The HTC One will be a hit, pass Galaxy S4 for ONE reason..
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Yeah the polycarbonate bottle will crack and leak the water. The metal bottle will scratch or dent but keep the water in.
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You're starting to sound really ignorant here. Take it from somebody who studied material science, yes there are polymers that are stronger than steel ("stronger" is a vague term here but people are usually referencing tencile strength). Is the polymer used for the samsung phone cases "stronger" than steel, certainly not. Does it have a good strength to weight ratio and work well for the application? Most people would say yes (they certainly have the sales to back that up). At the end of the day it all comes down to personal preference. Personally I think the metal phone is more a sales gimmick than it is a practical/useful quality but that's just me.
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Take this unneccessary metal/polycarbonate blah blah somewhere else please. No need to argue about that on a Phone thread....
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Not to include the internal battery and memory.
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HTC was great before. Now Samsung is taking over the smartphone market .
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The only actual reason I can think of to buy the One over the GS4 is to keep the Android OEM ecosystem healthy, but then it's more of a pity purchase. And the 4.7" screen. The GS3 is on the verge of too big for me, I can't imagine using a 4.99" screen.
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Screen size is all about personal preference. And don't ever make a pity purchase with your phone, you're not making any appreciable difference and you will have roughly 18 months to regret it
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I own a GS3 for a reason, after four HTC phones. That and HTC couldn't get the One X onto Verizon.
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And I own a note 2 for a reason. Technically 4 reasons being 4 defective evos
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Dude, relax. You're making the rest of the HTC fans here look bad. Anytime we comment about anything we get lambasted because you've been twisting everyone's nipples. Not to mention that these arguments about material are a little disingenuous when they get out of control like they have been. On everyone's part. It's so much more complicated than most people here know. But when you complain that nobody gives you a link to back up their comment I think to myself that, as a person w/ an Android device, you should know how to Google something. If you can't do that your phone should be confiscated.
That being said, the aluminum being used in the One (I'm assuming a 5052 or 6061 alloy) and the machining process they're using make it ridiculously more strong than the plastics and polycarbonates used by Sammy, LG, Sony and even HTC from last year. But there are stronger plastics out there. And once people are willing to shell out a couple grand for a phone, I'm sure they will be made out of those plastics, or even carbon nanotubes.
Dude, relax. You're making the rest of the HTC fans here look bad. Anytime we comment about anything we get lambasted because you've been twisting everyone's nipples. Not to mention that these arguments about material are a little disingenuous when they get out of control like they have been. On everyone's part. It's so much more complicated than most people here know. But when you complain that nobody gives you a link to back up their comment I think to myself that, as a person w/ an Android device, you should know how to Google something. If you can't do that your phone should be confiscated.
That being said, the aluminum being used in the One (I'm assuming a 5052 or 6061 alloy) and the machining process they're using make it ridiculously more strong than the plastics and polycarbonates used by Sammy, LG, Sony and even HTC from last year. But there are stronger plastics out there. And once people are willing to shell out a couple grand for a phone, I'm sure they will be made out of those plastics, or even carbon nanotubes.
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I have to agree with teknha... The Samsung S4 might be TOO large of a phone for me. I'm looking forward to trading my EVO 4G for an HTC One. It looks very sharp, and will only be slightly larger than my phone now (I think).
Let's go HTC One!
Let's go HTC One!
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I have to agree with teknha... The Samsung S4 might be TOO large of a phone for me. I'm looking forward to trading my EVO 4G for an HTC One. It looks very sharp, and will only be slightly larger than my phone now (I think).
Let's go HTC One!
I'm not sayining absolutely don't buy the phone but I would do your homework first. I just dumped HTC's last "flagship" phone for a sammy because it was anything but flagship. Aside from only having 1 gig of ram (which in today's day and age you will notice and there's a reason everyone else was using 2) the phone had descent specs and hardware. But between software and support HTC wanted to do everything in their power to cripple the phone. Extremely slow to non existent bug fix updates, a sorry excuse for multitasking, marginal battery life at best and a seriously bloated UI. People think sense is better than tw because it's less cartoony and it's pretty but when it starts to lag and kill your performance you'll stop appreciating pretty in a hurry.
That being said this will be the first sense 5 phone and it will have 2 gigs of ram this go around. Obviously I haven't had any time with the one so everything above is from my very recent experiences with HTC. Things could be on the up and up but I'm not expecting everything to be fixed with this phone and I think many of the same problems will persist. Blink Feed that you can't simply turn off, a weird app drawer design, a persistent power saver in your notifications (this one has been around, people hate it but apparently HTC doesn't care) and zoes.... nothing to make me run back to HTC anytime soon.
Like I said, you may love it and have a great experience but I wouldn't sign a contract and buy the phone just because it looks very sharp and regret it like I did.
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You bring up some pretty solid points, there So Cold. I can't really argue with any of them especially as neither phone has launched yet. Even when they do, I think it will take a good couple of weeks before the real reviews start to trickle in anyway as the big reviewing sites will want to play with the phones for a few weeks first to see how they fare. I fully expect to see a bucket load of HTC One vs SGS4 reviews spring up in the not too distant future.
I agree that it's not all about visuals. I do admit that the HTC One looks superb and the leaked pics of the alleged SGS4 leave me a bit cold but really it's the internals I want to know about. The big clincher for me is whether the UK version of the SGS4 will come with a dual sim card slot as per the leaked video for the Chinese(?) edition. If it does, and both sims are active at the same time, then i'm sold on that as it will save me from carrying round two phones. I had an SGS3 for a few months and although I didn't like the plastic look and feel, I could look past that for a phone that does exactly what I need, when I need it, with no fuss (admittedly, my particular SGS3 didn't so I got rid of it). In this case, I shan't be so rash as to go out and buy a 'Day One' phone like I did with the S3.
I agree that it's not all about visuals. I do admit that the HTC One looks superb and the leaked pics of the alleged SGS4 leave me a bit cold but really it's the internals I want to know about. The big clincher for me is whether the UK version of the SGS4 will come with a dual sim card slot as per the leaked video for the Chinese(?) edition. If it does, and both sims are active at the same time, then i'm sold on that as it will save me from carrying round two phones. I had an SGS3 for a few months and although I didn't like the plastic look and feel, I could look past that for a phone that does exactly what I need, when I need it, with no fuss (admittedly, my particular SGS3 didn't so I got rid of it). In this case, I shan't be so rash as to go out and buy a 'Day One' phone like I did with the S3.
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