HTC is going hard on marketing, but is the One enough to make HTC relevant again?

37. redmd posted on 19 Feb 2013, 23:26 1 0

competition will be tough, goodluck htc. great design and build, superb specs, but just not for me. i think im part of the 1% of people who wants a removable battery and SD card expansion.

46. BadAssAbe posted on 20 Feb 2013, 00:19 0 0

I wonder why no company has made a perfect phones with no cons
Top of the specs
SD card
Top of the line screen (Lcd or amoled)
Big battery
Small bezel (with or without physical buttons)
Glass, Plastic, or aluminum
Waterproof and dust proof ( thanks Sony )
IR blaster
Notification light
Front facing Speakers
Nexus updates

Is that really to much to ask?

48. ymp72 posted on 20 Feb 2013, 01:09 4 2

Finally, this is the ONE !! The one that will kill HTC for good.

51. SuperAndroid17 posted on 20 Feb 2013, 01:26 1 1

This is such a beautiful phone, I just wish they would have kept the old htc sense widget flip-flop clock, and just made better improvements to htc sense. The button layout is really crazy, i no you want to be different htc but you have to keep your core htc fans happy while trying to gain new ONES. Its like everytime htc takes 3 steps forward they take 4 steps backwards. I wish you the best htc, but you have to listen to your android fans.

55. Taters posted on 20 Feb 2013, 02:10 1 0

The all they need is marketing thing is just pure BS from wishful thinking HTC fans. It took Samsung two full years of building the base and fine tuning the features with the GS1 and GS2 to finally go all in with the GS3.

The HTC strategy of making a shoddy Sensation and then throw that away for a shoddy One X and then axing that name to for the HTC One is not going to cut it with or without marketing. Learn how to walk before you run is the best advice that anyone can give HTC.

The Surface RT and all the Windows Phone 8 devices are perfect examples of products that were heavily marketed by Microsoft that do not light up the sales charts. It isn't that simple.

57. amozhi posted on 20 Feb 2013, 02:28 1 1

It is an another HTC product. This is not going to change anything for HTC..

No external micro SD slot
No removal battery

It is a deal breker for many. The important thing is most Samsung users used to external memory card and removal battery. I don't think they will adopt HTC one just for good looking and aluminium externals.
UI on HTC one is a crap it mimics windows UI rather than Android :-(

58. tiara6918 posted on 20 Feb 2013, 03:50 3 1

Marketing is all that htc needs for their handsets to sell well

61. giri5555 posted on 20 Feb 2013, 08:01 2 0

Why HTC focuses on 'Bloatware' always?? I was going to buy this, and I read somewhere we CANT disable Blinkfeed! Damn, thats a deal breaker!!

66. Diego! posted on 20 Feb 2013, 11:18 1 0

At first, I was impressed with HTC One design... but then... something showed up (thanks lee480) and not only the front resembles a rip off of the BB Z10 and iPhone 5, but the back is a SonyEricsson Xperia P. Fail!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/860398_343318719117827_140365419_o.jpg

71. tha.fox posted on 20 Feb 2013, 14:43 0 0

Ive used windows and really liked the tiles. This sense 5.0 takes windows and takes it to a whole new level that is better and refines sense to make it smoother. i say its the best idea yet! also the sense widgets are still available they just didnt show them in the videos. Plus the horrible app drawer has just changed to be the best one in my opinion i like the vertical scrolling and clock. I think the blink feed is something all people would like everyone is just afraid of change even for the better.

73. nasznjoka posted on 20 Feb 2013, 16:18 0 1

Indeed PA this phone is going hard on marketing starting with you. How much do they pay you to praise? Cuz it has nothing other than hardware specs l like the cpu, the ram and ONLY the camera brings innovation but you are praising as if it got something amaizin,. Only camera are you serious? Well I've already seen the one advert on UEFA champion league btn Barcelona and Ac milan

80. Supersnake posted on 02 Mar 2013, 16:42 0 0

Yes, it is important to have the option to disable blinkfeed. Merely pushing it away from the display window and running another 'home screen' is not the same thing as disabling it.

Blinkfeed running in the foreground or in the background (pushed off screen) will be consuming data. And your phone subscription provider will charge you for data that exceeds your contract threshold.