If you appreciate premium hardware quality then there is no competition. The M8 is the best smartphone out there.
If you care more about specs (that most of the time are meaningless), then wait to get the G3.
A 2k display seems like an overkill. I also don't like the skin LG is using. Another problem for me is the location of the power and volume buttons.
For me, coming from an iPhone there was only One choice. The M8 feels amazing in the hand and has great software. The G3 has amazing specs, a good design (but still plastic) and mediocre software.
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"A 2k display seems like an overkill. I also don't like the skin LG is using. Another problem for me is the location of the power and volume buttons. "
My sentiments exactly. I was totally up for the M8. I bought it cash and REALLY wanted to like it. Without a doubt it's got the best skin out there. Just amazingly beautiful. It's reassuring to know that your $700 device is properly encased in metal instead of more plastic. the speakers are good, but significantly less loud than my four-year-old Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0. And those speakers show up (on the back) as small slots, each speaker with an area of about 3/16" x 5/16". so I wonder why it seem difficult for HTC to match 5 year old technology. Ultimately, although I liked a great deal about the phone, the screen was too narrow/small. Everyton complains about the "htc black bar" and the height of the unit, but for me, the proportions of that 5" screen made it feel very narrow and I felt like I was using a tiny iphone. I couldn't use the keyboard effectively, and webpages that I was used to seeing clearly were now too small. If that screen were 1/4" fatter, I'd probably still have it.
I'm looking at the LG G3 too. I DO feel that all this expense and hype about increasing screen resolutions is getting ridiculous. It's unnecessarily adding cost, complexity and consuming processing power and battery power. I would not be getting it for the display but despite the display. 5.5 seems like the right screen size for me. I do not like the idea of the power button and volume on the back. It just seems counterintuitive...especially when your finger is more likely to hit the camera lens. And although it LOOKS like metal, it's plastic.
The Xperia Z2, in terms of ID, is slick and well-made but it just seems like too much of a rectangular slab, without subtlety and any curved edges. Although it does have the forward-facing speakers, I wouldn't expect too much out of them.
I was REALLY hoping for that M8 Prime or whatever they were going to call it. Wanted that big screen AND the aluminum body and the speakers. Made of Un-Obtanium.
Many people love the M8. It was just "off" enough for me to be hesitant about keeping it. For $700 I should be completely thrilled with it.
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