HTC One M8: Pricing
Officially speaking, the HTC One M8 carries an outright RRP of $899. That’s exactly the price that Harvey Norman list it at right now.
On the direct import side, at the time of writing Mobicity offers the HTC One M8 for $859. Kogan is selling it for $829.
In contract land, it’s available through all three major carriers.
Telstra offer the HTC One M8 on plans starting at $81/month ($550 “worth” of Talk/MMS, unlimited SMS and 500MB data/month) for 24 months with a minimum total cost of $1944.
Vodafone are offering the HTC One M8 on plans starting at $70/month ($700 worth of call value, unlimited Vodafone calls, unlimited texts) for 24 months with a minimum total cost of $1680, although the $75 plan is better value, as it doubles the data offering over the entire duration of the plan.
Optus’s plans for the HTC One M8 start at $58/month (200 minutes of calls, unlimited SMS/MMS, 200MB data) over 24 months for a minimum total cost of $840.
HTC One M8: Fat Duck Verdict
The premium smartphone space is a fascinating one at the moment, with only small iterative differences marking out the top players. Some of these can veer towards the gimmicky, but thankfully that’s something that the HTC One M8 doesn’t indulge in too much.
Instead, what you get for your premium phone price is a premium phone that feels, looks and acts like a premium phone. If you want a phone so that you can show off, it’s an excellent buy, and if you want a phone that, despite its benchmarking malarkey really can run quite well and for a good solid chunk of time, it’s an exceptional choice.
It’s still early days in the 2014 smartphone pack, but HTC’s secured itself a very solid place in the contenders for phone of the year — and that says a lot about where the rest of the market needs to look in order to beat it.
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