HTC One [Megathread]

ofcork

Yeah was going faulty anyway so when it was offered i took it.

partyatmygaff

EMobile bill pay is probably the best way to buy this phone. On price, it beats sim free and prepay.

A HTC One X for €269 + 12 months Select 100 @ 19.41. Hell, you could even throw away the sim card and it'd still be fantastic value for money.

stephanied83

Hey Guys,

For those that ordered from 3, did you have to send in ID & proof of address? How long did it take them to get back to you after that?

Placed my order earlier & waiting very impatiently

Thanks

Star Lord

Was switching from one 3 contract to another so didn't have to jump through those hoops, hope you're not left waiting too long! Hate the wait when you know something is coming, but dunno when!

Alanstrainor

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Was switching from one 3 contract to another so didn't have to jump through those hoops, hope you're not left waiting too long! Hate the wait when you know something is coming, but dunno when!

I see the three prepay is 519 on the website...i wonder what the price in store is...hmmm....soooooo tempted.

MrGarak

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I see the three prepay is 519 on the website...i wonder what the price in store is...hmmm....soooooo tempted.

Bought one online at lunchtime when I saw they were saying it would be delivered tomorrow! Let's hope it wasn't BS

Was going to hold off for sim-free to come down in price but I'm already on Three so 519 will do.

Edit:

Will report back on whether it's carrier branded/locked tomorrow unless someone beats me to the punch.

Thomasofmel

Got my One X today - its charging so havnt had a chance to play with it yet, looks & feels great not so much bigger than my DHD.
My DHD is rooted - what's the best way of transferring my apps to the new phone without rooting the new phone? Contacts are uploaded to Gmail - that's the easy bit...

pigeon999

johnny_adidas wrote: »

had myself persuaded its time to update my desire to the one X but i suspect its going to be too big in hand so might just settle for the one s instead. better for my pocket and surely the s is still a huge jump in performance from my desire?

The HTC One S has a great processor( did better than the X in benchmarks.) So don't worry about that aspect of it.

Star Lord

Thomasofmel wrote: »

Got my One X today - its charging so havnt had a chance to play with it yet, looks & feels great not so much bigger than my DHD.
My DHD is rooted - what's the best way of transferring my apps to the new phone without rooting the new phone? Contacts are uploaded to Gmail - that's the easy bit...

If you simply go to 'My apps' within Google Play, you should be able to download any/all of your apps

lafors

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

The Classic Flex Max plan, €40.66 per month (I'm paying €30 odd a month for the same plan sim-free at the minute, so €10 extra), 24 month contract, phone is free...

Oh no I wish I hadn't read that
Must resist

Lighter

pigeon999 wrote: »

The HTC One S has a great processor( did better than the X in benchmarks.) So don't worry about that aspect of it.

Are u sure????

Idleater

Lighter wrote: »

pigeon999 wrote: »

The HTC One S has a great processor( did better than the X in benchmarks.) So don't worry about that aspect of it.

Are u sure????

Yes, I think the dual core lte chip on the same was compared to the tegra3 and outperformed it mainly due to the 28nm chip and the fact that the screen isn't actually 720p so is less demanding on graphics power. Links are about somewhere.

ThunbergsAreGo

Can anyone shed any light on when the One S is expected on Meteor?

On O2 at the moment and temted by their 20 euro a month deal (currently paying 35)

Edit: Just heard back, no word on a Release for One S for Meteor yet

farreca

Have had a few issues with the display when using the camera and sometimes in the notification bar. Not really show stoppers but irritating all the same. Also it looks like a software issue more than an actual screen issue.

I've attached (hopefully) a couple of pictures to show what I'm talking about

theteal

farreca wrote: »

Have had a few issues with the display when using the camera and sometimes in the notification bar. Not really show stoppers but irritating all the same. Also it looks like a software issue more than an actual screen issue.

I've attached (hopefully) a couple of pictures to show what I'm talking about

you searched online for any similar issues? i'd be informing the shop of that issue with a view of potential return if it doesn't improve

bd250110

I was going to get the ONE s yesterday and popped along to my local o2 store (UK). The s is certainly incredibly thin, light and feels wonderful in the hand, there are two major flaws, the screen and Sense 4.0. The screen is nothing like the iPhone 4s or Nexus devices. I was worried that the SGN would be too large, but having a quick play, it wasn't and I really like stock ICS, which is buttery smooth and has the "cool" CRT transition.

Coming from an iPhone, it was actually rather painless, my iCloud email and calendars are all on the phone, no problem. My previous apps all installed quickly from the market. So far the battery life seems on par with the 4s. All of that said, the Nexus is still considerably more expensive than the ONE s, but the screen and stock experience is worth it, for me.

As an aside, the white ONE X looks acceptable, the grey looks awful, to my eyes. It's a really hard, nasty, shiny grey. It reminded me of the grocery tills in Dunnes after 10 years wear.

Star Lord

bd250110 wrote: »

As an aside, the white ONE X looks acceptable, the grey looks awful, to my eyes. It's a really hard, nasty, shiny grey. It reminded me of the grocery tills in Dunnes after 10 years wear.

Maybe that was just a display model thing? I've just got the One X in grey/charcoal and it's a very very matt finish, no shine off it whatsoever, and a nice tactile feel to it.

irishj

If anyone ordered their one-x on three yesterday and it showed delivery for today, please update the thread when you receive it, so the rest of us will know whether we are waiting in vain or not..lol

cheers

boc121

Has anyone who has the one x checked if its unlocked ?
Also what network?
Cheers.

irishj

There is an update on deliveries from three in this thread

SteM

bd250110 wrote: »

I was going to get the ONE s yesterday and popped along to my local o2 store (UK). The s is certainly incredibly thin, light and feels wonderful in the hand, there are two major flaws, the screen and Sense 4.0. The screen is nothing like the iPhone 4s or Nexus devices. I was worried that the SGN would be too large, but having a quick play, it wasn't and I really like stock ICS, which is buttery smooth and has the "cool" CRT transition.

Coming from an iPhone, it was actually rather painless, my iCloud email and calendars are all on the phone, no problem. My previous apps all installed quickly from the market. So far the battery life seems on par with the 4s. All of that said, the Nexus is still considerably more expensive than the ONE s, but the screen and stock experience is worth it, for me.

As an aside, the white ONE X looks acceptable, the grey looks awful, to my eyes. It's a really hard, nasty, shiny grey. It reminded me of the grocery tills in Dunnes after 10 years wear.

Never used a Nexus or iPhone but the screen on the One S looks pretty amazing to me. As far as Sense goes, the great thing about HTC phones is that they can be rooted and you can use an ICS ROM if you wish.

Still not sure I'm going to pick one of these up though...

Has anyone just walked into metor and bought one? I'm kinda tempted.

partyatmygaff

Does anyone know if EMobile lock their Android phones?

ziggie

Just out of contract with Three with my Desire... anyone any ideas on the best value 12 month contract with the One S??
Two years contract is just too long with the speed that smartphones are improving!

theteal

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Does anyone know if EMobile lock their Android phones?

history suggests that the first batches of HTCs released by meteor/emobile are always sim free

partyatmygaff

theteal wrote: »

history suggests that the first batches of HTCs released by meteor/emobile are always sim free

I'm off to EMobile then...

Mitch Connor

What is the story with the memory on the HTC One X?

This review: http://eurodroid.com/2012/04/05/htc-one-x-review/ shows just 2GB of memory for Apps.

What is the story with the rest of the memory - is it treated like an SD card (so apps can be moved to it).

Drag00n79

partyatmygaff wrote: »

EMobile bill pay is probably the best way to buy this phone. On price, it beats sim free and prepay.

A HTC One X for €269 + 12 months Select 100 @ 19.41. Hell, you could even throw away the sim card and it'd still be fantastic value for money.

That's pretty good alright. Total cost around €500. If only we could be certain it is unlocked.

Professey Chin

Mitch Connor wrote: »

What is the story with the memory on the HTC One X?

This review: http://eurodroid.com/2012/04/05/htc-one-x-review/ shows just 2GB of memory for Apps.

What is the story with the rest of the memory - is it treated like an SD card (so apps can be moved to it).

Yep its partitioned. GS2 is the same way

ThunbergsAreGo

Shamrok wrote: »

That's pretty good alright. Total cost around €500. If only we could be certain it is unlocked.

Looking at that deal the 19.41 has no data allowance,

net up is 24.41, still good though

ooter

Bought one of these today,couple of things I've noticed is that there's no android market on it (or at least I can't find it) and liveonlinefooty doesn't work.:(

ThunbergsAreGo

ooter wrote: »

Bought one of these today,couple of things I've noticed is that there's no android market on it (or at least I can't find it) and liveonlinefooty doesn't work.:(

Android market has changed to Google Play (sorry if you knew this )

ooter

naughtb4 wrote: »

Android market has changed to Google Play (sorry if you knew this )

Didn't know that,can't seem to find that either..

Oafley Jones

Got to play around with both of these in town and I'm really tempted by the X. The One S feels a lot nicer in the hand, but the screen is poor relative to the X. I'd agree with another poster in that the grey X doen't look that great, the white model really pops in comparison. Also slightly disappointed by the feel of the X, it feels somewhat cheap compared to the the Lumia 800, but certainly not bad.

I'd get over the ugly grey and not so great feel for that screen, which really is fantastic; although, somewhat worryingly, the display unit in Meteor on Patrick's St. has a very noticeable 2cm yellow area on the left side of the screen. Machine gunning the camera was great as well and photos didn't seem to suffer at all. Sense didn't bug we either, but I really wish stock was an option out of the box.

I was also expecting it to be bigger, the galaxy note has totally screwed my perceptions of what a large phone is.

theteal

ooter wrote: »

Didn't know that,can't seem to find that either..

this auto replaced the market symbol on my phone there last week - i don't like it

Star Lord

Mine is now rooted and had a version of Revolution HD running on it!

ooter

HTC hub seems to be the market but I can't find a search function which is very annoying.
Installed skyfire and liveonlinefooty works on that,don't know why it wont work on the stock browser.

ofcork

HTC hub is a different app,the market should be there as the play store as its on the one s i got.

ooter

ofcork wrote: »

HTC hub is a different app,the market should be there as the play store as its on the one s i got.

Cheers,have it now..

bd250110

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Got to play around with both of these in town and I'm really tempted by the X. The One S feels a lot nicer in the hand, but the screen is poor relative to the X. I'd agree with another poster in that the grey X doen't look that great, the white model really pops in comparison. Also slightly disappointed by the feel of the X, it feels somewhat cheap compared to the the Lumia 800, but certainly not bad.

That's what I felt as well, as another poster said it could be a demo model thing, as I was under the impression that the phone had a matt finish. I did think the white one looked great, but I preferred the look and feel of the S. All of that said, the screen on the S just does not cut it for a high end (and make no mistake, the specs of the S are top of the tree), compared to the SGS II, ONEx and the iPhone. If you have never owned one of these devices, no big deal, but if you have it may be a deal breaker - as it was for me.

Star Lord

bd250110 wrote: »

All of that said, the screen on the S just does not cut it for a high end (and make no mistake, the specs of the S are top of the tree), compared to the SGS II, ONEx and the iPhone.

It's not quite that clear cut, the S pips the X on some benchmarks, and vice versa on others, as you can see on the benchmark results from the review of the One X on The Verve:

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/2/2919202/htc-one-x-review

beanian

purchased on prepay from meteor. Cost 560 and is unlocked. Have my 02 sim in now

Im_No_Superman

beanian wrote: »

purchased on prepay from meteor. Cost 560 and is unlocked. Have my 02 sim in now

Were you able to buy in store? They would only try sell me a bill pay one in store said I had to buy online for a pre pay model.

beanian

yeah picked it up instore, Meteor in Santry

Im_No_Superman

beanian wrote: »

yeah picked it up instore, Meteor in Santry

Cool, must try in a different store tomorrow.

V9

Had a look at the dummy model of the one x in carphone warehouse. It's very big but very thin. The one s was there also. The size suited me more I think. I dunno what to do!

Star Lord

V9 wrote: »

Had a look at the dummy model of the one x in carphone warehouse. It's very big but very thin. The one s was there also. The size suited me more I think. I dunno what to do!

Both great phones, screen on the X is immeasurably better than the S. Size vs screen quality!

Im_No_Superman

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Both great phones, screen on the X is immeasurably better than the S. Size vs screen quality!

Screen quality for me. I was actually surprised how comfortable the X felt in the hand despite its size. The only minor quibble I could see was I think I would have preferred to see the lock button on the side of the phone rather than the top. Don't think it will put me off getting one though.

ThunbergsAreGo

Im_No_Superman wrote: »

Screen quality for me. I was actually surprised how comfortable the X felt in the hand despite its size. The only minor quibble I could see was I think I would have preferred to see the lock button on the side of the phone rather than the top. Don't think it will put me off getting one though.

Im in the same position unsure on which to buy, battery life is a big concenr for me and has me moving towards the One S at the moment.

But then the X has NFC potential....

MrGarak

Holding off rooting it as I don't think theres a full S-OFF root available yet.