[One (M7) General] Shan89:
yeah first batches did have these issues while all the ones i saw in stores / friends are perfectly zero gap and sides are perfect as well ... you can't judge the phone by the 1st batches o.O , and no matter whatever bs you say One simply is superiour to S4 both in desigh and build quality , after all one has won many rewards regarding the design , yet s4 all that got was literally * upgraded s3 * whats up with your logic or even better eyes , if you can't see one is clearly much prettier and better quality device we have nothing to discuss regarding this matter. Even samsung fanbois are complaining on the design / build quality O.o

- my speakers are also fine just tested it , they're even .. could be earlier batches or something either way it's most likely software - fixable , either way the speakers are also superiour even with this flaw , even if it had 1 speaker only it's simply better speaker it's waste of time discussing this when many praise speakers on the one where no one prasied speakers of the S4.

Actually the dac is same + One has beats chip inside + beats amp which also makes it superiour. S4 octa version does have better dac but snapdragon one doesn't end of story.

So you like more the blacks while i like more whites, S4 doesn't even have the white color , it's green / blueish , 90% of the time your phone WONT USE BLACK colors , it's mostly light colors , and Ones blacks are actually quiet good for LCD screen So reading on the One is much pleasent then looking at the bluish / greenish whites with great blacks which doesn't even look that great since white is ruined ... sup with your logic , srsly , do you even think before you speak..

One was crowned as fastest phone ATM in the world while S4 was named LAG EDITION phone , the software on S4 might got faster but it's still not faster then the software on the One.

That's your opinion , like i said i accept the lack of details for the other benefits i've got from the camera.

The s3 dev section isn't even close compared to HTC One X dev section , The HoX development is way above S3's develeopment either that be TW vs Sense or AOSP vs AOSP. ( I'm not talking about QUANTITY but about QUALITY ) pretty much same thing with S4 + many devs have quit from S4 and ended up on XZ Or One forums.

the only real change you can actually see is the bigger screen ... that's pretty much it , same laggs , same stutters , pretty much the same system except it has white instead of black back ground. And seriously how stupid can be Samsung devs be when they can't even optimize the MAIN and BASIC function of a PHONe which is DIALLER ?

Anyway i'm dropping from this discussion with you , you're just impossible , you simply cannot accept the fact that One indeed is a better device then S4 , even many tech sites rewarded it with this ... , The one is pretty much better in almost everything vs s4 wether you like it or not it's like that , the only thing you're doing here is lying yourself , for istace

HTC One - Stutters / laggs

- Folder animation , app drawer exiting animation.

S4 - stutters / laggs .

- Dialer too slow

- scrolling thru the pages lose fps and makes stutters

- Getting into widgets causes laggs / stutters

- Scrolling thru the text messages stutters / laggs ( same as on s3 and note 1-2 ) ( isn't this why we buy phone , texting , calling and they can't make even this work ? )

- Camera shutter = slow , even opening camera is slow

- Pretty much the whole system stutters \ laggs

Should we mention S4 has faster RAM , or should we mention S4 is clocked higher , or should we mention S4 is on 4.2.2 which has new drivers and gives more speed vs One on slower CPU , slower RAM and older android version ?

if you can't see that the HTC One is CLEARLY faster in every SINGLE task you put it either that be system apps or downloaded apps from play store you should check your eyes , or maybe you're used onto stutters \ laggs so they don't bother you

Imho if i'm paying premium price for the smartphone i expect from it to work fluid , to be fast , to work better then any other device under it , to look premium and feel premium , all these kind of stuff lack in s4.

Even HTC One X vs S4 in system is faster .. O.o

S4 should have better speakers then other phones if not better from the One , but it doesn't . even nexus 4 has better speakers ..

Regarding being possible to brick HTC One is nearly impossible with S-ON , same for HOX , i even tryed bricking it but couldn't , if you S-OFF and brick the phone that simply tells you that S-OFF isn't for everyone.

Btw since you mentioned build issues on the 1st batches didn't s3 had SDS syndrom , or blue s3 waring out , very easy to scratch etc ? Infact i got pics from my cousin S3 that fall twice and literally got destroyed while my hox felt many many more times and not even a scratch.

You also might remember the article posted by that sammy tech site .. it was something like this .. * We had many prototypes , aluminum , poly carbonate , aluminum cahsis etc but SAMSUNG OPTED FOR THE CHEAPEST POSSIBLE VARIANT DUE TO BUILDING SPEED*

S4 is literally being made as news paper , while One takes 200 mins to be buld ... that simply tells you HTC is about QUALLITY while samsung is about QUANTITY

Anyway like i said i'm quiting from this thread , it's usless and you're impossible and very stubborn.