What the hell is HTC doing, to be using 6 out of that 16 GB on the operating system? This is Android we're talking about, not Vista...
HTC One S Android smartphone
Playing Tonto to the One X’s Lone Ranger in HTC’s new model line-up is the One S. I’ll get to Silver, the One V, when it arrives in a few weeks. For now though, we can see if HTC’s much vaunted One series makes sense from a technical, as well as a marketing perspective. HTC One S Android smartphone Tonto's talker: HTC's One …
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Saturday 21st April 2012 09:25 GMT N13L5
I always liked the metal casings of HTC's phones.
But everytime I look at HTC's phones when I need to buy one, I find them hobbled in some annoying way and I end up buying a Samsung instead.
Having no SD card slot and no replaceable battery are my 2 key reasons why I'd never buy an iPhone. Why would HTC disqualify itself so quickly from many users' short list for their next phone?
HTC: don't try to be like Apple, they are not your most important competitor, Samsung is.
I actually dislike the entire NFC chip deal, it stinks of NWO, so the lack of that doesn't bother me.
But overall, I find that 2012 is yet another year where none of HTC's phones manages to get on my short list, even though I like the company.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 12:48 GMT dotdavid
HTC Two and Three
Not quite sure that HTC should be limiting itself to just one model, but I do agree they should be named somewhat less confusingly. There's only a letter between them.
Can't any manufacturer use a number-based system a bit like Nokia's used to be?
1000 is one kind of device
2000 is the newer version of the same kind of device.
1100 is another kind of device
and so on.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 07:13 GMT frank ly
micro SIM
Do most mobile network providers hand out a micro SIM if you ask for one, or do you have to chop your existing SIM to fit it into this phone?
I'll wait until Christmas (or just after) to buy a used one on e-bay, as I do with all my phones and other techie stuff. I've never had a bad one yet.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 07:47 GMT Anonymous Cowherder
Re: micro SIM
Yup, I ordered my One X over the phone then whilst waiting for it to be delivered I read about it needing a micro sim so I popped into a vodafone store and asked for one. I was handed a credit card sized piece of plastic and told to ring up vodafone when my fone arrived to activate the sim.
One of the easiest things I've ever done.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 09:23 GMT Anonymous John
Re: micro SIM
I upgraded from a Desire to an One X on Monday and O2 gave me a micro SIM, and the switchover took about 30 minutes.
I have a Three Mi/fi with a Micro SD card, and something I read somewhere suggested the One X should be able to see it, but I haven't got it to work yet.
It's a great phone though. The GPS even works indoors, which wasn't the case with the Desire.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 07:57 GMT Danny 14
ouch
10gb free and no SD slot? On my S2 I have a 32gb SD that has about 8GB free. Ive just dumped loads of films "just in case" im stuck on the train (again), plenty of music and general "crap" that I store from work (instead of lugging a USB stick around I just plug my phone into my PC). Internal SD is used purely for apps, photos and recordings, I think i'm about 50% full on that too.
SD card is a must for me. I cannot realistically see what this brings to the table over an S2 other than a faster CPU? Better wait for the bigger brother IMHO.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 08:23 GMT Ragarath
Re: ouch
So you have 8GB free, but do you think if your stuck on said train your going to get through all that data? The battery will die.
On the other hand, it does give you choice to fit your mood, but I am sure that can be done with the 10GB. Then again I only play a few noddy games on mine each to their own I guess.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 09:15 GMT CaptainHook
Re: ouch
The phone can output HDMI.
That means you could load the phone with films and use it on holiday as a media player connected to a TV while still being plugged into an external source of power.
The idea that the only way to access the local data is while using the limited battery life is flawed.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 16:07 GMT En_croute
Re: ouch
Unfortunatly the HDMI cable requires an independent power supply, and uses the micro usb slot. Therefore your phone will only get a small proportion of the power available, so your overall battery level will drain over a few hours.
I tried a cradle with a power & USb Port - phone did not like it - stuttering screen - too much power!
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Thursday 19th April 2012 08:08 GMT James 51
16gb?
My N900 has 32Gb built in and can take another 32Gb mirco SD card. The only other phone I have seen that matches that is the N9 (64 Gb model). Before people start asking what you need that kind of space for, 20Gb of music then movies and episodes of tv programmes. Being able to plug it into a tv to keep the little ones entertained no matter where you are is very useful.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 08:17 GMT batfastad
No SD card slot?
Is that some sort of joke? Yes internal storage is ample and they probably intend me to use some sort of proprietory half-finished cloud offering instead of my own server. But no SD card slot = no sale for me I'm afraid.
My HTC Desire has gone bananas and refused to boot a couple of times now. The solution was to return it to O2 who repaired it quick enough but had to wipe the internal storage in the process to re-flash the OS.
Fortunately all my important stuff is stored on a micro SD card! Also had Nandroid backups made through recovery console stored on the SD card. If Nandroid was storing the backups on the internal memory, that would have been bad!
It might a problem that only occurs once in 600 days of ownership of the device but even just for that one ocasion having an SD card is invaluable. It's such a shame that Android doesn't store *all* user data on external storage by default.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 09:55 GMT Arctic fox
@batfastad Re:"Fortunately all my important stuff is stored on a micro SD card"
Absolutely. My back-up mob has no expansion and had begun to "do nonsense". Sent it in and they re-flashed the os as part of the repairs and of course it came back with the os and nothing else. Fortunately I do not keep much on that one so it was not a big deal. However, one does not have to have humungous storage needs for an expansion slot to be very convenient.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 09:01 GMT Robert Caldecott
Internal storage is faster than SD, but...
...not having an SD slot is hopeless IMHO and more and more Android manufacturers seem to be heading down this path. I have 18GB of music on my arc S - it's my primary music player. 10GB isn't going to cut it - especially when you start filling up that space with 1080p videos! Anything less than 32GB isn't going to make my short list.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 09:28 GMT Christopher Rogers
Sensation XE
I agree that 4.3" is the sweet spot for screen size. On that basis, The Sensation is still a better handset - Dual core 1.5, less internal memory but has SD slot, same cameras, same ppi density, replaceable battery.....
HTC really should have ensured the One range is better across the board than anything else they have produced. The S does not make me want to change up to it.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 11:32 GMT Afflicted.John
Re: Sensation XE
Technically yes, but have you put these phones side by side? The Sensation loses on ergonomics alone. It's a Brando-esque fat pig in comparison.
Sacrifices have been made to make the One series very, very svelte and that will appeal to many more people than those who care about expansion. Both the One X and One S are utterly, utterly sexy phones. And I positively hate my Galaxy Note since seeing the X.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 10:00 GMT Piro
Oh dear, HTC
This is the right phone, specs wise, size wise. Nobody wants a 4.7" beast, and Tegra 3 is a worse performer than Krait in this phone, so specs wise, this one has it on the money: 4.3", 1.5GHz Dual core Krait.
But then, what's this? Small battery? No microSD slot? Oh dear, that means this an entirely uninteresting handset.
More manufacturers need to look at the Motorola RAZR MAXX. Huge battery yet still incredibly thin, and oh look, it still manages to have a microSD slot.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 10:37 GMT squilookle
Lack of MicroSD isn't necessarily a deal breaker for me, but if I were choosing a new phone (I will be in February) I would take a similarly specced/priced phone with MicroSD if available.
I don't need to use an SD card, I have one in my current phone and have not come close to filling it. I don't take it out to transfer files to other devices - I use Dropbox for that. However, I like the idea that, if the phone fails, I can just take the card out and I have all my files.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 12:28 GMT the-it-slayer
An iPhone wannabe which doesn't even touch the wannabe status
Urgh. another average Android phone which is marked too highly by the El Reg. Will be interesting to see if the phone runs fast in 3 months time once a user has abused it with the limited resources and bottom-line spec for Fandroid 4.0.
Anything over 3.5" is just an overkill for a touchscreen phone. I mean, I don't want to have to extend my thumbs just to reach over the screen and then crap it in later life with some sort of evil pain.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 18:33 GMT Dave Lawton
Simple - vote with your feet
If this and the X are flops, maybe they'll think twice before making stupid decisions like non-removable battery, micro sim & no micro SD slot.
The V would appear to be a completely different phone, more like a Desire.
So I've gone with a Galaxy S II to replace my Desire, & will watch with interest over the next 2 years until my next renewal.
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Thursday 19th April 2012 21:53 GMT corrodedmonkee
Re: Simple - vote with your feet
To be utterly fair the HTC One X is a thoroughly excellent phone, specially after the latest firmware.
The screen alone is nothing short of amazing, and it does a good job with the battery. Specially if you are just listening to music with the screen off. Beats stuff, though not the bundled headphones is excellent too.
Makes the Desire look like a real piece of shit, which it really wasn't.
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Monday 23rd April 2012 08:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
If the One X didn’t exist I bet the One S would have these features.
Exactly. This is something that Apple do right, Its about time that phone makers took a leaf out of apples book, and made just ONE (irony?) phone, that does everything (It would be fine to produce different cases for it)..
It's stupid to produce so many variants, and then never bother to update them. I bought Galaxy Nexus in order to cut out the manufacturer and carrier update requirement all together.