Hasta La Gadget!

The HTC One M8 has a pretty interesting accessory in the form of the Dot View cover. What it does is that instead of just covering the phone entirely or opting for a small window like Samsung’s S View cover, it instead features rows and columns of tiny dots in which information can be seen in an 8-bit-like design.

It’s pretty novel and useful if you want to check simple notifications, the time, the weather, and so on. However what if the phone could be hacked in order to allow the case to display even more notifications? Wouldn’t that be pretty cool?

Well hacker Shen Ye has managed to do that and has recently posted a photo of his HTC One M8 with the Dot View case in which the phone is not only able to display the time, but also shows off notifications from Twitter. If you ever wonder what the Twitter mascot would look like in 8-bit, wonder no more.

Unfortunately Shen Ye did not provide more details about the hack, such as whether it will require root access or a hacked APK file, although he did state that since the Sense UI already has access to social networking APIs, it wasn’t that hard to get the Dot View case to show those notifications.

We reckon it’s pretty novel but if you like what you see, hopefully Shen Ye will release a tutorial or how-to on how to achieve that effect with your own HTC One M8.

HTC One M8 Hacked To Allow Dot View Case To Display Additional Notifications , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, HTC One (M8),

HTC doesn’t measure the quality of its flagship’s camera in conventional terms. Last year original HTC One came with an Ultrapixel camera and its successor stuck to this as well. Though this time around the company has made a major improvement. HTC One M8 has dual cameras which are undoubtedly touted as one of the core selling points of this device. The company isn’t restricting access to the two cameras, as promised, it has released the Dual Lens SDK Preview for HTC One M8′s Duo Camera.

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Dual Lens SDK For HTC One M8 Released original content from Ubergizmo.

Both HTC and Samsung have already unveiled and released their 2014 flagship smartphones, HTC One M8 and the Galaxy S5. There’s a major difference between both devices. HTC opted for an all metal build whereas Samsung stuck with plastic. Leaked internal documents recently revealed that the Taiwan based company believes its flagship is a better choice simply because of the metal build. A new report claims today that both companies might now be considering alternative build materials for their flagships to ensure that they perform well in various markets.

The report comes from Digitimes, a Taiwanese trade publication, which has a hit or miss track record. Citing sources, the report claims that HTC might offer a plastic variant of the One M8, whereas Samsung might introduced a variant of Galaxy S5 that has an all metal build. It has already been long rumored that Samsung is working on a “premium” variant of the Galaxy S5, but nothing has materialized as yet.

The obvious advantage for HTC is price. It will be able to offer the smartphone at a cheaper price than its rival. This might give HTC One M8 sales a boost in Asian markets, where the off contract price of the flagship is expected to fall from $700-800 for the metal variant to $400-500 for the plastic one.

There has been no confirmation as yet about these plans from either company, so a grain of salt is advised.

HTC And Samsung Consider Alternative Materials For Flagships [Report] , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, HTC One (M8), Samsung Galaxy S5,

HTC is committed to using an all-metal build for its high-end flagship smartphones. Both the original HTC One and the new HTC One M8 tout metal builds which have been much appreciated, in fact, the company itself considers the metal body a plus over the plastic Galaxy S5. So this rumor doesn’t exactly make a whole lot of sense. A rumor surfaced today claiming that a plastic HTC One M8 is going to be released in the near future. Apart from the difference in build material everything else, as far as the physical appearance goes, is expected to be the same.

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Plastic HTC One M8 Rumored original content from Ubergizmo.

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