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1) 13MP camera - yeah, that seems ridiculous. However it's nice to have the resolution for cropping. Since the lens is wide-angle, if you have any sense at all you should be doing a lot of that. But most people seem to shoot to post direct to Facebook anyway. So while it has it's uses, the potential being handed the Samsungs customers probably won't be used much. I suspect that for the average phone-cam user the HTC Ones low light ability will be more useful than the ability to crop.
2) Air gestures - yeah, I don't use many of the gestures that involve the touch screen. So no big deal for me. That doesn't mean no one else will like them. Who am I to say my preference should be universal? There's no need to be obnoxious about it.
3) Octocore means you can hand off less intensive tasks to a lower power core. In theory it should save battery. You are looking at the situation incorrectly. Processing power is like horsepower. My car has a 170hp motor. Most of the time it doesn't use all that - generally it uses 10-15HP on the freeway, maybe 5-6 in town, and most of THAT goes to overhead like lights, fans, air conditioning, friction losses and stuff. So while if I was using 170HP all the time my gas mileage would be ridiculously low, the fact is the HP is only there to be used when needed - like processor intensive tasks on the micro in this case - and my car gives good mileage.
4) The One hasn't changed much of anything either. The DNA looks pretty close. Except it's faster and has a different camera. Hey - like the S4! Hmmmmm.
5) No useful features. What do you want from a phone anyway? It seems to me that there is very little more you could ask for from any phone. Good lord, man. It makes phone calls, takes pics, plays music, sends texts, browses the web - you want it to do your laundry or something? Isn't that what your mommy is for?
1) 13MP camera - yeah, that seems ridiculous. However it's nice to have the resolution for cropping. Since the lens is wide-angle, if you have any sense at all you should be doing a lot of that. But most people seem to shoot to post direct to Facebook anyway. So while it has it's uses, the potential being handed the Samsungs customers probably won't be used much. I suspect that for the average phone-cam user the HTC Ones low light ability will be more useful than the ability to crop.
2) Air gestures - yeah, I don't use many of the gestures that involve the touch screen. So no big deal for me. That doesn't mean no one else will like them. Who am I to say my preference should be universal? There's no need to be obnoxious about it.
3) Octocore means you can hand off less intensive tasks to a lower power core. In theory it should save battery. You are looking at the situation incorrectly. Processing power is like horsepower. My car has a 170hp motor. Most of the time it doesn't use all that - generally it uses 10-15HP on the freeway, maybe 5-6 in town, and most of THAT goes to overhead like lights, fans, air conditioning, friction losses and stuff. So while if I was using 170HP all the time my gas mileage would be ridiculously low, the fact is the HP is only there to be used when needed - like processor intensive tasks on the micro in this case - and my car gives good mileage.
4) The One hasn't changed much of anything either. The DNA looks pretty close. Except it's faster and has a different camera. Hey - like the S4! Hmmmmm.
5) No useful features. What do you want from a phone anyway? It seems to me that there is very little more you could ask for from any phone. Good lord, man. It makes phone calls, takes pics, plays music, sends texts, browses the web - you want it to do your laundry or something? Isn't that what your mommy is for?
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