If those are your priority.......then you will love the M8. It feels great in your hand. Built from premium materials. Has a great screen and is extremely fast and the battery life is awesome. The sound quality is well known......but the camera is good...but just not upto part with today's standard smartphones.
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The All New HTC One (M8)
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If those are your priority.......then you will love the M8. It feels great in your hand. Built from premium materials. Has a great screen and is extremely fast and the battery life is awesome. The sound quality is well known......but the camera is good...but just not upto part with today's standard smartphones.
I am thinking strongly now about it. I liked the M7 but funds at the time were a bit limited to keep it and the Note 3 and the 5S. I found myself using the latter two more anyway. And I also have a Moto G and Lumia 521. geez!
If I get it, I would give up the Note 3, not the 5S.
Did you return it?
As touched upon elsewhere, none of the upcoming flagships break new ground. Not the M8, Z2, or S5 anyways. I liked the M7, this M8 other than the camera is better.
I have read reviews from owners that it has zero lag and they find Sense to their liking it instead of running for an alternate launcher.
I did return my M8. But I am in no way going to put it down. The M8 is one of the best phones I have ever had. But in the end....my year old S4 takes better pictures. But as I said the M8 is a very fast phone. The UI is very fast with zero lag. The battery life was very I pressive.....lasting all day for my normal use with 45% left at the end of the day. I use the camera on my smartphones to snap a ton of pictures...then they go straight to Dropbox.
The camera on the M8 is good but not great......I posted pictures here earlier in this thread.
Too few here own it to give experiences with battery.
Try XDA, Android Central and Android Authority forums.
You know come think about is samsung the last company to offer a removable battery (other then some of those crappy prepaid phones)?
Got to play around with this phone for a day and I will say it was very fast. The camera I thought was a little better then last years model. The dual camera with some of the options in regards to that focus tweak you can do after the pic is taken didn't seem to work all that well but that could get better if they do some software updates. Sense 6 did seem very fluid. Phone calls seemed to be very clear and the person on the other end said they could hear me very clearly. Only wish I could have had the phone longer to get a better idea of the phone. My only complaint was that the phone was so tall. It kind of reminded of all the iPhone jokes where they would make fun of the iPhone for going taller and tons of people made paradise of like an iPhone 22 being like ten feet tall. Anyway I did think the build quality did seem solid.
Android Authority forums? I don't think such a thing exists. Do you mean Phandroid forum?
Here's the link, I just figured they must have a forum but to tell the truth I do not visit that website alot.
http://www.androidauthority.com
Best I could find as far as battery life was on XDA.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2694719
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AA doesn't have a forum. I know the site. The most popular Android forums are the ones you listed I believe.
I just ordered one. Didn't have an upgrade, but a guy on Swappa was selling a brand new one for $590, which was more than a fair enough price in my opinion. I'll let you guys know my impressions of it when I get it Wednesday!
Man you guys get it good. $840-$899 in Australia
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Is this the case that comes with the phone, not the flip one, but i read their is a back cover in the box?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GENUINE-...lePhoneAccessories&hash=item1e89359ecf&_uhb=1
Man you guys get it good. $840-$899 in Australia
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Is this the case that comes with the phone, not the flip one, but i read their is a back cover in the box?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/GENUINE-...lePhoneAccessories&hash=item1e89359ecf&_uhb=1
Dang Aussies have it rough..higher prices and all kinds of creatures that can mess you up lurking everywhere
They don't really have it so bad..
It's €649 off contract here which is $965 AUD .... .
Also factor in that $649 US is without sales tax / state tax - which brings it closer to $700 USD which is closer to $750 AUD which whilst still cheaper is only reflective because the average us sales tax is substantially lower than the VAT duty and then GST added to goods imported and sold in Australia.
Despite that, here it's worse as our VAT is a whopping 23% which is far higher than US or Australia.
Moral of the story - there is always someone getting ripped off more than you
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Yep just the other night my 11 year old daughter went to put a shower cap on and it had a small
redback spider on it. Very lucky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider
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They don't really have it so bad..
It's 649 off contract here which is $965 AUD .... .
Also factor in that $649 US is without sales tax / state tax - which brings it closer to $700 USD which is closer to $750 AUD which whilst still cheaper is only reflective because the average us sales tax is substantially lower than the VAT duty and then GST added to goods imported and sold in Australia.
Despite that, here it's worse as our VAT is a whopping 23% which is far higher than US or Australia.
Moral of the story - there is always someone getting ripped off more than you
23% no thanks. 10% is bad enough
I remember when GST came in i was talking to this Irish guy and he said you watch it will keep going up. Hasn't yet. There would be blood in the streets
I think the M8 is a step backwards design-wise. If you didn't know the specs and I handed you an M7 and M8 you would think the M7 is the next-gen model.
The more I think about and handle the M8 the more I dislike it. I really hope I'm wrong but I think this phone will continue HTC's decline. In fact I'll be shocked if it doesn't.
The more I think about and handle the M8 the more I dislike it. I really hope I'm wrong but I think this phone will continue HTC's decline. In fact I'll be shocked if it doesn't.
Problem with HTC is that is quietly brilliant. So much so that the average person thinks the Samsung phones are the ones to own because if Jane/Joe do not have an IPhone, they have a Samsung.
I cannot believe it for a minute for those average folks that the camera is the reason why they do not have an HTC.
Pricing is the US at Verizon for the M8 is $599, not $649.
I cannot believe it for a minute for those average folks that the camera is the reason why they do not have an HTC.
Pricing is the US at Verizon for the M8 is $599, not $649.
You know about the camera so other than that you should really like it.
I have been trying it daily at different Verizon stores in my area, I have 4 within 20 miles. While I cannot try everything, it is one helluva phone.
I have to sell my Note 3, I will not buy it before then. My first experience was not good, I told that store their display one is not up to snuff compared to others in the area.
In depth camera comparison between the iPhone 5s and HTC One (M8) over at iMore. I take it with a grain of salt as it is on an iDevice focused site and I haven't read much on iMore so I'm not really familiar with their tone and 'objectivity'.
That being said, I initially saw the article over at Android Central so if they're OK running it, I'm guessing they're comfortable with its content. The comparison does seem fairly objective, at least from my read of it. Not really surprised by the results.
That being said, I initially saw the article over at Android Central so if they're OK running it, I'm guessing they're comfortable with its content. The comparison does seem fairly objective, at least from my read of it. Not really surprised by the results.
In depth camera comparison between the iPhone 5s and HTC One (M8) over at iMore. I take it with a grain of salt as it is on an iDevice focused site and I haven't read much on iMore so I'm not really familiar with their tone and 'objectivity'.
That being said, I initially saw the article over at Android Central so if they're OK running it, I'm guessing they're comfortable with its content. The comparison does seem fairly objective, at least from my read of it. Not really surprised by the results.
Its a fair review and plays out to the exact experience many of us had with the M7 camera.
Whilst they still don't compare to a digital SLR - for many of us the importance of a decent camera can't be understated.
I begrudgingly gave up my HTC M7 for its weak camera, it pains me that HTC went ahead with the same camera for the M8.
Taken with the Lumia 1520
