Well that didn't take long
Just 24/48h after buying it you are already thinking of returning it.
Just shows that having a good camera is more important that what most people believe
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The All New HTC One (M8)
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Well that didn't take long
Just 24/48h after buying it you are already thinking of returning it.
Just shows that having a good camera is more important that what most people believe
They didn't listen about moving the sleep button to the right side of the phone.
Swipe and double tap gestures to wake the phone.
Well that didn't take long
Just 24/48h after buying it you are already thinking of returning it.
Just shows that having a good camera is more important that what most people believe
Not to everyone though. I rarely use my camera.. And besides, I bet its still better than my Note II's camera, or similar anyways.. I can never tell the difference unless someone points it out.
Well that didn't take long
Just 24/48h after buying it you are already thinking of returning it.
Just shows that having a good camera is more important that what most people believe
yes it does....I took some pictures of my 6 year old at park with last night. I took pics with my S4 and the M8. After I got them down from dropbox and on my MBP....the differences were truly amazing. So much more detail and color and pop on pics from the S4.
I really love the M8 design and how it feels in the hand. The UI is very fast and love the SD card. But the camera faults are too much for me.
Yep seeing the photos on the 5" screen would convince you otherwise, but when you see them blown up to 1:1 the difference is startling.
If you only ever look at the pictures on your phone, great... if you plan on sharing the image on anything outside of twitter and Facebook .. forget about it.
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Checked it out at Verizon a little while ago. To sum up my personal feelings about it, nothing special and I will wait on the next great thing.
Switching between apps that were previously opened, it seemed like the device was going to short circuit.
Switching between apps that were previously opened, it seemed like the device was going to short circuit.
Stopped by verizon today to check it out. It has too much bezel, the metal is very slippery. I feel like the LG G2 is better overall, or even the first HTC one
Yep seeing the photos on the 5" screen would convince you otherwise, but when you see them blown up to 1:1 the difference is startling.
If you only ever look at the pictures on your phone, great... if you plan on sharing the image on anything outside of twitter and Facebook .. forget about it.
And thats why you never take photos you want to keep with any camera phone.
Thinking of canceling my Developer Edition order. It doesn't support 3G/4G AWS. For some stupid reason, the Google Edition does. WTF
FWIW, I made an impulse buy on the Nokia Icon after trying it in the store. I didn't end up keeping it but I will never give the M8 even a second thought.
Great job on the first HTC One IMHO as I bought it and eventually sold it down the road, no regrets though on that purchase. I was very impressed with it right off the bat and continued to be as I used it.
HTC One (M7), glacial silver
Design - 9.8
+ Better front and physical dimensions
+ Less slippery
HTC One (M8), steel grey
Design - 9.5
+ Better back and more rounded
+ Doesn't overheat as its predecessor
+ 40% more battery
I care more for front design than the back since I don't generally stare at the rear.
M8's rear camera could still be HTC's Achilles heel like its predecessor. Lack of OIS, 4MP, and no 4K recording. Nokia, Sony, Samsung, and even Apple's 8MP cams on the iPhone 5/5s can still leave HTC in the dust.
Likes Sense 6.0 being more customizable and the motion gestures.
Loves BlinkFeed being available as an app. More Android manufacturers should do this. Eliminate custom skins, have OEM core apps in the Play Store, and keep the OS as close to stock. We can now pick and choose what customized apps we want like Sony's Walkman music app or LG's lockscreen and have our updates come faster.
Question is the Snapdragon 801 really any much faster than the 600 in real world use? Like going from A6 to the A7 chip. And is 801 anymore better than the 800 like the Note 3, G2, and Nexus 5 have for months? Benchmark scores means nada to me vs real life usage. Just numbers getting thrown around for spec geeks. We generally don't see any glaring speed differences until 2-3 years later.
The best and most objective review came from Engadget so far. Anandtech is still the most thorough and technical but isn't out yet. While I thought The Verge's video review from David Pierce was excellent for the M7, I generally don't share David's views like Josh. He bashed the Galaxy S4 as feeling slimey, fawns over all iPhones, glosses over call quality in a short sentence, and doesn't even mention if the Moto X has LTE or not. I also can't stand PhoneArena after the Xperia ZR 6.5 score or PhoneScoop (my original go-to phone site a decade ago prior to GSMArena) after poor scores for the LG G2.
Engadget nailed the header for the M8 - A great phone but no longer a gamechanger.
The M7 came out as a surprise since the One X in 2012 which had great reviews was a commercial flop and overshadowed by the Galaxy S III hype. The M8 had to be a follow-up to the 2013 champion and most successful HTC product ever. It is like Kobe Bryant following the footsteps of Michael Jordan. MJ rose expectations and raised the bar higher. The M7's successor will be looked upon with more expectations, more scrutiny, and may or may not raise the bar any higher than its predecessor.
An optimistic view for HTC an is even if their hardware sales can be poor, it still runs Android. This isn't like Palm or BlackBerry where if their OS fails, the app development dies. They just have to operate on a smaller scale. But HTC and Motorola or Nokia will probably never recapture their heyday similar to Sony. All great tech companies come and go...
Design - 9.8
+ Better front and physical dimensions
+ Less slippery
HTC One (M8), steel grey
Design - 9.5
+ Better back and more rounded
+ Doesn't overheat as its predecessor
+ 40% more battery
I care more for front design than the back since I don't generally stare at the rear.
M8's rear camera could still be HTC's Achilles heel like its predecessor. Lack of OIS, 4MP, and no 4K recording. Nokia, Sony, Samsung, and even Apple's 8MP cams on the iPhone 5/5s can still leave HTC in the dust.
Likes Sense 6.0 being more customizable and the motion gestures.
Loves BlinkFeed being available as an app. More Android manufacturers should do this. Eliminate custom skins, have OEM core apps in the Play Store, and keep the OS as close to stock. We can now pick and choose what customized apps we want like Sony's Walkman music app or LG's lockscreen and have our updates come faster.
Question is the Snapdragon 801 really any much faster than the 600 in real world use? Like going from A6 to the A7 chip. And is 801 anymore better than the 800 like the Note 3, G2, and Nexus 5 have for months? Benchmark scores means nada to me vs real life usage. Just numbers getting thrown around for spec geeks. We generally don't see any glaring speed differences until 2-3 years later.
The best and most objective review came from Engadget so far. Anandtech is still the most thorough and technical but isn't out yet. While I thought The Verge's video review from David Pierce was excellent for the M7, I generally don't share David's views like Josh. He bashed the Galaxy S4 as feeling slimey, fawns over all iPhones, glosses over call quality in a short sentence, and doesn't even mention if the Moto X has LTE or not. I also can't stand PhoneArena after the Xperia ZR 6.5 score or PhoneScoop (my original go-to phone site a decade ago prior to GSMArena) after poor scores for the LG G2.
Engadget nailed the header for the M8 - A great phone but no longer a gamechanger.
The M7 came out as a surprise since the One X in 2012 which had great reviews was a commercial flop and overshadowed by the Galaxy S III hype. The M8 had to be a follow-up to the 2013 champion and most successful HTC product ever. It is like Kobe Bryant following the footsteps of Michael Jordan. MJ rose expectations and raised the bar higher. The M7's successor will be looked upon with more expectations, more scrutiny, and may or may not raise the bar any higher than its predecessor.
An optimistic view for HTC an is even if their hardware sales can be poor, it still runs Android. This isn't like Palm or BlackBerry where if their OS fails, the app development dies. They just have to operate on a smaller scale. But HTC and Motorola or Nokia will probably never recapture their heyday similar to Sony. All great tech companies come and go...
Here is some nice pics. Smick looking phone. Enjoy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/janitors/sets/72157642999272043/
Edit: I have never had a HTC but these photos make me want to go and get it, i have $800 in my desk from my 5S sale. Makes the 5S look like a toy.
There is 2 pages. If you enlarge the camera photos they look great to me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/janitors/sets/72157642999272043/
Edit: I have never had a HTC but these photos make me want to go and get it, i have $800 in my desk from my 5S sale. Makes the 5S look like a toy.
There is 2 pages. If you enlarge the camera photos they look great to me.
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Holy Hanna! Want to talk about going full circle, well almost since I did not buy it but very much took notice.
My first experience I had in a Verizon store left me so underwhelmed that I did not what to look at the M8 again. But I had business to tend to and there was a store nearby so I stopped at that one.
What I witnessed this second time was so much better. I do not know if there are demo phones set up in a certain way but this second one just screamed. Maybe it was in power save the first time at that other store and I did not realize it.
I have a video I watch on you tube and it should only make anyone's jaw drop. It did not the first time, the colors were not vibrant and really no pop. The second go round I sure took notice.
Switching between opened apps this time was a breeze, much more fluent and very satisfying.
I felt the need to post because the first time I felt the M8 was nothing special. That would mislead people.
If the form factor and camera meets with one's approval, I definitely recommend at least checking it out.
My first experience I had in a Verizon store left me so underwhelmed that I did not what to look at the M8 again. But I had business to tend to and there was a store nearby so I stopped at that one.
What I witnessed this second time was so much better. I do not know if there are demo phones set up in a certain way but this second one just screamed. Maybe it was in power save the first time at that other store and I did not realize it.
I have a video I watch on you tube and it should only make anyone's jaw drop. It did not the first time, the colors were not vibrant and really no pop. The second go round I sure took notice.
Switching between opened apps this time was a breeze, much more fluent and very satisfying.
I felt the need to post because the first time I felt the M8 was nothing special. That would mislead people.
If the form factor and camera meets with one's approval, I definitely recommend at least checking it out.
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Wanted to share this nugget from The Guardian's review of the M8. Pretty eye-opening.
The 2013 One was the best selling HTC smartphone ever, but still only sold 6.4m units in 2013 compared to Apples 62.9m iPhone 5s and Samsungs 43.3m Galaxy S4s, according to data from research firm IDC.
The 2013 One was the best selling HTC smartphone ever, but still only sold 6.4m units in 2013 compared to Apples 62.9m iPhone 5s and Samsungs 43.3m Galaxy S4s, according to data from research firm IDC.
Thanks for that info. Like I said, I had no regrets at all owning it. Especially I felt the audio was the best I encountered with all the other devices I've used. That made up for the camera but for me the latter isn't a high priority really.
Enjoy your Nexus 5, it is a very very good smartphone.
On another note, anyone got a straight jacket?
Thanks for those photos. Those pictures in low-light doesn't look bad at all. I guess if one can get past the shortcomings of the One, then it's a good phone. It's really nice that it has a SD slot and 32GB of internal storage.
So I see you're able to enable blue in the settings. That means you will see a blue LED correct?
Some of those pictures look superb, moreso the ones in the dark My Note 3 could never get shots like that.
Hmmmmmm