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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GiantJay:
I gave this a lot of thought and spent quite a bit of hands on time with both devices before settling with the S4. Every time I think of the HTC One I quickly remind myself of the poor software, camera, ergonomics, and lack of support that HTC provides for their phones. I simply don't trust HTC as a company and the Google S4 helped keep me with Samsung that much more. The minor issues with the S4 will be fixed soon enough and then it won't really be a competition as far as I'm concerned. I'm really curious to how many Ones have been sold compared to the almost 10 million S4s, which came out what, a month after the One. And I actually use the "gimmicky" features of the S4. The other day I was working on my car, hands filthy black, covered in grease and dirt. My dad called instead of missing the call waved my hand over my phone and spoke to him. I don't use these features always but if I'm at work or doing something were I will get dirty I turn them on. I couldn't do that type of stuff on the One. There is also things like the One not supporting quick charge even though it has the same Qualcomm chip? Maybe the metal was getting to hot on charge so they disabled it? Anyway I'm totally content with my S4 and I feel time will just keep reassuring my decision to stick with Samsung. :thumbup:

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] joslar:
Nice big screen, lightweight and slim, plus what Shady said, not a chance!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jejb:
I, like many above, looked very hard at both before pulling the trigger on the S4. I'm coming off a long line of HTC phones, but my wife has had the S3 for about 6 months. I do all the tweaking of the S3, so I use it a fair amount, and had grown to like TW more than Sense. Plus, the S3 always stomped my HTC Evo 4G LTE whenever we'd be looking something up on the internet, downloading something, etc. We'd be doing it side-by-side, and the S3 was better EVERY time, and usually by a large margain. That really planted the bug to move to Samsung for me.

I've never looked back One-wise. I might have a few minutes of doubt early on while learning the phone, but I'd have just returned it and gone back to my Evo, or bought an S3. But I'm just thrilled with the phone at this point. It really works well. I'm out on the lake fishing and pull up a radar map, boom, it's there, every time. On my HTC, very hit or miss on the same lakes. And the daylight pictures are stunning, something I could never say for my HTC's.

Bottom line, the S4 works like I've always wanted a smartphone to work.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rawintellect:
Never. Not even a little bit.

Sent from the rabbit hole.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] CHUUZE:
After the review on the HTC One spoke about how awful repairing it would be and how opening the device pretty much destroys the phone I decided to pass. The S4s "lack of build quality" makes me laugh as the the HTC One's guts are awful whereas the S4 is well put together and its plastic outer materials are more reliable than the aluminum of the HTC One (denting and scratching). Also, as the others before me the unibody design of the One against the removable storage and battery of the S4...NO BRAINER! The Sprint variant also shipped with SIM card so that was a huge bonus for me (in the military so being out of country won't force me to buy a new cheapo phone). Samsung is also more likely to get updates and those updates last longer than HTCs. With a Google version on the way I am stoked as it could very well mean we will get some devs to port some of that amazingness over to the branded variants. Also, I did come from HTC Evo 3D in case you think I'm just another Samsung fan-boy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] greenja:
GS4 to HTC 1

Yes.

I rooted my EVO 3 years ago in 2-3 carefully researched hours.

I'm into 2 days across macs Linux and windows exploits. Samsung: I'm not very good but if I can't get root this weekend, back it goes!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] opz187:
You do realize basically all of us have it rooted right?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jejb:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2254678
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] k2buckley:
Why wouldn't you be able to root it?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ludikreco:
Still my Note ll kicks ass...s4 and One dont have chance...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dbpaddler:
Did the One get a removable battery and card slot when I wasn't looking? If not, then no.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Rasmux:
Quite easy to root the S4 at this point, in less time than you mention I manage to root it and install custom Rom on it
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] rdwyer228:
I personally work for a Sprint indirect retailer and got an HTC One for basically free due to HTC hosting a special trade up promo for us Sales Reps. I just added my friend on my plan, gave her my HTC One, and took her upgrade for an S4. I just felt like the One was way to clunky both in terms of software and hardware. The device is enormous and does not utilize its body even remotely well. Loving my S4 :)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jfenton57:
I have a Note 2 and love it but I also have arthritis in my hands and it just was too big for a daily driver, although I still prefer it.

Bought an HTC One a week ago and traded it in for an S4 yesterday and I wish I had just gne with the S4 to begin with.

The One is built beautifully but it truly didn't feel right in my hand.

The screen is nice but too low contrast ~ I missed those blacks.

Due to the lack of a menu button, in many applications you loose another 1/4" of an already too small screen.

The lack of a pull down menu frustrated me to the nth degree.

Sound quality was nice, but after two software upgrades, they kept decreasing the volume capability, probably to preclude blown speaker claims.

Camera was far from being useful IMHO.

My particular unit had a tough time going from 3G to 4G and would loose data to the point where I had to toggle airplane mode to reestablish it.

S4 runs great, especially with NOVA for a launcher....what a difference that made in the smoothness of the entire device.

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I have a Note 2 and love it but I also have arthritis in my hands and it just was too big for a daily driver, although I still prefer it.

Bought an HTC One a week ago and traded it in for an S4 yesterday and I wish I had just gne with the S4 to begin with.

The One is built beautifully but it truly didn't feel right in my hand.

The screen is nice but too low contrast ~ I missed those blacks.

Due to the lack of a menu button, in many applications you loose another 1/4" of an already too small screen.

The lack of a pull down menu frustrated me to the nth degree.

Sound quality was nice, but after two software upgrades, they kept decreasing the volume capability, probably to preclude blown speaker claims.

Camera was far from being useful IMHO.

My particular unit had a tough time going from 3G to 4G and would loose data to the point where I had to toggle airplane mode to reestablish it.

S4 runs great, especially with NOVA for a launcher....what a difference that made in the smoothness of the entire device.

Screen size is a perfect compromise.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] travisw0204:
I too came from a long line of HTC devices and this is my first Samsung EVER! I didn't care for TW too much because it reminded me far too much of an IPhone and that I couldn't live with. However, my interests peaked when I read that Samsung always got their updates of new Android software months sometimes ahead of HTC and the features were getting better and better. This time around, after hearing about the non expandable memory on the One, I wasn't looking to purchase a phone at all because I loved my EVO LTE. I was just gonna wait for the next HTC release to hopefully see if they came to their senses and put the microsd slot back in. I'm not a fan of cloud storage because if I'm in an area with no signal I have no access to my pics, music etc.

One day after release day I did the unthinkable and called a BB to see if they had the S4 and they said yes. I went down to pick it up and was very surprised by how awesome the build quality was. I was able to play with both the One and S4 while my phone was being activated. The One was noticeably faster than the S4 and that made me think a bit but I couldn't get past the whole no sd card thing and carrying around a microsd adapter is just not ideal to me. So I continued with the S4 purchase. I was not pleased with the first handset I had. It randomly rebooted and kept trying to activate. I was so upset that I wanted to just return it for the One. However, the no sd card thing was weighing on me so I just exchanged my white S4 for a black one. The phone now acted as it should and I was ecstatic. TW was a big surprise because it actually functions really well. I did have the dreaded lag at first but I rooted, disabled/removed a lot of bloat, changed my profile governor to Interactive and MAN WHAT A DIFFERENCE! This thing flies and I haven't even installed a custom Rom yet. I didn't flash a Recovery yet either because there really isn't a Rom out that I care for just yet so I 'm stock rooted ruuning the Rom that shipped with the phone. I ran Triangle Away and now on my bootloader screen it shows as Official for both Binary and Status. That was an awesome surprise. I rooted using motochopper and then changed SuperUser to Super SU and I couldn't be happier. I'm glad I made the switch to this awesome device.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] H4rryTipp3r:
lol its funny because the OP did the same thing in the One forum, and some were thinking about it or have switched, and I haven't seen a single person in this one even thinking about it!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shizkoff777:
Hell no .Htc can go to hell
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] dandan2980:
That because the ones who did switch back are previous S3 owners that wanted to go back to crappy laggy UI looks like a coloring book for kids
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wotandsdwys:
Exactly. Was rooted the same night I got the phone. Whole process took maybe 10mins...including downloads.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Rasmux:
Everybody keeps talking about some lag that I have yet to see honestly, where is the lag at plz I wanna see it cuz I haven't yet, it's been a week. And 100+ apps and nothing, I think I'm getting sad...
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] travisw0204:
There is slight lag for some because there is so much bloat on this phone. Once you remove most of it, aside from the Samsung features, it works pretty darn well. I haven't experienced any lag whatsoever once I disabled/removed half of the bloat on this phone. However, I didn't experience that much lag when the phone was stock without anything disabled. I can say one thing for sure though. It's much faster and smoother out the box than my EVO LTE ever was and that was rooted, running MeanBean, overclocked and had a custom kernel.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] H4rryTipp3r:
Well he speaks the way he does because he has a One, hey no reason to come over and be the way you are about it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bmoreboy02:
I have both. Im using the s4 but still play with the htc one. I bought both off craigslist for a really good price. They are both amazing phones. I cant decide which to keeo. I love the sexy design of the htc one. The speakers are amazing and i love the music app. I really love fact it downloads the cover art automatically. Then the S4. I love the bigger screen. I love touchwiz. I love the fact it has more features. I looooove the meny button being stationary and not different places dependin on what app your using. The fact is there both amazing phones. I think samsung listened to the consumers complaints about the s3 and note 2 and did its best to put out a product wed all love. I think htc listened to the complaints about tue htc one and the one x and did there best. I lean towards the galaxy only bc all my tablets are samsung and my fiance has the s4 so im just more comftorable with touch wiz. But the htc is super quick very snappy if you know what i mean lol. Uuuughhhhhh which one do i keep!!!!! Lol
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] travisw0204:
The same thing was said about Sense by Samsung owners about the UI being crappy and laggy. They were right because up until the One, Sense was very laggy and most often than not frustrating with the FCs of widgets all over the place. HTC was also horrible on updates as well. I know it all too well because I was the HTC owner saying the same thing you are about the cartoon look of the UI for Samsung phones. However, once I used my girlfriend's TW on her S2 I was actually pretty shocked by how smooth and fluid it was. I came from the EVO LTE and Sense always bogged my phone down. I did everything humanly possible to make that thing run smooth and seamless and it was ok for a day or so and then the lag returned and so did the FCs. I too thought this UI was wack until I tried it out and now I have it set up pretty much the same way I had it set up on Sense, minus the lag, and I haven't had 1 FC yet.

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Yeah I agree. No one is going over there and crapping on their phone. They are both really good phones but it's up to the user what they prefer more. My only complaint about the S4 is that they should've put the speaker on the front because when I lay my phone down I can't hear my alarm or the ringtone. Luckily, it vibrates and that's what wakes me up. I refuse to lay the phone face down and the music is loud enough that I hear it as well but the volume is set to 6 which should be super loud and isn't. However, that's not enough to make me go the other way because I need an sd card slot. I don't wanna rely on the cloud or Sprint's awesome coverage to determine whether or not I get to see my pics or listen to my music. We all know how much using data or WiFi drains our battery and I don't wanna be in the gym listening to my music from Play Music or a cloud when I can just listen to it from my micro sd card. Plus I keep about 2 or 3 two hour movies on my 64gb micro sd card. Just MHO
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] greenja:
painful root experience

yea, I'm sure I'm the cabose here. I'm old and make up for it by being slow.....

Any pointers to a "dummy do this" would help.....
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Delakit:
I thought about it until getting home and messing with my S4. Mine lags a lot but I'm still not switching to anything else. Satisfied.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] eyecon82:
Exactly. I have no faith in HTC
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Tahde:
Shoot me a pm and I'll help walk you through. It's painless.

Sent from my SPH-L710 using Xparent Skyblue Tapatalk 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] greengoldmello:
I ended up switching back to the one mainly because I dislike touchwiz. It just looks large and unrefined in my opinion. Sense 5 has a very clean look that is different from stock, yet builds on it at the same time. I tried stock android, but there's too many tradeoffs to use as a daily driver. I also missed the loud ringtones and the slimness of the One.

The interface is definitely smoother all around despite the phones sharing similar processors. Now that I have it back in my hand, I believe I made the best choice.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bmoreboy02:
Agreed
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] troyboytn:
After reading through this thread for curiosity, I would have to say this thread is about to turn into troll fest and going no where really quick, but to add my 2 cents....after playing with them both in the store, without elaborating, at no point since have I even remotely considered the One.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deltawye:
Just read where a "mass exodus" is happening at HTC! So that would have me worried about support for the phone. HTC isnt known for thier prompt updates to begin with.. thats why I quite buying HTC all together.

http://gizmodo.com/theres-been-a-mass-exodus-of-senior-staff-from-htc-this-509249281
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] FanOfSkynyrd:
Inevitable really, HTC is a sinking ship. And I agree...they are HORRIBLE on timely updates and updates for the life of the device.

I loved Sense but no more was I going to give HTC my support by buying their device only to have them drop it like a bad habit like they did the EVO 3D.

No, the thought didnt even cross my mind to buy the one.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] jejb:
Sorry to hear about that, if it's true. I don't dislike HTC or sense, and competition is always good for the industry. I am much happier so far on Samsung, though. In every one of the important areas to me, it just works better.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cloaker:
I mostly couldn't resist the galaxy s4 because of the additional sensors, larger screen, I wanted to try OLED for once, micro SD may not be necessary, but I hate being told what I NEED, I thought the galaxy s4 would feel cheap, but it doesn't. I used to be a serious HTC fan boy, but I haven't looked back.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deltawye:
Its really sad, HTC kinda started it all with the g1. My first android phone was the MT3G. I was on HTC windows phones prior to that. I was a hardcore HTC fan... and recently had the sensation and the evo 4g lte... I loved the build quality but I couldn't get over how crippled sense was. Even on the evo 4g the phone would bog down and I couldn't even use the phone. I switched to the s3 and haven't looked back. I do hope they stick around for competition sake. . It keeps all the manufactures on thier toes and pushes innovation. I don't even see apple as a motivator, they haven't innovated in years.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] iSaint:
What?! Apple isn't innovative.... What about their revolutionary 4" retina display on the iPhone :rolleyes:
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Bunglechunk:
I had (still have, although it retired) the HD2. I loved it but grew tired of sense. I moved to Galaxy SII and will move from Samsung this year as this phone has grown to be a major pain in my rear. I thought about the HTC ONE but in all honesty, the lack of removable memory and poor camera (although superior in low light) was a big turn off for me. I'll be moving to Sony unless something else closer to the time catches my eye.

Shame to hear HTC seem to be sinking. The ONE was meant to be their saviour too. Shame.

Sent from deep within my anus
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] wojo797:
switching as soon as i find someone on craigslist....having owned the s3 note 2 and now the s3 ..you own one galaxy device you own them all. plus at least to me the one's screen makes the s4 look dull
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] DesertHawk:
One thing about Galaxy S4 and HTC One dilemma. Dont do it. S4 is much better.

~ Taylor_Swift
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] deltawye:
LMAO! Im sorry I was wrong..ha
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] greenja:
Root on SPRINT SPHL720 with MDL

Finally broke the code

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2291827

look for the 720 info. ODIN 1.85 and the jfltespr tar file.

Guess when you do this only on new phones, its going to take a while

Caboose
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TexasLTE:
SAMSUNG > HTC ... plus iSaint & Taylor Swift are in the house ( all we need is kennyglass and TPR ) , doesn't get much better than that ... ;) :p :D :D
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shaqqq:
I had the HTC One on T-Mobile Monthly 4G it was a great phone but I like Samsung better so I sold the HTC One for 520$ on Craigslist and went to Sprint and I love this S4.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cloaker:
Didn't know Taylor Swift was an android nerd. ;)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xboxfanj:
Or the revolutionary LTE capabilities? They should sue every manufacturer who makes LTE devices because obviously, they invented it.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] GiantJay:
Right before Apple released the iPhone 5 they went and bought as many LTE patents as they could. They knew that Samsung would likely come after them for the iPhone 5 having LTE since LTE is pretty much a Samsung product. And Apple was getting ready to sue Samsung for everything they possibly could buy a patent for.

Sent from my SPH-L720
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Cloaker:
They invented rounded corners too.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] P1NK13P13:
Not at all. I'm very content with this phone. I played with the HTC One & I immediately picked up my S4 checked some messages & moved on lol :p
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bayniner:
I currently have an HTC LTE and am due for an upgrade this friday and cant for the life of me decide between the one and the s4, i love the look and feel of the the one plus the front speakers, but i like the screen size of the s4 and the memory slot.if they were the same price i think i would go for the s4 but right now i dont see why its worth $50 more than the one
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] durandetto:
There is a $50 rebate on the s4 right now. At least at my local store.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] xboxfanj:
The one comes with more storage though, 32 GB vs 16 but you can't upgrade it, however, on board storage is faster, so I don't see it as a major loss. Non removable battery I really don't like because when you tinker with your phone, it really helps if you can get rid of your battery and you can also swap batteries if you see fit. In all honesty, you need to decide which traits are most important to you: build quality (one), speaker quality (one), larger screen (s4), upgradable storage (s4), more storage up front (one), more saturated screen (s4), more realistic screen (one), indoor, lowlight camera (one), outdoor, high light (s4), newer OS (s4), sense (one), Touchwiz (s4), more megapixels for enlarging images (s4), higher clock speed (s4), slightly faster performance (one supposedly), S features (s4), blink feed (one), Zoe (one), other camera features, such as best shot (s4). Decide which 5 or so of those traits are most important to you and whichever has more is what you should buy.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] shook187:
Reading some of the responses are absolutely hilarious. I wonder how many people actually tried out the ONE before posting their opinion?

Expandable memory and removable battery is almost as laughable of an excuse to pick one phone over the other as to someone picking the HTC One for build quality. It's the same old lame excuses to pick one phone over the other

Expandable memory? Really? At this point in age with cloud services I'm often wonder why people just don't keep their pictures and music in cloud. SD cards are worthless as a floppy disk.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] durandetto:
Some people can't actually access the cloud on the go. You actually need good data speeds for that.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] bayniner:
Thanks for the great reply the reason I'm not sure about the one is because it doesnt seem like much of an upgrade from my lte, I think if the one would of had a 5 inch screen that would be my choice but right now I'm leaning towards the s4, besides I think that if for some reason I was unhappy with the s4 it would be easier to find someone to trade the one with than the other way around

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Were talking about sprint here I'm lucky if I can get decent 3g around here, cloud storage requires good service