[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eskomo:
Sprint isn't the only carrier charging $250. Verizon does as well. You get a mail-in rebate for $50 but its still $250 up front. Sprint charges over all $50 more but you save that each month on your bill. :)

You may not like having a sd card. Most people do. Having your phone die and losing everything kind of sucks. Cloud or no cloud thats not even the same. The cloud doesn't work while I'm sitting in a sports arena with no data connection or up north on the lake where there are no towers. I'd still like to watch that movie or plug my phone into my boats stereo and listen to music while anchored in Lake Michigan. Cloud doesn't work there.does the cloud work while Im 35,000 feet in the air on a plane? I'd rather save the $15 for wifi and just buy the SD card for a one time fee of $15.

Gorilla glass 3 isn't unbreakable. But a few people out of 15 million devices or more is not an issue. What about the 99.99% that don't have an issue?

If S4 had Gorilla Glass 1 and the One had GG2 you would brag about how GG2 is better. Is it the end all of glass? No. But better is better. I didn't have an issue with GG2 either.

Some people don't realize this but the S4 screen is crazy amount of bright once you turn off Auto Adjust Screen Tone in Screen Options. Much more bright and is honestly better than the One IMO. But that's just my opinion.

Non-removable back means no wireless charging. Not a must but its nice to have the option. Isn't having the option what android is about? Htc seems to limit your options with a lot of things.

And btw... the HTC headphone are not Beats. They are knock offs. Still good knock offs. If they were real Beats would demand they were branded correctly. Most likely they are just inspired by Beats.

Personally I think the "lag" on the S4 was mostly due to 4.2.2 and the update fixed any lag issues I've ever seen. That said, TW is huge and might be the cause of some of it as well. I just don't see what the problem people have with TW. Is very unobtrusive. Much better than Sense and its complete overlay of EVERYTHING. And Blur isn't any better.

If Samsung was not around who would I choose? Lg or Motorola. Lg did a really good job with the Nexus and will probably do so again with the next phone. Google's hands in Motorola will hopefully be a good thing and has the potential to be something next level. I've had my fair share of HTC. The Mogul back in 07, the Touch Pro/2, Hero, Evo4G, EvoLTE. Had so many issues with them all. Some of them had been returned for problems so many times(9) that sprint gave me completely different new phones. Slow update/software releases don't help either. A history of Horrible build quality puts them at the bottom of the list.

This isn't fanboy talk. It's real concerns/issues. As someone else said above, just look at the problems in both phones forums. I'll take Samsung again on this one. I don't care what company I go with as long as its good. I've only had 3 Samsung phones. The Moment, S3 and now the S4. The Note 2 is one I have access to in Studio only though and not a personal carry phone.

What I DO like about the One.

Front speakers. Zoe, even if just for the fact that it takes the last second of pics BEFORE you hit the button. Best camera feature on the One IMO. And the DAC is good.