Big time. So sick of reading comments complaining about phones lacking these two features.
Haven't you heard? If the HTC One X shipped with an SD card slot, it would have been the top selling Android device last year.
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Big time. So sick of reading comments complaining about phones lacking these two features.
Haven't you heard? If the HTC One X shipped with an SD card slot, it would have been the top selling Android device last year.
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Hopefully, there will be softwareIt will happen. Now that they are using the One Phone, Multiple Carriers model and focus all their attention on this, I think they will succeed. People will see a beautiful and functional phone, and be able to actually go to their carriers and buy it (unless they're on Verizon). Availability is key. You can't make a great phone and then only sell it to one carrier and segment your buyers. Thats just bad business and I do not for the life of me understand why HTC did this. I thought for sure the One X would be on all carries and they disappointed me with that. Stuck to my S2 on Tmo and got the Nexus 4 last Christmas. Still love my N4 and will use it for the future but I like HTC despite ugly Sense because the phone is nice looking and they have great cameras.
The Evo 4G LTE had this feature and a bigger battery and kickstand to boot...<br />Originally Posted by go3go<br />
Big time. So sick of reading comments complaining about phones lacking these two features.
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Haven't you heard? If the HTC One X shipped with an SD card slot, it would have been the top selling Android device last year.<br />
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I want HTC to Destroy with this phone and business model. I love HTC and the way they make solid phones no plastic crap.
I think this will change and goes along with the One World Phone model. One phone for the whole world, not different variations for different carries or different territories with difference screen sizes and millions of variables to consider when delivering an update. I'm not sure if the One X ever received the update, or if any HTC phone that launched in North America last year even received it yet besides the DNA that launched with it, but I think this will change this year since now they only have one phone to update. I anticipate fast updates like the S3 was with Jelly Bean.
Also, the One ships with Jelly Bean anyway so thats a plus at least. Sure its not 4.2, but I dont for the life of me know any key features in 4.2 that non-nexus users are missing anyway. Photosphere? Lock screen widgets? Meh, good features to have but nothing groundbreaking like Google Now was for 4.1. I hope OEMs skip 4.2 and just wait for 5.0 to roll out and just focus on that.
I know this is EXTREMELY difficult for a lot of people to understand, but try to stick with me here for a sec.......Plastic does not always equal "crap". I know it FEELS cheap, but it isn't always the case. The S3 kicks the shiz out of almost every single HTC phone ever made, and it's plastic. The HTC ONE will be freaking awesome, and the One X+ was on the same plane as the S3. There's no way that 40 million people would not only buy, but love their phone if it was a cheap piece of trash.
Everyone's favorite pasttime is to dog on Samsung, but it's tough for you to get a decent analysis of their product when you are lightyears behind. They have a lot of weaknesses and problems, but their flagship devices are almost never one of them. Glock uses polymer to make their guns. Everyone called it the "plastic gun" when it came out, and now the majority of worldwide law enforcement and military officials carry Glock. It is trusted, dependable, and it is quality. Nothing to shake a fist at. Don't fall into the same trap of assuming all "plastic" is "crap".
Except it isn't cheap plastic. Nice try though.
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Stop complaining.Sure as hell feels cheap.
Stop complaining.
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Why? He's right.
I know this is EXTREMELY difficult for a lot of people to understand, but try to stick with me here for a sec.......Plastic does not always equal "crap". I know it FEELS cheap, but it isn't always the case. The S3 kicks the shiz out of almost every single HTC phone ever made, and it's plastic. The HTC ONE will be freaking awesome, and the One X+ was on the same plane as the S3. There's no way that 40 million people would not only buy, but love their phone if it was a cheap piece of trash.
Everyone's favorite pasttime is to dog on Samsung, but it's tough for you to get a decent analysis of their product when you are lightyears behind. They have a lot of weaknesses and problems, but their flagship devices are almost never one of them. Glock uses polymer to make their guns. Everyone called it the "plastic gun" when it came out, and now the majority of worldwide law enforcement and military officials carry Glock. It is trusted, dependable, and it is quality. Nothing to shake a fist at. Don't fall into the same trap of assuming all "plastic" is "crap".
So 40 million plus people bought a cheap plastic phone for the hell of it right? Lol Samsung is doing a great job and that "cheap plastic" doesn't not feel bad whatsoever.
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I was trying to stay out of this one but comments like this one remind me why I appreciate what HTC has been doing.
I remember last years HTC One X/S announcement, their video footage describing the very meaning of their product, manufacturing process, and attention to details. I remember how excited I was to check it out, but waited for expected Samsung's SGS3 announcement weeks away. And the announcement came...
I remember watching Samsung's live keynote, and wondering if it was a joke? Everything about that keynote was weird, off, screaming lack of creativity. It felt forced, poorly rehearsed. Especially after witnessing simplistic HTC's event weeks prior introducing their beautifully designed products. But right away I could tell that Samsung doesn't care about throwing their money left and right for their marketing... That stage was so unnecessary huge that it reminded me of propaganda from communist Soviet, or WWII German era... Their product was clearly not nearly as special as they were trying to make it look like.
Fast forward to fall of 2012, and Samsung's GS3 has been introduced on every single operator globally, their ads are still airing on our networks, and most americans think that's the best Android phone ever created. HTC completely failed to invest and market their brand, their superior One X hardware was released on only one US carrier, average americans don't even remember or care about HTC brand. They have been forgotten. HTC has been doing so poorly that they've completely removed themselves from Korean market, unable to compete.
Samsung completely dominated the Android market by sheer brute force of their advertising $$$, and by building a product that undoubtedly brings them higher margin than HTC, since they've used much cheaper materials, off the shelf battery, etc...
Lets just hope and pray that HTC comes back and reinstates themselves as a strong number 2 competitor, since at this point there is only Samsung, and the "rest" in Android market. Competing is the only way innovate.
Why are blind Samsung fanboys allowed to post in the HTC section?Stop complaining.
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Not for the hell of it, but yes. Samsung's marketing was the best from anyone last year, including Apple's. They did two important things with that marketing, get the name out there and position themselves as the anti-apple, the company you "root" for if you hate Apple. This along with having one phone distributed worldwide, and that it had every feature available, is what made it a success.
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of people don't care so much about quality as they do about features. You see this alot in the "PC vs Mac" thing where people who buy macs argue about how much better it is and the pc people talk about how much of a rip-off it is because they can get the same features for half the price. The GS3 is packed with features, and that is a huge selling point when they can say "The GS3 can do that AND it can also do this" when compared to other handsets, but when the quality is questioned you get "The screen looks fine" or "It doesn't feel that bad" which is harder to quantify in comparison. No question the screen on the One X is better than the GS3, but quantified how much better is it? Same with the design.
That's one of the things that bugs me about Samsung when compared to other manufacturers. Companies like Apple, Sony, HTC, and even Motorola seem as though they have a vision of the kind of product they want to create and have a head engineer/designer on the same page and creates it, where as Samsung just seems like the people in the boardrooms tell the engineers what to make. Best analogy would be the stereotypical t.v. show, where you got people from the network telling the writers to do this or that because audiences love it.
And in faaaarrr from a fanboy considering I've had Apple, Samsung, Sony, HTC, and Motorola devices.
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