The 'All New HTC One" (aka the M8)
Discussion
anonymous said:
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I probably should have been more accurate, the screen and the camera are noticeably better than any other phone I've tried. The over saturated colours help with that I don't doubt, but everything just looks that much better to me. I do use the camera quite a lot, so I put a lot more importance on that than others do I guess. 
anonymous said:
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I think you'd like the 6P... Its AMOLED screen is actually Samsung's latest WQHD display and the camera, whilst not quite up there with the S6's, is still excellent: http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=5&i...My only criticism of it is the lack of SD card. That said 4G coverage where I am is excellent and I tend to stream most stuff - mainly music - from my PC without needing to store it on the phone. If I run into space issues I'll sell this one and buy a 64Gb (EE only have the 32Gb on contract, or did when I upgraded).
Add in the fast charging and the incredible battery life and overall I'm very pleased. It's not quite as 'premium' feeling as the One M8 but it's very close.
Funk said:
AJB88 said:
Just stop using touchwiz then and install another launcher like Google Now for example.
You can't. Touchwiz affects every part of the interface and is ingrained, the launcher is the least of the issues (I'm already using Google Now on my Tab S btw)...What's remarkable is how Samsung can take such amazing hardware and make it run so badly. I've just put 6.0 on my M8 and it's as slick as my 6P. I actually wondered why I upgraded the other night, the M8 is that good...
Edited by Funk on Tuesday 23 February 22:39
My OH is still rocking her iPhone 5. At this point that phone is over 2 years old and aside from being full of selfies to the point you can't save anything else, its still a pleasant thing to use. My M8 is not a pleasant thing to use. It infuriates me.
Otispunkmeyer said:
Same goes for HTC. My M8 absolutely grinds at times and it really shouldn't. Seems since I got it, its now slower, the camera is less responsive and it seems like I have a ton of additional bloatware added that can't be uninstalled, only rolled back to whatever. I am really starting to dislike Android now, so much so that I think my excursion from iOS, through windows phone and then to Android is going to be over very shortly. Ill be going back to iOS.
My OH is still rocking her iPhone 5. At this point that phone is over 2 years old and aside from being full of selfies to the point you can't save anything else, its still a pleasant thing to use. My M8 is not a pleasant thing to use. It infuriates me.
On the whole my M8 is very quick but, the responsiveness of the camera or rather, lack thereof, is utterly infuriating.My OH is still rocking her iPhone 5. At this point that phone is over 2 years old and aside from being full of selfies to the point you can't save anything else, its still a pleasant thing to use. My M8 is not a pleasant thing to use. It infuriates me.
Mine has slowed noticeably, reaction times to most things are pretty poor (especially the camera) and I just can't work out where all the (internal) memory has gone - I've tried to push apps to the SD card, but updates just bring them straight back.
I will do a hard reset at some point, but I know it'll be a giant faff.
I will do a hard reset at some point, but I know it'll be a giant faff.
Funk said:
VEA said:
If people are looking to move on, I ended up with a 6P a couple of months ago. Bloat free Android is amazing. Absolutley love it!
Agreed, my experience with 6.0 on my Nexus 7 was what drove a lot of my decision to get the 6P.
ks is this. And don't get me started on the size of my SwiftKey letters on the keyboard, they've gone tiny. For whatever reason, my HTC took about a week to settle down from the update - I still want to hard reset it just to clear the internal memory which I can't seem to trim down. System uses 4.8Gb and Apps use 8.67Gb - For some reason I just can't keep memory usage on the internal card down.
And don't get me started on the fact that app updates put the app BACK on the internal memory even when it's moved externally....
And don't get me started on the fact that app updates put the app BACK on the internal memory even when it's moved externally....
Funk said:
Mine updated without an issue, shame to hear you're running into issues with it.
I would go the reset route as JT recommends, see if that solves things. Regarding the rotate - it never did that on the home screen in 5.x that I can recall? It was always portrait...
I don't remember it rotating either. Not on my HTC One...I would go the reset route as JT recommends, see if that solves things. Regarding the rotate - it never did that on the home screen in 5.x that I can recall? It was always portrait...
james_tigerwoods said:
Funk said:
Mine updated without an issue, shame to hear you're running into issues with it.
I would go the reset route as JT recommends, see if that solves things. Regarding the rotate - it never did that on the home screen in 5.x that I can recall? It was always portrait...
I don't remember it rotating either. Not on my HTC One...I would go the reset route as JT recommends, see if that solves things. Regarding the rotate - it never did that on the home screen in 5.x that I can recall? It was always portrait...
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