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Hello buddies,
i had ages ago a Xperia X10. Bought than Windows Phone HTC 8X. But the battery drain made me crazy. So the 8X was sold, but still in love with HTC. now im still using my Xperia X10, what a good product.....5 years and still running with the same battery......
So i do some research and i think i want the HTC One, it looks gorgeous, is fair priced and has great specs, beside the cam. BUT im a little bit confused about the finish, read a lot about cuts.....misaligned displays and more.
Would you still buy it again ? Do you think i can also use the One at least 3 to 4 years ?
Please give me advice before buying these beauty
Greetings
go for M8
Hi,
that was not the question and to be clear. Every cam is better than the cam used by my X10 . Its not so important for me, just mentioned that point.
By the way i dont want to spend so much money AND dont want to wait. Just some tips from guys using it all day would be nice.
mek84 said:
Hello buddies,
i had ages ago a Xperia X10. Bought than Windows Phone HTC 8X. But the battery drain made me crazy. So the 8X was sold, but still in love with HTC. now im still using my Xperia X10, what a good product.....5 years and still running with the same battery......
So i do some research and i think i want the HTC One, it looks gorgeous, is fair priced and has great specs, beside the cam. BUT im a little bit confused about the finish, read a lot about cuts.....misaligned displays and more.
Would you still buy it again ? Do you think i can also use the One at least 3 to 4 years ?
Please give me advice before buying these beauty
Greetings
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I would buy again. Mine have no flaws and the cam isn't that bad. Not experienced any issue at all. The most common issue is the camera purp tint. I think newer batch of phones should be fine. I will not say anything about lifespan because at this point its just speculating but the aluminum casing makes the phone seem pretty solid
The assembly of the HTC One is amazing, mine is rock solid and sooo gorgeous, I love it. It should last 3 years easily, the sharpness of the screen is amazing but my camera is horrible, never focuses so I have to use an app with manual focus options in order to snap focused pics. Other than that I love it, but if you really love HTC wait for the M8, it is literally a month down the road. Cheers!
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I lost my HTC one and i though if what replacement phone I should get..
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How can you recommand the M8? It'll be at least two months to availability and be twice the current price of the M7.
The HTC One is a great phone and still the phone I would choose if buying a phone today.
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How can you recommand the M8? It'll be at least two months to availability and be twice the current price of the M7.
The HTC One is a great phone and still the phone I would choose if buying a phone today.
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Brand new, the m7 is still £400-500. The m8 will just be around the same price.
With regards to the question asked, the HTC One is a great phone. However, since you've waited so long already to get a new phone, I would wait and get the m8. Personally anyways.
I've had my one since just before Christmas. Bought it outright because I don't want to renew my contract when it's up. The phone I had on contract was terrible - acting up really bad; plus contract are far too dear (better value to buy a phone outright and add a giffgaff sim card - if you're in the uk) . I'm confident that the One will last me a good couple years.
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pardoned said:
Brand new, the m7 is still £400-500. The m8 will just be around the same price.
With regards to the question asked, the HTC One is a great phone. However, since you've waited so long already to get a new phone, I would wait and get the m8. Personally anyways.
I've had my one since just before Christmas. Bought it outright because I don't want to renew my contract when it's up. The phone I had on contract was terrible - acting up really bad; plus contract are far too dear (better value to buy a phone outright and add a giffgaff sim card - if you're in the uk) . I'm confident that the One will last me a good couple years.
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Thanks, but in germany you get a new one for around 300-400 Euro. So i will definitely stick with the M7....dont want afford M8
So, I am thinking about going to trade in my M8 for a S5 due to how horrible the radio is compared to my S4 on 3G, 4G and WiFi. I bought it at a Best Buy does anyone know would I have to exchange it there or can I do it at a Sprint store?
Also I am rooted with S-OFF I have a TWRP back up that is completely stock that I can flash. Will flashing that plus the modded hboot be enough for me to trade in without them voiding my warranty and not letting me trade?
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mikeregister said:
So, I am thinking about going to trade in my M8 for a S5 due to how horrible the radio is compared to my S4 on 3G, 4G and WiFi. I bought it at a Best Buy does anyone know would I have to exchange it there or can I do it at a Sprint store?
Also I am rooted with S-OFF I have a TWRP back up that is completely stock that I can flash. Will flashing that plus the modded hboot be enough for me to trade in without them voiding my warranty and not letting me trade?
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You have to go through Best Buy being as it came from them, just as long as you're within 14 days of original purchase. As far as being rooted and everything else, they don't care! I've sold them back a few phones running custom ROMs. Pretty funny, last year I sold them an S3 running dazednconfused (awesome themer by the way) "Wicked Sensations" ROM. It said wicked sensations all over it, even the bootanimation, I figured they would have said something, but no! As long as it powers up they're good with it.Good luck
Have you seen the s5 yet? I'm here getting my m8 exchanged for hopefully one with a better working radio and they have the s5 here. I'm honestly not impressed with it at all. The m8 just feels so much more premium and touchwiz looks damn horrible . But to each his own
I debated trading mine in for the gs5, but I decided that I like the m8 better all around.
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You have to go through Best Buy being as it came from them, just as long as you're within 14 days of original purchase. As far as being rooted and everything else, they don't care! I've sold them back a few phones running custom ROMs. Pretty funny, last year I sold them an S3 running dazednconfused (awesome themer by the way) "Wicked Sensations" ROM. It said wicked sensations all over it, even the bootanimation, I figured they would have said something, but no! As long as it powers up they're good with it.Good luck
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I went to best buy and tried to trade mine in for another M8 and they didn't have any so then I was like screw it I'll try the GS5. They didn't have any of those either and no other stores in my area do either. Right now I am screwed because I have until Friday to exchange or return. I could return and buy a new one when it comes in stock but then I will have to pay CA tax on it which is tax on the full MSRP of $799 I bought the one I got in SC for $216 after tax vs $264 in CA
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mikeregister said:
So, I am thinking about going to trade in my M8 for a S5 due to how horrible the radio is compared to my S4 on 3G, 4G and WiFi. I bought it at a Best Buy does anyone know would I have to exchange it there or can I do it at a Sprint store?
Also I am rooted with S-OFF I have a TWRP back up that is completely stock that I can flash. Will flashing that plus the modded hboot be enough for me to trade in without them voiding my warranty and not letting me trade?
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Have you visited the gs5 forums? Believe me when I say the grass is definitely not greener on that side.
Yea, I've been there too. Each phone suffers from the same problems. Chalk it up to Sprint not having their network ready for tri-band phones, and Google disabling extsdcard write support.
Samsung has always had better radios than HTC, however my M8 has the best radio thus far over any of my other HTC phones. It still isn't as good as Samsung but it's decent. The only reason I would consider a GS5 would be for the camera. HTC needs to stop with the camera gimmiks and put one good sensor in the camera and be done with it. I think the GS5 is a nice phone, however anytime I have used a galaxy line phone I don't like it at all. It just feels cheap and I hate Touch Wiz. I actually really like HTC Sense. I have been using Sense since the windows mobile days. Samsung phones are by no means perfect, but I do think you will be happier with the radio & camera but that is about it. I don't think it's worth the trade off in my opinion. I have seen plenty of phones with hardware issues both HTC & Samsung are not perfect.
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Samsung has always had better radios than HTC, however my M8 has the best radio thus far over any of my other HTC phones. It still isn't as good as Samsung but it's decent. The only reason I would consider a GS5 would be for the camera. HTC needs to stop with the camera gimmiks and put one good sensor in the camera and be done with it. I think the GS5 is a nice phone, however anytime I have used a galaxy line phone I don't like it at all. It just feels cheap and I hate Touch Wiz. I actually really like HTC Sense. I have been using Sense since the windows mobile days. Samsung phones are by no means perfect, but I do think you will be happier with the radio & camera but that is about it. I don't think it's worth the trade off in my opinion. I have seen plenty of phones with hardware issues both HTC & Samsung are not perfect.
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For a couple of years now the radios have been identical.. They're both using the built in qualcomm. Ever since the lte phones first started coming out. The exception would have been back when sprints 4g phones were wimax. And at that time, htc's were actually much much better then samsungs. Samsung was known for having bad radios.
Well I was finally able to find a store with an M8 to exchange mine for today (last M8 at a Best Buy within 50 miles). I haven't been able to do too much tests but my WiFi is 100% better so I am happy now. I guess I did have a defective phone.
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For a couple of years now the radios have been identical.. They're both using the built in qualcomm. Ever since the lte phones first started coming out. The exception would have been back when sprints 4g phones were wimax. And at that time, htc's were actually much much better then samsungs. Samsung was known for having bad radios.
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I should say radio performance has always been better on Samsung. My m7 compared to a GS4 or Note 3 the Samsung usually would have a lower dBm where my m7 would cut out the Samsung would hold an LTE signal better. The m8 has been much better than my m7 but I have never preferred radio performance on an HTC device versus a Samsung. Not to say I don't prefer HTC over Samsung. I have never liked the Galaxy phones, not to say they are not a nice phone.
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I should say radio performance has always been better on Samsung. My m7 compared to a GS4 or Note 3 the Samsung usually would have a lower dBm where my m7 would cut out the Samsung would hold an LTE signal better. The m8 has been much better than my m7 but I have never preferred radio performance on an HTC device versus a Samsung. Not to say I don't prefer HTC over Samsung. I have never liked the Galaxy phones, not to say they are not a nice phone.
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Keep in mind that the S5 has the same TriBand Qualcomm Chip and Radio as the M8 and probably very similar firmware as well.
I suspect a "Working" M8 will run very similar to an S5.
Granted some M8's are not working correctly.
It's also extremely painful to get an M8 swapped out if you are over 14 days.
I had an S5 in my hands and brought home but stupid BestBuy sales clerk sold me a Verizon. In that time span I decided I prefer stay with the Devil I Know and got another M8.
If you are under 14days and you are having Network issues on an M8. SWAP IT OUT IMMEDIATELY.
New M8 is night and day working better. But I am very worried long term how it will hold up.
Hi Guys, I just switched from t mobile one m8 to Sprint one m8. There was a huge deal with HTC one m8 HK edition. The cost was only $350 or so. Regular Sprint One M8 was still 600+
Do you know why this phone was cheaper? Will all the custom roms work in this phone? Is there any hardware wise difference? I'm only interested in GPE ROM. Please let me guys. If there is already a topic for this then please help me in locating it. Thanks in advance.
The main difference is the headphones both same hardware just different software by a marginal bit, won't affect flashing gpe
So why is this going cheap, do you know?
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So why is this going cheap, do you know?
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No hard facts to support this theory but my guess is they weren't selling well. I didn't care for the color scheme so I was seriously looking at the "regular" One until I learned that the H/K version was available off contract for $315 or somewhere thereabouts direct from Sprint at Christmas time. I jumped on it at that time and am quite happy with my decision. It's a great device.
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So why is this going cheap, do you know?
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More options more money plus you can "bundle" a hk with the onyx studio for sales. Mind you it's one of the best speakers I've used to date
I see
Ok I have had a M7 since day of launch in the UK on Orange but im seriously tempted to go buy myself a Oneplus One, and sell my trusted M7
So whats peoples opinions ? anyone used both ?
Cheers in advance
Mike
gowm said:
Ok I have had a M7 since day of launch in the UK on Orange but im seriously tempted to go buy myself a Oneplus One, and sell my trusted M7
So whats peoples opinions ? anyone used both ?
Cheers in advance
Mike
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Well the OPO runs GPe rom and that would put me off straight away, I love the sense overlay which HTC put on top of android, plus HTC is easy to mod, just take a look around these forums, this device is 2 years old and still very much alive and being developed around here, when I do come to upgrade in about 9 months, I will definatley go HTC again, probably the M9 depending on the deals around, we live in rip off britain at the end of the day, but HTC is the only way for me, I cant stand I-DONT-KNOW-PHONES, dont like touchwiz by Samsung, plus my Mrs Samasung Galaxy in loaded with so much rubbish its unbelievable, and not operator rubbish, its all Samsung stuff, and Sony have the slowest updates ive ever experienced.
Maybe you should s-off your M7 and stick a GPe rom on it, see if you like it before jumping into a 2 year contract which you may not like.
My phone is S-off and running MaximusHD52 lollipop but to be honest i love it and cant really fault it, i was like you going to wait on the M9 but rip off britian that we like in, i can get a great deal on a sim only ee card for £12 a month unlimited text/calls and 15gb data so if i traded my one into CEX i would get close to £100 for it, meaning i would only be £150 on top for an opo divide that into the 24 month contract and add the line rental and it works out at £18.25 a month, a heck of a saving on my current phone, and im pretty sure that the M9 will cost a fortune when it arrives.
But im not sure if i will miss my M7 too much as i said i love the phone and my only real faults with it is the battery aint the best and im still not sure im sold on the camera, even HTC aint sure on it and dropped it on the M9
gowm said:
My phone is S-off and running MaximusHD52 lollipop but to be honest i love it and cant really fault it, i was like you going to wait on the M9 but rip off britian that we like in, i can get a great deal on a sim only ee card for £12 a month unlimited text/calls and 15gb data so if i traded my one into CEX i would get close to £100 for it, meaning i would only be £150 on top for an opo divide that into the 24 month contract and add the line rental and it works out at £18.25 a month, a heck of a saving on my current phone, and im pretty sure that the M9 will cost a fortune when it arrives.
But im not sure if i will miss my M7 too much as i said i love the phone and my only real faults with it is the battery aint the best and im still not sure im sold on the camera, even HTC aint sure on it and dropped it on the M9
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yeah I know what you mean about the camera and battery, the camera is rubbish compared to other devices in its class, I always use my Mrs camera on her Samsung to take picts, that is the only good thing I can say about her Galaxy, the camera kicks HTC's rear end, as for the battery, have you ever tried this, I found it the other day and tried it, follow every instruction to the letter, it worked wonders:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...ry-charger-reset-procedure-htc-one-m7-m8.html
Also, not to be a sales guy, but have a look at virgin media's sim only contracts, unlimited everything for £18 a month including 0870 / 0845 / 0800 calls etc, they use EE's network :good: its the way I will go until I can get a good price.
Well i just did the 2 mins of resetting to see how it goes, although in 5.0.2 i cant see any fast boot options, or am i being stupid ?
and there aint any amount of resets that will fix my camera lol, although mine is so much better than my wife one m7 which in low light makes the world look purple lol
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Well i just did the 2 mins of resetting to see how it goes, although in 5.0.2 i cant see any fast boot options, or am i being stupid ?
and there aint any amount of resets that will fix my camera lol, although mine is so much better than my wife one m7 which in low light makes the world look purple lol
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I have an M8 and an M7 and the M8 is a solid upgrade to the M7. The great part is everything you like about an M7 is also right their in the M8
and most the stuff you didn't get in the M7 is included in an M8. Duel rear camera - Eye experience - ZOE - External SDcard - bigger screen - bigger battery - it's really everything the M7 should have been.
Being an user of m7 for nearly one year, I still love my m7, first of all is the gorgeous design, then what impresses me is the back camera, the screenshots taken are clear and brilliant, and for the battery, it's durable for me to use in a whole day.
I'm up for renewal and initially wanted to get the M9, but from what I've read I don't think it'll be worth the upgrade. I've been leaning toward the Nexus 6. Now that the M7 is two years old, what do you guys plan to switch to?
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Endbringer42 said:
I'm up for renewal and initially wanted to get the M9, but from what I've read I don't think it'll be worth the upgrade. I've been leaning toward the Nexus 6. Now that the M7 is two years old, what do you guys plan to switch to?
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The M9 is the perfect upgrade from the M7. Don't believe all you read. I got my M9 on the 1st and I'm very happy with it.
As another user in the M9 forums said
The M7+M8=M9, Their is no doubt that the M9 is the best HTC One yet.
clsA said:
The M9 is the perfect upgrade from the M7. Don't believe all you read. I got my M9 on the 1st and I'm very happy with it.
As another user in the M9 forums said
The M7+M8=M9, Their is no doubt that the M9 is the best HTC One yet.
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I was hoping for a bit larger screen size, such as 5.3" to 5.5", but the phone is already pretty large. How are you liking the camera?
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I was hoping for a bit larger screen size, such as 5.3" to 5.5", but the phone is already pretty large. How are you liking the camera?
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Camera is fantastic with a few tweaks