You're FAR from alone.
People talk "HTC has great build quality" but then all the hardware problems. I think a lot of people don't understand the difference between build quality and build materials.
HTC always has better build materials, but their quality of the build sucks.
This fails, that fails, i see it daily as does my buddy working at sprint. Most of the sprint employees I've met HATE HTC phones because of poor build quality. Then the phone's that I've fixed, charging ports come loose requiring re soldering, batteries losing charge capacity dramatically in only 9 months (couldn't get more than an hour of actual use out of the original EVO or thunderbolt without a charge or battery swap causing me to walk around with a pocket full of spares) yet people say great build quality? Laughable at best.
Also, removable battery wouldn't be a bad idea if every phone had a 3600mah battery in it. Google should force makers to make batteries in that capacity. It would be even better if it were removable.
But a 2020mah battery (or anything under 3100mah) is unacceptable on any smartphone that doesn't allow removing of the battery.
Its just a terrible direction android is taking.
Then with the lack of additional cards, yes the internal storage is always best, but memory cards (why are they called memory cards when they are storage and not memory?) are a great feature.
Why?
For some reason neither of my PC's will connect to my Galaxy S3, not my windows or iMac.
The good?
I can simply pop my sd card out and plop it in ny computer.
Problem solved.
sent from the best smart phone (not phablet) on the worst network- the Galaxy S3 unfortunately on T-Mobile
Well, nobody will ever accuse you of not being biased...
HTC's build quality is top notch for me. I've never had an issue, and I've been rockin' an HTC device since the Mogul. That's right... WinMo, baby!. I've never had a bad charging port, failed battery (except the spare I left in my car for weeks on end during the summer of 2010 that exploded from the heat), screen issue or anything. I guess everyone's experience is different. My brother has a GS3 on Verizon and hates hates hates it. His wife loves hers. He has had his replaced twice because of a faulty charging port, but he puts it through it's paces. She doesn't. That doesn't mean that every Sammy phone is a clunker. My wife has a GS3 (we're on Sprint) and she loves it. But her battery is good for 10 hours, max. And she isn't what we here would consider a power user. My EVO gets me through just about every 12 hour day I have, no charging required, and I AM a power user.
As for me, I will not own a Samsung phone anytime soon. I've bought all 3 Galaxy devices for my wife and son over the years. The original Epic? P O S !!! Talk about build quality, the sliding keyboard was a joke. And not a funny one. And don't even consider going naked with the GS2 - it was made out of the slipperiest stuff on the planet. And here's some GS2 build quality for you - Sprint stocks screen repair kits because the digitizers fail so often it makes more sense, financially, to have the repairs done in store rather than ship them off to get fixed, it happens so often. The GS3? Beautiful device, good camera, great screen indoors but not so much in bright outdoor settings and a little plastic-y for my tastes. But the build quality has certainly improved for Samsung and that's great for everyone, if you don't count the motherboard issue. Give them another year or two with quality construction and I may be open to it.
As for the batteries in general: I would rather have a removable one than not, but if it's non-removable then I just need it to last for me. My EVO does right now, and the One has a bigger battery and more efficient components so I feel good about it. Only time will really tell, though. I don't dismiss it because of some number that most people here don't fully understand anyway. As for the older batteries on older phones, tell me which Samsung phone was kickin' all-day battery life back in 2010? Certainly not the original Galaxy series. Not even close. They all sucked back then compared to now. In 5 years we will be talking about how 2 days on a battery is for losers. Everything improves with time. But it won't be because of Google directly. Why would they start dictating hardware specs to the manufacturers? That eliminates one of the core benefits of Android: choice! Should we all have the same screen? Should they all be the same size? Should everyone have to use the same camera, button configuration, amount of RAM, amount of internal storage, network type, homescreen, lockscreen and system font? How about not every 19-year old college student can't afford the latest and greatest, nor does every parent want to get their 12-year old a $350 phone on contract. But if that's what you want then there is a site for that. At the bottom of this page is a link to iMore.com and you'll find lots of people there who share that view.
But I do agree about the microSD card - I love being able to pop it out and into my computer whenever I want. I will miss that if I end up getting the One.
it would be nice if sprint repurposes the sim try for a sd tray like they did with the one x
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