or for anything else for that matter? I feel embarrassed just typing it). If you think the UI doesn't make a huge difference in your phone experience, try using Sense and Touchwiz side-by-side for a week. Even just small things like the small amount of lag time it takes for the display to re-orient from portrait to landscape when rotating the phone in your hand become infuriating when you have to live with Touchwiz daily. And besides the superior UI, the One M8 just looked and felt like a premium piece of hardware. Many, many times I had people ask me what type of phone it was or inspect it front to back when I let them hold it in their hands, impressed by the solid/premium feel of it. At this point, the One M8 is still (rather unfortunately) HTC's high-water mark. Although having said that I did just order the HTC 10 to take advantage of their sale ($150 off if you buy an unlocked phone directly from HTC from 10/1/16 to 10/8/16).
Also, I read some of these comments saying that it's a waste of time to review or buy a phone 7 months after it's launch - that's not true and is a really misguided/misinformed opinion. A lot of people buy a phone that long after it's come out simply because they are waiting for their current phone contract to expire. Other reasons are because some of the teething bugs have been worked out or simply because the price drops after that amount of time (read above re: HTC's current sale on the HTC 10). The average person doesn't need to buy the newest/highest-end/highest-spec phone every year, and most people probably get 2-2.5 years out of a smartphone like this.
ipaulw83 - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
certainly not dead, the HTC 10 is a far much better choice than the G5, S7 & Note 7 "Fiasco" and other flagships. the only real threat to HTC is the OnePlus 3 but overall the build quality and camera is in favor of HTC 10... i would hate to see them die or break software updates promises as recent news, nevertheless they have a great product that is more special than any other current android flagship (IMHO).
i do not own any HTC product currently or stock or anything i use an iphone and an LG nexus 5x but wanted to give my opinion
repatch - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
"far much better choice" for you perhaps. Why all the generalizing?
I for one went with the LG G5, for one reason: the camera. The super wide angle camera on this thing is FANTASTIC, everyone who's seen it marvels at the kind of shots you get with it. It's REALLY fun. For ME, the "far much better choice" is the G5, but that won't apply to most others.
The S7 for me was a no go due to the glass back (can't stand glass backs because they are so prone to breakage, my Nexus 4 went through 3, and NONE of those were broken due to drops). The HTC 10 just didn't have anything 'special' going for it.
Again, that's MY opinion, it's best to sit down and write down what are go/no go's, for YOU, and make a choice that way.
IMHO of course.
Impulses - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
I really wanted to like LG's latest, I use an ultra wide lens on my mirrorless M4/3 cameras so that was right up my alley... The overall package (and uber gimmicky modules on their latest) never convinced me.
If I HAD picked up a new phone last year it would've been a 10, for the better audio and lack of TouchWiz... My N5 is still trucking along tho, at least until the Pixels come out.
This breadth of choices, even in a market that's contacting, is still something I really like about the Android ecosystem.
FourEyedGeek - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
Already have the Galaxy S7...
smorebuds - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
And this article is for you and only you...
FourEyedGeek - Tuesday, September 20, 2016 - link
Its for all those people who want to make a decision on buying a new smartphone, but might have been helpful to those making a choice months ago don't you think?
Freido - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
HTC 10 is a nice looking phone. But it lacks a high brightness screen. It is a tad bigger as well. Thats my personal opinion. If it was a bit smaller like 4.9", I would have bought it. I've decided to buy Sony X compact or iPhone SE. Recent Sony phones like xlX performance and XZ sports very good displays I think. Looks as stunning as of iphones IPS displays.
I was wondering why Anandtech never reviews Sony flagships even though they does release good phones with less gimmicks.
Will anyone consider my suggestion?
fanofanand - Monday, September 19, 2016 - link
They have addressed this in the past, typically Sony does not give out samples to the press. In today's "give me everything for free" world, websites like this simply don't have the excess cash to go buying every cool new toy that comes out. Would it be sweet? Absolutely, but for the most part if Anandtech doesn't review something it's because they couldn't obtain one from the company.


First of all, I am a huge fan of and advocate for graphic novels. And I love the Science Comics series; I believe that they fill an important gap in nonfiction for children and young adults. However, like any series that has different authors and illustrators, some of the books are better than others. For example, I disliked SCIENCE COMICS: VOLCANOES: Fire and Life, but I adored SCIENCE COMICS: BATS: Learning to Fly. Unfortunately, SCIENCE COMICS: TREES: Kings of the Forest by Hirsch falls in between dislike and adoration for me.
"Hirsch packs a huge amount of information between the covers. The information is extremely thorough and well-researched, but it becomes quite dense."
Hirsch deftly found the balance between the "story" and the presentation of information in TREES: Kings of the Forest. The main "character" is an adorable, somewhat hyperactive and not very bright Acorn. Although he is small, he is able to carry the story and I believe that some readers will be compelled to continue reading because of Acorn's appeal. TREES: Kings of the Forest is filled with supporting characters, such as a frog, a leaf and a squirrel, that expose Acorn to different aspects of trees. These supporting characters are not as strongly consistent as Acorn, but as only a portion of the story is spent with each of them this is less important.
Where I believe that TREES: Kings of the Forest falters is in the depth and amount of information that it presents. Hirsch packs a huge amount of information between the covers. The information is extremely thorough and well-researched, but it becomes quite dense. Yes, I realize that this is a nonfiction book and that its purpose is to present thorough and well-researched information, but I believe, in this case, that it missed the mark for the intended audience, which is 9-to-13-year-olds. I have a Ph.D., granted not in dendrology or forestry, and I became bogged down in the information and the text quite often, which left me feeling like I was slogging through the book. I certainly don't want to imply that I think that the information should be "dumbed down" for the intended audience, but if it is inaccessible or unappealing to the audience that defeats the purpose as well. The visuals and other graphic novel elements certainly helped to convey the information as well, but these did little to mitigate the density of the textual information.
I think that TREES: Kings of the Forest would be perfect for those with background knowledge in and/or a deep interest in trees. However, I think that it may be too much for other types of readers.