ozor1: big question is will the one sell very much this year??
compared to sgs4

I really, really like the HTC One. I’m a sucker for beautiful hardware, and this device is one of the best-designed smartphones I’ve ever used. HTC’s done great hardware before, though, and ruined it with ugly and problematic software — this time, it’s manageable. Not great, not as good as stock Android, but manageable. Here, the problem lies with the camera. Maybe I’m in the minority when I say I care about the quality of my cellphone images, but I do, and the One just doesn’t deliver. Its battery life is also disappointing, though I’m not as concerned about that – it’s just a fact of life at this point.



In my quest to find the perfect Android phone, I’m still left wanting. I want the One’s hardware, but I want the Nexus 4’s software and promise of timely updates — I’ve said for a year that HTC should offer stock Android phones, and I’m still convinced the company could save itself with the One plus pure Android. I also want a better camera — the One isn’t bad, it’s just mediocre, and I’ve seen better from Android phones. For now, the list of Android phones worth buying is two items long: the Nexus 4 and the One. Personally, I’d buy the One if I had to choose right now, but with the Galaxy S 4 coming in just a few days, I'm pretty lucky I don't have to choose right now.



Even if Samsung can't best the One later this week, though, the most important question is still unanswered: can HTC find a way to sell a phone, even a great phone, when Samsung has so dominated the Android market? Until it does, it won't matter how good the One is — but for consumers' sake and HTC's, I hope the company figures it out.

those features will indeed be useful to certain folks. not so much for me.

take smart stay for example, i do most of my reading at night(in the dark)   and it just kinda renders it redundant.

i'll always go with the phone that has more support from developers. My GN2 is actually better than any device others have offered for me  

joeydozzy: wow you really shock me by saying the smart scroll feature is an innovation
how the hell do disabled folks use phones before?
do you think they won't still touch their phones because of smart scroll?
how do you think it'd be used in the night when the front camera falls short?
you think this won't be comfortable maybe when you looked away or looking at the buttons?
this point is invalid

the way I see it it won't add anything to the world. u
you don't hear people blabbing about smart stay on note 2? null and void just like face unlock

and you say low light photos make up a tad of innovation? in Nigeria? in a club? in a night event? in the night without street lights? in a cinema? seminar? PLEASE

UIs are a thing of choice. so it's your opinion but ask the other majority that think sense 4+ has the best all round functionality

4llerbuntu: How it is you people simply believe that everyone other than yourself is foolish is beyond me.


according to you now HTC is better than Samsung?

amusing to see tex also quoting and supporting "specs" and "benchmarks" after all you have said on those points in the past.

4llerbuntu:

according to you people too, its "advertising" thats responsible for samsung dominance.

i see............


if u miss the forest for the tree, you dont need glasses, you need a eye transplant.

4llerbuntu:
Windows Phone is already forgotten, except of course by that random guy who always goes nuts on NL when u mention WP8. apparently he still has not convinced enough people on NL to adopt his craze there's precious few WP user hereabouts no?

The blackberry Z10 just launched in nigeria. went to purchase 2 units for folks yesterday at MTN.
From the little observations and questioning of MTN staff, they must have sold close to 100,000k units and its just one month in, and prices are yet to come down.

By december, with release of other models, BB will have outsold WP.

4llerbuntu:
my point is, what exactly is you people's point? that we are all foolish for not trumpeting HTC? not dropping our plastic, Innovation-less samsungs?

Like we were foolish to not have jumped on WP in droves, singing OIS camera, and glove useage?

or for not being smart enough to buy Apple?

which one?

if you cannot think of, or know very valid reasons why sammy went into the lead then leave the SSheep alone. u cannot tell them how to spend their money.

ciphoenix:

those features will indeed be useful to certain folks. not so much for me.

take smart stay for example, i do most of my reading at night(in the dark)   and it just kinda renders it redundant.

i'll always go with the phone that has more support from developers. My GN2 is actually better than any device others have offered for me  

joeydozzy: wow you really shock me by saying the smart scroll feature is an innovation

4llerbuntu: @ Texazzpete, i went to The MTN store on the island to buy the Z10, 2 units for some pple

i met 9 people there who either were buying, or came back with complaints (so far the data issue on MTN is murky, we still dont have mobile data working on our units, and the Z10 does not connect to WEP wifi for some strange reason)


The guy i chatted up there told me they have moved about 17thousand units from that store alone. mostly bulk purchases sef.

im pretty damn sure MTN will move 100k units this month nationwide. the prices WILL DROP and other models will come out


as much as i don't get any joy from BB or WP or any OEM issues, i do believe BB will get 3rd spot conveniently





AND back to the discussion, no its not true what you say about benchmarks and specs. remember when you used to hark on about how android had dual and quad core phones but the OS cant even use the Cores? how android needs large ram and still is not as fluid as IOS etc etc

no need to revise history bros, i am not in the mood for hunting down posts on a phone

its surprising that you now join the specs and benchmark wagon

all these pple talking benchmarks sef dont even know what those benchmarks are and actually test, AAANNDDD they dont really count after a particular point sef in reality.

something YOU know.


aoh and yes Unlocked bootloader counts like hell it does. ask every jonzer that ever stumbled on XDA. i flash kernels with stock samsung recovery. i can do ANYTHING with my samsung phones ANYTHING. and i never unlocked a bootloader

i install stock rom and do everything right there on it, i can even flash a stock rom from right in the phone. on Sony ericsson u need a cable and a PC to flash a kernel

4llerbuntu: How it is you people simply believe that everyone other than yourself is foolish is beyond me.


according to you now HTC is better than Samsung?

amusing to see tex also quoting and supporting "specs" and "benchmarks" after all you have said on those points in the past.

my point is, what exactly is you people's point? that we are all foolish for not trumpeting HTC? not dropping our plastic, Innovation-less samsungs?

Like we were foolish to not have jumped on WP in droves, singing OIS camera, and glove useage?

or for not being smart enough to buy Apple?

which one?

if you cannot think of, or know very valid reasons why sammy went into the lead then leave the SSheep alone. u cannot tell them how to spend their money.

texazzpete: I'm not sure what 4llerbuntu is babbling about, but he's wrong as usual.



I have always concerned myself with specs and benchmarks. I believe I rolled out an entire thread once showing how the iPhone 5 dominated anything on Android in GPU power and was comparable to or surpassed nearly everything out there as far as CPU specs were concerned.

Toroze: i completely disagree with the above, i do not wish to argue it out but dude google that again, do ur comparison and be sincere to urself maybe the have better gpu but u can't compare the cpu of ip5 to that of some droids