[Galaxy S 4 General] barondebxl:
Alright, im ready to give a mini non professional review of the HTC One that I owned for 3 days. I know its not a lot but I got a pretty good idea of the device. Now remember, this is my opinion on the phone :)

First, the box of the HTC One is way smaller than I expected. I like it a lot, better than those crappy AT&T orange boxes.

The phone itself looks amazing, all what the reviews say about the design is true, looks fantastic, feels premium and all that good stuff. Now personally, I got over the build of the phone after a few hours, I don't spend too much time looking at how the phone looks and all that, I like to dive straight into things and see what it is capable of. Now don't get it twisted, I think it shares the throne for the best looking phone ever with the iphone 5. The iphone has the edge in weight ( super light), the volume rocker is awesome and has a good feel. But personally i'll give the slight edge to the HTC One. A couple of things that i'm not a fan of on the HTC One design/build is that it weights a little more than I wished it did and the front of the phone has way too much bezel. Otherwise, fantastic looking phone.

Nice form factor, like the curved back as it fits nicely in your hand. The power button at the top left is pissing me off. I hate it with a passion. I honestly would trade the IR blaster for putting the power button either to the side or the top right cause its very uncomfortable to reach on the left and its just annoying. The volume rocker is just fine, has a nice feel to it. I like where the micro sim slot is, its nicely placed and you can't tell that its there. Nice. I'm glad HTC moved the micro usb port to the bottom, didn't like it much on the side of the HTC One X with the cord bending and just being in the way when the phone was charging while trying to use it.

Now the display of the HTC One....... ASTONISHING!!!!!!! I have never seen anything like this before. I can't believe that a human actually made that display, seriously lol. It is such an incredible display that I wish they can make a new word to describe how good it is. It is absolutely jaw dropping. I can't say enough about it and don't wanna bore you guys to death. The best display I have ever seen on anything ( TVs, monitors, phones, you name it). It is scary how great it is. ( by the way i have to apologize here cause a few weeks ago i had the chance to handle the HTC One for a few minutes and said that i wasn't impressed with the display, i don't know what the hell was wrong with me)

Cameras, i'm no expert in camera. I would say that it is BLAZING FAST!!!!!! You press the button and its done. Love it. Also love the wide angle in both front and back, especially the front. I took some pics in low light and the HTC One deserves all the praise for that, it performs really well. As far as regular shots, they look decent but again i'm not an expert so better check someone else's review for that. Overall i think the average person would be pleased with the camera. If you're into photography then you might wanna try something else.

Sound/speakers.... INSANE!!!! Watching lots of reviews online and listening to the speakers, i didnt think that i would be impressed but damn i was so wrong. The speakers on the HTC One literally put a smile on my face every time i play something. The sound is so loud and clear, its a pleasure to hear the quality coming out of those speakers. I can't say enough about them, sounds better than my laptop hands down. You guys should have seen my roommate's face when i played Justin Timberlake's "suit and tie" via the speakers, he screamed like a b*tch lol. Great...no.. Fantastic sound quality.

Sense 5: I like it a lot. Its the best version of sense yet no question. It has its good and bad but overall its really nice. I like how fast it is, opening and exiting apps, menus, everything is just so fast. NO LAG WHATSOEVER. I also like ( and don't like) the app drawer but to stay on the positives, i thought that i would hate the vertical scrolling but its quite nice, everything is just so fluid. Blinkfeed..... i actually like it a lot. I was one of many who said that blinkfeed looks annoying and its just in the way plus you can't remove it ( i still think that HTC should give us the option for that) but to my surprise, it works really nice. What makes blinkfeed shine is the display and the 3D effect. I'm telling you the display on this phone is probably my favorite feature of this device, i even chose it over the insane speakers and the design ( my opinion). But yeah, paired with the crazy high res screen and the 3d effect, blinkfeed is something that i really enjoyed. It gives you plenty of info in one screen when you wake up in the morning or take a lunch break or something. However it isn't my default home screen, i moved it to the left cause i still use the phone app, messaging, tapatalk, all the traditional apps more.

Now the things i don't like about sense 5, the freaking multitasking. I understand HTC decided to show more apps in the multitask bar since we dissed them last year with the way the One X was only showing 1 1/2 app at a time, but first of all, the little pages are so tiny that you cant just glance and figure out which app it is, second, if you want to close them all you have to flick them up each individually which is so f*cking annoying. I can't stand it. Oops i forgot to speak about the button layout ( back and home). Well i don't like it either, i wish that there was a dedicated menu button and that they removed that un-useful damn HTC logo on the front. So double tapping the home button to reveal the multitask bar is also very annoying.

I also didn't like how you add an app on the home screen from the app drawer. You have to go in the app drawer, hold the app that you want, drag it all the way to the top left and then it lets you put it on the home screen. That is just plain stupid. Period.

But overall sense 5 is quite nice minus the few dumb things that HTC could have done better ( and still can do better with an update like having a kill all apps button in multitasking).

Battery life, good, not great but definitely good for the average user. Gets you through a day with moderate usage but gotta watch it with heavy use. For the 3 days i had the phone, it was something like 15 hours off charge with 4 hours of screen time using both wifi and cellular data ( but more wifi). A HUGE step up over the HTC One X ( tegra version).

Call quality, Great, what more can i say :)

Overall, this phone is fantastic. It really is HTC's best product yet. It has arguably the best design on the market, the display on this thing is out of this world ( i cannot emphasize it enough) the sound quality is superb, the speakers are fantastic. Really this is a PREMIUM the device. Definitely would recommend it to anyone ( even anti HTC fanboys). I lost a little faith in HTC the past couple of years because they gave me the worst experience on a phone ( HTC sensation) but now honestly they have regained my full trust with the HTC One. It really is a great device guys, nobody can deny it. Is it good for you, only you can decide but it is great nevertheless.q

Side notes: 32gig is plenty enough FOR ME but damn, the roms are 1gb each, backups are big, games are getting bigger, the system is going to use more and more space in the future so a micro sd card would have been cool but certainly not a deal breaker now. A removable battery would really be cool but the One has good battery life so not a big deal. Also the 4.7 inch screen size is nice, i thought that it would be too small but it was just fine. And last, the 3 dot menu on the bottom didn't bother me one bit, of course i would prefer a dedicated menu button but it was just fine for me. The IR blaster works like a charm. Cheers!