--- product_id: 50113293 title: "One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Amber Gold" brand: "htc" price: "447887CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 category: "Htc" url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50113293-one-m8-uk-sim-free-smartphone-amber-gold store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # Motion Launch gesture controls 5" Full HD 1080P Gorilla Glass 3 HTC Duo Camera with depth & tilt effects One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Amber Gold **Brand:** htc **Price:** 447887CFA **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📲 Elevate your everyday — the HTC One M8 blends style, smarts, and seamless control. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Amber Gold by htc - **How much does it cost?** 447887CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50113293-one-m8-uk-sim-free-smartphone-amber-gold) ## Best For - htc enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted htc brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Effortless Interaction:** Answer calls, launch apps, or dial contacts instantly with intuitive Motion Launch gestures — because your time is too valuable for fumbling. - • **Next-Level Photography:** Capture stunning layered shots with the HTC Duo Camera, allowing you to refocus, soften backgrounds, and explore new angles after snapping the perfect photo. - • **Personalized Content Hub:** Stay effortlessly informed with HTC BlinkFeed, delivering your favorite news and social updates directly to your home screen for seamless browsing. - • **Vibrant & Durable Display:** Experience crystal-clear visuals on a 5-inch Full HD screen protected by tough Corning Gorilla Glass 3 — built to keep up with your fast-paced lifestyle. - • **Expandable Storage & Freedom:** Enjoy 16GB internal memory plus microSD expansion, giving you the space to store all your essentials without compromise. ## Overview The HTC One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone in Amber Gold features a 5-inch Full HD 1080P display with Gorilla Glass 3 for durability, innovative Motion Launch gesture controls for quick access, and a dual-lens HTC Duo Camera that lets you refocus and add creative effects post-shot. With 16GB internal storage expandable via microSD and HTC BlinkFeed delivering personalized content to your home screen, this phone offers a premium, user-friendly experience designed to keep you connected and ahead. ## Description Legal Disclaimer In case of any return, your phone MUST be 'Factory Reset' BEFORE you dispatch the item back to us. We will NOT refund any amount if your returned phone is locked with any passcode or ID. Review: Brilliant phone purchase! - Excellent phone! HTC has worked for me and several friends for years - and the M8 so far has been great for me. The price was good value through desertcart, and I've calculated it will work out as saving me money, purchasing a phone myself and going SIM only with a network rather than going onto another contract for 24months!! Especially as I'm hoping this phone lasts me a good few years if I look after it properly, with no need to upgrade after 2. I love the colour - as I was after something a bit different from the normal greys and silvers. The size isn't too big either - I had the M7 previously, which is slightly smaller but not much. And as always Android is so much easier to use and get on with than a certain fashionable brand which teenagers flock to. The HTC has a great camera and often takes better photos than my little digital camera, lots of storage, great screen organisation, and battery life is really good - On a normal day I often only use around 50% and even using my phone as a Sat Nav without charging it in the car I still have battery life left at the end of the day!! I imagine this will wane as the phone ages, but for now it's great. The HTC also has the best speakers of any phone on the market, no matter what model you have, and on the M* there's no exception. Fantastic sound from this phone! As with all phone changes there are some differences to get used to - but these are minimal here and easy to get used to - such as the home and back buttons no longer being physical buttons but part of the touch screen, and the power button on the top of the phone being on the opposite side to what I was used to! I had been toying with getting the more up to date M9 but after lots of comparison reading I decided on the M8, and am glad I did. I think for the hike in price for an upgrade to the M9 it's not worth it. The cost was a big factor for me - esp after finding that after 2.5 yrs the M7 had lost nearly all its value (originally £600 brand new down to £25!!!), so don't weant to invest such a huge amount when it's not going to be worth much in a couple years. And from what I've read it seems that the M9 doesn't have much of an edge over the M8 for me to warrant paying out for it. This phone is great, and in my opinion should be outselling the Samsungs and Apples out there! Review: It was locked to Vodafone & no customer support at all :( - The phone arrived way earlier than expected. Was absolutely over the moon. It was packed so well I could've dropped it from a roof and it'd be fine. The phone was described as grade B, but in all honestly I'd call it a grade a. It's immaculate. However, the major sting in the tail was that it was listed as unlocked but came locked to Vodafone. So I had to pay to get it unlocked. It's a real shame as these guys had awesome reviews and very happy previous customers. Furthermore, I've replied to all of thier courtesy emails and they've ignored them all. ## Features - The 5", full HD 1080P screen with tough Corning Gorilla Glass 3 has been built to last. - Motion Launch - Simply lift the phone to your ear to answer a call, access apps with a single swipe or use voice control to dial one of your contacts. - HTC Duo Camera takes different 'layers' of the same shot so you can do more with the photo afterwards. Choose where to focus, soften backgrounds and even tilt your phone to see the picture from a different angle. - HTC BlinkFeed - all your favourite content from newsfeed & social pages are all put on your home screen to make viewing a breeze. - 16GB internal memory with a microSD slot for expandable memory ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B00JF609BK | | Best Sellers Rank | 92,666 in Electronics & Photo ( See Top 100 in Electronics & Photo ) 3,595 in SIM-Free & Unlocked Mobile Phones | | Guaranteed software updates until | unknown | | Item model number | 99HYK221-00 | | Manufacturer | HTC | | Product Dimensions | 7.1 x 0.9 x 14.6 cm; 160 g | ## Product Details - **Brand:** HTC - **CPU model:** Snapdragon - **CPU speed:** 2.3 GHz - **Memory storage capacity:** 32 GB - **Model name:** HTC One M8 - **Operating system:** Android - **RAM memory installed size:** 3 GB - **Resolution:** 1080p - **Screen size:** 5 Inches - **Wireless carrier:** T-Mobile ## Images ![One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Amber Gold - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91QIZmfEZlL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Color, Size** options. ## Questions & Answers **Q: Hi. Someone mentioned that the charger that comes with the phone does not fit into US electric outlets. Is that true?** A: It comes with a micro usb cord and a usb wall adapter (which fits the standard US two-prong socket). If it doesn't fit for you for some reason just stick the usb cord into another adapter and it'll work= **Q: Can I use this phone in Trinidad and Tobago (West Indies)** A: an unblocked phone can be used anyware as long as your services provider has coverage for the bands the phone can handle and they have the chip type the phone uses **Q: Hello , wanted to know if it is compatible with the GSM band Argentina** A: My colleague is using it with GSM in India. Not sure about Argentina. **Q: It says LTE, this does mean it will run 4G LTE data speeds, correct?** A: Yes as long as your network supports the frequencies the phone uses. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brilliant phone purchase! *by A***R on 10 December 2016* Excellent phone! HTC has worked for me and several friends for years - and the M8 so far has been great for me. The price was good value through Amazon, and I've calculated it will work out as saving me money, purchasing a phone myself and going SIM only with a network rather than going onto another contract for 24months!! Especially as I'm hoping this phone lasts me a good few years if I look after it properly, with no need to upgrade after 2. I love the colour - as I was after something a bit different from the normal greys and silvers. The size isn't too big either - I had the M7 previously, which is slightly smaller but not much. And as always Android is so much easier to use and get on with than a certain fashionable brand which teenagers flock to. The HTC has a great camera and often takes better photos than my little digital camera, lots of storage, great screen organisation, and battery life is really good - On a normal day I often only use around 50% and even using my phone as a Sat Nav without charging it in the car I still have battery life left at the end of the day!! I imagine this will wane as the phone ages, but for now it's great. The HTC also has the best speakers of any phone on the market, no matter what model you have, and on the M* there's no exception. Fantastic sound from this phone! As with all phone changes there are some differences to get used to - but these are minimal here and easy to get used to - such as the home and back buttons no longer being physical buttons but part of the touch screen, and the power button on the top of the phone being on the opposite side to what I was used to! I had been toying with getting the more up to date M9 but after lots of comparison reading I decided on the M8, and am glad I did. I think for the hike in price for an upgrade to the M9 it's not worth it. The cost was a big factor for me - esp after finding that after 2.5 yrs the M7 had lost nearly all its value (originally £600 brand new down to £25!!!), so don't weant to invest such a huge amount when it's not going to be worth much in a couple years. And from what I've read it seems that the M9 doesn't have much of an edge over the M8 for me to warrant paying out for it. This phone is great, and in my opinion should be outselling the Samsungs and Apples out there! ### ⭐ It was locked to Vodafone & no customer support at all :( *by J***P on 7 July 2017* The phone arrived way earlier than expected. Was absolutely over the moon. It was packed so well I could've dropped it from a roof and it'd be fine. The phone was described as grade B, but in all honestly I'd call it a grade a. It's immaculate. However, the major sting in the tail was that it was listed as unlocked but came locked to Vodafone. So I had to pay to get it unlocked. It's a real shame as these guys had awesome reviews and very happy previous customers. Furthermore, I've replied to all of thier courtesy emails and they've ignored them all. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A good inspirational model worthy of a look *by M***N on 7 July 2018* My HTC One M8 has just failed completely so whilst I look for what my next phone will be, this is my final verdict on this. When I first purchased this phone it was £485, this was in June 2014, so it has lasted me almost exactly 4 years before it gave up completely though I think the really hot weather we have been having finally finished it off. ----------------- Good Points ----------------- - Large Screen, amazing speakers and headphone hack, makes it a great phone to have with you on long journeys as you can use it to watch movies and listen to music - Headphone jack, though I have said this already, with new models getting rid of the headphone jack, I think it's important to mention this one hasn't done that - Great camera, it has dual camera which I never made use of but the picture quality was amazing - Great user interface, I had my main pane where I select what apps I wanted set up really easily and it would easy to turn off any notifications I didn't want to see - Notifications were easy to see, e.g. if someone sent a message on a particular application or someone posted a new video, it was very good at notifying you of the news --------------- Bad Points --------------- - Large screen, this is a good point and a bad point, being so big combined with it's slim design means it feel a bit over the top, the phone could easily fall out of your pocket if you have other things at the bottom of it - Poor battery life, towards the end my phone started cutting out at 20%, the battery would go down so quickly especially if you watched any videos, the battery life was never great to begin with - Poor phone reception, people calling me couldn't always get through, I had another phone to compare it to so I know it's not the greatest in this area - Confusing contact list, when adding people to my contact list, I didn't find this so user friendly - Slim design, it's great that it is so light and thin but it's so thin you can easily drop it which meant I always used a case, in turn this meant I never felt motivated to test out the dual camera as the second camera was always covered - Difficult to repair, I took this to a repair shop and they wouldn't repair it and if you watch a video of someone replacing the battery, you'll see what I mean, it's like mission impossible, I know people have successfully replaced their battery however, in my case the phone is completely dead so I think it's destined for the scrap heap - Screen Time Out function kept resetting, meaning my phone would go into sleep mode sooner than I would like and when I changed the settings, one day it would randomly reset and I would have to set it again. - Unwanted notifications, though I could turn this off easily, there were way too many and HTC kept asking if I wanted to share my data and every time I let it know and it wouldn't be long before it asked again, I found this bit a little intrusive. - Small Internal Storage, the amount of updates that come through, I barely had anything installed on my phone so expect to run out of space, though you can purchase an external memory card to compensate for this. ---------- Overall ---------- Though I gave this lots of bad points, I was happy with the experience this phone gave me and definitely helped me decide what type of phone I want to buy next. It was a series of little things that let this phone down but the things it did well at, it did them very well. The fact that this phone is a lot cheaper now, if you want a good experience without paying a mountain of cash and you are okay with the bad battery life then you will like this phone. It's an inspirational model and worth a look. ## Frequently Bought Together - HTC One M8 UK SIM-Free Smartphone - Amber Gold - Meta Quest Link Cable – Works with Meta Quest 3/3S/2/Pro – 16ft (5m) – Premium fibre-optic cable – Access PC VR games – Up to 5 Gbps bandwidth - Globular Cluster Comfortable Kit Compatible with Meta Quest Pro-Soft and Bigger Forehead/Rear Pads with Top Strap Added --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50113293-one-m8-uk-sim-free-smartphone-amber-gold](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/50113293-one-m8-uk-sim-free-smartphone-amber-gold) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-06-02*