Honestly, I've been an iPhone user for 4-5 years. I had the old school first ever android phone, the G1, before my iPhone and thought it was pretty good. The only complaints I had about android back then was it wasn't as fluent as Android. After switching to a 3GS and eventually an iPhone 4, I lost complete desire for any android phone because of the poor quality of their phones as well as their phones still not seeming as buttery as an iPhone. After the HTC One, it really changed the game up. Android was much more smooth and the HTC one was made with, if not better, quality than the iPhone. The HTC 1 M8 has steped it up again impressing me with it's solid build and curved back. I can't stand my iPhone 5's flat back and that awkward way it sits in my hand. Another thing that I'm very disappointed in with the iPhone is the lack of an SD card slot. I have the 64 GB iPhone 5 but still carry around a Voyager Air because 64 gigs isn't enough and there's no other way for me to expand my memory. As someone who is half deaf, headphones have aways been a pain in the ass for me too. I tend to use my phone a lot for watching movies, youtube, and TV shows at home but because I can't hear out of my right ear, so it's a pain in the ass to wear headphones and hear if someone is calling my name or anything. My only options are to use an external wireless speaker which I'd have to carry around the house or settle for the shitty iPhone speakers. HTC's boom sound would be perfect for my situation as well. Because I watch videos a lot, I HATE the iPhones small screen. It's my biggest complaint about my iPhone. I know this isn't an "HTC One feature" but I also like how open android is. My iPhone 5 is jailbroken to the max with Video Pane, Auxo 2, Snapper, custom layout, and a lot more but I'm stuck on my phone's OS version and upgrading or restoring my phone means losing my jailbreak forever. I like how there is no way of losing android's customizability.
TLDR for everyone with a life;
- Them curves feel nice in the hand
- Having an SD card means more room for movies.... and stuff
- Headphones are a pain for me at home so I use speakers but the iPhone speakers suck
-Dat screen size
- Not an HTC One feature but how open the OS is and how it stays open. Unlike iOS where you only have a small window of time to jailbreak
Win or not, solid job on that phone HTC.