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So what did you do with your Epic this past weekend? I sent mine up into space...

Well.. not all into outer space, made it to near space up to 101,001 feet. Sent my Epic (running Mammon's Bonsai DK28 rom, btw ) along with a Moto Backflip for video recording, still photos, and GPS data logging, up in a high altitude weather balloon (along with a Geocache) from North Carolina, USA Saturday morning around 933AM EST, It traveled about 124 miles away, reached a max altitude of 101k feet whereupon the balloon burst and landed safely via parachute around 1148AM. Got some pics uploading if anyone wanted to see them over at: gaia.terrasunder.org
I think my Epic is pretty damn EPIC now So.. what did you do with your Epic this past weekend?
(unfortunately it was an extremely cloudy day with some rain, sleet and then snow later on so all we have is curvature pics with clouds, but still cool nonetheless)

Wowowowow!
Love the photos, and sounds like a truly EPIC adventure.
Would love to see a in depth story of what you did!

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that's just bad ass man.. very cool pics

That is sick as hell man. Great pics.

Pure awesome.

Could it be the first epic in space? Maybe even first android phone in space?
please give us details that would be sick to do.
Kudos man mucho kudos

I drank a lot of alcohol with my epic!
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I got in a car accident and I cant find epic
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Stayed home and played Angry Birds™

boominz28 said:
Could it be the first epic in space? Maybe even first android phone in space?
please give us details that would be sick to do.
Kudos man mucho kudos
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not the first android in space. Google has sent the Nexus S and i think the Nexus 1 into space

Went to the casino and gambled
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Amazing.. was that on continual shot? sorry didn't read the whole thread..
What I did with my Epic was keep it on the desk .. played with my Galaxy Tab all weekend.

The Epic was set to take 720p videos in segments every few minutes (will be uploading them to our website later after we've rotated the vids) and then took 3MP pics in between (a number of which are already in the gallery area). Because it was a cloudy day the pics we had weren't all spectacular (lots of cloud pics) but they still convey alot of the trip. The Moto Backflip (another android) that went along for the ride took still shots every 10 secs in addition to logging all GPS data for more precise tracking after recovered.

This was done with an iphone too a couple months ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/16/father-and-son-send-iphon_n_765369.html
Nice project
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thesawolf said:
Well.. not all into outer space, made it to near space up to 101,001 feet. Sent my Epic (running Mammon's Bonsai DK28 rom, btw ) along with a Moto Backflip for video recording, still photos, and GPS data logging, up in a high altitude weather balloon (along with a Geocache) from North Carolina, USA Saturday morning around 933AM EST, It traveled about 124 miles away, reached a max altitude of 101k feet whereupon the balloon burst and landed safely via parachute around 1148AM. Got some pics uploading if anyone wanted to see them over at: gaia.terrasunder.org
I think my Epic is pretty damn EPIC now So.. what did you do with your Epic this past weekend?
(unfortunately it was an extremely cloudy day with some rain, sleet and then snow later on so all we have is curvature pics with clouds, but still cool nonetheless)
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Wow, did your Epic take those photos?
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I watched my 17 year old daughter's 18 year old hot friend play Dance Central with the Kinect...no pictures but the view was very nice.

othan1 said:
I watched my 17 year old daughter's 18 year old hot friend play Dance Central with the Kinect...no pictures but the view was very nice.
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You remind me of Kevin Spacey in the movie American Beauty. Lols.

somedude0608 said:
This was done with an iphone too a couple months ago.
Nice project
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Yeah, that's what actually gave our team lead the idea in the first place. He ended up telling me and we jumped at making it happen (it was the dual purpose of just being able to say we sent something into space and our geocaching hobby). That i-phone video made it look so simple. Come to find out there's alot more involved, but still worth the effort.
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Wow, did your Epic take those photos?
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Yep. It did. Along with a ton of videos. For those "prove it" folks, you can look through the EXIF data on the photos in the picasa gallery on the site.

That's pritty friggin awsum

othan1 said:
I watched my 17 year old daughter's 18 year old hot friend play Dance Central with the Kinect...no pictures but the view was very nice.
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You "say" she's 18....

Flames

So honestly who got an ipad today? I did but only for watching movies and showing off photos to clients and such. Let's begin the flames!
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A $120 android tablet could have done that. You got it because it is an ipad and a status symbol
J/K... Kind of. Lol
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Ewwww
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Well, if you got it flaunt it. If I had some extra cash I'd get a new laptop but if you already got one and you can make it rain like that then, play on player!
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Hellz yeah brother, had to get the 64 gig target didn't have the smaller ones but that's alright. Also photos on this thing are incredible.

corybucher said:
Hellz yeah brother, had to get the 64 gig target didn't have the smaller ones but that's alright. Also photos on this thing are incredible.
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Cause photos are a computer are subpar...

So you just think youre better than us now huh..had to post to rub it in our faces..well poo to you
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JKILO said:
So you just think youre better than us now huh..had to post to rub it in our faces..well poo to you
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LOL!
Id consider one if it was a huge improvement over the original, but its truly not.
If they release the Evo Tab I'll pick one up, I dropped my Archos a couple weeks ago anyway.
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I'm expecting an iPad2 for work sometime next week. I design accessories for it, so having a new one would certainly help in the design of those accessories

I watched the videos of the ipad 2, galaxy tab 10.1, and the xoom. I prefer android, so I will get that out of the way first. Watching ui transitions and video of the built in back camera, I was surprised to see that the ipad seemed smoother. I was looking for dropped frames and jerky movement from both video and ui.
I recently opened a netflix account and I am disappointed that there is nothing for android yet. I don't think that would be the only reason I might get a tablet but watching streaming or local movies and videos would definitely be things I would want to do.
I don't have the money to blow on those kind of toys right now, but it doesn't hurt to dream. Besides, the upcoming summer super phones are what I will be spending my money on. I miss the beautiful display from the epic. How about an super amoled tablet screen? Ohh ahh! Even though the colors aren't true like in real life, my eyes love that screen candy.

JKILO said:
So you just think youre better than us now huh..had to post to rub it in our faces..well poo to you
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LOL, yeah sorry about that

Lol na i was kidding..i care less whether you have one..no offense but i believe your business is yours and mines mine..obviously no love for an ipad here lol..i am curious is it the ipad or ipad 2
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Samsung Did Not Learn!

How did Samsung not hear our cries last time with Touchwiz, and with every version? What if the last thing I needed to do in some emergency was take a picture, but the software wouldn't let me because I had only 5% battery left? Why not make that a toggle? I HAD an emergency and needed to take a picture of a car accident - "NOPE YOUR PHONE ONLY HAS 45 MINUTES OF BATTERY LEFT!! YOU CAN'T TAKE PICTURES YOU SILLY BOY!!"
Stupidest goddamn thing I've ever seen. JUST FOR THAT I will throw CM9 on here to spite Touchwiz.
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P.S. yes I still love this phone

LOL i agree that's it's silly but if it really bothers you, you should get a car charger. Problem solved lol not trynna be an a$$ #justsayin

I live in Manhattan and don't own a car. Twas in a cab.

If it bothers you silly boy...get an actual camera..hehehehe
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Could you just use a camera app instead of the stock one?
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thats sad

PePPaZ said:
I live in Manhattan and don't own a car. Twas in a cab.
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Cab driver prolly had an iphone charger..
umad?

PePPaZ said:
I live in Manhattan and don't own a car. Twas in a cab.
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Damn, ok i give you a break cuz you are an NY kat but you could also try this:
http://www.amazon.com/PowerGen-Exte...ion-Thunderbolt/dp/B005VBNYDS/ref=pd_cp_cps_3

Sounds like a very reasonable criticism, with a lot of dumbass replies. I wouldn't call it a Touchwiz issue though, since that usually refers to the interface. It's just Samsung being stupid and implementing this restriction, is all. I've always wondered about that camera problem. Haven't had a situation come up where I needed it on low battery, but it is very conceivable that I would eventually, and many others would also. Now that smartphones have cameras, good cameras, you need to protect yourself and capture evidence.

yeah its kinda stupid to limit an app when you have x amount of battery, users should have a choice to use the app or not and not be limited due to the manufacture.

What's even dumber... is with my gs2.. I tried to take a picture with the battery below 5% and it wouldn't let me... so I plugged it in and then tried to take a picture.IT STILL WOULDNT LET ME ! I had to wait for it to charge the battery above 5%... you would think runniny off a power cord it would be able to take a picture.
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What's there for Samsung to learn? - you continue to buy. If anyone needs to learn, it's you. :-D

Or can't use camera while in a voice call is stupid as Hell too. My og evo could snap pix or record video while in a call. S1, s2, s3 cannot.
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If I'm not wrong, I believe if you install another camera app from the Google store you will be able to.
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PePPaZ said:
I HAD an emergency and needed to take a picture of a car acciden
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PePPaZ said:
I live in Manhattan and don't own a car. Twas in a cab.
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Then, what? You had to take a picture of someone else's car accident?

PePPaZ said:
I live in Manhattan and don't own a car. Twas in a cab.
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there's your problem. And with all those millions of people in new york city not 1 of the them could take a picture with their cellphone and text it to you? Really?
Nice story bro
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Its not touchwiz. The camera can be modded to bypass the battery check. Wait for the development to take off before we see this.
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why's everybody jumping on this guys ****?
The restriction is really really dumb. There is absolutely no reason for it.
... but really, who walks around with 5% battery anyway?

Obviously this your first time on xda with a Samsung galaxy device. The devs will make a mod for this also your bad for only 5%

katamari201 said:
Sounds like a very reasonable criticism, with a lot of dumbass replies. I wouldn't call it a Touchwiz issue though, since that usually refers to the interface. It's just Samsung being stupid and implementing this restriction, is all. I've always wondered about that camera problem. Haven't had a situation come up where I needed it on low battery, but it is very conceivable that I would eventually, and many others would also. Now that smartphones have cameras, good cameras, you need to protect yourself and capture evidence.
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Finally, a mature rational reply! "Dumbass" is right on the head.

Who buys the Note?!

If you are the owner of a Galaxy Note, please select your height.
I have a theory that there is an interesting association between the height of a person and the size of screen they go for.
Lets see what results we get! This should be interesting at minimum...

I am 1 meter 47, midevil age sized fellow. I look like I walk around with cinema in hand
and I am not happy to see you, its just a note in my pocket mwahahahau
whats the average height in the world?
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baz77 said:
I am 1 meter 47, midevil age sized fellow. I look like I walk around with cinema in hand
and I am not happy to see you, its just a note in my pocket mwahahahau
whats the average height in the world?
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You should vote! you would make for an interesting result!

6 foot (8 inches) and I am happy to see you lol
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cant vote on tapatalk. Its like notepad compared to msword
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@denny said:
6 foot (8 inches) and I am happy to see you lol
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No need to be rude! lol

baz77 said:
cant vote on tapatalk. Its like notepad compared to msword
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I am to produce a report if I get enough responses... I can see this being a limiting factor to a proper study.
Your fingers must be really short... do you regret getting the note?

This isn't going to get any interesting g results the will get the most hits in the average height of the world as thats where most people come u der and therefore you will get most note users.

1.73m ))
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1.75 m

I am 5 foot eleven inches. Wish it was one more extra inch though. I always wanted to be 6 foot tall for some reason. Just an inch short.
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1.91m
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nirpaudyal said:
I am to produce a report if I get enough responses... I can see this being a limiting factor to a proper study.
Your fingers must be really short... do you regret getting the note?
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Nope, Its handy. A true tablet is to big for me. This is perfect, I get a multifunctional device, yet smaller then device I otherwise would have got. Big plus. For phone its nice size to, I feel shielded by it, thus less wind noise interference. Also with a smaller phone people would just talk to me while I am ringing, now they actually can see I am on the phone. lol. Weird, but hey a good welcome side effect.
Its funny, I am small but dont give an elephants ass regarding peoples tendency to conform to image expectation. Probably cause I are fugly. Expectation phone small, big phone oh that looks weird. Nah, this is more plausible: Just takes getting used to, much like supermodels, skinny was the **** untill Kim Kardassian and Beyonce came round with huge curves. That and the song, I like big butts by sir Mixalot. lol.
Only thing I mind is battery life, I want a regular phone battery life and regular tablet battery life, somehow adding the gsm network halves it. I guess it must be form factor, tablet wholes back is battery, whilst phone is just small battery. So even thought notes battery is bigger then other phones, its battery still to small for tablet battery life span, which I was expecting
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Alexanderbooth said:
This isn't going to get any interesting g results the will get the most hits in the average height of the world as thats where most people come u der and therefore you will get most note users.
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thats assumption Alex, I think its nice to research this, you could very well be wrong, only one way to find out, thats research
hope regional response and regional height average dont taint your research results.
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Alexanderbooth said:
This isn't going to get any interesting g results the will get the most hits in the average height of the world as thats where most people come u der and therefore you will get most note users.
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Yo may be right, but my theory is that shorter people tend to go for this phone. I shall allow the numbers to build up and compare with the average height.

voyager_s said:
I am 5 foot eleven inches. Wish it was one more extra inch though. I always wanted to be 6 foot tall for some reason. Just an inch short.
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Isnt that why you bought the Note, ... for that extra length?

baz77 said:
hope regional response and regional height average dont taint your research results.
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Fair point... I will probably need to figure out the distribution of users. Lucky I have chosen to record voters IDs.
I shall also look at the general distribution of the Notes... will see if I can get hold of this data.

baz77 said:
... For phone its nice size to, I feel shielded by it, thus less wind noise interference. Also with a smaller phone people would just talk to me while I am ringing, now they actually can see I am on the phone. lol. Weird, but hey a good welcome side effect. ..
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This is one of the funniest things Ive heard in quite some time. You can use it as an umbrella too!

I am 5'10" but i have always loved bigger phones from the nokia forgot the name U shaped phone to the nokia e61i to htc hd2 to the desire hd to this. I did however step down to the htc Desire for like two weeks and couldnt bear the pain of the matchbox screen.
Some say i have big hands so i dont know about the height being the only anatomy factor but interestingly
I am looking forward to the note2 due out later in the year but i think thats the limit as even i with said big hands struggle with single handed operation at times
Best phone ever
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5'5, but that is average for a US female. But I have really small hands. I can't use the phone one handed at all, not even in portrait. But it is small sacrifice to make to have a large screen phone. My previous phone was the Dell Streak, so I prefer larger screen phones. On day I hope to have a 7" or more size screen for my phone.

Htc one first impressions/real world review thread

Ok so I FINALLY got my ONE today!! Happy to be one of the minority as not many people have this phone yet
After months of videos, articles, threads on xda and various articles the time is here.
These are my first impressions as I've had the phone for a good 12hours now. First time you take it out of the box is just WOW this thing is just quality...100% premium feeling and truly well crafted well done HTC. Its really light and it's quite tall (compared to my old desire hd).
When you turn it on you will be blown away/scared by how loud these speakers are, boomsound is not a joke people this is the real deal! Then listen to some music on this, it sounds awesome. There is even some bass in it which pleased me the most! Really, really loud I gurantee no need for dock or portable speakers.
The screen is mindblowing, especially when your coming from a device with 800x400 resolution like me. The difference is just incredible. Colours are vibrant and natural at the same time unlike the over saturated, way to contrast high colours on the AMOLED. Viewing angles are perfect and it's really bright, I had to turn it down because it stared burning my eyes :/ lol! Blacks are good and whites are good and not blue or yellow.
Sense 5 is just sexy as f***k <3 touchwiz has no comparison against this tbh! Everything looks sleek and very clean. No bloat and actually is better than stock...stock is just too plain imho. I don't like some things like the new way to move apps to your homescreen from the app drawer. The three dot menu but hopefully HTC fix that in an update, if not then I'm going to root this so that's cool. Blinkfeed is ok, I can see that it won't be liked by everyone. I'm already slightly bored of it! When HTC let us add sources I can see this being a success, I know I'd use it more if you liked the hundred plus widget selection of the past HTC sense versions then you may not like that a lot of the widgets are gone! I think this is a good thing I can see that HTC are trying to make you use blinkfeed as your homescreen and the app drawer as the traditional type home screen by alloowing you to make folders.
Regarding music, beats audio is classed as a gimmick and the headphones as overpriced. I agree on the second claim and used to think the same for beats audio before. But it seems as if they have actually made it good and optimised it. It makes the speakers and music played through headphones MUCH MUCH better.
The notification light has pleased me also. It bright and is seen very easily.
The phone has been lag free. A major step up from my single core desire hd super fast, can have like 20 apps open with no lag at all. Multitasking is soo good.
I've already got used to the button layout. Only messed up like twice hopefully the HTC logo thing becomes a real thing.
The phone came with like 45% battery, (5.00pm) after HEAVY HEAVY usage as I'm sure everyone does when they get a new toy it does on me at 1.30am. So 8hours of constant hammerage seems reallllyyy good so far!! Havent gone through a proper cycle of charged it fully yet so can't say anything else on the battery.
However, the phone does tend to get a bit warm every know and then. Not like ohh it's burning but just slightly warm which is expected with most of these quad core beasts.
I took a couple of random pics with the camera, looking good so far but that's on the phones screen and just random ish. Haven't tested front facing cam or video recording yet.
Last point for now (I know I'm forgetting a lot of things)... The phone is quite slippery seeing as I am the only numpty who would end up dropping his phone from ABOVE WAIST HEIGHT within a couple of hours of use. To my surprise not even a scratch, nothing to be seen on the phone. Almost had a mini heart attack but it proved that it's well built
Ohh and the power button is kinda flush so hard to find at times but I'm already getting used to it. The screen also seems to be very good at hiding fingerprints
That's all for now, time to fully charge this badboy and get some sleep myself.
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You lucky bastard lol
I want my one already!
Is the battery good with heavy usage?

Nice review, great mate and congratulations for The One, or we need to called it "The Only One"
Cheers
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The phone has been lag free. A major step up from my single core desire hd super fast, can have like 20 apps open with no lag at all. Multitasking is soo good.
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How did you reach up to 20 apps? Don't tell me the multitasking window is now scrollable also? If yes that would be great! And yeah Congratulations for the first ever drop test of the HTC One You beat the reviewers to it

AttachedSilver said:
You lucky bastard lol
I want my one already!
Is the battery good with heavy usage?
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Hahaha trust me the wait is worth it well I got mine out the box with 45% battery at 5.00pm...after 8 and a half hours of non stop heavy use it died! I think that is amaizng...obviously need more time to be able to comment properly though. On the charger atm
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dragonesdenano said:
Nice review, great mate and congratulations for The One, or we need to called it "The Only One"
Cheers
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Haha thanks mate, yh one of the only ones with a one
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Riyal said:
How did you reach up to 20 apps? Don't tell me the multitasking window is now scrollable also? If yes that would be great! And yeah Congratulations for the first ever drop test of the HTC One You beat the reviewers to it
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No lool the multitasking can only show 9 apps...but im pretty sure I had A LOTT of apps opened at once with no lags. Yup, if only i had a camera set up! 1st drop test of htc one (uninentional) it almost gave me a heart attack man aha :/ only had it for 2 hours at that point
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Do a test on the video camera at 1080p and review it on a pc.. Every review that has actually done a video test has looked like the FPS still drops in the low 20's which has been pretty typical of every HTC phone I've seen, especially in low light.
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I too am coming from DHD. I just hope I'm as impressed as you. Congrats on your One

Do you like camera quality?

Good review can't stop playing even though had since Friday and being in the official HTC case with it stops it slipping for me.
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yvibes said:
The phone came with like 45% battery, (5.00pm) after HEAVY HEAVY usage as I'm sure everyone does when they get a new toy it does on me at 1.30am. So 8hours of constant hammerage
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Stopped reading after this. It was an overly enthusiastic story to begin with but this was the limit. Eight hours of "constant hammerage" with a 45% battery charge to begin with. Alrighty. And everybody just swallows this like it's the truth? Best phone ever. Best battery ever. Simply amazing. Will get the phone myself as well but these stories (20 apps open, really, how DO you know?!) are so useless, with all due respect :angel:

Pfeffernuss said:
Stopped reading after this. It was an overly enthusiastic story to begin with but this was the limit. Eight hours of "constant hammerage" with a 45% battery charge to begin with. Alrighty. And everybody just swallows this like it's the truth? Best phone ever. Best battery ever. Simply amazing. Will get the phone myself as well but these stories (20 apps open, really, how DO you know?!) are so useless, with all due respect :angel:
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Yep same. Funny though.
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recklesslife85 said:
Yep same. Funny though.
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I'm feeling sorry for your Xperia Z.

Your story has just made me more excited. !!
As soon as it comes to Dubai I'm gonna buy. An now I'm very sure its worth the wait.
Switching from galaxy ace to this , would be MIND=BLOWN!!
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Shouldn´t you let it charge full before you start using it?

omersak said:
I'm feeling sorry for your Xperia Z.
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I turned it on yesterday for the first time in a few days he's happy enough not being abused haha.

recklesslife85 said:
I turned it on yesterday for the first time in a few days he's happy enough not being abused haha.
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My jaw dropped when I saw the phone in retailers. I think my mouth broke in awe when I touched it for the first 10 seconds.

Livebyte said:
My jaw dropped when I saw the phone in retailers. I think my mouth broke in awe when I touched it for the first 10 seconds.
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The Z and One are beautiful phones. Two of the best built and looking phones ever created in my opinion.