Oh man, I had purple camera syndrome on my M7.
As a phone, it was awesome. I continued to use mine until the battery pushed the glass off - yeah, dodgy, I know.
I can't blame you for holding onto it. Such a nice piece of hardware. I ended up getting the M8 the following year and holding onto that for a while, that was another solid phone before HTC started to go downhill.
The M7 and M8 are where I learned how to install custom ROMs, I'll never forget the thrill of converting my phone to a Google Play Edition. I miss those days, now I don't do much tinkering besides basic customization.
Loved the LG G2 G3 and G4. Still have one I use every day to play Futurama while I sleep. It's perfect since the volume controls are on the back, super easy to change the volume without opening your eyes. Absolutely the superior location for volume controls since your fingers rest there normally.
Htc made phones to last! Just 2 years ago I gave my HTC droid incredible 1 to my 7 year old nephew to play around with the camera and such. It still powered on and comparing it next to my pixel 9 pro was freaky how big phones have gotten. I miss removable batteries and expandable storage so much.
Loved my HTC Droid Incredible... held onto it until Samsung Note 3 came out. Worthy successor with replaceable battery and expandable storage. Still have it in my office... just can't quit having the Incredible around.
I had the Lumia 928 from Verizon and it's still my favorite overall phone of the last 15 or so years. The only one that competes for me is the OG Pixel. That 928 was only $99 at the time with a 2-year contract from Verizon which was extremely low even back then. In a handful of months it will have been 13 years since I got that phone.
Seeing your comment just had me go dig out the 928 from a box under my bed. It is so damn small in the hand that it is a little absurd that back then people were complaining about how large it was. My Pixel 9 makes the 928 look tiny. Miss the sizes of the phones back then.
It has one of the BEST hand feels of any phone I've had. I enjoyed the windows OS. I thought it should have taken off for older folks for how easy to understand the OS was.
I had an HTC HD2 as well. It was my favorite phone until they did something with a software update and I had to run out my carrier contract with a nerfed phone lol
I don't fully remember what the issue was, because it was something like 15 years ago now lol. I didnt buy it at release, and something about it had an issue with tmobile and the app store or the windows store or something. Maybe it was denied a windows upgrade? I really don't remember much except how bummed I was lol. I was running everything stock because I didnt know anything at the time, it was just a phone that I could also do all my spreadsheets for D&D (and work lol) when it was my coworkers turn to drive.
And yet, I considered it slanderous as a Lumia 920 user. No camera button, and they went with on-screen nav buttons (vs. the capacities bezel buttons). I loved my Lumia 920, and those two things meant the HTC One would never be my next phone.
I've always found it hard to choose best looking phone although I ususally settle on either the black iphone 4, black xperia z3 or the black galaxy s7. I never liked the brushed metal look of the htc phones.
I loved my Motorola Droid X, from 2010. It continued to work for a decade. The X was for Xtra large, and my friends all told me I'd better buy it because they'll never make a phone that big again. It had a 4.3" screen.
the moto x was awesome too. was like 2013 i think. you could customize the colors on moto maker and shipped with some sick headphones for the time. size was perfect, vanilla aosp, voice recognition was amazing - could just yell 'find phone' and it would start ringing.
That was so HTC and iconic back then. Instantly recognizable. One of the best trend setter companies of the early Android era. Now we just copy the lame and zero innovation slab from Apple.
Nice! Idk that it works right anymore as it's not even aligned properly anymore, but I made this back in the day for my LG G Watch to match my M7 and then M8. All the things worked, but at some point Facer changed a bunch of stuff and I never bothered to update it.
I LOVED the HTC 10 and still think it's the best phone I have ever owned, or at least the best smartphone. Had it for a little over five years and the battery was starting to get wonky. Kept it as a back-up, but ultimately had to ditch it when HTC stopped recertifying their old devices for newer cellular bands.
Yeah I had an HTC 10 for a while. It definitely had its issues…it got hot and had pretty poor battery life but otherwise was excellent and I LOVED the look and feel of it. I sold mine when I swapped to a OnePlus 5, but I wish I still had it just for nostalgia. I might buy a used one on eBay.
Came here to make sure the HD2 was getting the respect it deserves. Still a great looking phone. Biggest screen, capacitive (rare at the time), monster processor (1ghz)... thing was a beast.
Dual booting android, windows mobile (and desktop windows!) and even iOS (poorly) was a blast.
I miss my HTC Desire C. Was my first smartphone and was awesome.
edit: And if HTC hadn't just dropped the phone business by the time I was ready to upgrade, I definitely would've gotten one of theirs again. (so I ended up with an LG XPower 3, which was actually quite nice, but they left the phone business by the time I needed a new phone, so... :/)
Unfortunately I was burned by the pink camera issue that plagued a ton M7s, an friend who got his in another country had the exact same problem and I left HTC since.
I got rid of my iPhone 5 for the HTC One M7 and never looked back. Amazing device. The day I got it I went to a comic book signing and Jim Lee asked me if that was an HTC One that I was using to take a pic with him!
I had one as a work phone, probably my first Android device (my personal phone was an Orange branded Windows phone, not great!) and it was superb. It felt way better than any other phone I'd had up until then, the all-metal back was so tactile and pleasant to hold. It shipped with a pair of wired earbuds that were actually pretty good as well, and the screen was sharp. Where did HTC go wrong?
HTC had audio on lock, once ip65 ratings started appearing right and left with also having better cameras, similar audio experience and great processors, HTC started falling behind.
The Windows Phone variant of the M7 also wasn't amazing.
A bit overrated. The BoomSound was never that loud compared to my MyPhone QTV38. The camera would turn purple or pinkish in lowlight. The battery life was never great with only 2300 mAh trying to power a 1080p display. The chip was only the Snapdragon 600 when the 800 came out 6 months later and was way more efficient. It charged really slow. I can go on and on. I owned this phone thrice and sold them each time.
I could easily buy another one again but I would have no use for it. BlinkFeed went completely defunct years later and I couldn't even use the IR blaster anymore. And it wasn't all that comfortable to hold. It was flatter but angled. The M8 felt better thanks to the rounded sides but it was a bit uglier as I found the M7 a little more symmetrical for being narrower and shorter. M8 was louder, had double tap to wake, and had longer battery life thanks to the Snapdragon 801.
I still have the M7 among my top 20 favorite phones I've ever owned but a lot of the glazing comes from the design, metal build quality, and some nostalgia while not excelling at anything else that isn't for shallow reasons. My favorite phone from the 2010s remains the space gray iPhone SE (2016). It's more usable than the M7. Heck, the 5S from the same year as the M7 is still far more usable than the HTC One M7.
A reminder that HTC One (M7) shipped with a factory-defective camera. Due to thermal issues, the sensor would eventually develop a purple tint. The problem was hardware-related and couldn’t be fixed with software.
Htc one m8 was my first android. I had been a iPhone user since the 3gs at that point and an android hater lol. Once I found out how much simpler emulation was I switched and found my way looking into the one m8. Loved that thing
Loved my 8x it had nfc far too early, and the 3rd party devs that made apps for windows had them all shut down by the actual companies who wouldn't actually develop for windows.
Miss the win8 grid sometimes too.
Samsung may as well own south korea whereas HTC does not have nor iirc did it ever have even close to that level of sway in Taiwan, which I assume has impact on the business side of things for investors but someone can correct me if I am wrong. Also, from a consumer perspective, HTC stuff was nice but there wasn't really an ecosystem per se, which Apple and Samsung have spent the better part of 2 decades pushing. I have a cheap moto, random ereader tablet, and a pc I built myself w brands in mind, butttt a lot of folks like to have all their stuff streamlined which Samsung does have. I legit know multiple people who have all samsung or all apple products due to all that integration
Always thought that it was interesting how HTC managed to fumble so badly after dominating the Android space for years. Imagine if they came back with an all aluminum build device modernized for current day. No wireless charging needed, just bring warp charge type tech to a device relevant in the US more than OnePlus.
I had an HTC from Sprint that I brought over to MetroPCS at the time. They didn't have great phones but I found out online that you could program them to enable internet and MMS text using ODIN. I had a side business buying HTC phones reprogramming them and enabling internet and MMS. It was fun times.
I still have the wired earbuds that came with it. They still work just as well as when I got it and they are to this day, The best in ears I have ever found for how cheap they were on their website.
Weren’t they the first brand to have an official process that they supported and developed to unlock and root your device?
I mostly just want the dual front firing speakers back. Sure, the speakers in current phones are way better overall, but you still have to cup your hand around the bottom if you want balanced audio. I also wouldn't hate going back to a solid metal shell and ditching the glass back on almost all modern phones. I had the HTC One M8 and the HTC 10 before getting a Pixel 2xl. That was the last phone I ever felt comfortable using without a case.
I will never forget how phenomenal the build quality was, how I swapped constantly between Sense and AOSP ROMs, how great the speakers were, and of course how every picture I took was slightly purple. Take me back 🥲
This was one of my first Android experiences and I loved it. I had to RMA twice because of the purple tint of the 4MP camera. But man, they don't do phones like this no more.
My family didn't have money like that, so I got the "HTC One VX" back when I was in high school. the phone was really really thin but it also taught me the importance of having a good phone battery. like how I wasn't able to call anybody because the battery for the phone died while I was taking my SATs.
the phone that kicked off the trend of dual front facing speakers proving that we didn't need to have crappy audio from the built ins on top spec phones... all to end up with a sideblaster today
As much as I liked by One M8, it still comes second to the Nexus 4 for me. That phone was the perfect size, ergonomics, and looked absolutely fantastic.
I got an M8 back in the day because i really liked the M7 my sisters bf had
hate to say it was pretty disappointing and I returned it for an S5. The battery on my unit was god awful and we did not have the fast charging we do now then, so it was just a no go for me
M8 owner ten years ago, i was in middle school back then and a classmate had the M9. personally, i think the update to android 6 with the sense 7 made that phone complete.
i have fond memories of it, playing games during class and with those two speakers i was bombing music everywhere as they were loud (for the standards back then).
unfortunately, it met its end by falling in the wc. funnily enough, the only thing damaged was the sim slot. so, for a while, i went around with two phones in my pocket: samsung galaxy pocket neo for calls and sms and htc one m8 for everything else on the internet. damn, what a memories that days were!
since i felt like that phone needed to go with a boom, i started to damage everything with his metal case: desks at school, benches, damn it hurted even trees (everything to some degree obviously).
here in italy we have the storic part of the cities where in most part there are this cubical stones down for walking. so, i threw the phone with all my force to one of those. with my surprise, the phone exploded but it took with it a good chunk of the stone.
this post made me relieve some past memories from over ten years ago, and if i could say one more thing to that phone, it would be "what a way to go, my friend!"
There were two drawbacks to it -- poor battery life and that awful SenseUI software. Otherwise the build quality was amazing, speakers were better than what we have today, etc.
HTC was awesome. Full metal body with slim design, great display, good camera, and best of all two full front facing speakers. It was unheard of at the time. Too bad they fell off the innovation train.
This is such a clickbaity title. It wasn't defunct at the time.
I think the best android phone of all time was the galaxy s5, not the one m8. IR blaster, better to hold, home button, better camera, higher capacity and removable battery, waterproof, etc etc.
A friend had the windows phone version of the one m8 and I hated it, although that was probably more because it was a windows phone.
I recently rediscovered my HTC 10 after cleaning my room and holy shit what a design HTC had nailed down by then with the sleek, gunmetal unibody design. I plan on replacing the battery and installing a ROM on it soon.
Am I the only person who owned an HTC Rezound? I loved that thing! It came with a pair of beats headphones which were better than all the cheap Walmart headphones I had before. I also loved the Red translucent plastic casing under the battery cover when accessing the microSD or the battery.
jesus, remember the reaction of all reviewers when they held the phone ? its still such a looker i would buy the design immediately.
For odd reason the old iphone 7 max design was eye candy to me
I had a choice between it and I think an atrix 4G.
I figured I didn't need the extra horsepower, and the HTC home screen and ring lockscreen is still one of the best things I've experienced on a phone ironically.
I returned my M8 within a couple weeks because the battery was so abysmal on it and just got an S5. I may have gotten a lemon but i didn't feel like dealing with the headache of it being shit again when I was heading off to uni soon. At least with the S5 I could do something about a bad battery by replacing it
I did prefer the skin on android, but other than that the S5 was better in every way imo.
I had one, I wouldn't call it "the best" - the camera really sucked, and the battery life was pretty mediocre. The front speakers were pretty awesome, though and I really loved BlinkFeed on it.
One of my favorite Android phones. I can still remember how it felt to hold.
it was so good
That's what she said... 😆
Not to me 😭
I wanted this phone so bad back then, I used to dream about it. Alas, I couldn't afford it...
Same here
Yass me too!
And the way it would rock satisfyingly on a desk
The M7 was my first ever smartphone. Besides that damn purple camera, it was in a class of its own.
Oh man, I had purple camera syndrome on my M7. As a phone, it was awesome. I continued to use mine until the battery pushed the glass off - yeah, dodgy, I know.
I can't blame you for holding onto it. Such a nice piece of hardware. I ended up getting the M8 the following year and holding onto that for a while, that was another solid phone before HTC started to go downhill.
The M7 and M8 are where I learned how to install custom ROMs, I'll never forget the thrill of converting my phone to a Google Play Edition. I miss those days, now I don't do much tinkering besides basic customization.
Ugh, yeah, has this phone while I was living overseas for a few years and all of my pictures from that era have the purple tint lol.
That happened to my wife's phone as well
the purple camera lmfao i had so many replaced
It had everything I wanted. HTC then offered to fix the camera for free if it had the purple tint.
I still have the phone but unfortunately I think the battery has completely discharged and I can't turn it on anymore.
Same, purple tint and all 🥲
Oh the purple camera. Was running circles around service center. They've repaired and gave it back, was still purple lol
Was a great phone though.
M7 owner many many years ago, very good looking device, i choose beetween lg g2 and galaxy s4 and i choose well the htc one
Blast from the past. I also chose the M7 over the LG G2. Loved that phone so much
still have both at home, LG G2 and HTC one. now only flagships have wireless charging, the LG just had it.
Loved the LG G2 G3 and G4. Still have one I use every day to play Futurama while I sleep. It's perfect since the volume controls are on the back, super easy to change the volume without opening your eyes. Absolutely the superior location for volume controls since your fingers rest there normally.
Ditto the fingerprint scanner on the Pixel 2 Pro
Had an HTC One M8 back in the day, loved the build. Now on Magic 7 Pro and honestly, it’s the first phone since that’s felt just as solid.
Htc made phones to last! Just 2 years ago I gave my HTC droid incredible 1 to my 7 year old nephew to play around with the camera and such. It still powered on and comparing it next to my pixel 9 pro was freaky how big phones have gotten. I miss removable batteries and expandable storage so much.
Loved my HTC Droid Incredible... held onto it until Samsung Note 3 came out. Worthy successor with replaceable battery and expandable storage. Still have it in my office... just can't quit having the Incredible around.
This phone with Windows Phone was the best looking phone ever made, willing to die on this hill despite WP’s flaws.
The Nokia Lumia 800 was that phone for me. Peak smartphone design and I really liked windows os.
I have a real soft spot for the Nokia Lumia Icon, too.
I honestly thought that was going to be the direction of a “Surface Phone”, had Microslop actually pursued it.
I have the 930
Lumia Icon users, assemble!!
Oh, this is all of us? Okay...
I had the monstrously big Lumia 1520. The chassis is still bigger than the Samsung Ultra series, but the screen feels far smaller.
I took some of the best photos even with that phone, though. I swear some of them looked like they were "picture of food next to recipe" good.
The only thing that held it back was Windows and getting people to support windows apps. Lover the UI, and all the quick tiles, though.
I had the Lumia 928 from Verizon and it's still my favorite overall phone of the last 15 or so years. The only one that competes for me is the OG Pixel. That 928 was only $99 at the time with a 2-year contract from Verizon which was extremely low even back then. In a handful of months it will have been 13 years since I got that phone.
Seeing your comment just had me go dig out the 928 from a box under my bed. It is so damn small in the hand that it is a little absurd that back then people were complaining about how large it was. My Pixel 9 makes the 928 look tiny. Miss the sizes of the phones back then.
That's awesome! Wish I would have kept my 800.
Nah, HTC 8X was absolutely gorgeous, particularly in blue. I used to have strangers regularly compliment me on mine.
It has one of the BEST hand feels of any phone I've had. I enjoyed the windows OS. I thought it should have taken off for older folks for how easy to understand the OS was.
I also have one of these and it was a very eye catching device.
I had an HTC HD2 as well. It was my favorite phone until they did something with a software update and I had to run out my carrier contract with a nerfed phone lol
Software Update? It aches my heart to hear of a HD2 receiving stock software updates when the phone was capable of running 3 unique operating systems.
My Tmobile HD2 ran its stock WM os for a day probably.
I don't fully remember what the issue was, because it was something like 15 years ago now lol. I didnt buy it at release, and something about it had an issue with tmobile and the app store or the windows store or something. Maybe it was denied a windows upgrade? I really don't remember much except how bummed I was lol. I was running everything stock because I didnt know anything at the time, it was just a phone that I could also do all my spreadsheets for D&D (and work lol) when it was my coworkers turn to drive.
And yet, I considered it slanderous as a Lumia 920 user. No camera button, and they went with on-screen nav buttons (vs. the capacities bezel buttons). I loved my Lumia 920, and those two things meant the HTC One would never be my next phone.
is still miss my tiles only reason I went to Stock Android first
Lumia was ahead of its time. It had face and retina scanning to unlock the Home Screen back then, while everyone was still figuring out touch.
I've always found it hard to choose best looking phone although I ususally settle on either the black iphone 4, black xperia z3 or the black galaxy s7. I never liked the brushed metal look of the htc phones.
Goddamn I miss my HTC
Google acquired their phone division talent that develops today’s Pixel lineup so they’re more than just HTC phones spiritual successors
the m7 was the best android of 2010-2015 era.
I loved my Motorola Droid X, from 2010. It continued to work for a decade. The X was for Xtra large, and my friends all told me I'd better buy it because they'll never make a phone that big again. It had a 4.3" screen.
Times have changed lol.
the moto x was awesome too. was like 2013 i think. you could customize the colors on moto maker and shipped with some sick headphones for the time. size was perfect, vanilla aosp, voice recognition was amazing - could just yell 'find phone' and it would start ringing.
The best! RIP Moto X
Never forget!
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it still powers on, 12yrs later. I will never throw it away. I installed lineage OS but of course, its age shows.
I will defend nexus 4 to the day i die
Definitely a good phone, but it can't live up to the original Moto X. I won't have it.
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My watch face is a bit of an homage to it.
That was so HTC and iconic back then. Instantly recognizable. One of the best trend setter companies of the early Android era. Now we just copy the lame and zero innovation slab from Apple.
Nice! Idk that it works right anymore as it's not even aligned properly anymore, but I made this back in the day for my LG G Watch to match my M7 and then M8. All the things worked, but at some point Facer changed a bunch of stuff and I never bothered to update it.
https://i.imgur.com/vzPGBNg.jpeg
Edit: Because OnePlus is slow AF at updating their watches my Watch3 is still on WearOS 5 so I couldn't use it if I wanted to lol
That's a good one too.
HTC 10.. greatness. RIP
I LOVED the HTC 10 and still think it's the best phone I have ever owned, or at least the best smartphone. Had it for a little over five years and the battery was starting to get wonky. Kept it as a back-up, but ultimately had to ditch it when HTC stopped recertifying their old devices for newer cellular bands.
Valid. HTC 10 and LG G6 were my favorite android phones. I'm liking this new OP15.. very good.
Yeah I had an HTC 10 for a while. It definitely had its issues…it got hot and had pretty poor battery life but otherwise was excellent and I LOVED the look and feel of it. I sold mine when I swapped to a OnePlus 5, but I wish I still had it just for nostalgia. I might buy a used one on eBay.
I've had many HTC models, but the HD2 dual-booted with Windows 10/Android was a blast! I still have two, one brand new in the box! 🙂
You trying to sell it?
No, I never posted any ads; I basically forgot I'd been given another one as a gift. Are you interested? 🤔
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Came here to make sure the HD2 was getting the respect it deserves. Still a great looking phone. Biggest screen, capacitive (rare at the time), monster processor (1ghz)... thing was a beast.
Dual booting android, windows mobile (and desktop windows!) and even iOS (poorly) was a blast.
Uh, IOS ignored it.
HD2 the fucking GOAT!
I miss my HTC Desire C. Was my first smartphone and was awesome.
edit: And if HTC hadn't just dropped the phone business by the time I was ready to upgrade, I definitely would've gotten one of theirs again. (so I ended up with an LG XPower 3, which was actually quite nice, but they left the phone business by the time I needed a new phone, so... :/)
That thing was SMALL. My mother had one, still somewhere in drawers although not working.
I was using Desire X during highschool, even did my own kernel and shared it on XDA. Fun times
Loved my HTC incredible! First smartphone I had
Ditto.
Unfortunately I was burned by the pink camera issue that plagued a ton M7s, an friend who got his in another country had the exact same problem and I left HTC since.
I got rid of my iPhone 5 for the HTC One M7 and never looked back. Amazing device. The day I got it I went to a comic book signing and Jim Lee asked me if that was an HTC One that I was using to take a pic with him!
Oh man, I had that in blue. THE phone that got me to switch from iOS to android.
I had one as a work phone, probably my first Android device (my personal phone was an Orange branded Windows phone, not great!) and it was superb. It felt way better than any other phone I'd had up until then, the all-metal back was so tactile and pleasant to hold. It shipped with a pair of wired earbuds that were actually pretty good as well, and the screen was sharp. Where did HTC go wrong?
Camera and water resistance killed this.
HTC had audio on lock, once ip65 ratings started appearing right and left with also having better cameras, similar audio experience and great processors, HTC started falling behind.
The Windows Phone variant of the M7 also wasn't amazing.
M8
I still think the One X was the better phone, it was amazing
My fave HTC was the Nexus One
it's a fantastic design, but i think the Nexus 5 is still considered one of the best Android phones of all time. Right?
(or am I misremembering)
A bit overrated. The BoomSound was never that loud compared to my MyPhone QTV38. The camera would turn purple or pinkish in lowlight. The battery life was never great with only 2300 mAh trying to power a 1080p display. The chip was only the Snapdragon 600 when the 800 came out 6 months later and was way more efficient. It charged really slow. I can go on and on. I owned this phone thrice and sold them each time.
I could easily buy another one again but I would have no use for it. BlinkFeed went completely defunct years later and I couldn't even use the IR blaster anymore. And it wasn't all that comfortable to hold. It was flatter but angled. The M8 felt better thanks to the rounded sides but it was a bit uglier as I found the M7 a little more symmetrical for being narrower and shorter. M8 was louder, had double tap to wake, and had longer battery life thanks to the Snapdragon 801.
I still have the M7 among my top 20 favorite phones I've ever owned but a lot of the glazing comes from the design, metal build quality, and some nostalgia while not excelling at anything else that isn't for shallow reasons. My favorite phone from the 2010s remains the space gray iPhone SE (2016). It's more usable than the M7. Heck, the 5S from the same year as the M7 is still far more usable than the HTC One M7.
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^ Taken in mid 2017.
iPSE, Moto E2, One M7, LG G3 Beat, Lumia 640
OG Pixel, Xiaomi Mi 3, LG G5, S7 edge, Note 3
The phone that took the photo was my LG V20.
M7, M8, and M9 were perfect phones. God how i miss HTC.
Oh look, a historical revisionism!
A reminder that HTC One (M7) shipped with a factory-defective camera. Due to thermal issues, the sensor would eventually develop a purple tint. The problem was hardware-related and couldn’t be fixed with software.
I have a whole block of pictures from that timeframe with a purple tint. It's become a visual separator in my photo stream.
How is it revisionism when they literally mention this in the article?
Yup
HTC Rhodium was still the best phone i ever had. Period.
Htc one m8 was my first android. I had been a iPhone user since the 3gs at that point and an android hater lol. Once I found out how much simpler emulation was I switched and found my way looking into the one m8. Loved that thing
I recently just put a new battery in my M8 and put a custom ROM on it, just to use as a portable music player
always regretted not getting one of these back in the day
I still have mine in a box somewhere!
Loved my 8x it had nfc far too early, and the 3rd party devs that made apps for windows had them all shut down by the actual companies who wouldn't actually develop for windows. Miss the win8 grid sometimes too.
I had the One M8 and it was such a great phone
I have really missed out on HTC phones... I liked them a lot but was too young and too poor to afford any.
I still have this phone in a drawer some where. I refused to get rid of it because of how fantastic is was.
Remind me again how HTC lost to Samsung and effectively died?
No vertical integration.
Samsung may as well own south korea whereas HTC does not have nor iirc did it ever have even close to that level of sway in Taiwan, which I assume has impact on the business side of things for investors but someone can correct me if I am wrong. Also, from a consumer perspective, HTC stuff was nice but there wasn't really an ecosystem per se, which Apple and Samsung have spent the better part of 2 decades pushing. I have a cheap moto, random ereader tablet, and a pc I built myself w brands in mind, butttt a lot of folks like to have all their stuff streamlined which Samsung does have. I legit know multiple people who have all samsung or all apple products due to all that integration
The camera
I had the m8, only downside was it was SO slippery
HA! Still have mine in a box somewhere.
If it had USB-C, I might still use it.
Always thought that it was interesting how HTC managed to fumble so badly after dominating the Android space for years. Imagine if they came back with an all aluminum build device modernized for current day. No wireless charging needed, just bring warp charge type tech to a device relevant in the US more than OnePlus.
HTC was my favorite phone manufacturer until they folded. Their designs were just so good.
After they stopped making phones I went to LG instead... Until they folded. Man, maybe I'm bad luck. Look out, Pixel!
Never owned this one but I loved my Note 3.
Not a fan of the super slim phones that they keep pushing out now from pretty much every manufacturer
I remember specifically seeking out the matte black version of this. So good.
Cries in blue washed photos.
I had an HTC from Sprint that I brought over to MetroPCS at the time. They didn't have great phones but I found out online that you could program them to enable internet and MMS text using ODIN. I had a side business buying HTC phones reprogramming them and enabling internet and MMS. It was fun times.
What does HTC do now besides vive. Is vive actually big enough to support the whole company
Sold the phone department to Google. HTC engineers probably helped create the Google Pixel Lineup
Was this similar to the Pixel 6? I loved that phone.
I still have the wired earbuds that came with it. They still work just as well as when I got it and they are to this day, The best in ears I have ever found for how cheap they were on their website.
Weren’t they the first brand to have an official process that they supported and developed to unlock and root your device?
HTC One (M7) was the peak of smartphone hardware and innovation.
I mostly just want the dual front firing speakers back. Sure, the speakers in current phones are way better overall, but you still have to cup your hand around the bottom if you want balanced audio. I also wouldn't hate going back to a solid metal shell and ditching the glass back on almost all modern phones. I had the HTC One M8 and the HTC 10 before getting a Pixel 2xl. That was the last phone I ever felt comfortable using without a case.
I will never forget how phenomenal the build quality was, how I swapped constantly between Sense and AOSP ROMs, how great the speakers were, and of course how every picture I took was slightly purple. Take me back 🥲
The HTC One (M7) truly was the phone that garnered respect at the time in the android space.
they are not defunct
This was the face of android before until Samsung dethroned them.
S8 Active was the best phone. I wish they didn’t abandon the rugged phone variations :(
My last great Android was the HTC 10. Switched to Honor last year and the Magic 6 Pro gives me that same “just works” feeling without the bugs.
sometimes defunct brands innovate early but bigger companies scoop ideas later
Rwminisces in Dreamcast.
Incredible phone, second only the the Nexus 5 in my opinion, the best phone for developers. My grandma still uses my old Nexus 5
Used the HTC Butterfly for years, flawless screen. My current Magic 8 Pro is also good, smooth and clean
Okay, but what about M8?
i miss her a lot
This was one of my first Android experiences and I loved it. I had to RMA twice because of the purple tint of the 4MP camera. But man, they don't do phones like this no more.
I miss my htc droid incredible, htc thunderbolt and htc 10
The goat speakers. Have yet to find a phone whose speakers comes near close to it in terms of details.
My family didn't have money like that, so I got the "HTC One VX" back when I was in high school. the phone was really really thin but it also taught me the importance of having a good phone battery. like how I wasn't able to call anybody because the battery for the phone died while I was taking my SATs.
I remember listening to those stereo speakers the first time... Was flooded Stupid purple camera plagued me though
HTC Evo4G will always be one of my favorite phones of all time
I had an HTC one x with the Nvidia tegra chip . It was definitely something else lol . I “loved it” but it was a very flawed experience
the phone that kicked off the trend of dual front facing speakers proving that we didn't need to have crappy audio from the built ins on top spec phones... all to end up with a sideblaster today
HTC One M7 (should have been in the title).
As much as I liked by One M8, it still comes second to the Nexus 4 for me. That phone was the perfect size, ergonomics, and looked absolutely fantastic.
If this isn't about the Kyocera Echo you can go to hell.
I got an M8 back in the day because i really liked the M7 my sisters bf had
hate to say it was pretty disappointing and I returned it for an S5. The battery on my unit was god awful and we did not have the fast charging we do now then, so it was just a no go for me
That said, the speakers did sound nice.
M8 owner ten years ago, i was in middle school back then and a classmate had the M9. personally, i think the update to android 6 with the sense 7 made that phone complete.
i have fond memories of it, playing games during class and with those two speakers i was bombing music everywhere as they were loud (for the standards back then).
unfortunately, it met its end by falling in the wc. funnily enough, the only thing damaged was the sim slot. so, for a while, i went around with two phones in my pocket: samsung galaxy pocket neo for calls and sms and htc one m8 for everything else on the internet. damn, what a memories that days were!
since i felt like that phone needed to go with a boom, i started to damage everything with his metal case: desks at school, benches, damn it hurted even trees (everything to some degree obviously).
here in italy we have the storic part of the cities where in most part there are this cubical stones down for walking. so, i threw the phone with all my force to one of those. with my surprise, the phone exploded but it took with it a good chunk of the stone.
this post made me relieve some past memories from over ten years ago, and if i could say one more thing to that phone, it would be "what a way to go, my friend!"
There were two drawbacks to it -- poor battery life and that awful SenseUI software. Otherwise the build quality was amazing, speakers were better than what we have today, etc.
Now I miss my HTC Desire HD.. I truly loved that phone. Amazing in every way.
The HTC Desire S was my first smartphone, loved that thing.
Great device
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Hell yeah!
HTC was awesome. Full metal body with slim design, great display, good camera, and best of all two full front facing speakers. It was unheard of at the time. Too bad they fell off the innovation train.
I had a m8 and on so many levels it was still the best phone I've ever owned.
Sigh, back in the good ol' days, had M7, M8 and M9
This is such a clickbaity title. It wasn't defunct at the time.
I think the best android phone of all time was the galaxy s5, not the one m8. IR blaster, better to hold, home button, better camera, higher capacity and removable battery, waterproof, etc etc.
A friend had the windows phone version of the one m8 and I hated it, although that was probably more because it was a windows phone.
I recently rediscovered my HTC 10 after cleaning my room and holy shit what a design HTC had nailed down by then with the sleek, gunmetal unibody design. I plan on replacing the battery and installing a ROM on it soon.
HTC made phones with soul, no doubt. I miss that. These days my Honor is the closest I’ve found to that vibe.
Am I the only person who owned an HTC Rezound? I loved that thing! It came with a pair of beats headphones which were better than all the cheap Walmart headphones I had before. I also loved the Red translucent plastic casing under the battery cover when accessing the microSD or the battery.
To me it was the HTC One M8 that I wish had a 2026 edition. I would buy it instantly.
The M7 and M8 remain among the best looking phones of all time, up there with the Lumias, Nexus 6P, LG V20/30, and Droid 3 (prob very subjective).
jesus, remember the reaction of all reviewers when they held the phone ? its still such a looker i would buy the design immediately.
For odd reason the old iphone 7 max design was eye candy to me
I had this phone.. It was awesome except for when my pictures all looked purple/blue :(
My first phone was an HTC inspire 4G.
I had a choice between it and I think an atrix 4G.
I figured I didn't need the extra horsepower, and the HTC home screen and ring lockscreen is still one of the best things I've experienced on a phone ironically.
Lets not kid ourselves, I had the M7 and M8, they are both shit compared to what exist today and neither phone would be in my top 10 of all time.
The M8 was disappointing from day 1, it had fucking stickers for speakergrills!!!
I returned my M8 within a couple weeks because the battery was so abysmal on it and just got an S5. I may have gotten a lemon but i didn't feel like dealing with the headache of it being shit again when I was heading off to uni soon. At least with the S5 I could do something about a bad battery by replacing it
I did prefer the skin on android, but other than that the S5 was better in every way imo.
Nokia N900 was the best Android phone of all time.
The N900 had Maemo. If it actually came preloaded with Android, Nokia smartphones might still be around. 😂
You could load Android on it pretty easily. Or just use it as Linux box
I genuinely liked Maemo and then eventually Meego more than Android at the time.
Both were absolutely beasts and pushing the envelope hard.
Yeah I loaded android on mine then reverted it back to Maemo. Held onto my N900 until it was well past EOL support.
Wish I held on to mine. 😢 Thing was an absolute game change had Nokia pursued it.
Yah that wasn't an Android phone.
I had one, I wouldn't call it "the best" - the camera really sucked, and the battery life was pretty mediocre. The front speakers were pretty awesome, though and I really loved BlinkFeed on it.
Thing was a pile of crap! Always overheating. I hated mine.
I don't give half a shit about what a phone looks like. All I see is the screen.
My best phone design list:
-HTC M7
-Iphone 5s
-nokia lumia 1020
-Nexus 5
-Iphone 17 pro
I feel like the Nexus 4 had the best design with the Galaxy looking sparkle on the back
Not even close. Note 4 and Note 9. All others are horrible. Droid Turbo was the worst
I thought Droid Turbo, along with Nexus 6 were some of the best. The Droid Turbo 2 sucked though.
Yup