[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Dan37tz:
If anybody read any of my previous posts, you all know how much of a Samsung fan I am.

I've had literally every version of the Galaxy line, both the S and Note series. Both Exynos and Snapdragon editions. On most carriers. I've had them all and loved them all for the most part. I just think Samsung was always a step ahead in Android phones.

I had the opportunity to order the T-Mobile HTC One for free ($50 eBates rebate and $50 to port my number over from ATT) also at the time they were shipping them with the car adapter which was quite cool looking. I passed on it because I was pretty much a devoted Samsung owner.

Placed my order at 3 am for the S4 on launch day the 29th, received it on the 30th.

Let's get this out of the way. The Galaxy S4 is GARBAGE. Yup I said it. I returned it after 20 days for an HTC One, I missed the free car adapter because I waited for the POS S4, I'm still mad about that.

For the few weeks I used it, I've never been so disappointed before by a new Samsung device.

The S4 micro stutters EVERYWHERE, it feels like 2 generations old Android. It lags randomly when swiping between screens, it stutters while opening the camera app, it lags in the app drawer, it lags in the dialer, it lags while TAKING A DAMN PICTURE. Turning on all those gimmicky features like air view, eye scrolling ect makes everything worse. Yes I already got the T-Mobile update, it helped a little but it still lags like mad. On top of that, T-Mobile has the nerve to disable Adobe Flash Support in the native browser! It won't work on Chrome either. That's still one of the huge reasons I love Android is for Adobe Flash Support.

Honestly has anybody actually put those gimmicky TW features to use? I know I showed it to my friends and they just laughed, not really impress. I turned them all off and haven't used them at all. I can see the useful-ness in air view with the S-Pen on the Note (which i used a lot), but it's plain stupid and useless on the S4 without the S-Pen. It's like packing a 15 inch ****, good to show off but in real world use....negative.

Regarding expandable memory on the S4, well considering you cannot install to SD you're actually just stuck with 8GB of available space for your apps ect. In reality that means you won't be able to have more than a couple large games before you need to start deleting and freeing up memory. The expandable storage is only good for pictures and music. I guess if you want to carry around 64 gb of pictures, the S4 is perfect for you. The HTC One if I remember offers you up to 27GB of available space for games, apps, or anything your wish. It also offers NATIVE Adobe Flash Support in the browser which is at least twice as smooth when scrolling around than the S4. Which brings me to the browser in the S4, wow what a heap of junk! No auto fit, takes forever to redraw, go the Verge desktop site, scroll around and you'll see what I mean. It's constantly redrawing like it doesn't have enough cache memory or something. The HTC ONE is smoooooooth like butter when browsing. I could go on and on about how much the HTC ONE is better(Boom sound, screen quality, build quality, call quality) but those are just the main points that really pissed me off about the S4. I was looking forward to it all year and boy did it disappoint.

The HTC ONE isn't perfect either, The Camera is hit or miss. It could take a really good picture, or one that sucks a big fat ****. Randomly too under same lighting. The ergonomics do kinda blow, it feels uncomfortable in your had because of the sharp edges and it's metal. I like the way the S4 feels better in the hand. The HTC LED notification is stupid, it blinks for only 5 minutes then goes off. Making the LED notification pretty much useless which sucks because I need that functionality often. Sense does look and feel more grown up and professional than TW, although it went overboard with the Facebook intergration. I only want MY PICTURES in the Gallery but it somehow pulls every damn picture from my facebook friends, dropbox, and every other account and mixes it into your gallery. RETARDED!!

As you can see, both phones pretty much SUCK for the latest generation, the HTC ONE in my opinion just sucks a lot less than the S4.

Oh and by the way, I find the battery life on the HTC ONE pretty good. I don't know how that one poster got twice as much screen time out of the S4, I call BS. The S4's battery life was excellent, but only marginally better in my use than the HTC's.