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HTC One E8 - First impressions: Premium device disguised as a mid-tier phone

I've had the HTC One E8 for just over a week now and I am thoroughly impressed. The device has a premium display and chip-set at a mid-grade price. The curved edges of the poly-carbonate (plastic) back plate makes this device easy to hold without losing its visual appeal. On the back you will also find a 13 MP camera with a single tone flash. The face of the phone contains a 5 MP Selfie camera, 5” HD display, and two front facing speakers. The “Boomsound” front facing speakers can push out a great deal of sound without losing any sound quality.
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Another amazing feature of this phone is Sprint Spark. If you have not had a chance to try out Spark you might be blown away by the data speeds you will see. This was my first time trying out Spark and I could not believe how much faster it is then my cable internet speeds. Check out Spark availability in your area.
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Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. If you've had a chance to check out the device please let me know what you think of it.
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How is the phone after a few weeks of usage?
How is the battery life?
What is the Android version on it? Did it get 4.4.3?

viditbhargava said:
How is the phone after a few weeks of usage?
How is the battery life?
What is the Android version on it? Did it get 4.4.3?
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The battery life is pretty good and typically lasts me the entire day. Also good to know that I am always playing with it so you might get way better battery life then I do. The US Sprint version comes pre-loaded with Android 4.4.2.
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Aaron

I have had my phone for a few days, and I have to say that I am impressed with the quality of this device for the price I paid.
Sound/speed is much better than my old Galaxy S3.
Multitasking is a snap, and I kind of like the HTC Sense UI.
Thinking of rooting this device, have you had the chance to root yet?

parasitemite said:
I have had my phone for a few days, and I have to say that I am impressed with the quality of this device for the price I paid.
Sound/speed is much better than my old Galaxy S3.
Multitasking is a snap, and I kind of like the HTC Sense UI.
Thinking of rooting this device, have you had the chance to root yet?
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Many of us in India have rooted it, you can find the threads in the dev section and Q&A's also.
Running smooth, and yes , a great phone overall...
cheers.

parasitemite said:
I have had my phone for a few days, and I have to say that I am impressed with the quality of this device for the price I paid.
Sound/speed is much better than my old Galaxy S3.
Multitasking is a snap, and I kind of like the HTC Sense UI.
Thinking of rooting this device, have you had the chance to root yet?
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Thanks for the feedback. Haven't really given rooting much thought.

Compare GS4 to Nexus 5?

I am on sprint and have a galaxy s4. I am happy enough with it.
I want the ability to leave sprint and be off contract with either att or tmobile.
I am worried about what I reading with battery life on the Nexus 5.
Can anyone comment on their experience with both he 4 and the 5? Pros/cons etc.

One thing I can tell you from my experiences is that N5 battery is way better than S4. S4 is a powerful device but battery was one of my reason to stay away from it.

My N5 blows my S3 away non battery life.

I had a s4 and i was disappointed with the battery life, the galaxy series never exceeded my expectations especially when they inside touchwiz it reminded me when i had the s2 and the complaints people had,
With amoled displays its ment to be more efficient but it drained so fast when in use, so i swapped for a n5 and even though the battery is smaller i don't need to charge it twice a day.
The n5 is a nice solid device to hold,no bugs to mention, just nice smooth vanilla android
My s4 could not connect to camera often, wakelock bug,reboot required, standby drain,no knox security or deterrents for unlocking boot loader.
Bugs varied from device you may not experienced these.

Thanks for the response.
I was going to get the 6, but that is just too big for me. 5 will be a keeper for a while and it can be used on Sprint ATT and TMobile.

Battery!!!
Bielinsk said:
Thanks for the response.
I was going to get the 6, but that is just too big for me. 5 will be a keeper for a while and it can be used on Sprint ATT and TMobile.
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If you only listen to music, use social media and make calls, the battery will last a day. Now, if you start playing games and watching videos all the time on youtube the nexus 5 you will run out of power at the end of the day. I'm very pleased with my battery life, and with Android Lollipop promising better performance, you can't go wrong getting a nexus.

Funny, when I owned a s4, the best part of the device was the stellar battery life. My only gripe with it was the amoled screen (looked fake to me).

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Funny, when I owned a s4, the best part of the device was the stellar battery life. My only gripe with it was the amoled screen (looked fake to me).
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Battery didn't improve much from the S3 before it. AMOLED needs a lot of juice to get the brightness level usable though that has been somewhat resolved in the latest generation panels found only in the S5 and Note4. Hopefully the Nexus 6 was able to procure them and not stuck with last year's tech as the Moto X 2014 was forced to do.

The Nexus 5 blows away the S4 in everything. I set it to ART and it is much faster.
Spark on Sprint is 22mb down.
Very happy I made the switch. What a great phone this 5 is, kicking myself for not getting it a year ago.

Battery test

Gsmarena have completed the battery test and.... well it's and LG...
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man when I had the g2, battery was amazing. either way, my s7 at 3kmah sucks and is horrendous , so I doubt the v20 will be worse.
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might wanna check this out if u think the s7 is crap.

their battery tests mean nothing. it's not real world usage. I'm not talking on my phone for 16 hours or watching movies for 12 hours. those tests are stupid and don't apply to everyday life. also pretty sure that's the exynos. we got screwed with the snapdragon in both terms of speed and battery.
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Wasn't that battery test for the S7 for the Exynos version? Which is known to be more battery efficient? Lol
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yeah lol
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Well that sucks
Good thing there will be a zerolemon battery soon

The battery life is my biggest fear with the V20.
I've heard atrocious things about the V10, and had abysmal battery life on my old G4 that left me never wanting an LG phone again. The V20 is the only phone out there with a 5.7" screen, expandable storage, and running software that looks close to stock Android. All of that becomes useless if the phone can't last throughout the day.
Guess I'll have to wait for some real world tests to be done first.

AhsanU said:
The battery life is my biggest fear with the V20.
I've heard atrocious things about the V10, and had abysmal battery life on my old G4 that left me never wanting an LG phone again. The V20 is the only phone out there with a 5.7" screen, expandable storage, and running software that looks close to stock Android. All of that becomes useless if the phone can't last throughout the day.
Guess I'll have to wait for some real world tests to be done first.
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Get a second battery...?
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PsiPhiDan said:
Get a second battery...?
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Carrying a second battery just isn't ideal for me. To be honest, it's more laziness than anything else at this point. Maybe if LG brings out a standalone battery charger like they did for the G4, I'd be game.
But more importantly, I'm torn between the V20 and the Pixel XL. God I miss having stock Android, but I'm definitely leaning towards the V20. Micro SD storage and bigger screen that doesn't look like an iPhone = win for the most part. I'm hoping the theme store for LG can become robust.

I don't see why they wouldn't have a stand alone charger. The v10 has it.
I have the charger and extra battery and also the 250gb SD card they gave out as promos when it was new.
I use a zerolemon most of the time though! I prefer big phones with some weight to them! And heck... I just don't worry about charging.
Sent from my awesome T-Mobile LG V10!

planetbeen said:
I don't see why they wouldn't have a stand alone charger. The v10 has it.
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A spare battery kit is now available on e-Bay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LG-V20-Batt...132805?hash=item2a721d0c85:g:Hj8AAOSwCGVX9Jnk

I left the V10 for the S7 Edge. However, i am probably going to pull the trigger on the V10, leaving my S7 Edge. The V10 was great but the battery life was horrendous. I had a spare battery and I would have to swap it by the end of the work day every day.

Coming from the Note7 it can only be better.

coming from nexus 6p. this is gold

Overall love

Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Sony Xperia XA, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Sony Xperia XA is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

No problem whatsoever.......

great phone with gorgeous design and features, battery after Nougat update lasts 3 days I love my XA in gorgeous graphite black color...

Awsome phn... I just have one problem.. You can't find screen protector easily for xperia xa.

Prem06 said:
Awsome phn... I just have one problem.. You can't find screen protector easily for xperia xa.
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Alieexpress - got an excellent curved protector.

carebfa said:
great phone with gorgeous design and features, battery after Nougat update lasts 3 days I love my XA in gorgeous graphite black color...
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seriously? cause all the reviews i saw complain about the battery life with 6.0 (-1 day)
can you or anyone confirm this please? because i was going to buy it but the poor life battery bring me down
thanks in advance!! :good:

tonyparker10 said:
seriously? cause all the reviews i saw complain about the battery life with 6.0 (-1 day)
can you or anyone confirm this please? because i was going to buy it but the poor life battery bring me down
thanks in advance!! :good:
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Yes, I can confirm that with Nougat the battery life is worse than Marshmallow. If fact I had to downgrade from 7 to 6. Now with root, gravity box and greenify the battery lasts about 2 days.

I've owned ALLOT of androids, this is my favorite!!!
I must say that I've had many androids, even ones with 2.3Ghz Quad Core Snapdragons and 6 gigs of DD3.... When I got my Sony Xperia XA single sim, I never expected what a masterpiece this phone would be.... Asthetics... Gorgeous, solidly built, feels amazing in hand. Infinity type borderless display... Prefect size, big enough to watch Netflix but small enough not to be a pain for the diagnol thumb reach.... The 2Ghz MediaTek Octacore w/ 2ghz of ram handles anything I throw at it which I worried about but the 8 cores balace out the ram for a smooth snappy experience... The 13 MP cam takes amazing pictures AND it has a separate hardware button just for the cam.... Amazing....if I can ill include a picture of a flower I took The one negative is yes the battery life I'm on N... With moderate use is dying by 6pm...BUT I'm now rooted so I'm going to try and get Xposed w/ gravity box... Greenify etc... See if I can get the grade from an A to an A+..... Anyway.... Sony.. If your reading, bravo ladies/gentlemen..... If you need a positive review... I'm your man... Everyone else... HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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Question huawei p50 pro issues

Hello, I just bought Huawei P50 Pro and as soon as I got it, it had a system update. I did it and from then, it gets hot after a short time of using it, especially in camera. Also when I try to take a video, it records fine and when I go to watch it, it stucks or say "error playing the media", or the video finishes immediately. And another problem I think is with the battery. 5 hours maximum until it shuts down,and it's warm. It's like services are running at the background. I don't know what's happening. All these I think in system update 12.0.1.221. And also I think that something is going on with the zoom. When I zoom in, until 3.1 it's OK, but from 3.2x until 100x it's so blur. So bad. Is it a software problem? It's the second day I use the phone. I've just updated the software to the 12.0.1.223 version but unfortunately no results in the zoom section
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I had p40 pro and the zoom was incredible. After the 4x or 5x zoom, it starts blurring, and it's not clean. Do you know, is it OK? I don't think that p40 pro has better, a lot better zoom than p50 pro

Man so many trouble there! I would do a completely factory reset and i'll check again and in case i would go for warranty

Hahaha yeap. The truth is that after update, it seems a little better.
The photos are 1x 3x and 10x
Maybe the photos are good. I don't know The video is incredible but I don't know about photos.

Photos are exceptional too except the ultrawide camera that for me is average. Video are awesome too especially the audio!!!

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Photos are exceptional too except the ultrawide camera that for me is average. Video are awesome too especially the audio!!!
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yeah,the video is amazing. The biggest problem i think is the battery.
From 100% to 4% only 4 hours and 45 minutes on screen.
i had the Iphone 12 Pro Max and the battery lasted 9 to ten hours on screen! It's a big difference.
I heard that the emui has many problems,with stability,perfomance etc...
I'm looking on installing the harmonyOS. I think it's possible.

You won't solve too much by insytalling or trying installing HOS. The "Problem" is hardware releted. Snapdragon 888 is the answer. If we could get a Kirin chipset we will get muuuuuch better battery life out of it, Americans decided that Huawei was becoming so much better with smartphones and they banned them. I'm getting same battery life as you but for me is ok, consider also that IPhone is much thickness than Huawei, and to be honest Huawei p50 pro is much better holding it in my hands than the square design of any iPhone 12 or more....

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You won't solve too much by insytalling or trying installing HOS. The "Problem" is hardware releted. Snapdragon 888 is the answer. If we could get a Kirin chipset we will get muuuuuch better battery life out of it, Americans decided that Huawei was becoming so much better with smartphones and they banned them. I'm getting same battery life as you but for me is ok, consider also that IPhone is much thickness than Huawei, and to be honest Huawei p50 pro is much better holding it in my hands than the square design of any iPhone 12 or more....
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I hope that huawei will fix the software and the battery management cause this is so unfair
But i'll try to install the HOS to see what's happening there and let u know
Maybe it's better ,who knows

Mpampinos said:
yeah,the video is amazing. The biggest problem i think is the battery.
From 100% to 4% only 4 hours and 45 minutes on screen.
i had the Iphone 12 Pro Max and the battery lasted 9 to ten hours on screen! It's a big difference.
I heard that the emui has many problems,with stability,perfomance etc...
I'm looking on installing the harmonyOS. I think it's possible.
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Are you using the snapdragon version or the Kirin version ?

I'm using the snapdragon version. But after the update it seems more stable. It has some bugs, like moon (it doesn't recognizes it) or the zoom photo (how clean is) but I think it Wil be fixed.

Wide on night mode is TRAGIC.

Battery is still -.-