Yeah, you kind of miss the point. It's just a little silly to trash my post when the rationale that you use is basically an expanded version of my post. I didn't hound on anything. And if you think the GS4 is great before it's announced, fine. If you think it's Christ-in-a-phone after they announce it, that's fine too. You'll be just as wrong as the folks here who think that the One is their passport to Valhalla. I think you're letting the anti-plastic diatribes by chris2k5 get you riled up.
Me personally, I lean toward HTC because my experience w/ Samsung has been lacking, to say the least. I will say that my wife really likes her GS3, which is a first for Samsung in my house, so that's a good sign. I've never really had a major issue with an HTC device and I've owned many over the years. So the fact that Samsung got it right in 2012 is great, but I'm going to need more than just the last cycle to convince me that it's a trend.
I'm not getting riled up. I do enjoy a discussion about plastic though because when someone bashes it, it's with a keyboard that's made of plastic. Or it's on a device that utilizes plastic SOMEWHERE. So I do think it's funny when people bash plastic when they use it constantly every single day of their lives.
I do appreciate your response though. It's reasonable, logical, and clearly states your point. Thank you for that. Conversations can remain fun and insightful as long as we all can maintain those aspects in our responses. But please don't misunderstand my response to you in regards to not putting too much stock in an unreleased phone. I wasn't trashing you or your post. I was more trashing the other people on this thread who are already getting HTC's logo tattooed on their faces and the phone isn't even released yet. And I did laugh because no one recommended the wisdom of waiting for a phone to be released, until I started saying the S4 could potentially be a better device. But again, I didn't intend that to be trashing you or your post. I was just using your post to point out the hypocrisy I was seeing in many other posts.
I do want to say also, Samsung has just as much of a positive track record as any other manufacturer in the Android realm. HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Sony, etc....have all released some hot pieces of crap. The Thunderbolt, the Bionic (which I actually enjoyed owning it, but I know it had a ton of problems for a huge number of people). I don't think that any phone company really was showing us their true abilities until 2012 when they were working with ICS and JB on the devices. HTC stepped it up big time with the One X+, LG came up big with the Nexus 4, Samsung with the S3, and Motorola with a handful of other devices like the Maxx HD and what not. My BIGGEST gripe with the Android community, is how people instantly call one another "Fanboys" as soon as they disagree. But the funny thing is, 9 times out of 10 when I see someone getting called a fanboy of a device, it's by someone who is a fanboy of another device. And once that "insult" gets tossed around, constructive conversations are dead. If you are calling someone else a fanboy, it's probably because you are a fanboy yourself and so whatever they are saying is upsetting you more than it really should. I am a fanboy of Samsung and Motorola. I am a fanboy of Android and Google in general. I like HTC a lot, and I have been impressed by LG recently. I wish Sony would bring some of their high end stuff to the US so we could try it out. Personally, I like Touchwiz a lot so I purchased the S3 and the Note 10.1. But before that I owned the Razr Maxx and the Bionic and was a huge fan of Blur and Motorola.
Lots of info you don't need or care about, but maybe in time we can end this ridiculous, childish "fanboy" accusation that everyone is so obsessed with.
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