Comments on: HTC One Announced – 4.7″ 1080p Display, 1.7GHz Quad-Core, UltraPixel Camera

By: sergio

sergio — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:53:00 +0000

my gf is alwaays whinning about her 4s make laugh when she gets lags and my xperia z flies

By: NLS (NULUSIOS)

NLS (NULUSIOS) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:40:00 +0000

Starting from the top: Exactly. This is why you cannot expect much from HTC One or any phone camera. That said, both CCD size increase and the pixel resolution others seem to have agreed for 2013 (i.e. 13MP – possibly same OEM), would be maybe the top that can be achieved with the current tiny lenses. As I said mark my words, if HTC ONE goes well (I don’t expect it to go too well), then HTC… TWO (hehehe), will be an UltraPixel phone but with 8 or 13MP (on a larger CCD).
So you don’t seem to disagree about 4K after all. We are 6 months apart. We’ll see. The error you make is that you connect adoption with IF it makes sense. I never said it makes sense. “Makes sense” doesn’t drive the market. “I want this and I can have it and others will envy me for having it” drives it. Let see today… 1080p is ok for 40″ screen you say. OK. For 50″? Is it too much for 23″? No let see something else… the “Retina” thing that Apple started. Does it make sense? Let say it does (hmmm). It calls the latest iPad “Retina”. My Galaxy Note 1, has 1280×800 screen which is higher DPI than their iPad (not iPhone though). You believe the eye will perceive difference in pixel size (they are really invisible in diagonal lines or circles on my phone already) and new FullHD (1080p) phones? I hardly believe it. Yet, I want one. Although it will eat more battery (here is somewhere that we are in need of major update – and one more thing where HTC ONE fails) and will need stronger GPU.
Anyway…

By: S_T_R

S_T_R — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:58:00 +0000

Lenses matter, but not for pinhole phone cameras. The resolving power the tiny phone pixels is so great it is not feasible to make a lens that can match it.

Reasonably priced 4K TVs may show up in 2 years, but we won’t side wide adoption for at least 5 years, and possibly not ever. Why? Resolving power again. The human eye can’t tell the difference between 2K (1080P) and 4K at normal viewing distances unless you’re bringing out something that’s 60″ or larger. Average flat screen is in the 40′s.

By: A.Miller

A.Miller — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:52:00 +0000

Have you tried TMO in St. Louis? I’m in STL Metro East and thinking about switching to TMO prepaid…

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:43:00 +0000

I visit Chicago from st.louis, and chicago is awful for 4g coverage, and very spotty on vzw. Basic 3g is covered mostly fine there, as long as you are not more than 30 stories up and then you get no signal at all.

By: NLS (NULUSIOS)

NLS (NULUSIOS) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:25:00 +0000

While your reply is a bit insulting (you must have HTC shares or something whereas my last HTC is HD2), I have to say I insist lenses is a major thing. With higher resolution you DO have more noise this is correct (DSLR have this too in less degree). HTC ONE photos will be looking better on the phone’s screen and maybe a mean monitor. Not if you print them or zoom them (or zoom to print them, VERY common thing to cut cr*p around your kid’s portrait for example). If they were true to the consumer, they would make a camera with larger CCD AND keep the current trend in MP (or at least 8MP). But no, they will sell you this next year (mark my words). Nice Apple marketing, but I have news for HTC: Works only for Apple (doesn’t even work for MSFT).
Ah and mark my words #2, you will see the first 4K monitors and TVs in “semi ok” price within the next 18 months (thanks to the push coming exactly from tiny screen FullyHD phones -like HTC ONE- and super hi-res tablets). DPI is the “next big thing” (if it makes sense is another discussion) and HTC chose to jump from the train (at least in photo capture).

By: NLS (NULUSIOS)

NLS (NULUSIOS) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:14:00 +0000

show me a 300DPI print (pretty modest for a current printer – not just photo printer) from a 4MP camera with large sensor and a 12MP camera with a bit smaller sensor – ah… and same lenses

By: NLS (NULUSIOS)

NLS (NULUSIOS) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:12:00 +0000

a consumer

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:09:00 +0000

Have you even looked at this phone? Compare this to the damn Rezound.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:08:00 +0000

S3 has 2100?

By: NexusMan

NexusMan — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:06:00 +0000

No…you can swipe to the right and get a traditional home screen…but I’m wondering if after doing that it will keep going back to the other one by default.

By: TylerChappell

TylerChappell — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:28:00 +0000

When it has 32GB and 64GB options, there really is no need whatsoever for a microSD slot. People who need that much storage on a portable device are definitely in the minority, and HTC is not targeting this phone for the minority.

By: TylerChappell

TylerChappell — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:26:00 +0000

At 2300mAh, and with a newer-gen Snapdragon, and a slightly smaller screen, the battery life on this phone should be just fine considering how I get pretty great life on my Droid DNA, especially when in standby/sleep mode.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:02:00 +0000

I’m loving my Nexus 4 on Tmobile as well. I’m on their $60 2GB plan, but think I’m going to try Straight Talk (probably on Tmobile unless I find spotty coverage areas before my month of prepaid runs out).

By: Tech Pro

Tech Pro — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:59:00 +0000

Wonder how X or S4 can outdo HTC ONE in Camera and Sound departments.

Note2 is just a show off. It’s pain on the button when putting it to back pocket unless you have a handbag.