Did anyone order HTC One?

[s44]

just use a good newsreader like feedly for your news. no need to install an app for every tech news website out there.

AP doesn't put full articles into their feed, just intros.

 

[vshah]

AP doesn't put full articles into their feed, just intros.

yeah, that's really annoying. AT does that too unfortunately.

 

[cronos]

heads up for HTC One owners in the US.

HTC currently has a promo giving away $25 Google Play credit for:

HTC One devices purchased and activated in the U.S. between 6/14/13 – 7/15/13

the kicker is, this apparently works even if you bought the One before June 14. I bought mine the second week of May and I received my code today. there are people reporting that they got it the first day it was released and also received their codes.

go get it! promo link is here

 

[Crono]

heads up for HTC One owners in the US.

HTC currently has a promo giving away $25 Google Play credit for:



the kicker is, this apparently works even if you bought the One before June 14. I bought mine the second week of May and I received my code today. there are people reporting that they got it the first day it was released and also received their codes.

go get it! promo link is here

Excellent. Thanks!

 

[zerogear]

Awesome, I jumped on this the other day, forgot to post it.

 

[alangrift]

heads up for HTC One owners in the US.

HTC currently has a promo giving away $25 Google Play credit for:



the kicker is, this apparently works even if you bought the One before June 14. I bought mine the second week of May and I received my code today. there are people reporting that they got it the first day it was released and also received their codes.

go get it! promo link is here

Pity it only covers USA HTC Ones.

 

[vshah]

awesome! how long did it take to receive your code?

 

[foghorn67]

Thanks. Great timing. I turned in a 5 day old S4 to get a HTC One earlier this week.
Glad I made the switch. This phone wows me everyday.

This sure beats the heck out of a Kanye West freebee.

 

[Sid59]

Anyone looking for Sprint/ATT HTC One - Radioshack is selling for 149 (not the cheapest) but giving out $100 Play Store credit.

http://www.radioshack.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=12137833

 

[Major Orange]

Hmm I have pretty much made my mind up to get an HTC One (in the near future - I just immigrated a couple of weeks ago), it will be through Sprint, but it has to go through a family plan that has an employee account/discount thing attached to it. I don't think I can take advantage of what Sid59 posts can I? Might have to just drop by Radioshack to figure it out otherwise. (Thanks though Sid!)

 

[Bateluer]

awesome! how long did it take to receive your code?

Took 4 days for me.

 

[cronos]

Pity it only covers USA HTC Ones.

There are reports saying that people in Europe and India received their codes after submitting, but they needed to use the usual tricks (VPN, etc. you can google it) to switch their regions temporarily to US to redeem the code.

awesome! how long did it take to receive your code?

I received my code in 3 days after submitting (the fine print does say it could take 72 hours).

 

[Qbah]

I played with the phone a bit more, did some tweaking here and there... and I'm at under 1% / hour idle on 3G (0.8% now). LOVE IT!

 

[Red Storm]

I played with the phone a bit more, did some tweaking here and there... and I'm at under 1% / hour idle on 3G (0.8% now). LOVE IT!

Tell me more.

 

[Qbah]

Well, disabling WiFi when there are no hotspots helped a bit. Then I use Backitude. Push email for Gmail app and the built in one for hotmail (push too). Weather every 30 minutes... screen brightness at 35-ish % (it's still very bright...). Disabled some location things with Google too (and Google Now is off). So not really anything fancy.

 

[vshah]

are you using LTE Qbah?

 

[Qbah]

are you using LTE Qbah?

Nope. Poor signal for LTE here and it destroys the battery (I guess corrections and dropping to 3G and back to 4G kills it dead).

Plus LTE here is 30 down, 20 up. HSPA+ is 20/5 or something like that. Looks like a big difference, but not really. I read Flipboard, Facebook and YT mostly (the speakers are wicked!) - I don't really notice the speed difference in my normal usage. The pages do load up faster on LTE and stuff just happens faster - just not enough faster to get me to start worrying about battery life again.

 

[Red Storm]

Well, disabling WiFi when there are no hotspots helped a bit. Then I use Backitude. Push email for Gmail app and the built in one for hotmail (push too). Weather every 30 minutes... screen brightness at 35-ish % (it's still very bright...). Disabled some location things with Google too (and Google Now is off). So not really anything fancy.

Hmm I'll have to try this Backtitude app.

 

[zerogear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioNvhFpx8c

Anyone see that torture test? It's pretty crazy

 

[cronos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioNvhFpx8c

Anyone see that torture test? It's pretty crazy

damn!

 

[vshah]

Lol that's what I call a drop test. Amazingly solid phone.

 

[alangrift]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioNvhFpx8c

Anyone see that torture test? It's pretty crazy

That. Is. A. Crazy. Test.

 

[Germanic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zioNvhFpx8c

Anyone see that torture test? It's pretty crazy

Impressed with the HTC One's drop survivability.

But the temperature test is probably HTC One's weakest point.

 

[zerogear]

Impressed with the HTC One's drop survivability.

But the temperature test is probably HTC One's weakest point.

True, but if you place S4 into a grill, I would think that it would be a lot worse.

 

[Imported]

Well, no Play credit here.. been over a week since I submitted. Wasn't hopeful anyways.