[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] lagittaja:
1.

Don't be so quick to judge, I'd wait for Anandtech's full review. So far Joshua hasn't said anything majorly negative about it[1][2]. All I've heard is that it has a reddish tint if you look at it from non-realistic angles. Same applies to AMOLED displays. I'd personally be more concerned about getting a bad AMOLED with blotchy, uneven colors or green tint with the shades of grey..

2.

Again, don't be so quick to judge.

Just saying "inferior storage speed" doesn't accurately describe the storage speed differences.They're whole different beasts.

And if you're complaining about the storage speed, then you MUST be talking about it in context of file transfers because I cannot imagine what you could possibly be doing on your phone that would need faster sequential read speed, because that's where the S7/S7E is faster where as the HTC 10 has faster sequential write speeds thanks to the SLC write cache.

Here's Anandtech's storage speed numbers from the HTC 10 battery life/storage speed article[2].

Of course this is just sequential reads and writes, what's important are the random 4K numbers because that's what using the phone is.

Unfortunately AndroBench 3.6 is borked on Android 6 and AndroBench 4 is just not consistent enough. So only sequential numbers for now..

But what we can do is look at previous random 4K read/write speeds.

And then we can guesstimate the random 4K speeds of the iNAND 7232 inside the HTC 10.

The previous version, iNAND 7132 boasted 2800/3300 IOPS for random 4K read/write respectively according to specs. But again, not sure in what circumstances you can get these numbers.

That's MBps = (IOPS * KB IO size) / 1024

(2800*4) / 1024 = 10.9MBps (plausible)

(3300*4) / 1024 = 12.8MBps (uhm, this seems a bit inflated)

iNAND 7132 was eMMC 5.0 where as iNAND 7232 is eMMC 5.1, the reason I mention that is because

So in theory we should have higher random 4K read speeds on the iNAND 7232 IF your workload has an I/O queue higher than 1. Multitasking would be one of those scenarios.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9019/sandisk-announces-inand-7132-slctlc-hybrid-emmc

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9432/sandisk-announces-inand-7232-emmc-51-128gb-and-slctlc

Actually the LG V10 uses the iNAND 7232, notebookcheck.net has random 4K numbers for it. 30/16MB/s read/write respectively, but I'm not sure of the settings they used with AndroBench 3. So take those numbers with a grain of salt.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/LG-V10-Smartphone-Review.158944.0.html

Also if you find any random 4K read/write speed results of the HTC 10 on internet, like ArsTechnica's, I'd take them with a HUGE grain of salt.

Although one argued that

To which Joshua responded

To which I completely agree.

On top of that, your S7 Edge has USB 2.0 which in real life tops around at 40-45MB/s while the HTC 10 has USB 3.1 Gen 1 (=USB 3.0) interface. Which is mind bogglingly fast compared to USB 2.0.

Which means that with the HTC 10 you'll be able to read/write to the phone at pretty much as fast as the storage allows, where as with the S7 Edge you're limited by the USB 2.0 transfer speed.

Aaaaaand inb4 someone mentions "but with 2x2 802.11ac you're going to have 867Mbps...". No. Just no.

You're going to be looking at ~600Mbps of real bandwidth in the best possible scenario with an excellent WiFi implementation (like iPad Pro) which is without anyone else sharing airtime with your device and standing right next to the access point. Add another device or more to the scenario or increase the distance between you and the AP > and you've dropped below USB 2.0 speeds.

Let's also throw in there the fact that HTC is going to allow us to use the Adoptable Storage feature of Android 6 > we can have truck loads of fast storage on the phone, assuming you buy a fast microSD card that is :D

We don't have confirmation yet but I'm hoping that the HTC 10 would have UHS-II bus interface. The A9 has UHS-I U3 so that's what we'll have at minimum (95/90MB/s cards) but it would be really nice if it would be UHS-II U3.

3.

In what ways? Dxomark ranked the camera quite high. Of course it's not perfect but I wouldn't call it "inferior". It's certainly on par from what I've seen and heard.

S7/S7E auto focus speed is of course miles better and ridiculously fast thanks to PDAF but how often will you be shooting photos in perfectly lit conditions where PDAF reigns supreme?

In photos the two are very evenly matched but if video recording is more important to you, that is where the S7 is better, stabilization and noise wise.

Although the audio portion does make the 10 a bit more appealing in the video recording side of things. Stereo recording with noise cancellation is pretty freaking nice, wouldn't you agree?

Of course I would like PDAF for video recording on the HTC 10 because PDAF is freaking awesome but you can't have everything.

4.

Pretty much inline with it's size. Sure I would've liked a, say 3200mAh capacity but they would've had to make the device slightly thicker, which I wouldn't mind of course, but in this day and age thinness has been

5.

Um. Ok.

[1] http://anandtech.com/show/10238/hands-on-with-the-htc-10

[2] http://anandtech.com/show/10252/htc-10-battery-storage-results