[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] EtherealRemnant:
The galaxy s 4 is a strong polycarbonate material - don't know about you but I've dropped my S3 and never once thought "omg its going to shatter" - and if it did, its relatively cheap to fix. The HTC One got the worst repair score in history.

As for the device itself, mine is defective. I say mine because T-Mobile ****ed around so much that we can't return it. I'm going to refurb it (although from what I've heard, they are coming back BNIB because this phone rarely gets complaints) and if it works right, I'll keep it. Otherwise I'll sell it

I will tell you this though. It took me 6 hours to get everything back and relock the phone - its not like Samsung where you can triangle away and you're done. Since T-Mobile doesn't currently have a RUU, its all done with fastboot.... If you screw up, you can brick it.

If you get it, don't be a dumbass like me and nandroid that phone right away.

Also worthy of mention, the lack of an SD card becomes apparent quite quickly - the one has 26GB allocated for userspace. Its the same ration the S4 has really - but at twice the storage.

The One is basically a big heatsink - and its processor has a lower binning than the S4s - that said... Blinkfeed kicks ass, it has decent battery life, out of the box I just rooted it and used it - however... 200MHz may not seem like a lot... But binning for 1700MHz chips when they are supposed to be 1900MHz - over clocking could theoretically be less likely to be stable at the high clock speeds the S4 chips hit.

Lastly, the camera is crazy overrated unless you take a lot of pictures in the dark - those pics blew my mind.keep in mind though that pictures are noisy and saturated out of the box and 3rd party camera apps don't know how to use the camera.

Also, I'm back on my S3. I'm thinking about Jump just because I'm too lazy to box and ship and swapping out for a new device twice a year is highly appealing.

Here is the problem though. I am pissed that we are stuck with the One and my S3 is just fine. LTe is very nice, especially in Denver where the 10MHz they allocated averages 20 down and 20 up.

That brings up another very valid point as well - HTC doesn't have a comprehensive service mode like Samsung does. Even with S-OFF, you're stuck with what Android gives you which isn't much.

The biggest plus? You can flash any ROM and ANY radio (so far, all of them are programmed with AWS support) - the S4 is limited in that regard and both soft and hard bricks have been reported from people flashing an Exynos ROM to a Qualcomm device. Not insulting your intelligence at all, I almost flashed an Exynos ROM to my Qualcomm phone.

My signal issues are not the norm. And regarding your statement about signal, my S3 has never dropped a call. My HTC One was doing it constantly.

One final thing to thing about - the One is ridiculously slow in handshakes... So when you take a call and get dropped to EDGE, you will see the 2G symbol for about 30 seconds while it handshakes to HSPA+ and then going to LTe, the shake takes forever. Not generally a problem except for the fact that LTe doesn't do voice - that 30 second handshake could cost you a phone call.