HTC One Google Edition Pros/Cons/Thoughts Discussion

[Scott Kenyon]

Why are we discussing Android version updates? The features Google wants people to use will be pushed out via Play Services to at least 4.0+ devices.
To those talking about using stock Android on the HTC One and changing hardware components:
Change the camera, or anything else, and you no longer have an HTC One.

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[qnet]

Just like the S4, I wish this would have been available from the beginning. I so used to the HTC One the way it is now I'm not sure I want the Google version.

 

[snookasnoo]

Huh? Sense and Touchwiz have nothing to do with the carriers. It's all about the manufacturers wanting people to identify with their brand. I've never heard of anyone claiming it was mandated by the carriers. They don't care as long as they can put their bloatware on it. If anything they would be happier without the customer overlays as it cause less support headaches for them.

While people want to spin TouchWiz and Sense as carrier-mandated interfaces, the reality is Samsung and HTC want them (probably more) than carriers. Samsung wants people to buy a Samsung phone.

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[snookasnoo]

We will see when the stock android version comes out. I am quite sure you will still see the camera features. The HTC One is about build quality screen, and speakers. Stock android won't change any of that.

Why are we discussing Android version updates? The features Google wants people to use will be pushed out via Play Services to at least 4.0+ devices.
To those talking about using stock Android on the HTC One and changing hardware components:
Change the camera, or anything else, and you no longer have an HTC One.

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[Scott Kenyon]

We will see when the stock android version comes out. I am quite sure you will still see the camera features. The HTC One is about build quality screen, and speakers. Stock android won't change any of that.

Lack of Beats will certainly impact the speakers.

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[Ry]

Huh? Sense and Touchwiz have nothing to do with the carriers. It's all about the manufacturers wanting people to identify with their brand. I've never heard of anyone claiming it was mandated by the carriers. They don't care as long as they can put their bloatware on it. If anything they would be happier without the customer overlays as it cause less support headaches for them.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2...erizon-and-at-t-dont-want-seven-stock-android

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[ultravisitor]

We will see when the stock android version comes out. I am quite sure you will still see the camera features. The HTC One is about build quality screen, and speakers. Stock android won't change any of that.

The S4 Google Edition has the vanilla Android camera, not the Samsung software. I see no reason for the HTC One to have anything other than the AOSP camera.

 

[sting7k]

The only thing that makes me consider the Google edition GS4 instead of the HTC One is it's power button on the top left and strange two button setup. Why HTC?

 

[sting7k]

Lack of Beats will certainly impact the speakers.

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"Update: Google's Hugo Barra has followed up with an official render, and says the HTC One with Nexus User Experience will come with Beats Audio."

 

[JamieWynJones]

This maybe a silly question but if I already have the HTC One could I potentially put the HTC One GE ROM onto it?

 

[JRDroid]

This maybe a silly question but if I already have the HTC One could I potentially put the HTC One GE ROM onto it?

I'm sure it will only take a very short time (I'm guessing like hours after release) for the guys over on XDA to port this to the international and AT&T HTC One's since the hardware is identical.

I think the number one biggest drawback, and what makes the GE (or ROMs based upon it) a total no go is the lack of HTC's camera software that take a plain 4 MP camera and turn it into one of the top cameras on any smart phone.

 

[paul-c]

I like that OEMs are starting to release stock versions of their flagships, it's just not for me. I wouldn't want to lose the features that the OEM skins add to the phone.

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[Scott Kenyon]

"Update: Google's Hugo Barra has followed up with an official render, and says the HTC One with Nexus User Experience will come with Beats Audio."

That doesn't exactly sound like the Nexus experience. Thanks for posting that, though.

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[ahaxton]

A response to the "why can't you just root the regular version?" argument:

Yes, this is somewhat valid, but remember two things:

• Rooting a smartphone voids its warranty. With the GE and Nexus phones you can have AOSP with a warranty.
• Yes, you will get faster updates with a rooted skinned phone than with an unrooted one, but you still will not get updates as fast as GE or Nexus phones.

I'll give you another one that people seldom talk about but was my experience with both my Motorola Photon and Galaxy S2: They're just buggier and less stable than stock. There's ALWAYS stuff that doesn't work quite right compared to a stock build, and that was putting CyanogenMod on both phones. 4G doesn't work. The camera doesn't work. Netflix doesn't work. The headphone jack only outputs at half volume. GPS may or may not lock, you have to boot into another ROM, get a lock, then reflash this ROM. This app doesn't work. Oh, the developer who was working on your ROM just got a new phone and moved to it, so there will be no fixes forthcoming to these problems. I love me some stock Google experience, but the trade offs of stuff that didn't work right just got to be too much of a pain. ROMing is not always the answer.

 

[snookasnoo]

HTC One Nexus Experience Clarifications: IR Blaster Disabled, No HTC Camera Features, And No Beats Audio Switch

 

[Aquila]

The HTC One 'Google Edition' is official! | Android Central

The update on this one says yes to Beats Audio.

So here's what I'm hoping for next.... a Google Edition of the Nexus 4!!!!!!!

 

[spridell]

From what I am reading NO T-mobile AWS Band

So you will need to be in a refarmed area to get the fast T-mobile speeds.

Kind of sucks they are including in the S4 Google Edition and not the One.

 

[JHBThree]

From what I am reading NO T-mobile AWS Band

So you will need to be in a refarmed area to get the fast T-mobile speeds.

Kind of sucks they are including in the S4 Google Edition and not the One.

Different bands, different radios. This is probably the developer or unlocked edition, which don't either.

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[jdbii]

From what I am reading NO T-mobile AWS Band

So you will need to be in a refarmed area to get the fast T-mobile speeds.

Kind of sucks they are including in the S4 Google Edition and not the One.

Questions.......questions.......questions about this.........This was mentioned is Phil Nickinson's AC article today, but I don't understand what it means. Do you (or anybody) know what this means? You won't get HSPA+ speed on Tmobile's network with this phone, or it will be limited HSPA+ speed? And why would there be no AWS support for HTC One GE, but there will be AWS support for GS4 GE?

 

[bembol]

Not sure if what mentioned my boy told me the Google Edition will lose the IR Remote?

Not really interested but if I was and this is true, I don't think I cn drop $600.