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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdsox:
I understand that they crippled the s3 because of issues with lte compatibility. (even though the korean version has quad exynos and lte)

However, I was under the impression samsung had worked this all out with exynos in the note 2. Also didn't either three or ee or whatever it was in the uk say they would have lte on the galaxy s iv, but only the us variant gets snapdragon? This makes absolutely no sense to me. Samsung is alienating a rather large market.

Now don't get me wrong, i am under no circumstance saying the snapdragon 600 is a bad processor, i think its really great. The gpu is really good too. However, When i think samsung, I think of exynos as its staple, built in-house samsung optimized processor. Also, i think we can all safely assume that the octa will be more powerful do to it being a real a15 quadcore (with the a7 power savers) and not just having a15 like characteristics. Furthermore the sgx 544 has been shown to be a more powerful gpu than the 320 other than not have open gl es 3.0. So i'm confused here. Is there something I'm missing? Am i the only one thinking this?

ps. Anyone hear anything about the exynos 5 quad? Why not use that?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] americasteam:
......LTE......
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdsox:
did you bother to read what i wrote? plus http://www.phonearena.com/news/International-Samsung-Galaxy-S-4-visits-the-FCC_id40875
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
I'm not sure about the LTE specs, if the exynos 5 octa supports it or not but what i know is this: The snapdragon 600 will be PLENTY. It is a very very powerful processor. The only reason i'm going for the exynos 5 octa version is because it is the international version and it is the one that would get all the dev support, more roms and faster updates. But as far as performance goes? They will be identical. Nobody is crippled here :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TingTingin:
Most likely supply issues those 8 cores don't make themselves then again the lte issue could have sprung up again because this isn't a traditional processor

S4 INFO
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] americasteam:
Yeah, I read what you wrote. I would assume it is in fact a limitation of LTE. Maybe they don't have a version of their current gen chip that is compatible with LTE bands used in the US.

You think Samsung wants to buy SoC from another vender?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xan3x:
I am a noob and a lil confused on this so bare with me please. I am dying to get this phone I live in NYC and have verizon. I take from this that the international version will not work on 4g LTE? AM I better off getting the snap dragon version(US)?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdsox:
The international one won't even work on verizon (it takes a sim card and is gsm. Verizon is a cdma network that just uses your esn)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xan3x:
Will it be able be used on anyother us network ex:att , tmobile.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkredD14:
Are you sure it will get dev support? I thought cyanogenmod quit developing for the international s 3 because Samsung wouldn't release some code for the exynos on the s 3 international version.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mg2195:
Any gsm network...att, tmobile..etc

Any cdma carrier will not work with international phones...Verizon, sprint...etc
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conrat2000:
When i got my Droid 4G from Verizon, i got a card in it. Was this a SIM card? I thought that is what she said it was. From what i just read here, i shouldn't need the card for Verizon. :confused:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warrimonk:
It says in that article that the international one has LTE Band 5.

Look at the list of band frequencies : http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/cellulartelecomms/lte-long-term-evolution/lte-frequency-spectrum.php

This is the European band (around 800-850mhz).

If you look here :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks

It shows that alot of europe uses LTE 800, and alot of japan uses LTE 850. This is even further confirmed by the fact that Italy is confirmed to get the OCTA version, and 2/3 of their major networks use 800mhz LTE.

However, I have reason to doubt this article. It says the T-mobile version uses Band 15. Band 15 is 1900MHz. T-mobile LTE uses AWS (1700/2100, AWS band). It makes way more sense to assume that the Snapdragon version contains AWS LTE band 4 (this would cover all of Canada and most of the US)

Hope this helps clear a few things up.

TLDR ; Exynos HAS LTE, but only the European band
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdsox:
thanks that makes alot more sense. It's just too bad samsung didn't use a seperate modem or plan for that in advance.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Just remember that the snapdragon will be a plus for development. As many developers have sworn off the exynos chip

Wayne Tech S-III
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samdsox:
Yeah, that's the one thing the us version has going for it. Not sure but i thought i saw a post from one of those developers that they would not develop for either though...hoping it was just that one.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iunlock:
Snapdragon 600:

Four Krait 300 cores

Adreno 320 graphics

Exynos 5 Octa:

Cortex-A15

Cortex-A7 CPUs w/

PowerVR SGX544MP3 graphics

Any T-Mobile folks thinking about ordering the International instead of the TM release?

Hmmm....decisions decisions....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jayRokk:
That card is to access verizons LTE networks ....its not a sim like att/tmobile
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Closed Source Project:
Will people quit posting worthless threads about the processor already!? The snapdragon is going to be better in reality because it clocks faster and wastes much less battery combined with lte. Plus, developers hate exynos and won't develope for it.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bushako:
I would assume the us version would get more support from developers such as CM since samsung won't release the codes of the exynos based processors, hence not being able to run it up to its full potential. So with the S600 that shouldn't be the case. No?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hella356:
I haven't seen any real info about the Exynos 5 Octa in terms of real-world battery life, although it seems to be touted as an improvement over the competition. I'm not really concerned about CPU/GPU performance between the Exynos & Snapdragon 600; either will be powerful enough for me, I'm sure. A bigger selling point for me is that it is rumored to have a Wolfson DAC....guess we'll have to wait & see about that, but getting better sound quality would be a slam dunk for me. If it featured better battery life, so much the better.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hephaestus_:
Yes, you will. Pretty much every major US carrier has GSM service. :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toleraen:
My plan was to get the international version and switch over to T-Mobile as I don't really care about 4G, their 3G is plenty fast in my area. Will the international version support T-Mobile's 3G frequencies though? Or was that taken care of a while ago? I've been out of the GSM game too long :fingers-crossed:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hella356:
So an International version won't be capable of 4G on T-Mobile? I'd probably have to switch carriers, if the International version offers battery life & DAC advantages.
[One (M7) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Hello All

So I thought I'd share my story regarding this amazing phone and how I got mine.

I'm from Liverpool UK and my last two phones were the Galaxy S2 and S3. I stayed up last week to watch the Samsung Unpacked event and to see the next Galaxy in action. Of course I was initially impressed with the upgrades Samsung had made and I say upgrades because thats all it was. I was ready to make my pre-order when they started but after a day in work and thinking about the new features I thought . . .no .

A 13mp camera and a bigger better screen wasn't enough to make me buy out my current contract and own the S4. Touch free gestures were to me a nice move but would I ever use them? Simply no, and the eye scroll etc was again a waste of time after the awful effort of smart stay on the S3 which never worked and again would be use to me.

Which brings me the HTC ONE! Amazing screen not too big of course and the Beats audio which I would use as my S3 was my music player.

I had spoke to my P4U store for the past few days about the S4 and putting my name down to call me when pre orders start.

Ok I cant cut the the story short as the next day I go to another P4U store in another part of our city centre to ask about the HTC ONE. The guy in there said I could put down £5 deposit and he then got told that the store will be getting a select few handsets in the next day. So yeah I agree the next goes so bad , the guy rings saying the other store got the HTC ONE in and not them. He tried to sort getting me one through the morning to no luck. I was bit unhappy and angry in all respect, did say they would get some and I was surprised as the handset is still in limited supply.

Anyone on my way into town I decide the call the other P4U store I had been dealing with regarding the S4 and first interest in the ONE. I was shocked to her that only there store got the ONE in and only 3 of them! Lucky they had one that hadnt been collect by a customer on reserve.

And so now I have it :D :D

Theres no big ending or rant against the store mentioned, in fact Im lucky to have one at this time and thank the store for sorting me at with one. Im not happy however with the other store taking £5 off me and bullsh*tting me saying they could sort me one.

Thanks for reading folks!

Ask me anything about the HTC ONE if you want, I will try answer :D
[One (M7) General] AttachedSilver:
Is the camera better than the S3? & how's battery life?
[One (M7) General] NiCk.JaY:
Thanks, it was a good one, ignore the 5 bucks, you own the phone we're WAITING for :)
[One (M7) General] Vertron:
How deep are the blacks coming from an amoled screen? Is it like a dark grey or very good?
[One (M7) General] santhosheks:
wow! lucky guy!

i did read a lot of positive reviews abt the screen n the performance which r great indeed n also about the camera, which i m happy with after seeing the pics..one of my concern is the heating issue which seems to be there on main quad core phones..how frequently does it get heated? even on prolonged browsing?(like the xperia Z), or while watching videos,gaming? pls comment on that
[One (M7) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Lucky for you friend I still have my S3, and I can't decide really. The way to look at it really is that the S3 Camera is 8MP so the detail in the shots is better. I havent really had a good go at the camera out doors. I tried it yesterday the a shop and cos the light was good the photo easily beat some photos ive taken with the S3. Its a hard answer as it has this " Ultrapixel" thing working for it.

Battery again I switched it on when I got home and set it all up, so using it with screen on brightness nearly to the top and wifi on. Battery came with about 70-60 % on it out the box and I like to use that up straight away then charge up over night for the first time.

Battery lasted me from bout 5pm to 1;15 am so I think its looking amazing!

Sorry I cant be more solid on the answers, I thing the S4 camera will be amazing but this camera can be just as good.
[One (M7) General] ILS_SuperNova:
the screen is just amazing! AMOLED screens I find make colours over powering but still great screen tech all the same.

HTC got this right, the pre loads full res photos look epic!!
[One (M7) General] ILS_SuperNova:
Coming from the S3 I can say they are both on par with each other on the heating side. I haven't tried a top spec graphics game yet which should be my next move but I did use it alot yesterday out the box and it did get hot at the back. With the back being metal as well people might notice it more
[One (M7) General] kultus:
hi congrats...I sold SGS3 and still waiting for one... how deep are the blacks compared to SGS3 screen? I know that on SGS3 black colour was worse than on SGS2 I had before...could you please make a comparison photo in total blackout with DSRL as other camera cant do it? Also Ill be thankfull for some comparison photos SGS3 vs. HTC one as many reviewers still hasnt final firmware thx bro
[One (M7) General] fernando sor:
My forefathers didn't rebel against the crown so you could get the htc one first!

This is an outrage!

So how is it?
[One (M7) General] KidCarter93:
That's just greedy having 4 fathers :eek:

Now back on topic, @OP, damn you're lucky. I'm still waiting to even see a demo unit and all I keep getting told is that it's delayed until around the 28th :(

Got a HTC? Join the HTC Hangout Thread
[One (M7) General] Guitarfreak26:
The HTC one is probably the best phone I've ever owned and I've had them all. There will still be space in my pocket for my note 2 but the ppi difference is staggering and the colours are gorgeous on the one. It's worth the wait guys
[One (M7) General] nicodemus3d:
Yep, definitely worth the wait. Feels fantastic.

Plus Zoe is a great little feature. Really brings the gallery to life
[One (M7) General] misterthomas32:
Me jelly!

Hey man!

I live in Belgium and I dont think anyone or any store has the One yet.

I preordered at expansys 23 februari because they promised me I would be the first...

The release date on their site kept delaying and today they told me I would get it by the 13th of April. I can't wait that long and I read a lot of bad things about expansys so I cancelled my preorder and decided to wait for the official release in the stores.

Now a few hours ago I read that HTC is bringing the phone to the stores officially on the 16th of april, but people who pre-ordered the phone will get it earlier. So I immediately preordered on another site, I've sent the payment and normally they should get it in 2-3 days. I hope I'm still amongst the people who preordered and will get the phone earlier.

I would pay a 100 $ extra just to get the phone this week, I just can't wait anymore :(
[One (M7) General] compact_bijou:
Lost me der mate.

Ey cyaam down der la! :laugh:
[One (M7) General] craftycarper1:
↑↑↑↑ This....
[One (M7) General] omersak:
Here's my HTC One story as someone who lives out of the UK - preordered from Handtec in early February hoping to get the device sooner, UK delays hit, I get shafted and have to wait 20 additional days.

Meanwhile people are starting to get their One's from Phone4u by ordering a day ahead of the original release, I cancel my preorder and rush to the P4U website only to get shafted again as they don't deliver out of the UK.

After tasting much shaft, quietly preordered from Hantec again like a good boy, in the hopes i'll get mine when the first stocks appear.

Jelly. Quite jelly.
[One (M7) General] MasterThiefGarrett:
ILS_SuperNova could you please make a video from within a car with the radio very LOUD?

The One supposedly has very good microphones (yes 2) with dual membranes that can cope with loud sounds/environments while recording video.

Since Samsung always screws up on this part, it would be nice if you could check it.
[One (M7) General] ILS_SuperNova:
I don't drive but this is something that interests me as I go to alot of concerts mostly in smaller venues and yeah your very right on samsungs recording audio is shocking! The S2 was mega bad and S3 followed but it was a tiny bit better.

I will try this soon as I can though and post here :D
[One (M7) General] Narom88:
Glad to see my hard earned wages which have been taxed for your JSA can afford you a nice phone ;)

If i lived in one of the northern European countries i'd have nipped to another one to get the phone, especially if i was French/Belgium or Dutch and close-ish to the borders.
[One (M7) General] djbenny1:
:laugh:
[One (M7) General] Vertron:
I have some things I want you to test too.

Rub a sharp knife on the screen slowly pressing harder and let me know how much force the screen will take till it scratches.

Drop the phone on concrete getting progressively higher until the phone cracks or dents and tell me the height.

Use the phone as a hammer and tell me how many nails it can hammer into wood until the aluminium dents.

Hold the phone underwater and start a stop watch. As soon as the phone stops working press stop and tell me the time.
[One (M7) General] hamdir:
this forum is now officially a trolls forum

so where are the MODs again?
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
There seems to be more and more Z users coming over here to bash the HTC One which I reckon says a lot for Z users as we don't go over to their forums and start bashing their phones.
[One (M7) General] SteelH:
AMOLED is great if you meet the following two criteria:

1)You have a Samsung phone and NOT and HTC (so you will actually have AMOLED)

2)You want your phone's displah to look ljke a 2 year old's box of Crayolas.
[One (M7) General] slayer69:
You read my mind!!!!! :highfive:
[One (M7) General] dragonesdenano:
1+:)

SkyDragon© El R5, Pura Gente Nueva
[One (M7) General] pulp2000:
Hi Guitarfreak26

I am considering between Note2 & One for my next phone, I am using Dell Streak5.

Since you have both, hows the comparison between the 2 in terms of :

1) Battery life

2) physical ergonomics, ease of use etc

3) Features, usability of the phone out of box (sense vs touchWiz)

4) Official OTA updates

5) Availability of ROMs and support from xda.

Thanks in advance!
[One (M7) General] vegetaleb:
1-Both will have same battery life

2-Dude one handed operations with a 4.7'' slim phone is surely way easier than a 5.5'' phone!

3-Sense has always been more complete and fun than touchwiz,sense 5.0 is even better!

4-OTA updates are good with HTC,nothing to be jealous from samsung

5-HTC devs are not only numerous but top notch at XDA,you will have stock Sense based roms,stock based with looot of tweaks like Venom,CM 10,MIUI,Liquid,Chrome,Paranoid,stock based pure Google...roms
[One (M7) General] dragonesdenano:
I agree 100%:thumbup:

SkyDragon© El R5, Pura Gente Nueva
[One (M7) General] Nyxagamemnon:
Point 1.Yeah I'm sorry the One will not have the same battery life as a note 2. The note 2 will last longer alot longer.

Point 2. Yes 4.7 phone is easier to hold in your hand.

Point 3.Sense is more basic touchwiz has alot more features inside. so it's whatever you prefer.

Point 4. Eh

Point 5. Samsung has more dev's than htc :)
[One (M7) General] NiCk.JaY:
Many developers are leaving Samsung because of exynos. And for sense features, I think sense has more features than cartoony touchwiz. But it's a personal preference
[One (M7) General] vegetaleb:
Touchwiz has more features?

let's see:

-Do you have a weather widget with full screen animations? No

-Do you have multiple kinds of lockscreen? (weather,friendstream,market...) NO

-Alarm clock with slide to unlock? No

-Note? No

-Tons of useful widgets? No

-Car app for GPS/music/radio/calls special menu when driving? No

...

Anyway it's very easy to install a touchwiz clone rom on HTC but it's very hard to find a half working Sense rom on samsung ;)

Sense has so many more features that it slowed down the Sensation, we had to delete lot of stock apps and widgets to make it faster.

As for devs,most of the actual sgs3 devs were from HTC and will return to the HTC One scene added to the numerous actual OneX/DHD and Sensation who will join the party.

Just check the roms section of HTC One and you will see how fast roms were added for only 1 week(first week),expect 100x more in 2 months
[One (M7) General] mDaniel:
Personally I don't care about features of Touchwiz. What I do care about: it's SUPER ugly. Ok - it's a matter of taste of course. I had a S3 and just couldn't look at it (installed CM after 30mins playing with Touchwiz).
[One (M7) General] richyb86:
Its actually quite light heartened. Made me laugh. Nothing wrong with a bit of humour here and there :)
[One (M7) General] jag233:
I have never owned a Samsung phone, I admit I am an HTC fan, all I will say is if there is a better phone out there then it has to be some phone because the ONE is awesome, no negatives from me, I had a ONE X before this and the ONE blows it away. Colours are fantastic, camera is very good, liking the Zoe feature, if anyone is having doubts, DON'T, get the ONE, you will not be disappointed.
[One (M7) General] daleski75:
You should see the thread I created in the Galaxy S4 forums called Touchwiz ruins the Galaxy S4 and your feelings are exactly the same as mine when it comes to Touchwiz.
[One (M7) General] rotkiv3451:
I wish...

I loved the HTC One from the announcement, but I think I'll have to wait for Motorola's X phones because of 2 reasons:

1) Button Placement. HTC decided to change them just for the sake of being different, and the home button on the right side is gonna be really annoying to me.

2) Sense UI. I love the new features in sense, but it is so damn ugly! CM10 could fix that, but as a lot of stuff on the One depend on software, I would probably loose some of the audio capabilities and camera performance with a custom ROM :(
[One (M7) General] Squirrel1620:
Can't wait for development to kick off on the one. The devs though few, have been outstanding on the rezound despite its hardships. I can't imagine what will be possible on a more capable and popular device.

I'm still torn though, leaning towards the one atm
[One (M7) General] ksarius:
Touchwiz can be worse than sense and so much uglier, but one thing I have to disagree with you is that sense is not more complete at all.

Touchwiz has so many features in note 2 that I wished it had in sense

Also about the battery. Pleaseeee. No where near it.
[One (M7) General] vegetaleb:
Did you try the battery of the One to be fair?

All I know is that it's twice the OneX battery cycles,also don't forget that once the devs here will get used to the One structure they will release better battery roms,specially once they get rid of the blinkfeed which most certainly eats lots of battery

For touchwouz vs sense I already lsited some useful things in Sense you dont have on touchwez(at least useful and beautiful for me) http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=39315837&postcount=34
[One (M7) General] ksarius:
Note2 vs one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjAlIBLZVgQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seaclean:
Hi there. I love my Xperia Z on the great whole, but I was wondering if there was a way (via an app maybe) to auto-hide the grey android bar and then maybe making it reappear by swiping in from the side? It's kind of annoying having it there take up space, when you'd like to use up the entire screen.

Thanks!

PS: if its possible, am I able to do it without rooting? I dont wanna Lose the bravia engine feature
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rashkae:
I highly recommend using the SEARCH option. Will save you loads of time.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seaclean:
Um... yes, thanks. But I can't seem to find any topics regarding hiding the bar without rooting. Does this mean it can't be done?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akiainavas:
There's no need to reply "go search" in every thread. If you don't want to answer the question - why bother replying at all ?

The answer is no - it can't be done without root, sorry.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seaclean:
Thank you for your reply.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] androaide:
you can use a launcher
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Seaclean:
Ah, well that might be a good alternative. Is there anything you can recommend? :confused:

And will a launcher overwrite the original UI all together?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x102x96x:
go launcher

nova launcher

or root and use custom rom.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jakereeves31:
Let's post some ZeroLemon battery stats screen shots? I wanna see how amazing it's working for you guys! Cause it truly is amazing!

Here are mine thus far on my first cycle: