[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiac100:
You tell me what I've ever said to bash the One? I said the camera isn't what it's made out to be and it's display struggles for clarity and detail.

These are things that I've discovered, I'm not just making these things up.

The HTC One is an excellent phone in its own right but the hype around is just so reminiscent of the sort of crap I've seen for iPhones for years.

Every positive is exaggerated and every flaw overlooked or downplayed. Reviewers should stick to explanations and let their readers decide. In fact I've never spent so much time checking a htc phone out but because of the phenomenal hype, one's obviously drawn to it and and on closer examination, I've discovered that much of it is just hot air. Piping hot!

That's just my opinion but I think there's enough evidence out there to back it up.

If you want me to provide the links to back up my claim that the one's display struggles for clarity and detail, I'll do or you can just check lionking853 gaming reviews on YouTube.

I think I've already posted a link to the video playback comparison before.

Are you seriously saying that we should keep silent about the HTC one's shortcomings.

You want me to tell you what the Zs shortcomings are, I'll tell you.

The biggest of them all is software, the phone is weak weak weak on software. Despite the fact that it's got one of the simplest and leanest android roms, it's struggles at times when rendering widgets. Superior auto, despite the stuff you might have heard of it, is pure crap. The damn thing takes almost three seconds to load up the camera. Let's not even go down the road of the ridiculous external speaker placement or the fact that it heats up like a crack head on steroids.

If you want me to outline, the flaws of the S4, I'll do the same.

What bugs me particularly about the One is that it's suddenly become the iPhone of the android sphere where mediocrity is presented as revolutionary and everything is just so so exaggerated. That's what I don't like. The total absence of objectivity that follows the phone. So iPhone like and not very android. Android reviews have historically been about demonstration but now with the One, it's mostly just talk, talk, and more talk you get. The few people who've actually done any demonstration, have exposed some very fundamental flaws.

The HTC One reviews are by and large, very misleading. Most are rolling back slowly about the claims the made of its camera because that position is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.

I used to say to Sony fanboys that they were a unique breed but it seems the android world has just become very tribal which is such a shame.

Htc fans are just the same. When I post about the Zs flaws, I'm told to go get another phone and piss off. When I post about the HTC one's flaws, I'm told to go back to the Sony forums and piss off. Well they don't exactly love me there.

No phone is perfect, despite whatever hype that may exist, we should be able to discuss pros and cons freely.

Can't talk about the HTC one's cons in the HTC forums, can't speak about the Sony's cons in the Sony forums, I'm sure if I stepped into the Samsung forums, I'll meet the same hostility.

I think my time visiting xda developers is just reaching its natural end, this type of tribalism, I have absolutely no interest in.