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Things you DONT like about the HTC One?
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From using the HTC Desire HD which lasted well but was clunky and sloggish, the HTC ONE is an outstanding improvement and is hands down the best looking phone to date.
Things i Do not like:
Sequence shot: This is a great feature don't get me wrong, but it doesn't always work well. A message comes up saying "Unable to continue because there are not enough images to process" even if you have burst shotted over 10 pictures. Also, it is not easy nor intuitive in terms of finding features like sequence shot on the phone. For someone who has just bought the phone, i doubt they will know that to use sequence shot you have to take multiple photos in landscape mode then go to the file, press back to see the cover view, then press edit, then retouch, then sequence shot or object removal .... There are too many steps and i think HTC should implement a feature similar to the samsungs galaxy s4 software whereby you can scroll through the different features and see a mini description and preview picture of what the feature does. I know HTC has the "how to" section which is useful, but i think for more novice or uneducated users, this is problem for HTC. Note of thumb: hold camera firmly and take multiple pictures in landscape orientation, it will not work in portrait.
Fast and slow motion recording These are two great cool features however the quality is affected and the footage looks very grainy which is unfortunate. I do not know if this is something only seen on the HTC but it is a let down when comparing the crisp and great quality when taking videos in normal full hd settings.
Other than that i think the phone is excellent. I was especially pleased that HTC provided us with a new "boom"sound experience which blows the competition out of the water. I think alot of smartphone users take sound functionality or quality for granted, but taking into account that our phones have heavy multimedia capabilities, the sound has made such a huge difference and is definetely a key feature. Playing games like shadowgun Deadzone/ Dungeon Hunter 4 sounds amazing!! Its like a mini home cinema. Even watching youtube videos/movies just anything to do with the sound, oh and the most amazing thing which no other phone can do well is playback clear sounding video which is taken in a nightclub or concert due to the noice cancelling software and microphones. This is a very useful feature, especially for someone like myself and should be marketed and advertised more strongly. It makes me think to myself, "why did i use to put up with tinny sounds from previous smartphones?".
- The new capacitive button arrangements can be annoying for some but i have gotten used to it so i do not mind, however i do agree that the htc logo not doing anything and sitting right in the middle is pointless. It would be cool if the logo had some form of notification light built in and would glow different colors depending on what notifications you selected to show. Or even a charge indicator which gradually lights up from left to right (h to c) and is full when the logo is fully illuminated. What do you guys think of that ?
Sequence shot does not always because you need a sufficient amount of frames that dont overlap eachother. So if you try to take a sequence shot and the subject is moving too fast or two slow it wont create the shot, because you would be inside yourself or youd only have 2 shots. Funny story i had a sequence shot with my buddy doing a handstand walk and i had a shot of him standing and then the next shot was him bending over inside of himself. Anyways you get the idea! As far a slow motion its a given that it will reduce quality even on expensive slow motion cameras the quality will always be reduced when you take higher FPS. Have not tried the fast HD 60fps shots though but what would be the point of those?
I just got my One today (I ordered an unlocked 32gb model from htc.com) and so far there are 2 things that I don't like about it.
1) The camera. I'm not sure if this is just my incorrect assumption, but I thought that indoor shots with somewhat dim lighting would be much better on this phone because of its low light performance. Instead, I've found that the pictures are extremely noisy and are worse than the same scenario using my wife's iPhone 4S. Specifically, I took a few pictures of my kids and the quality was terrible.
2) The build quality. First, let me be clear...I think the screen is amazing and the back of the phone is great. However, the white plastic around the sides of the phones is really bad. There are spots that are rough, parts where the white plastic sticks out past the metal of the front of the phone and parts where the metal sticks over the plastic. I just can't believe that a phone that was touted as having such great build quality because of the aluminum unibody construction could have such shoddy quality elsewhere.
Oh, as I have been writing this I thought of one more small thing...the power button is too flush with the rest of the phone so it is hard to feel it right away. This is minor, but I thought I'd mention it as well.
I'm not sure what to do with the phone right now because I am really impressed with the software, the speed of the phone and the screen. However, the camera was the part that I really thought I'd be upgrading from my Nexus 4, but from the testing I've done so far it doesn't seem that way to me.
1) The camera. I'm not sure if this is just my incorrect assumption, but I thought that indoor shots with somewhat dim lighting would be much better on this phone because of its low light performance. Instead, I've found that the pictures are extremely noisy and are worse than the same scenario using my wife's iPhone 4S. Specifically, I took a few pictures of my kids and the quality was terrible.
2) The build quality. First, let me be clear...I think the screen is amazing and the back of the phone is great. However, the white plastic around the sides of the phones is really bad. There are spots that are rough, parts where the white plastic sticks out past the metal of the front of the phone and parts where the metal sticks over the plastic. I just can't believe that a phone that was touted as having such great build quality because of the aluminum unibody construction could have such shoddy quality elsewhere.
Oh, as I have been writing this I thought of one more small thing...the power button is too flush with the rest of the phone so it is hard to feel it right away. This is minor, but I thought I'd mention it as well.
I'm not sure what to do with the phone right now because I am really impressed with the software, the speed of the phone and the screen. However, the camera was the part that I really thought I'd be upgrading from my Nexus 4, but from the testing I've done so far it doesn't seem that way to me.
Maybe give it a chance till the Update arrives? The Update is already out in some EU countries, so it shouldn't be too long before the rest of us get it.
Here are my gripes so far...
Phone-related:
1 - I don't like that when you select the phone it automatically brings up the last call vs just bringing up the dial pad. If not careful, I will accidentally dial the number of the last call
2 - I dislike that the contacts 'favorites' can only be viewed in a grid...I think we should have the choice of seeing these favorite contacts in a list view, just like the full contacts view
3- When I want to call a contact (or a favorite), there are way too many taps required: Phone, select contacts/favorites, select contact, choose number - that's four actions just to call someone. I realize there is a 'speed dial' setting that lets you choose 2-9 to assign to frequently called numbers, but that's very limited.
Other issues:
- I can't be paired with my in-car BT and at the same time listen to audio through the phone - as soon as I start an app with audio (e.g. Scanner Radio), it wants to route that through the BT. There are times when I want to listen to the car radio but be able to take calls via BT so the phone remains paired with the car. The iPhone had a built in capability to be able to select your audio output - so when I started my scanner app on my iPhone while connected to BT, it would default to that, BUT with two taps I could tell the iPhone to play the scanner audio only through the phone and still keep BT paired for calls. I *think* there is a $3 app (Soundabout) that may let me do what I want, but really this should be built-in Android capability.
- Add me to the camp of One users that can't stand that there is no way to remove Facebook pictures from the gallery without completely removing Facebook app....that is ridiculous and HTC really needs to fix that.
Phone-related:
1 - I don't like that when you select the phone it automatically brings up the last call vs just bringing up the dial pad. If not careful, I will accidentally dial the number of the last call
2 - I dislike that the contacts 'favorites' can only be viewed in a grid...I think we should have the choice of seeing these favorite contacts in a list view, just like the full contacts view
3- When I want to call a contact (or a favorite), there are way too many taps required: Phone, select contacts/favorites, select contact, choose number - that's four actions just to call someone. I realize there is a 'speed dial' setting that lets you choose 2-9 to assign to frequently called numbers, but that's very limited.
Other issues:
- I can't be paired with my in-car BT and at the same time listen to audio through the phone - as soon as I start an app with audio (e.g. Scanner Radio), it wants to route that through the BT. There are times when I want to listen to the car radio but be able to take calls via BT so the phone remains paired with the car. The iPhone had a built in capability to be able to select your audio output - so when I started my scanner app on my iPhone while connected to BT, it would default to that, BUT with two taps I could tell the iPhone to play the scanner audio only through the phone and still keep BT paired for calls. I *think* there is a $3 app (Soundabout) that may let me do what I want, but really this should be built-in Android capability.
- Add me to the camp of One users that can't stand that there is no way to remove Facebook pictures from the gallery without completely removing Facebook app....that is ridiculous and HTC really needs to fix that.
indeed it does....lovin it too....I meant that it allows for you to not have it if you don't want it as opposed to the stock launcher
I am surprised the shots are noisy, that isn't my experience.
Try taking a zoe and using one of those stills, and also try just holding the shutter to take multiple shots and chose "best shot" and see if the quality is still bad.
Also, if you could post the ISO and shutter speed that the phone used so we can get an idea of what you mean by low light.
I'll have to try the zoe and the best shot options to see if they get me anything better. I like having those options to try out.
When I look at the details of one of the crappy pictures, here are the settings that were used (this is on auto):
Flash: Flash did not fire
Focal length: 3.82 mm
Aperture value: f/2.0
ISO: 714
Exposure time: 1/15 second
The rest of the settings are either normal or auto. Does this give you any ideas?
One thing I don't like is the speakers crackle and the soft capacitive button get stuck sometime and won't work also alot of the att models have dead pixels but everything else is amazing it's fast and the build is amazing but u guys all ready know that. If anyone has these simular problems let me know.
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Regarding the build quality, it's funny because the day before I bought mine, I went to the store and got the One... I wasn't impressed because like yours, it had defects. I returned it. The next day I just decided to go for it, and go another one, and this one has no build quality issues whatsoever. First one was crap compared to this...
The only thing I could possibly think of is the battery - doesn't quite get through to the end of the day sometimes (15% battery now after just over 14 hrs off the charger). Also takes a good little time to charge.
Other than that, damn it's impressive.
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Other than that, damn it's impressive.
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Huh. While it is good to hear that you got a good one, it is kind of disappointing that some of the phones seem to come out good and others are crap. I don't think there's any way that I can keep the one that I have now. Maybe I will return this one and try another one.
Coming from iOS to Android means that things are not going to be exactly the same, and if they were there would be court battles, and while there may be some things iOS can do that you can't in Android, the opposite is alos true.
I think it is important to realize that Android allows countless variations on setups. Any stock set up would be criticized by someone. You criticize that the last number is shown above the keypad for quick dialing. If it wasn't there someone else would complain that it wasnt.
There are a lot of ways to handle contacts in Android. If you aren't using the dialpad, just open contacts. Then you go straight to contacts instead of the dial pad, which is still only a swipe away. Or get a contacts launcher, like circle launcher where one tap opens the icons of selected contacts for one click dialing to whatever number you set up. There are also other dialers you can download that may be configurable the way you want. In android you aren't stuck with the stock dialer or stock contacts app for that matter. You can download a different one and set that as the default.
Blue tooth - Does you car not allow you to easily unpair media player from phone separtely from the phone? Mine truck does, and now I guess I know why. I never needed that but it sounds like you do.
Facebook - you really don't have to remove the app, unlinking in the gallery just signs you out but when you sign back in to Facebook the photos will resync. However, there is a workaround for this - just use the web version of facebook. It does pretty much everything the app does but it won't stick pictures in your gallery.
Hope this helps.
That is pretty dark. And the iphone was able to capture the scene better, with less noise? There aren't many point and shoot digital cameras that won't be pretty noisy at iso over 700 and 1/15th exposure time.
If you could post up both pics it would be interesting.
I don't like that the Micro USB charging port is in a mirror image location of the power button. I find myself pushing on that port more than I would have thought. This is exacerbated by the power button being almost totally flush. I think this is why that double dip case has two different colors on the ends.
I want more control over the settings, no sleep when on the charger would be nice. I would like a 4g toggle widget. I want more than 5 homescreens, especially because google now takes one and blinkfeed takes one. I really want more discrete control over Blinkfeed. Telling it I like motorsports is not clear enough for me. I need to be able to control the gallery, or have it go into an "Old fashioned" mode.
It would have been nicer if they could have put the IR Blaster in it's own port, letting me use a case with a bigger start button. It would be cool if the phone would work as a Bluetooth remote also.
I'm not impressed with 4g, but I'm on Sprint and coverage is weak both where I live and work.
Truly though, these are just nits to pick. The phone is amazing. I play with it constantly.
I want more control over the settings, no sleep when on the charger would be nice. I would like a 4g toggle widget. I want more than 5 homescreens, especially because google now takes one and blinkfeed takes one. I really want more discrete control over Blinkfeed. Telling it I like motorsports is not clear enough for me. I need to be able to control the gallery, or have it go into an "Old fashioned" mode.
It would have been nicer if they could have put the IR Blaster in it's own port, letting me use a case with a bigger start button. It would be cool if the phone would work as a Bluetooth remote also.
I'm not impressed with 4g, but I'm on Sprint and coverage is weak both where I live and work.
Truly though, these are just nits to pick. The phone is amazing. I play with it constantly.
Sorry, I delete the pics off both phones. Later tonight I will try some comparison shots and see what I find. I know the lighting in my son's room isn't very good so I figured it was a good place to try the low light performance. I have yet to find an Android phone that lets me get consistent shots of my kids both indoors and out and I was hoping the One would be, well, the one.
Sorry, I delete the pics off both phones. Later tonight I will try some comparison shots and see what I find. I know the lighting in my son's room isn't very good so I figured it was a good place to try the low light performance. I have yet to find an Android phone that lets me get consistent shots of my kids both indoors and out and I was hoping the One would be, well, the one.
Depending on what they look like, you may be able to get better results if you dial in -1 Exposure. The overall picture will be darker, but it will be able to set a lower ISO and/or shutter speed, and may be a more pleasing result. I have seen pictures that were taken in the dark and the image was overly bright, which will cause more noise.
Also, if you are taping the screen to focus, and you should, and the picture is too bright, you should choose a lighter surface to focus on as it will set expsoure on that basis as well. If you tap on a dark area, the camera will up the expsoure to try to get that area to be the middle of the picture's exposure range. You should be able to tell the difference from looking at the screen and tapping on a light color then tap on a dark color. The exposure meter is basically trying to get what you tap on to be properly exposed.
The opposite will be true in very bright condtions - i.e. in snow, cameras will tend to underexpose as they try to get the snow not to be so bright.
I believe that the iphone probably has better exposure metering than the current One metering, so that could be why the iphone picture looked better.
Thanks for the tips. I will try these things out tonight and see if I get better results. For the most part I was just holding the phones still and then hitting the camera button.
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Uhhh you CAN expand the notifications. Swipe down on them with two fingers and you'll see. By default they're set to be collapsed.
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