The HTC One (M8) is one of the better Android handsets available. For many, it’s the aluminum shell that takes the cake. What happens when you strip it away and add plastic, though? Is the device still a winner? The HTC One (E8) is trying to answer that question.

This has been done recently, and it didn’t go over that well. The iPhone 5C was basically an iPhone 5 in plastic, and while not a bad phone — it wasn’t the iPhone we all knew and loved. The HTC One (E8) could find itself in similar company, taking the sexy metal casing and re-branding it anew in molded plastic.

Hardware

Aside from swapping plastic from metal, is anything else different? You can run down much of the spec list of the One (M8) and find the same hardware. Snapdragon 801, Adreno 330, 2,600mAh battery, 16GB memory (expandable), and 2GB RAM.
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