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HTC One |OT| The Beauty is a Beast
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Jigolo
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what lack of info? did you even read this page alone of the thread? You know what nvm. Just go here:
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/04/t-mo...launch-date-on-twitter-wi-fi-calling-and-all/
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/04/htc-...vice-appears-to-be-free-of-t-mobile-branding/
http://www.tmonews.com/2013/04/second-screenshot-confirms-april-24th-htc-one-launch-date/
Off contract price for 32gb is $579.99
Glorious Ownage
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SirMossyBloke
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Best Buy just called to let me know my Bell HTC One is in an ready for purchase on Friday
Woo!
Woo!
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Looking forward to more GAFer hands on impressions!
So I got to hold this and play with it at the telus store in edmonton.
The screen is something else coming from an iPhone 4S, the size and clarity is something else that's for sure.
I asked him about this or the gs4 and he really started to push me towards the gs4 but I definitely think this will be the phone for me.
The screen is something else coming from an iPhone 4S, the size and clarity is something else that's for sure.
I asked him about this or the gs4 and he really started to push me towards the gs4 but I definitely think this will be the phone for me.
-Pyromaniac-
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I was in a store today for the lulz and the guy asked me what I wanted to do, I said I was still deciding, I mentioned I might get the One, who knows, and he started pushing me to S4 heavily (even the S3).
No doubt they ordered tons of stock for the S4 and want to get them sold. Probably want to get rid of S3s as well.
The one thing he did say was that he has held both the htc one and the gs4 and he said te one certainly does have more of a premium feel to it over the gs4, his argument for the gs4 was the s voice, s drive, s fit options.
I think I'm going to just buy the one off contract and sell my iPhone 4S to recoup some of the cost
I think I'm going to just buy the one off contract and sell my iPhone 4S to recoup some of the cost
Marty Chinn
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Damn, even Googling it, it's not clear if I need to upgrade my micro sim card or not from my iPhone 4. It's the same size sim I believe, but there's some people saying you need a new one to get it to work and others are saying you don't.
For the record, at the moment, I don't care about LTE, I just want the phone to work and I'm fine with 3G. I was hoping this would be as simple as popping in my sim card and not having to deal with anyone to try out the phone. That way my wife and I can just swap out our sim cards and we can both try out the phone. It's going to be a hassle if we both have to go to an AT&T store to swap sims and stuff.
mastershake
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Sounds legit. I was in love with the black version until i saw how my friends black iPhone 5 is holding up naked.
The silver is still a very nice design as well. My 2009 MBP still looks brand new despite quit a bit of travel, so that ultimately swayed me towards the silver one.
Thinking of doing the same just because I am really curious how the Note III is going to turn out. That thing will prolly be really expensive off contract so I'll just save my upgrade for that and sell my iphone to offset some of the One's cost.
I've found store employees at a wireless company are located keep GameStop employees. Terrible.
SirMossyBloke
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Wat?
Despite me rarely dropping phones, I'm scared of going caseless with the One because if it falls the aluminum is very likely to dent and the screen could break. Therefore for me it would be only the speakers that would be the major benefit while using the phone. I would not want a case on this beauty.
So yeah, I think I'm going to end up going with the S4, which will offer the better performance and faster updates. I'll pray that the Motorola and Google's baby descends down from the sky's and brings glory to world.
SirMossyBloke
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You honesty believe you'll "see" the faster performance?? It's 1.7 vs 1.9 and the S4 has a lot more S-stuff potentially going on in the background. It's like choosing the One because it has a better screen. No-one will notice.
Faster updates I can believe though.
The Faceless Master
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are you switching to AT&T?
from the drop tests i've seen, the biggest issue seems to be the speaker assembly popping out and not snapping back in.
Battery performance *
I browse on the GAF mobile site a lot with the dark background
shinshoryuken
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at least yours is shipped =( mine is still processing
I wish I should have gotten the no contract price/dev edition and used the contract price for the S4.
The dude at the store said I would get it by Friday at the latest whether I had it shipped to myself or to the store for pickup. I'm hoping UPS delivers it early.
shinshoryuken
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yeah hope it gets here by Friday.
sucks pre ordering and getting it on Monday, while people can just go to the store and pick one up Friday.
SirMossyBloke
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The One has better web browsing time.
-Pyromaniac-
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silly amoleds
Technosteve
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anandtech gave this phone a glowing review, might get this phone if i'm not interested in the iphone 5s.
-Pyromaniac-
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I was listening to the podcast and anand himself said he feels the same as the review, didn't at first but then he started to FEELIT.
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i was hurt when he called my phone an appliance, it's also my podcast streaming machine.
Like I've mentioned, I browse neogaf a lot using the dark theme so I'd actually expect web browsing to be higher for me on the S4 compared HTC One. The reasoning for HTC's higher browsing is because most of the web pages are white in that browsing test. I definitely still see HTC battery life in use as a positive and was of the reasons I still considered getting it. It's a phone that looks and sounds better than an iPhone and that can match it in battery life, speed, and functionality.
-Pyromaniac-
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I don't know about you mu I stream things from all my household appliances!
Getting pretty hype. As someone who has been Moto all the way (Every Droid phone from 1 to four sans 2) this will be my first HTC/non keyboard device. Never really dealt with sense though so I'm guessing that will take some getting used to but I hear HTC is more dev friendly and as someone who loves to tinker and root this is music to my ears seeing how difficult Moto has gotten lately after the super open Droid 1.
-Pyromaniac-
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hahaa I'm undecided until friday. I lean both ways. The One has the unfair advantage of me having had a hands on with it (it basically undressed me). I flip flop every day. At first it was 70% S4 30% something else. Now it's 65% One, 35% S4.
Ultimately meaningless since I'll end up dumping it in Oct/Nov for the nexus 5 or whatever google releases, which is why I might just go with the sexy one. We'll know on friday
shinshoryuken
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I listen to the podcast too. The thing that struck me the most was Brain ranting about how much he hates SD cards as a format for storage. Personally I don't agree with him cause it never gave me issues. I kinda don't want to look into it ... he blabber about how its better not to know.
Sorry about the late reply!
Here is the link.
Select £20 to £30 on 'line rental' and it should be near the bottom. I get extra mins and 1gb of data from Orange since I'm under 24 for free.
Here is more info on that!
Technosteve
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I liked the Galaxy Nexus, the rest were just meh
Technosteve
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He's talking about how android used to partition stuff on the SD drive and how some things would run and somethings won't run and could only run in the home partition. I haven't used a modern android phone with 4.0+ so i don't know if that's still an issue, SD speed is also an issue.
shinshoryuken
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He's not talking about strictly android application, he thinks SD card is a horrible medium for storage. He say something about "ignorant is bliss" and that when people finds out how really horrible it is, people will never use it. I for one had SD cards in my pocket and it got washed....and it still works...so I dunno...
hahaa I'm undecided until friday. I lean both ways. The One has the unfair advantage of me having had a hands on with it (it basically undressed me). I flip flop every day. At first it was 70% S4 30% something else. Now it's 65% One, 35% S4.
Ultimately meaningless since I'll end up dumping it in Oct/Nov for the nexus 5 or whatever google releases, which is why I might just go with the sexy one. We'll know on friday
I refuse to buy one until you make a decision
/armscrossed
The Faceless Master
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honestly, for me it's more about the belt clip and kickstand functionality than the case functionality. and horizontal launchers!
well, going from the idle CPU usage inferred from GSMArena battery charts, the One seems to suck more juice when doing nothing...
yeah, that's in general browsing though. on GAF Mobile with the black theme, it would be no contest.
-Pyromaniac-
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Lets go together and get the One. It'll be like a suicide pact.
SirMossyBloke
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Yeah, quite a big difference too, but I'd personally rather have a better battery when I'm using it than when I'm not.
No numbers on that though right? Either way general browsing is general browsing. I'd hate to use GAF on the awful dark screen just to squeeze some more life out of it. I'd rather browse how I want rather than how I have to. All personal preference though.
SirMossyBloke
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Bell just tweeted abou their lineup of super phones. I went to the webpage and it lists all their phones, including the S4. No sign of the HTC One. I'm beginning to wonder if they've been paid to keep it low key.
Yeah I don't know what is going on, when I talked to the guy at Bell today about upgrading my device he was really dodgy with me on the HTC one information.
I'm wondering with the popularity of the galaxy devices if its worth jumping on that bandwagon....man I'm so conflicted right now.!
I'm wondering with the popularity of the galaxy devices if its worth jumping on that bandwagon....man I'm so conflicted right now.!
The Faceless Master
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no numbers on that particular scenario, but a black pixel on AMOLED is off while a white pixel is getting full power. also, black bg on white or light text on AMOLED screens looks AMAZING in person.
what backlight? it's AMOLED
Recent devices have had black pixels still have some power going through them. My first AMOLED was the Galaxy Nexus and you could, in a dark room, see a very slight "lit up" black screen. It was still much better black than an LCD could do, but apparently it saves power by leaving pixels "on" all the time?
Either way, that leaves me as never owning a device with perfect blacks
Also, don't AMOLED screens use more power on whites than LCDs, making the overall usage even or even worse on the AMOLED end? Obviously this would change with someone who almost always has blacks on the screen, but my experience hasn't shown a noticeable battery improvement with AMOLEDs.
shinshoryuken
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Im not too crazy about AMOLED so far all of the device I had that had AMOLED had minor flaws/issues...the galaxy nexus, galaxy S2 and S3, sony vita and the pureview 808.
the pureview 808 AMOLED was actually pretty good, too bad its wasn't HD.
But I'am kinda excited about the S4 AMOLED.
the pureview 808 AMOLED was actually pretty good, too bad its wasn't HD.
But I'am kinda excited about the S4 AMOLED.
MisterNugNug
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I was dead set on getting an S4, but after reading this thread....fuck.
shinshoryuken
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You can just wait for both to be available and see for yourself which one you like better.
Glorious Ownage
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Recent devices have had black pixels still have some power going through them. My first AMOLED was the Galaxy Nexus and you could, in a dark room, see a very slight "lit up" black screen. It was still much better black than an LCD could do, but apparently it saves power by leaving pixels "on" all the time?
Either way, that leaves me as never owning a device with perfect blacks
Also, don't AMOLED screens use more power on whites than LCDs, making the overall usage even or even worse on the AMOLED end? Obviously this would change with someone who almost always has blacks on the screen, but my experience hasn't shown a noticeable battery improvement with AMOLEDs.
I think this is true with my galaxy s3 I would use noled and you could see a difference when in a pitch black environment between when that was running and when the screen was fully off.
I think the vita is the same way though different technology. An all black screen with a small portion lit up I can see clouding in the black areas (pitch black enviorment) and when the screens totally off, none.