[One (M7) General] hamdir:
@Barry @Baron like you all say im an HTC Fan, it happens that its not only me but everyone in my family and many of my friends are HTC Fans as well, my cousin works in a luxury boat, the entire staff are HTC fans so he supplies them with the devices

also keep in mind we buy them retail without warranty (we only get immediate exchange), so its a big risk, they are usually euro and asian models

we have bought and unboxed countless number of HTC Devices, with the exception of the One X did we ever face a defect? i can confirm to you that this was never the case, HTC devices have been the most reliable smartphones to buy, the only issues were the odd dead pixel and if you want to call the misaligned patches on my Desire HD a defect (I owned it for two years the device survived battle like abuse)

it will be stupid for me to list all of their devices because its basically every Android HTC since the Nexus One including the lower end ones like the Desire SV

from 2012 line up, we bought the One X/S/V, Desire X, V, C, SV, Butterfly, 8x, same story always flawless form the get go

so this really narrows to it to One X and the black One S which had defects, the One X i was the most burned as you know the story 1 out of 3 in my case, i also unboxed over a dozen defected One X during launch, i was very furious at the time and in fact some people like Barry were trying to bring sense me as in the high number of defects were actually looping from the same bad assembled batch, but it was only me, three of my cousins had a perfect One X from the get go, my sister as well, only one of my friends had the bad wifi out of box, after that virtually every One X we bought was flawless, the black One S issue was the black scuffs out of box only during launch

meanwhile two SGS3 we bought during launch were easily broken within 2 weeks of use and i reported those on my mega thread, my sister has an SGS2 running since almost 2 years, she loves it and we always praised it but now the screen is incredibly greenish, hardly enough to draw a conclusion about Samsung in my case

you can see how random and unpredictable this this whole thing is

for me there are two sure things about HTC, they have released countless number of devices and they've been always reliable, its only the One X which suffered their new polycarbonate unibody adoption which was a first to them as well as another first which was the laminated screen, a new assembly approach plus rush caused the widespread defects on launch, the One S with micro arc finish was also a first experiment and we know what happened to that end

if you ask my opinion i believe the One X is actually the reason of much of their lost ground, not only because of bad marketing as the media like to believe or the US Apple ban but also the high number of people who got burned and jumped ship during release (which is never a good thing, it leaves a sore taste and many give up on the brand) i never really forgave them for that fiasco but i have obviously always tracked this specific device and was able to clearly confirm the defects were sorted around early May

The point of this post, do you rather trust some random unkonwn posters complaining about defects some of which are true and some which are trolling or FUD, or someone like me who admits to be an HTC fan, frustrated from all the unfairness because i have the numbers and the experience with HTC devices to at least draw a general picture much better than a picture drawn by those random forum complaints, like many have said those with a perfect device will most likely not post unlike those who are complaining

so yes the One X launch is a dark spot in HTC build quality history but it simply can not be a reflection of the build quality for their countless high quality well built products, especially since a flawless One X is still an extremely high quality, durable and incredibly well built device

moving to the One, we are still in the launch phase and really what is the only complaint so far? misalignment to the speakers grills, is this the major defect worth crucifying the device? compared to last year it's a miracle, otherwise we barely hear of dead pixels, broken connectivity, flying screen or anything

the biggest two complaints are gaps/misalignment to that speaker grill, a disappointment to the ultra hyped build quality? yes but hardly a disaster, how hard is it to imagine that this will be sorted in no time when so much at stake and when we know they've sorted the One X more difficult issues

bottomline, many will simply not like this story or hate it even, but my job so far was to track facts and these are the facts

i never try to conceal them or deny them and so accusing any attempt to state the facts as blind fanboyish, especially from guys like you is thoroughly unfair