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The HTC One

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dguy6789 said:
Tiny battery is the only real issue I see but it's a deal breaker for me. I'd never use this over my Razr Maxx HD. Can't say I'd ever upgrade to a phone with a smaller than 3000mah battery now. Thankfully the SGS4 is rumored to have one.
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Same here, i've been spoiled by the 3300mah. Don't think I could go with anything that has less.
 
ChronoReverse said:
After enduring my Note1, I've decided that the battery life will be the first metric for my new phone. I figure everyone will have fast SoC's and slow updates so I might as well have a phone that will be working when I want it to.

If only they sold Maxx's in Canada.
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For what it's worth, the Note 2 has amazing battery life. Second only to the Maxx HD I'd say.
 
Red Storm said:
For what it's worth, the Note 2 has amazing battery life. Second only to the Maxx HD I'd say.
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Yeah, that was salt in my wounds of being an early adopter of the Note 1. It's pretty much the beta of the Note 2 (which fixed every single complaint about the Note 1 I had).
 
Hopefully we won't need a giant battery as SOC's and screens become more efficient. To me as long as the battery lasts all day, I don't need anything more. Like most people I charge my phone at night. I end the day with 30-40% on my DNA.
 
ChronoReverse said:
Yeah, that was salt in my wounds of being an early adopter of the Note 1. It's pretty much the beta of the Note 2 (which fixed every single complaint about the Note 1 I had).
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Seems like the Note one was all about the novelty. Had almost the exact hardware the SGS2 had months later with a bigger screen.

On the Note 2 it was more of a mid-year refresh for Samsung. A SoC that blew away the SGS3 to go along with the bigger screen.
 
Face2Face said:
Hopefully we won't need a giant battery as SOC's and screens become more efficient. To me as long as the battery lasts all day, I don't need anything more. Like most people I charge my phone at night. I end the day with 30-40% on my DNA.
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Well, not only is it nice to have a 2 day battery but recharging at 75% means your battery will last longer too (partial cycles are better for the battery).

In any case, I'm hoping the Motorola "X" phone won't have major issues, will have a MAXX battery and will be available in Canada.

Although if the S4 ends up having similar battery life to the Note 2, I'll probably jump.
 
Design-wise, I like the use of metal but I am not a fan of the belly in the back. I don't know if that's technical (needs to cram stuff up while looking thin) or ergonomic consideration, but I was never a fan of those designs. Phones or otherwise. I dislike those laptops that look thin from the fronts but have fat asses.

That was always what made Apple designs attractive to me, regardless of specs. And currently I like my Nexus 4 very much, and also like Xperia Z's design. Neither has those convex bellies.

As for materials, my preference goes to: Glass > Metal > Plastic. So even if I were given a choice now between Nexus 4 / Optimus G and HTC One, my choice would be the former. (Though I have to admit that the new camera makes me very curious)

Hopefully Android OEMs will get a cue and come up with a flat tablet. That's when I will upgrade my Nexus 7.
 
@lopri: Let's not forget the teardrop design of the MBP. Looks slim but is fatter. At 9.3mm it's pretty thick. That's the same thickness as the Droid RAZR MAXX HD. Now if they made it a flat 9.3mm? What kind of battery life could we attain then? Or what if they made it a flat phone with the same specs, then could we get 8.5mm? 8mm? I'm not sure what the thinnest part of the HTC One is, but clearly they're highlighting that dimension while hiding the rest in the belly.
 
lopri said:
Design-wise, I like the use of metal but I am not a fan of the belly in the back. I don't know if that's technical (needs to cram stuff up while looking thin) or ergonomic consideration, but I was never a fan of those designs. Phones or otherwise. I dislike those laptops that look thin from the fronts but have fat asses.

That was always what made Apple designs attractive to me, regardless of specs. And currently I like my Nexus 4 very much, and also like Xperia Z's design. Neither has those convex bellies.

As for materials, my preference goes to: Glass > Metal > Plastic. So even if I were given a choice now between Nexus 4 / Optimus G and HTC One, my choice would be the former. (Though I have to admit that the new camera makes me very curious)

Hopefully Android OEMs will get a cue and come up with a flat tablet. That's when I will upgrade my Nexus 7.
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That contoured design really does make the phone feel much thinner than it is, though. On a spec sheet, the Lumia 920 and HTC 8x are about the same thinness, but holding them side by side, the 8x feels MUCH thinner / better in your hand.
 
Looks nice, though I'm not sure what Sense is going for at this point. Almost looks like an attempt to copy WP.

The camera, from samples, looks pretty mediocre. HTC was taking a clear shot at Nokia with this camera, and Nokia responded with this on Twitter:
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I swear there is a bunch of nitpickers in here.
No phone is ever going to be 100% perfect to everyone.
Everyone is always going to find fault(s) with any phone.
The phone is fucking gorgeous.
The specs are out of this world and people are still finding stuff wrong with the phone.
 
I like it. Only thing I want to know is how is the battery life and how is the new version of sense. Only other thing I am concerned about is the delay in getting updates from HTC. The phone launched with 4.1.2 and not 4.2. It is already behind.

Also surprised the phone is 4.7" and not 5". Seems everyone is moving towards 5". Not that I'm complaining, I think the whole bigger is better thing is getting ridiculous.
 
SpongeBob said:
Same here, i've been spoiled by the 3300mah. Don't think I could go with anything that has less.
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zerocool84 said:
The One X had good battery life so I hope this keeps it going.
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That's my thoughts as well. The One X had incredibly good battery life when normalizing AT's results. Either it was a complete fluke or HTC did something special to get some of the best performance from an Android phone that's been seen to date.

If it wasn't an aberration and HTC and repeat that performance, I don't think that the battery capacity will matter for most people. The efficiency of the screen is what will matter most. When Apple made the first retina iPad, the power consumption went through the roof. The PPI of the screen on this phone is almost doubling that of the iPad 3, so I imagine that it's going to be even more power hungry, assuming that they both put out similar brightness levels.

If HTC can manage to control that, I can't see any reason why the battery life would be an issue.
 
Mopetar said:
That's my thoughts as well. The One X had incredibly good battery life when normalizing AT's results. Either it was a complete fluke or HTC did something special to get some of the best performance from an Android phone that's been seen to date.

If it wasn't an aberration and HTC and repeat that performance, I don't think that the battery capacity will matter for most people. The efficiency of the screen is what will matter most. When Apple made the first retina iPad, the power consumption went through the roof. The PPI of the screen on this phone is almost doubling that of the iPad 3, so I imagine that it's going to be even more power hungry, assuming that they both put out similar brightness levels.

If HTC can manage to control that, I can't see any reason why the battery life would be an issue.
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The original HOX had amazing battery life for its time due in part to it being the very first phone (at least, in the in Western hemisphere) to have the brand new Krait S4 cpu from Qualcomm. That thing changed the game in terms of performance and efficiency.
 
Here's some food for thought... how does the higher resolution affect general lag/ui? I know 720p had some growing pains. Despite the Gnex being fast, it still doesn't look like a full 60fps. Stutters quite a bit. My SGS2 seems to keep up with my friend's GNex (though I question if her Gnex is "slow" because of bloat building up). Even the Galaxy S3 struggles sometimes (but maybe that's a Touchwiz issue). But the Nexus 4 seems to fly at 60fps in the launcher at least, or close to it. It's definitely a step ahead of those other phones, especially the quad A9s or the dual A9s, and even the dual kraits.

Now we bump up to 1080p, but will that result in a slowdown? Sure we get a spec bump, but it's still roughly ~A15-like CPU we're seeing. I know my Nexus 10 feels much slower than my Nexus 4 in general UI, but it pushes a LOT more pixels. 1080p is somewhere in between, but its more than double the pixels of 720p, meaning there's more work involved. So I'm curious as to what kind of slowdown we're going to see.
 
Mopetar said:
The One X had incredibly good battery life when normalizing AT's results. Either it was a complete fluke or HTC did something special to get some of the best performance from an Android phone that's been seen to date.
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HTC did something special all right: they crippled the phone's multitasking ability. If I'd wanted that trade made for me I'd have gotten an iPhone.
 
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