I am leaning more towards the HTC One. I'm upgrading from an Evo 4g. I like the design better from the pictures I have seen.
I would like to wait until they both come out in stores.. Unless I jump the gun and preorder the One to take on vacation in April.
It would be fun to explore a new phone on a 15 hour car ride.
It depends on when they are released. I am intrigued by Samsung's software, but I also like the camera and stereo sound on the One. It will be bestto try out in person, though.
I am getting the ONE. At the moment i have a galaxy s3 which is a great phone and is still a good phone, however i upgrade every year and was waiting for the galaxy s4 to come out so i can choose the one i like the most. The Galaxy S4 although a bit better looking than my S3 looks way too similar and being as i never use any of the extra gimmicks on the phone i found the S4 isnt really for me. Although i find the software features to be cool (HTC should bring out more software features next time) they will rarely be used by me. The Quality and materials of the HTC one are top of the line right up there with apple's premium feel. The phone just looks GORGEOUS, even more than any smartphone to date. The only thing i've always missed from iOS after switching to android was the premium feel and superb build quality of their devices, now with the HTC ONE i will have my wish fulfilled. Ive watched nearly every video on youtube on the HTC One and its always fast, fluid and no lag in sight. The first video posted of the Galaxy S4 hands on from the Verge automatically showed signs of Lag and that is just not acceptable especially with a phone having a quad core snapdragon 600 processor as well as being their newest flagship for 2013. Another reason is because SAMOLED SUCKS. I've always preferred LCD displays like the ones on the HTC phones and iPhones. i want to love it but it is way over saturated and using the phone outside is hell because you need to have it to 100% brightness for anything to be viewable on the screen. Imagine going to the beach with it on a hot sunny day?! you wont be able to see a thing!
HTC is nice phone which may have issues with plastic parts. YES there is plastic on sides of the phone,it's not just metal unibody. The plastic is probably low quality (very hard and may break easily).
I have seen 2 slitely used HTC Ones during their roadshow and both phones had hundreds cracks in plastic. I don't understand why even HTC people presented broken phones. I have asked for explanation but didn't get any.
So I was asking on google+ and facebook htc pages. But HTC ignored me. Also most people did. Just two people asked what I mean by plastic on HTC One since "there is no plastic".
My opinion is that HTC knows about problem nad maybe try to solve it now and maybe that is the reason why they don't have enough phones for every marked and release day is delayed.
I've handled two of these devices in stores and I don't remember seeing any plastic on the sides at all...
EDIT: To be honest, googling this just brings up your posts all over the place. no-one else appears to be reporting this 'issue' at all. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it appears that no-one else has heard of it.
Yea, that's why I wonder if it was a specific set of pre-production models that were used. The question I have is why would HTC not do proper product testing that would have simulated at least a week or two of use and knowing there is a massive defect ship the phone that is supposed to bring them back from the brink.