But at least it's working in the UK now, which it wasn't at the time of launch. Ideally, this service should know the EXACT moments that I'll be looking for a new place to eat (when calendar invites show lunch, for instance) rather than just generically.
You also get Yelp recommendations for local lunch spots, which will occasionally show up on your lock screen.
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Once you've tapped to download the News Republic app, you'll have more control over which of these stories are surfaced. Scroll left now and you'll find the Highlights screen, providing a random selection of news stories from around the web, alongside any appointments for the day from the Calendar app. Right now, that mainly means News Republic. Towards the end of 2015, BlinkFeed changed into a service platform for aggregating content from partners. It seems HTC agreed, but it still hasn't gone far enough. I've noted before that there was something about BlinkFeed that hadn't evolved in the way I wanted it to, even though I was promised three years ago it would become really intuitive. HTC's custom news feed is still located to the left of the main home screen, but now it's a little different. In both cases, BlinkFeed has changed since our initial review.
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We've had two fresh test units in since our initial review - one still running on Android Lollipop and Sense 7.0, and the other running Android Marshmallow and Sense 7.0. That point I just made about HTC Service Pack making the question of which Android version the HTC One M9 is running less of an issue is perfectly illustrated with BlinkFeed. In a vacuum you probably won't notice it too much, but in comparison it's lagging. It's very slow compared to the first three, taking an age to boot, to load apps and to generally keep things in the cache. In our testing, it's not got the same speed at all when compared with the iPhone 6, LG G4, Samsung Galaxy S6 and Sony Xperia Z3. There are still pauses, judders and stumbles though, which I don't expect in a phone of this level. That said, they're still great ways to drive through the phone, and the nimbleness of the Snapdragon 810 chip means most of the touches are buttery smooth and quick.
The interface hasn't really been overhauled that much in the last few years, and given most of the updates below will be coming to the HTC One M8 it seems like the reason to get them on the current model is slightly limited.