[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
The HTC One series is, I think, a bad move on HTC's part.

We see in this a move away from two of the key things that make an Android better then an iPhone:

-Removable (easily) battery.

-Sdcard expansion slot.

Okay, first of all, Smart phone = Battery hog. The screen dictates power consumption, most of the power consumption, and there isn't much you can do about that.

Immediately range comes into play, as in the range you can go from a charger and how long that can be.

I have several slides and a handful of batteries - I was recently on vacation (with electric right there) and still fighting for battery life with an anker and stock, anker died on the trip.

Even good batteries die - so what then, service the device instead of popping another battery in and filing a separate claim on something I don't have to use right now?

I like being able to walk out of my house and know I get full-speed, fully immersive runtime for 30 or 40 hours with a pouch of batteries - not carrying around usb battery packs to achieve that. A spare battery is nice and slim, can fit in my wallet if I want. A usb battery pack? At least as big as the phone itself, if not larger.

This move towards an iPhone is not in our favor.

Then the sdcard slot - man, this is just not cool.

I have a 64 gig sdcard in my slide... so now it doesn't matter what the internal memory is that's hella lot for this point in time. (not what I need, but getting close)

16, 32 gig internal is becoming standard. But that's still a far cry from the 64 I can get on a regular sd slot.

I have a handful of microsd cards that I take with the phones, and they eat up no space whatsoever.

I have one card that is a recovery card for the device - has a factory stock pg59img.zip ready to go on it.

I have another recovery card with a cwm pg59img.zip ready to go, so I can recover my recovery and then also that card includes roms, cwm backups, apps I need in the field, you name it.

I have an sdcard with a copy of a nandroid for my work stuff, and all the files I need for that. At any time I can recover a phone and have all my work files on it and ready to rock. This includes all training pdf files, video training files, audio training files, schematics and so on that I need.

Also has the apps on it that I need to be able to use all those files.

We're up to 3 necessary microsd cards that travel with me, and haven't even gotten into the ones with media - movies, music and so on ... i've spent a long time digitizing all my dvds and it doesn't all fit on any one card.

I mean, losing the sdcard slot sucks for having volumes of information right there - you'll have to rely more heavily on cloud storage, but more then that you lose recovery options.

This makes customizing it and running roms and such instantly harder. - also - you lose an insertion point for attacks on the device to free it up and use it the way you want it.

No more goldcards or anything of that nature, no more having files waiting to be read by internal memory on boot - you have to get it onto the phone direct, not a memory card you have pre-programmed.

I don't think losing the sdcard slot is in the best interest of the consumer on many fronts, and this attempt to be like the iPhone is shameful on HTC's behalf.

I wish the One series was like the SGSIII - honestly for not using the keyboard and swapping to something else, i'd get the One, sell it, and buy an SGSIII if you don't like the keyboard. I hate to say it, but until the next round of HTC devices and they get back on track, i'd avoid it.

I love the slide, and will have it for a while even as I acquire new devices, but if I wanted to move on right now and the phone itself was part of making that happen, that's what i'd do.