Wow! Where to begin. First, its sweet! I received my Silver HTC 10 from Verizon today. All set up was simple enough and after set up, downloading 100 apps, 400 contacts, etc, playing for a while, it still had 60% power. Not bad. After 3 hours of fiddling with setting, adding files via drop box, etc, I'm down to 51%. So far so good…
What I like so far:
1. Side Button… Halleluiah I don’t have to move the phone to reach the top anymore. I had this on the Thunderbolt I think or one of those and missed it when we got to the top.
2. Boom Sound – I didn’t play with it much but I did play one song which sounded good and was loud enough. I have to compare it to my M7 closer. The 10 didn’t sound as good as with the two speakers facing initially but nowhere near a deal breaker. More research to come. The speaker sounded loud enough on a call which is good.
3. Camera…Did I just take a picture that looked good? Did my outside greens stay green and not everything else? Did I just take an indoor shot of my foot and all the colors on the desk above and below ere correct? I took a few inside in a darkening room and not so bad (at least its not all purple). After 2.5 years of ugh! Pics I'm very happy. I don’t have an S7 to compare to so no news there.
4. New button placement – Within a few minutes I had the new buttons down so no real issue there.
What I'm not too happy about so far:
1. Screen Brightness outside – Definitely not as good as the M7 but passable. I found more glare on the screen than my M7 and not as bright on full manual brightness.
2. Maybe a pink tinge to the whites when I tilt the screen???
3. Sense – I used a lot of the sense widgets, i.e profile, brightness, all gone. There’s one widget that has brightness, timeout, wifi, autosync, and Bluetooth together but no separate ones. Boooooo! Gone in the drop down too. Anyone know how to personalize the drop down notifications?
4. Camera – Whats the deal with no settings? You can no longer select sunny/cloudy/etc. Very minimal camera but it does work. Also, while you can touch the screen to focus (sorta) you cant touch to take a pic anymore. I really don’t like that. Any suggestions for a better camera app anyone?
5. Keyboard. I will be finding a new one, too much wasted space.
6. Recent Apps – Only “card view”, I want my grid back!
Other:
1. CASE: I did order the Seidio case and it came today also. I drop everything always and these cases saved all my phones. This one fits better than my M7 case which was slightly loose and caused major scratches on my BLUE paint. Learned a lesson, with the colored phones the color scratches off. The metal coated phone just scratches.
2. Gallery: I stopped using Gallery a while ago and have been using Quikpic. Gallery never picked up new pics added to the phone easily and Quickpic did.
3. Finally, it did get a bit warm at points but not too bad or worse than Ive had with my M7.
Ive only had this a few hours but so far I'm impressed. No one likes change so some small things but compared to the initial issues with all the other phones Id call this a success (probably spoke too soon there LOL). I haven’t tackled internet browsing or set up the fingerprint reader yet so more to come on that and everything else.
Edit: After spending the last 30 minutes trying not to burst a blood vessel removing the Seidio case, maybe its not that good an idea
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