Does htc one impress you....

[MRU]

great ... waiting for your review ? does it drain battery? sound quality? zero gap built in quality? call reception?and so om ....

I can answer some of those questions too, I've been using mine for 10 days or so.

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Every phone drains battery.

That being said the HTC One holds up to a decent workload very well. You'll be charging every night if your a heavy user and every couple of days if your a light user.

It's certainly got the best battery life of any HTC device and rivals their competitors and the best other devices despite being very powerful and lovely screen.


Currently with normal - medium use down to 37% battery with 1day 7hours 48mins on my battery clock.

(medium workload for me = about 60 minutes of phone calls per day, 30+ texts per day, update twitter & Facebook, read my RSS news, make appointments and check calendar diary, upload a couple of photos to Instagram and listening to music whilst walking the dogs on the beach 3 times daily)..

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Sound Quality. In calls for most part excellent and reception holds up excellently too. In areas where we have poor coverage (i'm in rural ireland) and are notorious for dropping calls, the One has managed to stay connected where my iPhone and previous other phones have dropped calls.

Speakers are excellent and there is a clarity to music played when listening to the device or watching media (youtube etc...)

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Zero gap. Yep I have read others have had minuscule gaps but mine is perfect. Everything is sealed and perfectly formed.

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Performance wise, the phone is very fast... very very fast. There is not a trace of lag in any of the Sense 5 interface no matter what you are doing.

Even third party launchers and widgets can't seem to trip it up. It just rockets away with whatever you throw at it. Were definitely reaching a plateau of performance where I wonder why we need any more power when nothing seems to phase what is now available in these 2013 flagships.

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Camera is inconsistent. Great photos, but apply some software filters of the HDR option and it can bring in over compression, softening of image or blurred areas which are not there in standard mode.

Also scene selection is a little cumbersome. Auto fix photos option for editing in gallery is too harsh often over exposing some images.

Software for the camera side of things is getting better with each firmware it seems, but those stuck on earlier firmwares have to wait for a proper big update from HTC before we get those improvements.

I have plenty examples of pictures over on the other HTC One thread. Including the sweep panoramas.

 

[bmac4]

I can answer some of those questions too, I've been using mine for 10 days or so.

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Every phone drains battery.

That being said the HTC One holds up to a decent workload very well. You'll be charging every night if your a heavy user and every couple of days if your a light user.

It's certainly got the best battery life of any HTC device and rivals their competitors and the best other devices despite being very powerful and lovely screen.


Currently with normal - medium use down to 37% battery with 1day 7hours 48mins on my battery clock.

(medium workload for me = about 60 minutes of phone calls per day, 30+ texts per day, update twitter & Facebook, read my RSS news, make appointments and check calendar diary, upload a couple of photos to Instagram and listening to music whilst walking the dogs on the beach 3 times daily)..

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Sound Quality. In calls for most part excellent and reception holds up excellently too. In areas where we have poor coverage (i'm in rural ireland) and are notorious for dropping calls, the One has managed to stay connected where my iPhone and previous other phones have dropped calls.

Speakers are excellent and there is a clarity to music played when listening to the device or watching media (youtube etc...)

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Zero gap. Yep I have read others have had minuscule gaps but mine is perfect. Everything is sealed and perfectly formed.

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Performance wise, the phone is very fast... very very fast. There is not a trace of lag in any of the Sense 5 interface no matter what you are doing.

Even third party launchers and widgets can't seem to trip it up. It just rockets away with whatever you throw at it. Were definitely reaching a plateau of performance where I wonder why we need any more power when nothing seems to phase what is now available in these 2013 flagships.

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Camera is inconsistent. Great photos, but apply some software filters of the HDR option and it can bring in over compression, softening of image or blurred areas which are not there in standard mode.

Also scene selection is a little cumbersome. Auto fix photos option for editing in gallery is too harsh often over exposing some images.

Software for the camera side of things is getting better with each firmware it seems, but those stuck on earlier firmwares have to wait for a proper big update from HTC before we get those improvements.

I have plenty examples of pictures over on the other HTC One thread. Including the sweep panoramas.

Sense was the one thing that did not impress me about the HTC one. It seemed every review I read about it said that was the one thing they did not ready like about it. It seems you do like. Do you like the blinkfeed? Do you use it that often? Also how is it only have 2 buttons at the bottom?

 

[MRU]

Sense was the one thing that did not impress me about the HTC one. It seemed every review I read about it said that was the one thing they did not ready like about it. It seems you do like. Do you like the blinkfeed? Do you use it that often? Also how is it only have 2 buttons at the bottom?

Yes I use Blinkfeed every day. For getting good overview / lowdown on your twitter updates, Facebook updates and calendar, as well as being able to read RSS, respond to twitter and Facebook without opening the apps themselves makes it so much quicker.

The two buttons at the bottom are absolutely no issue for me. If your coming from an iPhone that has 1 button then getting used to two isn't an issue, and if you were previously on android and find adapting to two buttons so hard & traumatic to do, then maybe you don't need a new phone, but counselling j/k

Yeah it's a total non issue as far as I'm concerned. I also like the double tap for multitasking management.

 

[bmac4]

Yes I use Blinkfeed every day. For getting good overview / lowdown on your twitter updates, Facebook updates and calendar, as well as being able to read RSS, respond to twitter and Facebook without opening the apps themselves makes it so much quicker.

The two buttons at the bottom are absolutely no issue for me. If your coming from an iPhone that has 1 button then getting used to two isn't an issue, and if you were previously on android and find adapting to two buttons so hard & traumatic to do, then maybe you don't need a new phone, but counselling j/k

Yeah it's a total non issue as far as I'm concerned. I also like the double tap for multitasking management.

OK cool. Glad to hear there is no lag in sense 5. That was my one concern with the phone. I am not planning to get the phone, but I hope the phone does well.

 

[MRU]

OK cool. Glad to hear there is no lag in sense 5. That was my one concern with the phone. I am not planning to get the phone, but I hope the phone does well.

Yeah Sense 5 is just so fast and smooth, it finally feels like an android device can offer as smooth an experience as the newest iOS device. Apps load near instantly and multitasking in sense 5 now works properly compared to previous sense versions.

 

[bmac4]

Yeah Sense 5 is just so fast and smooth, it finally feels like an android device can offer as smooth an experience as the newest iOS device. Apps load near instantly and multitasking in sense 5 now works properly compared to previous sense versions.

Yea. I have the nexus 4 and every other nexus I have had has been super fast. I this line of skinned android might just be ad smooth.

 

[MRU]

Yea. I have the nexus 4 and every other nexus I have had has been super fast. I this line of skinned android might just be ad smooth.

The next nexus with specs to match the S4 & HTC One is going to be sooooo fast I do think we may finally have reached a plateau for the moment, because no app is pushing those specs other than the odd game.

 

[bmac4]

The next nexus with specs to match the S4 & HTC One is going to be sooooo fast I do think we may finally have reached a plateau for the moment, because no app is pushing those specs other than the odd game.

Oh sure I agree.

 

[jamojamo]

Well, I'll agree w/ you on this one. For iOS, it just doesn't work at all. So many people missing out on Android b/c they think plastic is cheap, when it is truly the highest build quality of any smartphone on the market.

Oh really, iOS just doesn't work at all. What a exaggeration. It may not be to your liking or your preference, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. If it truly didn't work, millions - yes MILLIONS - of users would be up in arms.

Please stop being so over the top. We get it, you like Android, many people do, but you're opinions are being devalued because of all of your "If it's Apple it sucks" attitude of every one of your posts.