Anyone went from the Galaxy S4 to the HTC One m8?

[Lilshaq65]

Went from S4 to M8 but in all truthfulness there is not that much difference performance wise. The S4 is not laggy as others have stated. If you have the S4 setup well then you will not see any lag. The M8 has a slight performance increase and Sense is a nice change but the there is no night and day difference between the two phones. The camera works just as well as the S4 and takes great pictures. In complete unbiased honesty (I do not have to keep reminding myself that I made a good purchase decision) there really is not enough of a change in technology on the phone to warrant spending the money on an upgrade. But if you have money to throw around and its burning a hole in your pocket then go for it.

Everyone is entitled to the own opinion but I'm ganna have to definitely disagree with you on everything you said about it no big difference and the S4 not lagging. I had the Galaxy S4 at least 4-5 since it's been released until now and every single one ended up getting very laggy quick and it felt so slow to me. My friend had 2 S4 and be also said the same exact thing but he dealed with it because he don't really care about switching his phone. And my dad had the S4 from a month after it got released until a week ago and he loves the M8 and he notices big differences between the two phones and he did he's glad this one don't lag like that S4 would do a lot. And also I had the new Galaxy S5 already and honestly to me it's just as laggy and slow as the S4. And what's crazy I always liked the Galaxy phones but those two had to many issues and lag was the biggest issue. So far I had no issues with my M8 and have not lagged on me yet. So yea that's it. I'm not saying you was wrong for your opinion I just wanted to state my opinion based on that you said.

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[mrfreeds]

I changed from my s4 to the m8 on Verizon. I found my s4 slow and buggy . The m8 is incredible accept for 2 major issues for me.
1. On Verizon only they have left out the relationship field in contacts. I have hindered of contacts made in my s4. The field is present in old contacts but I can not make a new contact with a relationship field. Sprint version has the relationship field.

2. This one is a killer. I have thousands of contacts with notes. If I search my contacts using Google or the people app the function will only search by names. On my s4 I'd search for a word in the notes all contacts with that word will show up. I spoke to HTC and they have no solution for either problem.

Anyone have a solution.

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[JesusF310]

Hello guys.
I have the Galaxy S4 since last August but I've been thinking about changing to the new HTC one m8. To whoever did the same: can you give me your opinion, if it's worth it, etc?
Thanks a lot.
Cheers

This is pretty much my review of the M8. It's a lot to read, but I mean you asked for our opinions, and I'm giving my honest opinion/impression. I'm not a reviewer, nor am I biased. I just like phones and having a good amount of knowledge as to where I can help a friend out when they want to buy a phone.
Reason why I changed:
I went from an S4 to the One (M8) after my s4 fell screen first onto gravel, and busted the digitizer. I was surprised the glass screen protector I had on it didn't break, nor did the gorilla glass. I ended up getting the M8 since it was already released and the S5 was not out yet, but I did not feel like waiting, nor did I want to go the Samsung route, having in mind that the build quality of the S5 would be the same as the S4's and in the end, would be inferior to that of the M8.

Impressions after more than a month of Use:
I'm glad I pulled the trigger when it came to buying the M8. Couldn't be happier. The Boomsound speakers blow the competition away. Love watching videos on it and playing games. Sense UI is pretty much what I would have wanted on my S4. I had Nova on my S4, cause I simply did not like Touchwiz, and wanted to have the feel of stock android. It's clean, fluid and very close to stock android. The feel of the phone is pretty good. Not as slippery as the S4, but since the M8 has metal from side to side, it makes it somewhat slippery. I put a case on my S4 the moment I bought it, since I feared it would fall and break. For some reason it felt fragile. As of today, I've pretty much had my M8 without a case since the beginning of April. Although I did install a MIME glass screen protector on it. For some reason, I wasn't all that worried of the M8 falling. Not sure if it was because of it being metal, or because of HTC's Advantage Program that will replace your broken screen within 6 months.
I do somewhat miss the 13 mp camera that was on the S4 when I'm out and about with the M8. Being able to zoom in and still have an adequate picture. But after using the M8 over this past month, I ended up really liking the camera on the M8. It get's the job done, and does a really good job doing it from the times I have used it. I haven't had a chance to use it at it's full potential yet, so I really can't say much. The Duo camera is pretty nifty, although I've only used it once, again I haven't had a good chance to use it. As a side note, I usually only use the stock camera app and if needed, edited the photos, added filters, using VSCO Cam, as I did on the S4 as well. Front facing camera is good. I mean it's 5mp and has a wide-angle lens. I'm don't take selfies at all, but I snapchat now and then, so I tend to use it.
There's been a few build quality issues that have been found since release. But thankfully, the only one that was on my M8 was the wiggly volume rocker, but I've come to live with it. It's not a deal breaker, but if you end up putting a case on it, the problem pretty much becomes nonexistent. I just got my gunmetal Spigen Slim Armor today and have since put it on, which brings me to my next point the look of the phone. I actually really liked the way the S4 looked without a case. It looked really sleek, and the brushed aluminum trim around the phone really set it off. But since recieving my M8. I pretty much forgot about the S4. It just looks so damn nice. I chose the gunmetal one because it appealed to me more than the other two. Although I sometimes wonder if I should have chosen the silver one, but in the end I just loved the brushed gunmetal.
Battery life is insanely good, IMO. Being that it is the same capacity of the S4's, not one day have I worried if my phone would last throughout the day. I'm guessing it's due to the snap. 801. I really don't have much to say when it comes to performance. The 801 beats the 600 in anyway, although I heard the RAM on the S4 was ddr3 and the one found on the M8 and M7 is ddr2? Not sure of the difference, but I do wish they would have gone with 3gb. Memory is good. Verizon only has the 32gb M8, and I had bought a class 10 32gb sd card a week before my S4 broke. -_- But it's pretty much empty on my M8, although I do save all my photos and will save my future concert videos on the SD card.
Comparing the screens, I really do think a 5 inch screen is more than adequate. Onscreen buttons are pretty cool. I think the screen on the S4 was able to reach a higher brightness than that of the M8. I can't say much as far as LCD vs superAMOLED, although I did enjoy having the true blacks on the S4, and enjoyed using Dynamic Notifications, knowing that the entire screen wasn't on, so it wasn't going to kill the battery as much.
That's pretty much all I have to say. I would definitely consider the M8 to anyone coming from an S4 or older device, looking to upgrade to a 2014 flagship device. Happy to answer any question that you may have!

 

[badelhas]

This is pretty much my review of the M8. It's a lot to read, but I mean you asked for our opinions, and I'm giving my honest opinion/impression. I'm not a reviewer, nor am I biased. I just like phones and having a good amount of knowledge as to where I can help a friend out when they want to buy a phone.
Reason why I changed:
I went from an S4 to the One (M8) after my s4 fell screen first onto gravel, and busted the digitizer. I was surprised the glass screen protector I had on it didn't break, nor did the gorilla glass. I ended up getting the M8 since it was already released and the S5 was not out yet, but I did not feel like waiting, nor did I want to go the Samsung route, having in mind that the build quality of the S5 would be the same as the S4's and in the end, would be inferior to that of the M8.

Impressions after more than a month of Use:
I'm glad I pulled the trigger when it came to buying the M8. Couldn't be happier. The Boomsound speakers blow the competition away. Love watching videos on it and playing games. Sense UI is pretty much what I would have wanted on my S4. I had Nova on my S4, cause I simply did not like Touchwiz, and wanted to have the feel of stock android. It's clean, fluid and very close to stock android. The feel of the phone is pretty good. Not as slippery as the S4, but since the M8 has metal from side to side, it makes it somewhat slippery. I put a case on my S4 the moment I bought it, since I feared it would fall and break. For some reason it felt fragile. As of today, I've pretty much had my M8 without a case since the beginning of April. Although I did install a MIME glass screen protector on it. For some reason, I wasn't all that worried of the M8 falling. Not sure if it was because of it being metal, or because of HTC's Advantage Program that will replace your broken screen within 6 months.
I do somewhat miss the 13 mp camera that was on the S4 when I'm out and about with the M8. Being able to zoom in and still have an adequate picture. But after using the M8 over this past month, I ended up really liking the camera on the M8. It get's the job done, and does a really good job doing it from the times I have used it. I haven't had a chance to use it at it's full potential yet, so I really can't say much. The Duo camera is pretty nifty, although I've only used it once, again I haven't had a good chance to use it. As a side note, I usually only use the stock camera app and if needed, edited the photos, added filters, using VSCO Cam, as I did on the S4 as well. Front facing camera is good. I mean it's 5mp and has a wide-angle lens. I'm don't take selfies at all, but I snapchat now and then, so I tend to use it.
There's been a few build quality issues that have been found since release. But thankfully, the only one that was on my M8 was the wiggly volume rocker, but I've come to live with it. It's not a deal breaker, but if you end up putting a case on it, the problem pretty much becomes nonexistent. I just got my gunmetal Spigen Slim Armor today and have since put it on, which brings me to my next point the look of the phone. I actually really liked the way the S4 looked without a case. It looked really sleek, and the brushed aluminum trim around the phone really set it off. But since recieving my M8. I pretty much forgot about the S4. It just looks so damn nice. I chose the gunmetal one because it appealed to me more than the other two. Although I sometimes wonder if I should have chosen the silver one, but in the end I just loved the brushed gunmetal.
Battery life is insanely good, IMO. Being that it is the same capacity of the S4's, not one day have I worried if my phone would last throughout the day. I'm guessing it's due to the snap. 801. I really don't have much to say when it comes to performance. The 801 beats the 600 in anyway, although I heard the RAM on the S4 was ddr3 and the one found on the M8 and M7 is ddr2? Not sure of the difference, but I do wish they would have gone with 3gb. Memory is good. Verizon only has the 32gb M8, and I had bought a class 10 32gb sd card a week before my S4 broke. -_- But it's pretty much empty on my M8, although I do save all my photos and will save my future concert videos on the SD card.
Comparing the screens, I really do think a 5 inch screen is more than adequate. Onscreen buttons are pretty cool. I think the screen on the S4 was able to reach a higher brightness than that of the M8. I can't say much as far as LCD vs superAMOLED, although I did enjoy having the true blacks on the S4, and enjoyed using Dynamic Notifications, knowing that the entire screen wasn't on, so it wasn't going to kill the battery as much.
That's pretty much all I have to say. I would definitely consider the M8 to anyone coming from an S4 or older device, looking to upgrade to a 2014 flagship device. Happy to answer any question that you may have!

Thank you very much for that mini review of yours. I was finally able to see it on a store and agree with you except for the screen. Do you really think it's less bright than the S4? Reviews say otherwise, I believe.
Cheers

 

[fatboy97]

I switched.... I did enjoy the S4, but I had to disable so many Samsung things because I did not use all those bells and whistles they had on the S4, plus the vendor app (Verizon puts a ton of their own apps on the device as well, as does every other vendor)... plus I was an old first adopter of the HTC Thunderbolt back in the early LTE days and had enjoyed using that device even though so many complained about a few different things with that device.

My observations so far... the device is a little tall - holding it in the hand and trying to reach the top of the screen to pull down the notification bar is a long reach. The sound is fantastic compared to the S4... I always had to cup my hand behind the S4 to hear either a video or even trying to use the speakerphone, not so with the M8. I did like to use Nova launcher on the S4, but using Nova with the M8 I loose the HTC weather/clock widget, which I knew I would loose it but I tried it just to be sure, and I don't want to load WeatherBug or some other app just to get what Sense already has.

And one final thing I plan to do down the road.... root this and load Cyanogenmod, which I have missed since using the S4. I know there were some who could root the S4 early on, but then couldn't get updates... nor did any of the CM developers develop for the S4, so even if I could root it then there was a very limited ROM community out there... and I do like Cyanogenmod as an option when I'm bored with Sense.

 

[badelhas]

But isn't sense much more fluid than TouchWiz? What's the real advantage in CyanogenMod compared do Sense?
Regarding the S4 screen, do you agree with the other user?

 

[badelhas]

This is pretty much my review of the M8. It's a lot to read, but I mean you asked for our opinions, and I'm giving my honest opinion/impression. I'm not a reviewer, nor am I biased. I just like phones and having a good amount of knowledge as to where I can help a friend out when they want to buy a phone.
Reason why I changed:
I went from an S4 to the One (M8) after my s4 fell screen first onto gravel, and busted the digitizer. I was surprised the glass screen protector I had on it didn't break, nor did the gorilla glass. I ended up getting the M8 since it was already released and the S5 was not out yet, but I did not feel like waiting, nor did I want to go the Samsung route, having in mind that the build quality of the S5 would be the same as the S4's and in the end, would be inferior to that of the M8.

Impressions after more than a month of Use:
I'm glad I pulled the trigger when it came to buying the M8. Couldn't be happier. The Boomsound speakers blow the competition away. Love watching videos on it and playing games. Sense UI is pretty much what I would have wanted on my S4. I had Nova on my S4, cause I simply did not like Touchwiz, and wanted to have the feel of stock android. It's clean, fluid and very close to stock android. The feel of the phone is pretty good. Not as slippery as the S4, but since the M8 has metal from side to side, it makes it somewhat slippery. I put a case on my S4 the moment I bought it, since I feared it would fall and break. For some reason it felt fragile. As of today, I've pretty much had my M8 without a case since the beginning of April. Although I did install a MIME glass screen protector on it. For some reason, I wasn't all that worried of the M8 falling. Not sure if it was because of it being metal, or because of HTC's Advantage Program that will replace your broken screen within 6 months.
I do somewhat miss the 13 mp camera that was on the S4 when I'm out and about with the M8. Being able to zoom in and still have an adequate picture. But after using the M8 over this past month, I ended up really liking the camera on the M8. It get's the job done, and does a really good job doing it from the times I have used it. I haven't had a chance to use it at it's full potential yet, so I really can't say much. The Duo camera is pretty nifty, although I've only used it once, again I haven't had a good chance to use it. As a side note, I usually only use the stock camera app and if needed, edited the photos, added filters, using VSCO Cam, as I did on the S4 as well. Front facing camera is good. I mean it's 5mp and has a wide-angle lens. I'm don't take selfies at all, but I snapchat now and then, so I tend to use it.
There's been a few build quality issues that have been found since release. But thankfully, the only one that was on my M8 was the wiggly volume rocker, but I've come to live with it. It's not a deal breaker, but if you end up putting a case on it, the problem pretty much becomes nonexistent. I just got my gunmetal Spigen Slim Armor today and have since put it on, which brings me to my next point the look of the phone. I actually really liked the way the S4 looked without a case. It looked really sleek, and the brushed aluminum trim around the phone really set it off. But since recieving my M8. I pretty much forgot about the S4. It just looks so damn nice. I chose the gunmetal one because it appealed to me more than the other two. Although I sometimes wonder if I should have chosen the silver one, but in the end I just loved the brushed gunmetal.
Battery life is insanely good, IMO. Being that it is the same capacity of the S4's, not one day have I worried if my phone would last throughout the day. I'm guessing it's due to the snap. 801. I really don't have much to say when it comes to performance. The 801 beats the 600 in anyway, although I heard the RAM on the S4 was ddr3 and the one found on the M8 and M7 is ddr2? Not sure of the difference, but I do wish they would have gone with 3gb. Memory is good. Verizon only has the 32gb M8, and I had bought a class 10 32gb sd card a week before my S4 broke. -_- But it's pretty much empty on my M8, although I do save all my photos and will save my future concert videos on the SD card.
Comparing the screens, I really do think a 5 inch screen is more than adequate. Onscreen buttons are pretty cool. I think the screen on the S4 was able to reach a higher brightness than that of the M8. I can't say much as far as LCD vs superAMOLED, although I did enjoy having the true blacks on the S4, and enjoyed using Dynamic Notifications, knowing that the entire screen wasn't on, so it wasn't going to kill the battery as much.
That's pretty much all I have to say. I would definitely consider the M8 to anyone coming from an S4 or older device, looking to upgrade to a 2014 flagship device. Happy to answer any question that you may have!

Knowing what you know now, if you didn't break your S4, would you sell it and buy the One m8?

 

[JesusF310]

Knowing what you know now, if you didn't break your S4, would you sell it and buy the One m8?

I'm not exactly sure. I was on a two year contract, and was trying to hold off on this years flagship phones. Although once the wallpapers of the M8 were out I put them on my S4 lol Who would have thought what would happen right? But in the end, if I was not on contract and didn't break it, I think I would have immediately sold my phone for the M8, although after taking a good look at it in person so I could finalize my decision.

 

[Tower72]

I went from the One..to the S4..to the One M8...I couldnt stand the s4 at all and only got it cause it was free on Black Friday. It was filled with tons of useless crap (not talking carrier bloat, but manufacturer garbage) which took up a whopping 7-8gbs of space on my 16gb model. Using the SD card was almost useless as well since I could only move the install, not the data( say I downloaded a game that was 12mb, but the actual game data was 1gb, the 12mb install would move, but not the data see here Why the Samsung Galaxy S4 Micro SD Card is Useless ). With my One, I dont seem to have that problem since most of my apps transfer a large amount of data to my SD card

TouchWiz is just plain ugly, and as I mentioned above, all the gimmicks Samsung includes are neat the first and second time I used them , but easily forgotten about

Knox really killed it for me, since I am a chronic flasher, and HTC is more developer friendly (before I even fully set up my M8, I was bootloader unlocked, and rooted). The s4 also felt like very cheaply made, more like a toy then anything else

I am sure I can come up with more stuff since it slipped my mind atm, but I am very VERY happy with my M8, and ditching my M7 for the S4 was a big mistake in my opinion.

If you are stuck in a contract, look over on Swappa to sell your phone. I only got something like 280 for mine, but there are alot of S4s for sale so dont expect too much

 

[mrfreeds]

I changed from my s4 to the m8 on Verizon. I found my s4 slow and buggy . The m8 is incredible accept for 2 major issues for me.
1. On Verizon only they have left out the relationship field in contacts. I have hindered of contacts made in my s4. The field is present in old contacts but I can not make a new contact with a relationship field. Sprint version has the relationship field.

2. This one is a killer. I have thousands of contacts with notes. If I search my contacts using Google or the people app the function will only search by names. On my s4 I'd search for a word in the notes all contacts with that word will show up. I spoke to HTC and they have no solution for either problem.

Anyone have a solution.

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I have found solutions to both problems.
1. I saving new contacts to phone but my Google account. Phone no relationship field, but Google account on phone does.
2. Found an app that searches all vibrancy fields called pixel phone. It is not beautiful but it works.

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[woowdy]

I went from s4 to note 3 to HTC one m8 by far this is a really great phone. About case you can try spigen slim armer. Amazing case and will protect the phone.

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[badelhas]

Thanks for your replies, guys. I received the phone yesterday and I can't believe how faster, smoother and more intuitive is this phone. Wow

 

[Alfred Anderson]

well i bought a M8s after having a galaxy s4 i would whole heartily say DONT BUY IT

 

[Umbrokhan]

I had galaxy s4 then changed to HTC one m8. I really like blinkfeed and camera effect on HTC one m8.
Galaxy S4 had better screen and colours.
I can't remember galaxy s4 lag. If i had both phones at the same time then maybe I might see some lag.
Galaxy s4 takes better quality pictures and videos.
HTC one m8 pictures on my 55" inch TV looks really poor. HTC one m8 Pictures look good on Facebook and instagram but not on big screen TV.

Can someone tell me if the HTC one m8 is better then m8s?