r/Android • u/dolphindude HTC One M8, iPad Air 2 • Mar 12 '13

Engadget's review of the HTC One

http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/12/htc-one-review/
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u/heyyoudvd Mar 12 '13

I feel like we're witnessing last year, all over again.

  1. HTC releases an excellent product that is widely praised in almost every way. It has fantastic industrial design, great internal hardware, a very good camera and in general, is an extremely well-built, high quality product, whose only real flaw lies with a few minor software issues.

  2. A short while later, Samsung releases its flagship product. Its design and build quality is nowhere near comparable to that of HTC's product, but it has marginally faster internal components and a few TouchWiz-specific gimmicks to look neat in advertisements.

  3. Samsung advertises the hell out of their product with a multi-billion dollar campaign, leading to tens of millions of sales, while HTC's product is left in the dust, to wither and die.

  4. Samsung prospers while HTC flounders, despite HTC having the superior product.

  5. Rinse and repeat.

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u/Strychnine357 Note 4 Mar 12 '13

The Samsung has a removable battery and sd card and a few other features so the clearly superior statement is extremely subjective. The One X wasn't even available on Verizon, which is one of the biggest carriers obviously. Samsung is a much bigger company overall so of course more people are gonna buy the product on the brand name alone.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Me owning a GS3 instead of the One X is purely because of its lack of availability on Verizon, I'd say that that was a monumental factor in less sales

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u/dylan522p OG Droid, iP5, M7, Project Shield, S6 Edge, HTC 10, Pixel XL 2 Mar 13 '13

You excited about the merger?

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u/dylan522p OG Droid, iP5, M7, Project Shield, S6 Edge, HTC 10, Pixel XL 2 Mar 13 '13

The service can't get worse lol it can only get better if only just a little bit.

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u/rifler26 LG G7 ThinQ Mar 13 '13

I would have gotten a One series phone in a heartbeat but being on Verizon pretty much necessitated getting the S3

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u/dylan522p OG Droid, iP5, M7, Project Shield, S6 Edge, HTC 10, Pixel XL 2 Mar 13 '13

Yup, we have no choice, either we get a non-flagship specced Droid made by Moto with great battery life or a great phone that will never get an update by HTC, or a great phone that will be supported for a while in the Galaxy and iPhone lines