The 'All New HTC One" (aka the M8)

[Luke.]

skahigh said:

mmcd87 said:

For the record my M8 still works perfectly after 2 years of use / abuse without a case and swapping out SIM's every few weeks.

Strange, mine has lived in a case the whole time and the Sim card was never removed until it broke.

I've gone for the 6P after playing with a colleagues Nexus 6, hope I've made the right choice.

You've def made the right choice, though bear in mind the 6 is a totally different phone pretty much in looks and feel.

[Funk]

Yep, 6P is smaller and even better...

My M8 was also mint after 2 years, case but no screen protector. Just sold it for £100 to a friend who's very pleased with it.

[escargot]

anonymous said:

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Likewise. Whereas my company iPhone shattered when I sneezed in it's general direction a few weeks ago.

Edited by escargot on Sunday 20th March 10:20

[Ultuous]

Same here - now holding back on upgrading partly because I don't feel I need to 'buy' anything else yet, partly because I'm worried I've started taking its strength for granted and whatever I replace it with will shatter as soon as it slips out of my pocket down the gym!

[Nimby]

hornetrider said:

And another thing. Every time I plug the fking thing in to my pc now I get a prompt asking me do I want to use USB for file transfers. fk off! ask me once and be done with it!

FWIW I've just switched to LeeDroid on my M8 and now it remembers the charge / file xfer setting and doesn't ask. There are many other nice tweaks over the stock ROM.

[skahigh]

Well the 6P has arrived and so far it's great, the camera is miles better than the HTC and running stock android has prompted me to try out other launchers, Nova launcher seems to let me set it up just as I would like it (minimal home screen with HTC style folders inside the app drawer).

It's not too big for swiping text messages and the fingerprint unlock behaviour is great. Very pleased.

[anonymous-user]

skahigh said:

Well the 6P has arrived and so far it's great, the camera is miles better than the HTC and running stock android has prompted me to try out other launchers, Nova launcher seems to let me set it up just as I would like it (minimal home screen with HTC style folders inside the app drawer).

It's not too big for swiping text messages and the fingerprint unlock behaviour is great. Very pleased.

Stock Android is a beautiful thing, I would bin off the Nova launcher and just use it as is. You're never going to get the reliability from a 3rd party launcher that you will with Android

(just my opinion though)

[Funk]

I agree. The big draw for me was stock Android after my experience with it on my Nexus 7.

[VEA]

Dropped mine this morning... in the bathroom. Grrr

[anonymous-user]

VEA said:

Dropped mine this morning... in the bathroom. Grrr

Have you got the Spigen case a few of us have

(Alex?)

[Luke.]

anonymous said:

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Apart from the icons are too big in stock. Much prefer the smaller ones of Nova.

[VEA]

anonymous said:

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Busted...


Had the thin fit one on it, now ordered the next one up... arse bandits.

[skahigh]

Luke. said:

anonymous said:

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Apart from the icons are too big in stock. Much prefer the smaller ones of Nova.

The Google Now launcher just doesn't work quite the way I would like, surely the beauty of Android (vs IOS) is the ability to change the bits you don't like???

So far Nova seems to be perfectly stable and performant.

[anonymous-user]

skahigh said:

Luke. said:

anonymous said:

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Apart from the icons are too big in stock. Much prefer the smaller ones of Nova.

The Google Now launcher just doesn't work quite the way I would like, surely the beauty of Android (vs IOS) is the ability to change the bits you don't like???

So far Nova seems to be perfectly stable and performant.

Oh for sure and it's 100% your choice, I've heard good things about Nova it's just normally people are avoiding manufacturers launchers as they're ste (Samsung I'm looking at you)


It's an awesome phone whatever the launcher

[Funk]

anonymous said:

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I've swapped the Samsung launcher out on my Tab S for exactly that reason...

[AJB88]

I wish they would allow you to customise now launcher a little bit. The only thing I have ever missed from Samsung was the ability to hide stuff.

For example like most now launcher based phones mine has Phone, Messenger and Browser on home screen, so I'd like to hide these from my apps.

[hornetrider]

Well sadly I think marshmallow has killed my M8. It's gone quite slow and laggy browsing the net and switching apps. It's actually become annoying to use.

I'm coming to the end of my contract and pre-mm I was considering keeping the phone and going sim only. Instead I have a 6P arriving tomorrow.

Oh well. Was good while it lasted. Nice phone, borked by mm and a dodgy battery.

[Funk]

hornetrider said:

Well sadly I think marshmallow has killed my M8. It's gone quite slow and laggy browsing the net and switching apps. It's actually become annoying to use.

I'm coming to the end of my contract and pre-mm I was considering keeping the phone and going sim only. Instead I have a 6P arriving tomorrow.

Oh well. Was good while it lasted. Nice phone, borked by mm and a dodgy battery.

Something is very wrong with your phone I think. My M8 was great on 6.0.

[IainT]

Otispunkmeyer said:

Right, think I'll get on the M8 -> 6P bandwagon as well. Totally hacked off with my M8 now. Its dog slow most of the time and there are times where it just becomes unusable.

I was convinced it was a nefarious attempt by my network provider to get me to switch phones when I come up to the end of contract in a month or so... push some crud update to the phone that slows it down.

It's close to a joke at the moment having been fine for the first 21 months of the contract...

/tinfolihat

[hornetrider]

Same here Iain. My M8 has gone down the toilet basically in the last fortnight.

That said I'm on the 6P now and it's amazeballs fast. Just need to get all the apps and stuff set up.