[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theandies:
And that's the reason I didn't get the M7 when it came out. I'm glad HTC listen to it's customers and included it in the M8. I'm glad that HTC made Blinkfeed an option on Sense 6 as well. That was another reason I skipped the M7. I'm just not a social media/RSS feed kind of guy.

I can say this about the M8, I usually root my phones and flash custom ROM's within I'd say 6 months because of Sense skin (I've always had HTC phone since my first smart phone a few years ago). I can say that HTC got Sense 6 right. It's just the right balance between a manufactures Android skin and Android itself. I just not had the desire to root and flash up to this point.

The phone is very fast with no lag at all and I've used the power saver mode almost exclusively which throttles down the processor to save battery life. I also switch between auto brightness to full brightness depending on what I'm doing I don't play CoC but I do play Boom Beach which is similar from the same developer and I'm usually on it for an hour or so a day. I've not had to worry about my battery life at all. I used to obsess with my battery on my two previous HTC phone but with the M8 I don't even think about the battery any more. I can get over a day on one charge and that is with using Bluetooth data tethering to my Asus TF201 (playing Boom Beach on the larger screen) Bluetoothing (is that a word???) music to my Bose Soundlink mini speaker (sometime at the same time as tethering data). I average at least 25 text a day and I'm always taking calls from work or family. My Gsam battery Monitor app reports my average life for complete charges since August 7th (when I installed the app) is 2 day 20 hours with 10h 20m active and 5h 35m of screen on time.

Having two forward facing speakers is a great thing. They sound better than anything out there today and is one of the features that convinced me to get it. I'm a big audiophile and good sound is a must. I have to say they are not perfect, a little tinny for my taste but with a little tinkering with a EQ you can get them to sound really good for a phone. I can play music and put it in my pocket messing around the house and have music with me all the time without having to us ear buds etc.

The camera is OK. I don't have the purple tint issue. The front facing camera is awesome. The best selfie camera out there these days (not that I take a lot of selfies). The rear camera can be made good with all the settings. I really get good results using manual mode. The best thing about manual mode is you can save the configuration and use it later. Low light performance is great IMO.

Overall I'm really impressed with this phone. It's the first phone I've had where I'm not thinking about the "Next big thing" except I'm really intrigued by the Galaxy Edge.

I don't know about the the G3, a co-worker has one and he loves it. I've not had a chance to play with it but it appears to be a solid phone.

Hope this helps

Edit - I forgot. I'm not sure if the G3 has and NFC chip but I use NFC on my M8 almost everyday buying stuff out of the vending machines at work. It saves me a lot of time since my locker at work and the cafeteria are at opposite ends of the building and I don't have to carry around my wallet or change anymore.