***The Official HTC One Thread***
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Same here, it's clear and much better than the HOX. I have no complaints with the notification light.
Email set up is easy as pie just use HTC's set up and all will be working well for you.
Ok, everytime I connect the phone to the PC, it always connect in USB debugging mode, even when I have the option disabled, and developer options off. Is this normal? I'm guessing it's for the HTC sync software though, that keeps popping up everytime I connect the phone, but I don't want to install any extra software I don't need 
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It's pretty annoying to have the USB debugging icon in the statusbar though.
.It's pretty annoying to have the USB debugging icon in the statusbar though.
I sometimes don't notice the green flashing notification if I'm in well lit area due to the silver case and the small green light blending in together. So could be better.
One major flaw is that it stops flashing after 5 minutes!
I received mine today. Initial thoughts are:
Beautiful hardware. It feels great, just the balance of size and weight. Having owned a Galaxy S1, S2 and an S3, I never thought the quality of the chassis would be important to me but it's just fantastic. I don't appear to have the issues that some have complained of either.
I'll have to adapt to the screen. It's perfectly crisp of course, but does look washed out compared to the saturation and perfect blacks of the AMOLED displays I am used to. Despite this, I guess the contract ratio will be ultimately better on the HTC One and that the colours are probably more accurate. I've yet to test it in my typical usage scenarios though.
In terms of software, I don't like the stock ROM. I don't like the apparent absence of a menu button although I understand that I can fix that with a different kernel. My main bone of contention however is that I feel like my S3 is slicker; even more so with the custom ROM I currently have on it, although that is a little unfair. One example is the game The Tribez. Scrolling around the map is choppy on the One compared to my S3 on either stock or custom ROM, which is like butter. Likewise with Chrome, and to my surprise the One scored significantly worse on Sunspider in Chrome which I was not expecting at all. With the stock browser it scores slightly better.
I'm looking forward to running something like Supernexus, Paranoid Android or CM10.1 on it where hopefully the chipset will have chance to shine. I hope they don't ruin the camera features though.
Beautiful hardware. It feels great, just the balance of size and weight. Having owned a Galaxy S1, S2 and an S3, I never thought the quality of the chassis would be important to me but it's just fantastic. I don't appear to have the issues that some have complained of either.
I'll have to adapt to the screen. It's perfectly crisp of course, but does look washed out compared to the saturation and perfect blacks of the AMOLED displays I am used to. Despite this, I guess the contract ratio will be ultimately better on the HTC One and that the colours are probably more accurate. I've yet to test it in my typical usage scenarios though.
In terms of software, I don't like the stock ROM. I don't like the apparent absence of a menu button although I understand that I can fix that with a different kernel. My main bone of contention however is that I feel like my S3 is slicker; even more so with the custom ROM I currently have on it, although that is a little unfair. One example is the game The Tribez. Scrolling around the map is choppy on the One compared to my S3 on either stock or custom ROM, which is like butter. Likewise with Chrome, and to my surprise the One scored significantly worse on Sunspider in Chrome which I was not expecting at all. With the stock browser it scores slightly better.
I'm looking forward to running something like Supernexus, Paranoid Android or CM10.1 on it where hopefully the chipset will have chance to shine. I hope they don't ruin the camera features though.
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Had this phone for a week now and I just can't get on with it heh, liked it in the shop??
Maybe my old note 2 has ruined me for ever on the screen size front :/
Also just noticed that 3 don't have an 14 day exchange policy
Guess I will ask around for anyone wanting a htc one / galaxy s4 swap!
Maybe my old note 2 has ruined me for ever on the screen size front :/
Also just noticed that 3 don't have an 14 day exchange policy
Guess I will ask around for anyone wanting a htc one / galaxy s4 swap!
The HTC email widget only works on Sense launcher, I'm using Apex. The HTC calendar is just the same as the google version but appointments are harder to see in month view.
how did you come to this conclusion
Yes colours are definitely more accurate on the One than on the S3...it's like chalk and cheese.
It all depends what you want for me the colours on the S3 didn't look natural and not my cup of tea, its like whites on them they never look white which annoyed me. Am more than happy with the HO screen its bright punchy and looks amazing.