Breaking news- HTC One will be on Verizon "Later this summer"

[Fritzo]

At least we finally got an official announcement:

https://twitter.com/VZWnews/status/341592724161560578

 

[Red Storm]

Verizon, where you're lucky if they decide to carry X phone, and when they do it's months later.

What sucks is that I can't totally hate them because their network kicks everyone else's to the curb.

 

[Fritzo]

Verizon, where you're lucky if they decide to carry X phone, and when they do it's months later.

What sucks is that I can't totally hate them because their network kicks everyone else's to the curb.

Actually, if it makes you feel better, they've oversubscribed their 4G networks in most of the major cities in the US, so Sprint is averaging 4x Verizon
s 4G connection speeds in places like Chicago and NYC

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Meh. My Gnex is still holding out strongly, it doesn't feel sluggish at all. By this time, two years ago, my Droid 1 felt like a P4 trying to run Crysis

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Actually, if it makes you feel better, they've oversubscribed their 4G networks in most of the major cities in the US, so Sprint is averaging 4x Verizon
s 4G connection speeds in places like Chicago and NYC

Yup

When I first got my Gnex I was getting crazy speeds around 30mb/s. Now Im lucky to get around 1-3 mb/s

 

[s44]

When Verizon deploys AWS LTE later this year, newer phones (S4 and after) will kick data speed butt again.

As for the One, I hope y'all aren't expecting to be able to unlock (or Loki) it. This is Verizon...

 

[Oyeve]

Verizon, where you're lucky if they decide to carry X phone, and when they do it's months later.

What sucks is that I can't totally hate them because their network kicks everyone else's to the curb.

Hardly. I'm sitting at home right now in NYC and my VZW iPhone 5 has zero lte bars and 1 3G bar while my Tmobile gs4 has 3 4g lte bars and 4 4g bars. VZW is highly overated. Good to hear about the one coming tho. I can dump the iphone5 and get the one in a couple of months.

 

[Bateluer]

Meh. My Gnex is still holding out strongly *snip*

All 4 hours of its battery life.

 

[Red Storm]

Well here in the capital and all the way out past northern VA speeds are awesome.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

here in san francisco speeds have gone from 30mbps(sometimes) to maybe 6mbps and sometimes as low as 3. ma rites is bein' vialatid!

 

[Fritzo]

Meh. My Gnex is still holding out strongly, it doesn't feel sluggish at all. By this time, two years ago, my Droid 1 felt like a P4 trying to run Crysis

Same boat I might hold on to my GNex for a while, but the One is a DAMN fine phone. It's got a larger, better screen yet is smaller than the GNex. Also the built in speakers ROCK (I hate the GPS on my GNex because it's hard to hear sometimes).

 

[Fritzo]

When Verizon deploys AWS LTE later this year, newer phones (S4 and after) will kick data speed butt again.

As for the One, I hope y'all aren't expecting to be able to unlock (or Loki) it. This is Verizon...

HTC is shipping the phone unlocked, and the dev community is behind it bigtime, so I'd expect root within days of release.

 

[hans007]

Quote:
Originally Posted by T_Yamamoto
Meh. My Gnex is still holding out strongly *snip*
All 4 hours of its battery life.

yeah i ditched my Gnex for exactly those reasons. that and the awful camera. i have a friend who is barely getting by with the Gnex. the battery life is horrible. its easily half of what my Razr M gets.

it seems that on top of being an older omap 4 based chip with external LTE modem burning battery, the nexus program is an utter fail at battery life. similar phones that aren't nexus with similar hardware (like say the bionic or oringal razr) have bettery battery life.

 

[Fritzo]

yeah i ditched my Gnex for exactly those reasons. that and the awful camera. i have a friend who is barely getting by with the Gnex. the battery life is horrible. its easily half of what my Razr M gets.

it seems that on top of being an older omap 4 based chip with external LTE modem burning battery, the nexus program is an utter fail at battery life. similar phones that aren't nexus with similar hardware (like say the bionic or oringal razr) have bettery battery life.

Just curious, why didn't he get the extended battery when Verizon was selling it for $24? It doesn't add any thickness to the phone and greatly extends battery life. I get a day and a half out of my GNex. Even the standard battery should last 8-10 hours with heavy use. Maybe he's got battery sucking apps running?

 

[Bateluer]

Just curious, why didn't he get the extended battery when Verizon was selling it for $24? It doesn't add any thickness to the phone and greatly extends battery life. I get a day and a half out of my GNex. Even the standard battery should last 8-10 hours with heavy use. Maybe he's got battery sucking apps running?

I had the extended battery. 4 hours is with the extended. At no point did I ever get 18hrs of use with the GNex, unless you count it sitting on my desk connected to WiFi for a weekend where it wasn't touched at all.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

by the time the one arrives on verizon, everyone will either have s4 or will be waiting for the newer phones

 

[Oyeve]

by the time the one arrives on verizon, everyone will either have s4 or will be waiting for the newer phones

Pretty much this. I dont know why vzw is the last in getting good phones all the time. And when they do get a good phone they dont advertise it properly.

 

[hans007]

Just curious, why didn't he get the extended battery when Verizon was selling it for $24? It doesn't add any thickness to the phone and greatly extends battery life. I get a day and a half out of my GNex. Even the standard battery should last 8-10 hours with heavy use. Maybe he's got battery sucking apps running?

my friend and i both had the extended.

in fact he lost his phone , so he's actually using what used to be my phone with our entier collection of extended / regular batteries (i think he has like 4).

the extended barely made a difference. i'd say if you were actually using the phone the way i use my current one, as in actually surfing internet, texting, making calls, not having to shut off every radio etc, it was probably near dead within 5 hours.

i actually go out a lot, so i'm out at bars , clubs, music festivals, casinos etc. phone was constantly perilously close to being dead, having to shut 4G off, sync, etc off and really being careful to squeak out some more juice.

i dont think the razr m is a particularly noteable phone, but i dont put any effort into power saving on it.

 

[Red Storm]

I had the extended battery. 4 hours is with the extended. At no point did I ever get 18hrs of use with the GNex, unless you count it sitting on my desk connected to WiFi for a weekend where it wasn't touched at all.

What exactly do you mean by 4 hours? Like 4 hours of continuous screen on use? Or the phone only lasted 4 hours without you even using it that whole time?

 

[trmiv]

4 hours is a little crazy, but yea the GNex gets horrible battery life. I could easily drop 30-40% of battery just browsing around on my phone while my wife was shopping. I constantly had to keep it on the charger. I dealt with it for quite awhile, but I'm amazed how much better battery life my S4 gets. People complain about the S4 as well, but to me it's incredible after using a Galaxy Nexus.

 

[Fingolfin269]

I have the VZW GNex and can definitely confirm atrocious battery life even with the extended. I don't even bother turning on 4G continually as it basically renders the phone unusable. How something like this could ever be released as fit for public use is beyond me.

Which is basically why I'm debating buying the GS4 or waiting to see what Apple comes up with next. The One can be added to that debate now I suppose.

 

[Bateluer]

Pretty much this. I dont know why vzw is the last in getting good phones all the time. And when they do get a good phone they dont advertise it properly.

Verizon needs to spend some of their profits on getting good phones as quickly as their GSM counterparts while at the same time not wasting their profits loading up the phones with bloatware and redesigning the phones to include their logo over every square inch.

What exactly do you mean by 4 hours? Like 4 hours of continuous screen on use? Or the phone only lasted 4 hours without you even using it that whole time?

4 hours is with heavier use. Web browsing, Twitter, some texting, etc. The battery drops like a stone.

 

[vshah]

on large screen devices, battery life is very closely related to screen on time. so if your screen was on for 4 hours, don't expect the battery to last much longer than that. If your screen was on for 2 hours, expect a decent 10-15 hours of standby on top of that. 1 hour of screen time? you should be able to get 20+ hours of standby. these are numbers representative of both my gsm gnex and nexus 4. the htc one is a bit better in the few weeks i've had it.

 

[s44]

on large screen devices, battery life is very closely related to screen on time. so if your screen was on for 4 hours, don't expect the battery to last much longer than that. If your screen was on for 2 hours, expect a decent 10-15 hours of standby on top of that. 1 hour of screen time? you should be able to get 20+ hours of standby.

Hee.

:thumbup:

 

[blackangst1]

HTC is shipping the phone unlocked, and the dev community is behind it bigtime, so I'd expect root within days of release.

I would expect so too...root, but not S-off.