I am returning my HTC One (M8). Are you?
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Just got the M8 as an unlocked Verizon edition and am using it in Canada on Rogers. I'm probably a somewhat unique buyer here, as I'm coming from iPhone 5, this is my first Android phone (but own a relatively new Nexus 7 tablet).
A year ago, I couldn't have imagined leaving iPhone. It's still a decision I'm uneasy about, but overall, the M8 has not disappointed. But I do think my criteria differs from most around here.
I totally understand why the camera is going to be a dealbreaker for some. But not for me. I'm one of those rare folks who still own a digital camera and love it. I have a Nikon One with 6 lenses, and if there's any planned photography, I'll have it with me. I don't need my phone to be my best camera. In fact, I care far less about top-end quality for phone photos, and care far more about unique features. Can my phone take pictures that my Nikon can't? Can my phone camera have cool neat effects that my Nikon doesn't easily replicate? The Duo Camera with the lytro effect and various other cool oddities actually make the M8 camera more appealing to me than my iPhone 5 camera which technically is a better quality camera. I've already taken some super-cool shots on the M8 that I wouldn't have captured without it. 99% of my phone camera shots end up being downsized and shared out via email, Facebook, Twitter etc. Megapixels are almost irrelevant to me. It's all about your use case. For me, the M8 camera was a point for, not against.
The phone itself has incredible build quality. It's the first phone I've held or tried that was non-Apple that didn't make me wonder why Apple was the only company who could build a high-quality phone. HTC has done a great job. It's big. Going from the iPhone 5 to the M8 is a massive adjustment. After barely a week, I'm still nowhere used to it. It still fits fine in my front jean pocket, but barely. A few annoyances to pass along. The screen is hyper-sensitive. Way more than i5. Accidental app openings and presses are happening too frequently for my liking. Maybe this will get better with familiarity. Other thing is the volume rocker. The volume rocker buttons are not tense enough and are pressed far too easily. If your hand happens to grip the M8 around those volume buttons, they will be pressed and start unintentionally adjusting your ringer volume. That's not cool. The iPhone volume are brilliant because you can hold the phone over them and without an intent to press them, they won't press. This was a big design oversight from HTC, and it's a bit disappointing given how much attention to detail was obviously put into the build of the M8.
I'm really enjoying the M8 overall. The screen is gorgeous. Yes, the phone is slippery. I have the gun metal version and without a case (I hate cases) I'm very worried about dropping it, much more so than I ever was with the iPhone. I just ordered an Incipio feather case and might try using that for a while. As cool as the Dot View case may look, a fold out flip case that doesn't fold flat around the back is utterly useless, no way I'll buy that thing.
Battery life is decent. The first 15-20% go quite quickly but it seems the battery drain seems to settle down as get deeper into it. Maybe that's just my phone, but thought I'd mention it.
The speakers and subsequent speakerphone are second to none. I can tell you I'll be using speakerphone a lot more than I ever have before, and playing podcasts through these crazy speakers is pure heaven.
Overall, my early impressions of the M8 are quite positive. My wife's iPhone 4 died and she needed a new phone. She took my iPhone 5 and I bought the M8 for myself. So far, I'm happy with the decision.
I do have a question about phone signal. Here in Canada, Rogers has LTE. I've never seen the M8 show any icon showing LTE. I see an H, haven't seen H+ just yet, but I know it may do it. But never LTE. Is H or H+ equivalent to LTE? Does anyone know? Could it be that my APN settings are wrong?
A year ago, I couldn't have imagined leaving iPhone. It's still a decision I'm uneasy about, but overall, the M8 has not disappointed. But I do think my criteria differs from most around here.
I totally understand why the camera is going to be a dealbreaker for some. But not for me. I'm one of those rare folks who still own a digital camera and love it. I have a Nikon One with 6 lenses, and if there's any planned photography, I'll have it with me. I don't need my phone to be my best camera. In fact, I care far less about top-end quality for phone photos, and care far more about unique features. Can my phone take pictures that my Nikon can't? Can my phone camera have cool neat effects that my Nikon doesn't easily replicate? The Duo Camera with the lytro effect and various other cool oddities actually make the M8 camera more appealing to me than my iPhone 5 camera which technically is a better quality camera. I've already taken some super-cool shots on the M8 that I wouldn't have captured without it. 99% of my phone camera shots end up being downsized and shared out via email, Facebook, Twitter etc. Megapixels are almost irrelevant to me. It's all about your use case. For me, the M8 camera was a point for, not against.
The phone itself has incredible build quality. It's the first phone I've held or tried that was non-Apple that didn't make me wonder why Apple was the only company who could build a high-quality phone. HTC has done a great job. It's big. Going from the iPhone 5 to the M8 is a massive adjustment. After barely a week, I'm still nowhere used to it. It still fits fine in my front jean pocket, but barely. A few annoyances to pass along. The screen is hyper-sensitive. Way more than i5. Accidental app openings and presses are happening too frequently for my liking. Maybe this will get better with familiarity. Other thing is the volume rocker. The volume rocker buttons are not tense enough and are pressed far too easily. If your hand happens to grip the M8 around those volume buttons, they will be pressed and start unintentionally adjusting your ringer volume. That's not cool. The iPhone volume are brilliant because you can hold the phone over them and without an intent to press them, they won't press. This was a big design oversight from HTC, and it's a bit disappointing given how much attention to detail was obviously put into the build of the M8.
I'm really enjoying the M8 overall. The screen is gorgeous. Yes, the phone is slippery. I have the gun metal version and without a case (I hate cases) I'm very worried about dropping it, much more so than I ever was with the iPhone. I just ordered an Incipio feather case and might try using that for a while. As cool as the Dot View case may look, a fold out flip case that doesn't fold flat around the back is utterly useless, no way I'll buy that thing.
Battery life is decent. The first 15-20% go quite quickly but it seems the battery drain seems to settle down as get deeper into it. Maybe that's just my phone, but thought I'd mention it.
The speakers and subsequent speakerphone are second to none. I can tell you I'll be using speakerphone a lot more than I ever have before, and playing podcasts through these crazy speakers is pure heaven.
Overall, my early impressions of the M8 are quite positive. My wife's iPhone 4 died and she needed a new phone. She took my iPhone 5 and I bought the M8 for myself. So far, I'm happy with the decision.
I do have a question about phone signal. Here in Canada, Rogers has LTE. I've never seen the M8 show any icon showing LTE. I see an H, haven't seen H+ just yet, but I know it may do it. But never LTE. Is H or H+ equivalent to LTE? Does anyone know? Could it be that my APN settings are wrong?
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I have decided to stick with the Nexus 5. I like the feel in the hand of the M8 a little better but don't like the height with the extra row. For me it is just personal preference and not anything necessarily wrong. In the same form factor as the original I would be keeping it.
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I spent about an hour in a nearby Verizon store today for some hands on time with the 8. It's not the phone for me, holding onto the DNA and will see what LG, Sony and Motorola offer later this year.
I don't care what kind of phone you have, that's not how I judge someone's worth or intelligence.
I don't care what kind of phone you have, that's not how I judge someone's worth or intelligence.
I don't know how you're counting this since the screen excluding the HTC logo is 5" and the on-screen buttons take up less than I think a third of an inch.
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Well, if you're going to get a phone that big you might as well get a screen that is proportionate to it.
The internals are similar (Note3 has 3GB of memory though).
The internals are similar (Note3 has 3GB of memory though).
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The screens are lined up at the top.....look down at the bottom of the screens and then tell me you are seeing more screen area on the right.
(Actually, to add insult to injury the top of the M8 on the right is also a hair under the M7.
(Actually, to add insult to injury the top of the M8 on the right is also a hair under the M7.
Well to answer the thread's question, no, I am not returning the M8. I am coming from a Droid Maxx and have had a much better experience since switching to the new HTC One. The camera blows away the Droid Maxx; as does basic functions like cut/paste, bluetooth calling, battery life (yes, even battery life). Now I suppose my Droid was most likely suffering from some ailment; but, the M8 is most definitely out performing the Maxx.
Only time will tell if it is a keeper. I have back to back business trips coming up. That will be the real test as I seem to maximize my device multitasking capabilities when I travel on business.
Just my two cents.
Only time will tell if it is a keeper. I have back to back business trips coming up. That will be the real test as I seem to maximize my device multitasking capabilities when I travel on business.
Just my two cents.
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People don't seem to be getting the fact that the M8 doesn't have capacitive buttons like the M7.
The buttons are part of the screen, they aren't an extra bit stuck on the bottom of the screen, they are the bottom of the screen and when you are viewing a full screen app they vanish.
Which means that picture clearly shows the screen is bigger on the right hand phone than the left in your pic.
Screenshots showing the same screen with and without on screen buttons.
The screen is 5" and buttons have nothing to do with it.
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So maybe the operative phrase here is "full screen app" as you say or when it really is a 5" screen. It's just a matter of ignoring that you have a less than 4.7" screen the rest of the time?
Since bringing this up I have been called troll, etc. which is really very funny when you consider that troll is usually thrown out the moment you have a differing opinion that doesn't jive with the "homers". In truth, I dig HTC and have had and still have the M7 (DNA as well). Cannot say a bad thing about them and was looking forward to the M8 (I also have a work Note3).
I went to Verizon to potentially upgrade from the M7 to the M8. First impression, wow! The curves, the brushed steel.....gorgeous!
Second impression, damn that's a big phone! Took out my Note 3, compared it and was surprised that it was about the same height and just a hair thinner. After the initial impressions I started to play around with it, zippy, great screen, etc. When it finally hit me, I wasn't getting the feel that it had a bigger viewing area than my M7. That's when I started to compare the two. I even asked one of the salesman to look at the screens and tell me which had more viewing area, his response..."SOB, I never noticed that."
So here we are....HTC in my opinion has put out a phone that has the same physical and internal characteristics of a Note 3 but with the screen size of a M7.
Almost like buying a 70" flat screen with a 50" viewing area. Why make a phone that disproportionally big?
Sorry the information I have provided has caused so much discomfort....probably good that I don't share what cars or TV programs I don't like, some of you would never get any sleep.
Just remember, these are just phones. Buy them, enjoy them and quit worrying about what other people think of them.
Since bringing this up I have been called troll, etc. which is really very funny when you consider that troll is usually thrown out the moment you have a differing opinion that doesn't jive with the "homers". In truth, I dig HTC and have had and still have the M7 (DNA as well). Cannot say a bad thing about them and was looking forward to the M8 (I also have a work Note3).
I went to Verizon to potentially upgrade from the M7 to the M8. First impression, wow! The curves, the brushed steel.....gorgeous!
Second impression, damn that's a big phone! Took out my Note 3, compared it and was surprised that it was about the same height and just a hair thinner. After the initial impressions I started to play around with it, zippy, great screen, etc. When it finally hit me, I wasn't getting the feel that it had a bigger viewing area than my M7. That's when I started to compare the two. I even asked one of the salesman to look at the screens and tell me which had more viewing area, his response..."SOB, I never noticed that."
So here we are....HTC in my opinion has put out a phone that has the same physical and internal characteristics of a Note 3 but with the screen size of a M7.
Almost like buying a 70" flat screen with a 50" viewing area. Why make a phone that disproportionally big?
Sorry the information I have provided has caused so much discomfort....probably good that I don't share what cars or TV programs I don't like, some of you would never get any sleep.
Just remember, these are just phones. Buy them, enjoy them and quit worrying about what other people think of them.
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Right....
Just keeping telling yourself that and everything will be ok.
Enjoy your M8, it's not for me.
Just keeping telling yourself that and everything will be ok.
Enjoy your M8, it's not for me.
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I own both devices and I have put them screen to screen. Trust me, the m8 is indeed wider. If you want to completely ignore facts based off the small amount of time you spent with it in a store, go ahead, just don't come on here and post it as fact.
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Geez! Why all the arguing?? The difference between the M7 and the M8 when the buttons are up is so small that its NOT worth all of this bellyaching and effort!
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Re: I am returning my M8. Are you?
The HTC feels noticeably larger in hand compared to the s4 and even s5. I went and played with both and actually liked the feel of the s5 when compared to the htc one. The metal back was actually kind of slippery on the one. It is a nice phone, don't get me wrong. Just don't think it is the bees knees like everyone is trying to hype it up as.
The HTC feels noticeably larger in hand compared to the s4 and even s5. I went and played with both and actually liked the feel of the s5 when compared to the htc one. The metal back was actually kind of slippery on the one. It is a nice phone, don't get me wrong. Just don't think it is the bees knees like everyone is trying to hype it up as.
Re: I am returning my M8. Are you?
He is being polite by using the word "tool" instead of the "fool"
He is being polite by using the word "tool" instead of the "fool"
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Re: I am returning my M8. Are you?
No-one is trying to hype the device, the way a phone feels in the hand is purely subjective. It just so happens that a lot of people really like the way it feels. If you or anyone else disagrees then that is your right.
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No-one is trying to hype the device, the way a phone feels in the hand is purely subjective. It just so happens that a lot of people really like the way it feels. If you or anyone else disagrees then that is your right.
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