*** The official HTC One S thread ***

Nexus18 said:
That case you got looks great :cool:, was going to order it as well, but wanted to get something that would arrive a bit quicker, just as a temporary case till the nillkin case showed up, but if nothing happens with this nillkin in the next week I am going to order that or the Rock case.

How are the buttons to press with that case on kona?
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The case was delivered very quickly - ordered Monday 6pm - delivered Saturday :)
The case is very nice tbh - the cut outs are nice and smooth and bevelled and accurate. Only the volume buttons are covered - and have good feedback to them - well worth the £8.

I finally gave the phone to my bro yesterday night - it's all his now :D. Signal in his house is still terrible though - more voda's fault than the phone. Hope the update will improve it some how.

Speeds in some parts of London are great though :cool:

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matthew_o50 said:
Thanks! Is this a feature of HTC sense or ICS? I've not seen it on any other phone. It would be great to find her a cheaper model that did it as all she needs really is calls, text and camera
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Not a feature of ICS afaik - only other phone I have seen it on is the S3.
 
kona786 said:
The case was delivered very quickly - ordered Monday 6pm - delivered Saturday :)
The case is very nice tbh - the cut outs are nice and smooth and bevelled and accurate. Only the volume buttons are covered - and have good feedback to them - well worth the £8.

I finally gave the phone to my bro yesterday night - it's all his now :D. Signal in his house is still terrible though - more voda's fault than the phone. Hope the update will improve it some how.

Speeds in some parts of London are great though :cool:

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Not a feature of ICS afaik - only other phone I have seen it on is the S3.
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Oh, that is very quick for a delivery from USA! :eek:

Sounds great! :) Think I may go for it as well now :D


I have still not heard back from nillkin, so looks like I am not getting the case despite them replying back to me with this :(

HI ,My friend ,thank you for you like the nillkin case for HTC ONE S.Please give me your address and your name. we will send the case to you as soon as possible.
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Have stopped using the TPU gel case now :o :p as the power/lock button was just too easy to press and the volume buttons to hard to press with no feedback at all and the rough edges were annoying me! :mad: Plus I miss the feel of the ceramic back :p


Lol, you have had his phone this entire time..... :D Bet he wasn't pleased :p :D


Damn nice speeds there and a great ping for mobile connection :cool:
 
@Nexus - yea it's a nice case go for it. I would have hot a rock style of case if the phone we're for me.





Somewhere in Canary Wharf ;) - I did a fairly low light camera comparison. All artificial florescent tube lighting. Came out quite well on both S2 and HOS.


S2 then HOS:

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The HOS did very well to pick up low light detail on areas such as the wheels.
Both taken on auto settings.
 
Likewise, can't decide on it or the rock case, edging more to the one you got though due to the top and bottom being covered.

Giving it till Wednesday to see if anything happens regarding the nillkin case and if not, going to order something.



Very nice pics by both phones there :)

HOS looks slightly better overall, very little difference in those shots though, when compared to the other shots.


What a horrible colour for a car though :p :o
 
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sarge78 said:
It's a real nightmare in low coverage areas, you might get the 'no signal' message often even though there's a good tower nearby. A software fix/calibration should be a massive help but you'd still have that death grip to contend with.
I'd recommend a plastic body phone if your out in the sticks or get a v.low signal when the phone is held normally in portrait.
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Here's an example of the type of signal I get in our house on the One S. Reception in that grab was pretty good for me though may have been helped by the fact I wasn't holding it?

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Can't take a screen grab on the Motorola but it was sat side by side with a Three PAYG sim and showed a pretty flat graph at approx -77dBm. As you can see signal jumps about all over. This was laid flat on a table with no death grip effect.

Another semi interesting screen grab shows signal outside our house and then I walked up the yard to gain line of sight on the mast. This was a distance of about 50meters or so.

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LOS is gained about 2/3rds along the graph when signal peaks.

I also notice that the 'Cell' CID number changes quite often. Is this mast changing? It's the entry under 'date activity'.

Next screen grab was not far from the Three shop in town.

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Now imagine wandering into the Three shop and trying to grumble about poor signal reception :D

Nexus, I'm going to sit tight with the One S for now and see if anything is done to improve signal reception. I noticed today in our locale that signal reception was so variable to the extreme. I'd go from a 'X' to full bars and all in-between in a very small area. All the mrs says when I grumble is that I should have got an iPhone :eek::eek:
 
iphone :eek: :o......................... just make sure you buy a bumper case for it and hold it the right way as well :D :p


Yeah, that is pretty damn variable signal (more so the first graph), at least it doesn't cut out completely for you in those graphs though.

Will be interesting to see if HTC can fix the problem with a software update and how long it will take till it is properly fixed. Wonder if the guys at XDA can do anything to fix/improve it?
 
The iPhone 4S actually has a bullet proof signal, the redesigned antenna is great.

The iPhone 4 wasn't that bad either really, the signal struggled a bit if you gripped the phone when the signal was weak, but it was massively blown out of proportion in my opinion.

(I know you were joking I just thought I'd say!)

I've had a good go with a Galaxy S 3 today and actually really liked it, so that should be under serious consideration if Richy wants to change his phone.
 
Robbo said:
The iPhone 4S actually has a bullet proof signal, the redesigned antenna is great.

The iPhone 4 wasn't that bad either really, the signal struggled a bit if you gripped the phone when the signal was weak, but it was massively blown out of proportion in my opinion.

(I know you were joking I just thought I'd say!)

I've had a good go with a Galaxy S 3 today and actually really liked it, so that should be under serious consideration if Richy wants to change his phone.
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Mrs has an iPhone 4s. Got to admit it looks a tidy setup to me. Screen is great if a little small. I'm used to Android so it doesn't do it for me.

Had a look at a Galaxy SIII in the Three shop. Didn't get a right good play as I was being nattered by the assistant who was looking for a sale :rolleyes: I don't really want to change my phone as I pretty much like every thing about the One S EXCEPT the signal issue, oh and the miserly 10gb of storage. I thought it was 16gb when I bought it so came as a bit of a shock. Not to much of a problem as long as I manage the storage space.
 
No clue what the 4s is like from first hand experience. But remember the iphone 4 being pretty poor (as you said not as bad as it was made out to be, but still pretty poor from what I remember, was it resolved later on though?), one of my friends who had it said that when he gripped the bottom, the signal dropped from full bars to like 1 :eek:


Yeah, the GS 3 is the only other option there is IMO, if I had to change mobile, it would be the one that I would go for, but as said many times :p I personally wouldn't be happy happy with it due to the design/looks and touchwiz (could root and flash a custom ROM, but no custom ROM would come close to sense V 4 for me, only stock ICS would but I still would miss sense too much :o :p and I really cba with the rooting and flashing :()

Be best to wait and see what the nexus devices are like, think there going to be pretty damn good :cool:
 
Nexus18 said:
iphone :eek: :o......................... just make sure you buy a bumper case for it and hold it the right way as well :D :p


Yeah, that is pretty damn variable signal (more so the first graph), at least it doesn't cut out completely for you in those graphs though.

Will be interesting to see if HTC can fix the problem with a software update and how long it will take till it is properly fixed. Wonder if the guys at XDA can do anything to fix/improve it?
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Didn't lose connection in the graph but does lose it plenty. Today my stats are 26% of time without signal. This is common unfortunately :mad:
 
Nexus - would you consider a One X and if not why not .. out of interest?

Battery life I'm not so sure about though some say it's better than it used to be. I'd be happy with it if it got me through the day.
 
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Richy888 said:
Didn't lose connection in the graph but does lose it plenty. Today my stats are 26% of time without signal. This is common unfortunately :mad:
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Oh, that is bad then :(

Richy888 said:
Nexus - would you consider a One X and if not why not .. out of interest?

Battery life I'm not so sure about though some say it's better than it used to be. I'd be happy with it if it got me through the day.
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TBH, not really (especially after having the S now :p). It is a nice mobile overall with a great screen but;

- the battery life puts me off quite a lot (after seeing some more screenshots of the battery life on a custom ROM there, it didn't seem much better than stock tbh)
- when I used it months and months ago, it wasn't as fast/instant or smooth as the S (no idea if that has been improved with the updates or not)
- uncomfortable to hold with one hand (where as the GS 3 isn't as bad)
- lastly the looks/design, it looks great in white but as I said to robbo earlier, I couldn't put up with white for 1+ years and the grey model isn't that nice looking and then the camel hump for the camera lens really annoys me :p (such a stupid decision to have the camera sticking out that much :o)

And after seeing the reviews and hearing it for myself, the audio isn't as good as the S and it runs hotter than the S as well, amongst a few other things.

The screen is personal preference, obviously the X is much better overall, but I much much prefer SAMOLED due to the pitch blacks (my homescreens have a black/blue theme going on) and then some sub-menus have black backgrounds etc. plus the more vibrant colours.

It really comes down to what you want and what is most important to you in the end. I just feel that apart from the screen, the X isn't really a true flagship/high end phone.


I would definitely prefer the GS 3 over the X, despite the looks/design and touchwiz but the rest makes up for that in some ways i.e. the SAMOLED screen, better battery (choice of having an extended battery as well, although there still seem to be mixed reviews on the battery, some getting great, others not, Robbo will be able to confirm what the battery life is like), better hardware, SD slot, better audio amongst other things.

I would hold out though for the nexus devices first to see what they are like and how things get on with the nexus S and galaxy nexus regarding the 4.1 update though.
 
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When I get my S3 in a couple of weeks I'll try and get some accurate battery figures with 'real world' use. It seems to be a (mostly positive) mixed bag so far.
 
Yeah, I forgot to finish that sentence off saying "Robbo will be able..............." :p :o

So should have read this "Robbo will be able to confirm what the battery life is like" :p


Will be interesting to see how it compares to the X for you.
 
Nexus18 said:
Yeah, I forgot to finish that sentence off saying "Robbo will be able..............." :p :o

So should have read this "Robbo will be able to confirm what the battery life is like" :p


Will be interesting to see how it compares to the X for you.
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It will be. Looking at them both they're both bigger than the One S (of course). How far off are the next Nexus phones? 4.3" is about the max screen size I want. Over that, and what puts me off the One X and GIII is their size. I've had a play with the One X before I got a One S and it was it's size that put me off and steered me to One S. One S was just that much easier to use in one hand. SGS III feels very similar to the X. If I'd have known about the signal issue then my choice would have been different.

There's a chap posted in a thread on XDA on the One S General forum regards the signal issue. He's been in touch with HTC support and the support agent he had spoken to said HTC were unaware of any signal problems? I expect they would say that and part of their 'fob off whinging customers' brief :rolleyes: I'm not overly confident HTC will do anything about the issue but you never know :D
 
I'd only consider the SGS3 as a real alternative, once you sample Krait it's tough going back.
The SGS2, Xperia S and Arc S are all similar to the One S, you could get a cheap one to tide you over? (The Arc has a good antenna and decent battery life. I wouldn't be too bothered if someone told me I had to use one for another 6 months)

kona786 said:
Porky GT3RS
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Nice pics. :cool:

Nexus18 said:
No idea why tpd is there!!!!!
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Following @justinbieber again? ;)
 
250MB isn't enough. Even with a fairly poor signal I still hit 10Mbps+ and this phone is fast enough to use it. (The 28nm 4th gen Snapdragon is miles faster than the 65nm 1st gen found in your Desire)

Unlimited data contract all the way! Just make sure you have decent Three coverage. :D (or maybe wait for another stunning deal? The fixed 10GB storage means it's not as popular as it should be)
 
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