***The Official HTC One Thread***

jonneymendoza said:
pff so why go for HTC when the phone has poor IQ? or are you over exaggerating it?
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Not over exaggerating anything, if BBC have reported HTC's poor customer service, how's that an exaggeration? It's hit the mainstream press a couple of years ago and it seems that nothing has changed. I'm just pointing things out, why remain ignorant about things?

At the risk of sounding arrogant I usually buy most flagship phones that come out and at this moment in time the HO is simply the best out there. No doubt in a couple of months time I'll have a different phone.

@Nexus HTC should've followed Samsung in that respect and we should've been given the option of changing the settings menu to black if we wanted to. I don't like white backgrounds.

The look of Touchwiz sucks and it's still looks like it's stuck in Gingerbread, Samsung really need to overhaul their UI and make it fresh like HTC have done over the past few years and developed it further.

I think future updates will make the S4 better, already the latest update for the HO has taken the phone to another level and when the next update arrives it will make it even better!

I can't see games being worse than phones? Surely not?! Unless they've been programmed really badly that it will take a major patch to fix things up!

If the issue comes up on this thread then we'll know for sure. It took a little while for the sd problem to trickle down to OCUK when there were already masses of people over at XDA that had reported the problem.

Let's hope that it isn't the case this time around.
 
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Gingerbread?!?!? More like froyo :o :p


Yup, Samsung are playing it too safe now, lets hope the less than impressive reviews will give them a good much needed kick up the ass!


Most games these days for the PC are broken on release day and there are usually always major patch(es) in the first month to improve stability, performance, fix bugs etc. i.e. tomb raider received about 4-5 patches iirc in the first 1-2 months to fix/improve quite a few things. Good thing is, at least you know that they are completely down to the software :p and will be fixed/improved at some point but then with some developers, you never know...... And of course it could also be down to GPU drivers and for ATI/nvidia to provide an update....


Yup, if we don't hear anything within the next few months, I think the majority of people are safe.....
 
About damn time! Weird how they only pushed it to the top now though when they posted the update a few days ago. Either way good to see that they have done it :)


I really wish they wouldn't make it out like the "main" reason the GS 4 wins for detail/sharpness is purely down to MP though as it isn't, as sarge posted comparing his proper 3MP camera to the one S and all the articles by photographers talking about MP, yes it does help give an advantage in those scenarios but it isn't the sole reason.

Also, what about other areas i.e. macro shots, low light/dark conditions (amongst other things) the two areas where the one is very strong...... It is these sort of things that make me think of gsmarena being bias towards Samsung devices.....


This is personally how I look at the cameras and the pros and cons each has over the other (going by all the review sites and end user photos plus user thoughts who own both [you need to post your thoughts etc. on this area too kona! :p :D]:

Main advantages of the GS 4 camera are;

- if you crop/zoom in on images, have a very high res. display and/or print photos on large paper.

- Bright landscape conditions

- panorama shots

-features/options overall

Main advantages of the one camera:

- very fast shutter and combined with OIS, you get more consistent/usable photos, more so in lower light conditions and/or with movement shots

- indoor conditions, low light/dark conditions

- much larger FOV

- audio recording (really amazing in loud environments) and video recording overall (GS 4 looks excellent for 1080P recording but the OIS, FOV [which is further reduced on the gs4 when you enable image stabilisation] etc. give the one the edge by quite a bit imo)


The GS 4 can perform superbly in low light/night conditions with "night" mode (in some even better than the one) but it comes at a cost, slower shutter (iirc Brian said it takes about 2-3 seconds to process the shot) thus only useful with non moving objects and you need to have a steady hand (a lot of review sites use a tripod thus the GS 4 night shots in the majority of reviews look amazing and you don't experience the blur/shot latency etc. but in real world usage you might have to take the shot 3 times in order to get a good result)

Regarding the features/options, both seem to be more or less the same, GS 4 has the edge with a few more things to choose from. Most of the one's features are tied to the zoe feature and gallery i.e. sequence/drama shot, always smiling, eraser/removing objects etc. where as the features on the GS 4 are selectable through the camera app.

Macro shots look superb on both, need to see more from the GS 4, personally I prefer the one macro shots as they just have a very "natural" look to them but the difference isn't big enough to be worth worrying about.

Up to the end user this part, but photo size is quite different due to the difference in MP, talking about 1.5MP on average for the one VS 6.5MB for a photo from the GS 4
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And I haven't even covered the colours, exposure etc. which varies with each device depending on the scenario i.e. buildings look too yellow on the one. The one I personally think produces more natural colours on the whole, however, some shots do look washed out but this can be fixed/improved by putting the saturation or contrast up by one level or just use auto enhance in the gallery.

Haven't seen many end user photos for HDR, but both looked good in their own way, would need to see more before I posted my thoughts as to which one is better.

Of course, both will/should improve with more updates, I expect the one to improve by quite a bit more due to the tech. being pretty new for a phone camera (the OIS and big pixels) and then going by the improvements that nokia have brought to the 920.

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Personally I wouldn't say that either camera takes the "crown for the best camera phone" to date as each have their strengths and weaknesses and comes down to what is more important to the end user.
 
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Nexus18 said:
Gingerbread?!?!? More like froyo :o :p


Yup, Samsung are playing it too safe now, lets hope the less than impressive reviews will give them a good much needed kick up the ass!


Most games these days for the PC are broken on release day and there are usually always major patch(es) in the first month to improve stability, performance, fix bugs etc. i.e. tomb raider received about 4-5 patches iirc in the first 1-2 months to fix/improve quite a few things. Good thing is, at least you know that they are completely down to the software :p and will be fixed/improved at some point but then with some developers, you never know...... And of course it could also be down to GPU drivers and for ATI/nvidia to provide an update....


Yup, if we don't hear anything within the next few months, I think the majority of people are safe.....
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Lol! Froyo! Nice one! :D

Yep I'm inclined to agree with you. With the majority of the mainstream websites and bloggers preferring the HO over the S4 Samsung will have to sit up and listen and come up with something pretty astounding for the Note 3 and the S5. Maybe we won't see anything different this year so the Note 3 may just be an incremental upgrade but there will be a change when the S5 comes around next year.

That sounds extremely frustrating, to me companies are rush releasing games to meet the release dates at the detriment of quality control. I'm glad that I don't play games on my PC cos I'm not a gamer but if I was I would not be happy :(

Fingers crossed we don't hear anything re lens gate Nexus. I want to use my HO without any worries.
 
That is how the CM founder (who worked for Samsung) described their new touchwiz version :p

Yeah, I am not expecting the note III to be much, if any different to the GS 4, at least nothing substantial anyway, just the usual, extra RAM, bigger screen, stylus, same CPU chipset (most likely the exynos version) + camera + speaker etc. and possibly those new things that have been floating around i.e. metal back and plastic screen.


Indeed, have to meet the publishers requirements and get the game developed as quickly as they can and there is also a fair bit of false advertising with a few games these days i.e. alien colonial marines, the ones behind it are now being sued........


Yup, HTC can't take another "blow" to the QC/build quality area, tbh I am surprised that certain sites haven't jumped to the chance to report that!
 
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Has anyone with one of these on three got the update yet?

also if anyone has got one of these from carphone warehouse on three, is the phone locked to three, does it have 3 branding?
 
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The battery was on 100%. I browsed the internet for 1hour 15minutes, and I played asphalt for 45mins. Is that battery level normal?
 
So, my 7th working day is Tuesday. I'm still trying to decide what to do about the irritating fit of the lower speaker grille. It bothers me and detracts from an otherwise perfect device.

My options are to send it back as faulty, wait, hope they agree and send another one to me, or alternatively DSR the device and buy it again.

I'm inclined to take the second option. The trouble is, my phone is obviously 'used'. It has dust in between the annoying gap that is present which I doubt I'm going to be able to remove. I'm concerned about buying a new handset (I think now I know I want this device I'd buy it at a retail P4U store instead so I can inspect it) and then having the DSR request refused leaving me with 2 HTC One phones.

Any ideas?
 
You're entitled to try the product out Fox, if there is dust in a manufacturing defect (gap) that really isn't your problem!

As you said, at least you can inspect one in a bricks and mortar store!
 
Try some canned air or something on the dust? If it's going to keep bothering you every time you look at it, you'll probably end up regretting not doing something about it while you could.
 
woohoo picked up a htc one yesterday and really liking it so far. Are there any tips about settings etc to get good battery life or is it pretty good stock?
 
kona786 said:
Should be able to plug it into the PC and update via OEM.
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Yeah, this should be standard now to be honest. My only drawback for Android atm.

For battery: I've turned the power saving mode on, but not for brightness - which I have at about 40-50% rather than Auto as I just don't like it.
And i've turned off animations which might save the tiniest amount of power, but also makes it fly.
 
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Ade74 said:
Has anyone with one of these on three got the update yet?

also if anyone has got one of these from carphone warehouse on three, is the phone locked to three, does it have 3 branding?
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I picked mine up from CPW on Three and it is unlocked and I installed the latest update when I got home no worries.
 
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