[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zodiac100:
As far as I'm concerned, the one's camera is weak and all these photos you guys are posting just further confirm that. The pictures are extremely noisy. For me, camera and display are the most important features I look for. On both levels the HTC doesn't make the grade. The display has great viewing angles but that's never been a good enough reason to pick a phone or not as the case may be. Sure at ui level everything seems fine and colorful but when you load up content like videos and games, it's flaws are shown vividly. The one's display is just an overstated LCD screen trying to compete with Samsung's amoleds on the colour front but the clarity is average and the detail is just not up to par for a 1080p screen. When compared against the Z, as lionking853 has done on numerous YouTube vids, you can clearly see in the games that the colors are so much more natural on the Z but even worse, there are items and patterns clearly visible on the Z that are mostly blurry but sometimes completely lost on the One. As far as I'm concerned, the main function of a display is to show an image. There's no way you can convince me that a display which blurs out the details and even looses some items is better than one that shows it to you crystal clearly.

In his video of Nova 3, the buildings look bluish on the One while they maintain a more natural colour on the Z. Don't know about you guys, but I've never seen bluish looking city and I doubt that that's what the developers where aiming for. There's also a scene with a bus parked in the background, you can clearly make out the bus and the patterns on its sides on the Z while if you didn't see the bus on the Z, you'll think that you were just looking at a structure on the One because it was so blurry. If we only had the One to look at, you wouldn't know it was a bus parked there. How can that seriously be proclaimed the best display? A joke!

The HTC One, is nice phone but is it what the tech blogs and sites are making it out to be. No flipping way? Far from it in fact.

I think it's just the tech community rallying behind a struggling brand which they love especially as it was the first android device maker. Their support and promotion of the One seems to come more from an emotional need not to loose HTC to the administrators rather than any rational reasons presented by the phone itself.

There's nothing unique or innovative about the device in anyway. Aluminum has been done before, didn't hear them going crazy about the Xperia P from which HTC borrowed it's design cues. Blinkfeeds is three yrs older than the first social and news feed aggregator Timescape. Trouble is HTC have committed the cardinal sin of taking up completely one of your homescreens for it. I sighed with agony when I saw it.

Zoe is no more than a glorified slideshow and boomsound is as gimmicky as they come. Seriously chaps, you're all now going to start listening to music from phone external speakers. Hmmmm! Very suspicious indeed. Good luck with that one, let us know how that works out for you.

Not trying to say it's not a phone worth buying, because it most certainly is but is it better than any of the other recently announced or released flagships, No! It most certainly isn't. The reviews are always fixed in such a way that the HTC comes out on top. For example, when ever you see display comparisons against the Z, you'll find that the videos are always shot at an angle but that only shows off the HTCs great viewing angles. It doesn't really show the display quality. It's why most of the sites that have come up in favor of the Zs display like phones4u and dialaphone always show their demonstrations head on and as that's the way most people use their phones 99% of the time, I'd say it was a pretty big deal. The other reviews are very misleading, almost fixed.

I've even seen reviews comparing both displays in which the reviewer switched the bravia engine off on the Z deliberately to make the htc look better. Sam Pullen I'm looking at you.

As far as I'm concerned, HTC One reviews kind of remind me of iPhone reviews, a lot of talk and very little demonstration. Even when they do demonstrate, they'll show you only one half of the story. With pictures, you'll mostly see macro shots and low light shots, and for the display, mostly what they show you is its superb viewing angles and not its imaging quality. So so wrong and misleading.

There's a protective bubble around the HTC One placed by some tech sites especially pocketnow but history has taught us that bubbles eventually bust.

Don't get me wrong, I do think it's a great device in its own right but not superior to its competition in anyway that's meaningful.

In terms of raw power, it doesn't compare to the S4 and in terms of multimedia capabilities, it's beaten by the Z so I really can't understand where the hype comes from. It's like the iPhone of the android world, overrated and exaggerated to extreme levels. Well pocket also had the iPhone 5 as their number 2 phone. That says everything about the credibility of that site.

My predictions for 2013, the main battle in android will be between the S4 and Z, those two phones in my opinion have more to offer than the HTC One. Well if camera isn't a big deal for you and you only judge a display by its viewing angles and love over saturated colours, then the HTC will sit very nicely in your hands. Just don't think it'll sit quite so nicely in the hands of the majority of buyers.