HTC ONE M8 gets new success to boast on, becomes the phone with fastest touch screen registry time

Looks like HTC can add another feather in the cap of the One M8 as the phone’s screen has the fastest touch-screen registry time of any smartphone.

46ms is all it takes for the One M8 to recognize your touch input; the first phone to go under 50ms.

Improved latency speeds are part of the cell phone spec revolution, it appears. In addition to better cameras, processors, high resolution screens, and storage space, making your cell phone quicker to respond to your touch has been added to that list of necessary improvements.

Smartphone manufacturers, and their loyal customers, have been waging a specifications war for various aspects of their favorite Android devices. In one aspect or another, many smartphones can claim they are the best – they have the biggest camera, the biggest screen or maybe just the longest battery life. This should not come as a surprise as there are many factors that go into making the perfect device. Although all factors make a difference, there are a few that truly affect the experience of using a device, display latency is one of these factors.

Research indicates that most touchscreen devices, both phones and tablets, that are 6 months and older averaged a latency speed of 80ms-250ms. Poorer latency speeds are most notable on applications that require dragging motions, like the popular game, Fruit Ninja.

By comparison, the Samsung Note 3 has a latency of 63ms, and the iPhone 5s takes 75ms to register a touch.

Tablets seem to take a longer time to register presses. The Kindle Fire HD has 114ms latency. The Surface RT fares better with 92ms, but is nowhere near Microsoft’s ideal time: 1ms.

The issue of latency is a tricky one, as it is difficult to attribute a single component of a device that improves touch-speed. It isn’t only RAM or raw processing power, but a combination of factors.Sitting in between the 5-inch display and the all metal curved casing of the new HTC One (M8)is a 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor, Adreno 330 GPU and 2GB of Ram – all contributing factors to HTC’s latest claim to fame,.

Are you a little more interested in HTC’s newest flagship now that it has the world’s fastest screen?

It is a number that is really not thought about outside of the manufacturers. Yet, the faster that a device registers a touch input, the faster an app is going to open. How fast does your phone register a touch on its screen? Check out the table below.