HTC One V

I got the one v last week when it was released on meteor for free on an 18 month contract, 20.33 a month. I had a hero and loved the chin. The one v is really light, much slimmer than the hero and I love the matte finish. Battery life has been excellent, getting 2-3 days out of a charge but I would consider myself a heavy user. I had looked at both the x and s but couldnt justify spending 2-300 quid on a phone and being tied to a 12-18 month contract. Coming from an xperia play which I picked up cheap at the end of last year I'm impressed. The fm radio for me which has been absent from a lot of smartphones for the last while is a real plus. Obviously your not getting a top of the range handset but with ics out of the box the v must be the one (see what I did there) for those looking for a midrange smartphone. Let me know if you've any specific questions you want answered.

GIMP wrote: »

It's a lot of euros more, beautiful phone but too expensive for my pocket. One v is more relevant, O2 selling it for E269 at moment. Is there any other handsets that compare for the same price/spec?

I dont know if you want to use it as a PAYG phone and just buy it outright, but for me Im with Meteor and I was a PAYG user useing some months more than €20 credit, so I changed to bill pay and I bought the phone (HTC One S) online from Meteor for €199 and a contract of €25.33pm for 18 months
I know bill pay is not suitable to everyone, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet.

Viewing angles arent great outdoors. No issues with wifi, in fact I find the initial connection alot snappier than on the xperia play. Obviously its not the quickest off the mark opening apps etc compared to its dual core and quad core siblings but I certainly dont find it slow. There are compromises but for me anyway cost was an issue and for half the price of the x I was am willing to put up with the weaker performance.

ICS out of the box, expandable memory, unique design and low price. Certainly worth considering. I would have loved the bigger screen of the x but aswell as a heavy initial outlay you'd have to insure a phone like that and thats an additional cost on top of the high price tag.

I got one Saturday, first smart phone, been messing with it lots. Batt not great yet but I expect that to improve as the novelty of a new phone wears of. Going by the reviews, the browser is a little laggy, I've found it quite acceptable but I've nothing to compare to other than a pc and I don't expect it to be as good as that.

So far, I'm happy with it. What sets this appart from one 2x it's price? Are they really 2x as good or just faster cpu, more ram etc?

Fieldog wrote: »

Whats the internal memory after first boot on this bad boy?

I'm looking at this:

Total space: .94GB
Apps: 318MB
Available: 643MB

170MB used and 791MB free when I tap on apps from the the storage menu, if that makes sense? Waiting on a 16gig sd card to move some apps I've downloaded (about a dozen by now maybe more)

Nokia 710 should fall in your price range and is a very good phone.

Zonda999 wrote: »

Hardly been a big seller and the specs of it would be nothing on the One V. Plus, thats a windows phone in any case!

Specs aren't everything. The Nokia will be faster in general usage. I know it's a Windows Phone. Always good to try something new.

A lot of android lovers tell iPhone users they should try something new, why can't i?

BTW if we were going by big sellers you'd be recommending an iPhone

EDIT: Just wondering, what specs on the V are better than the 710? Lumia has 1.4GHz processor (faster than the V's 1GHz), has the same 512MB ram, has 8GB storage and same resolution screen. It comes with Nokia Drive (GPS) and Nokia music for free.

Zonda999 wrote: »

Apologies, I thought the 710 had a 800MHz chip for some reason.

Its true it does some good points, and is substantially cheaper than the one V (I see its now £145 on amazon UK) but it is not rated highly for somereason, and clearly hasn't sold particularly well, not that the latter really means anything. I reckon Nokia will be putting out a new mid-ranger soon enough

It gets 4.4 out of 5 on [URL="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006WM4N76/"[/URL]. I think that's ok.

Just one thing to note, and you'll see this with Android phones too, some people give the phones a low rating for silly reasons. If they get a defective one and get a replacement they give 1 star, there are always defective devices. Also people give 1 star for an issue which is either their own or one that is fixed with a later version of software. Stupid reviews... sometimes. You should see the "criticisms" of the 800. All totally debunked but still people give it 1 star.

Zonda999 wrote: »

I do however, rate the One V very highly as a mid rage phone, it feels really nice, well built and is running the latest android version.

I agree, i was very impressed with it and the One S. The One X is too big for me so i don't consider it. I quite like HTC's version of Android, appeals to me a lot more than touchwiz (neither as good as pure android on Nexus), and the build quality is very good. Every samsung i held just felt wrong, the screen wasn't as responsive as i like and were cheap n plasticy.

My friend bought a cheap Samsung (€200) last year. Bloody shocking thing it is! Good android phones are good, altho not my cup of tea, but bad ones are bloody bad.

It's the same on my HTC Trophy. Could be a HTC thing. Never happened on my iPhone.

try a Nokia Lumia. You'll get a fab OS and should work like your old nokia's when you click the power button.

coylemj wrote: »

I bought a Nokia E55 in April 2010, it is the biggest turkey I ever wasted my money on. Still no client for either FB or Twitter. Will I buy another Nokia? Will I 'eck!

I'm not getting on board a sinking ship. I don't care if it's Windows or Symbian, not interested.

Buy a Titan, or a Samsung WP7 phone so?

You really should try WP7. It's fantastic. A lot of people said Apple was going to go bust in the late 90's but they managed to turn it around. I believe Nokia can to, especially with the new WP7 phones.

TBi wrote: »

You really should try WP7. It's fantastic. A lot of people said Apple was going to go bust in the late 90's but they managed to turn it around. I believe Nokia can to, especially with the new WP7 phones.

Tbh I dont see it happening at all. Them and MS dropped the ball with it too much already,really were too late to the game, havnt marketed it enough/properly to try make a dent and really Elop is no Steve Jobs.
Unless MS pull something amazing out of their arse with WP8 its not gonna happen cause they have to win over developers, consumers and manufacturers all in one go since none of those will come over without the others.
For Devs the guidelines and restrictions for WP apps make it tough for them because of how much theyre allowed access to and its another platform to learn on top of them already looking into iOS and Android which have better chances of a return with their userbase. WP doesnt have enough of a userbase right now to justify the effort.
For consumers apps, functionalty and eye candy sell phones. Without the devs theres no apps especially killer apps. Functionality is improving compared to how it launched but this isnt marketed at all. Unless you properly dig youre going to find out very little about it works and how its improved since launch. Eye candy is subjective but to simple consumers this usually means shiny which iOS set the bench mark for and this is what they look for. WP7 is very different and standard consumers scare easily especially with how late WP7 was to the game.
Manufactures outside Nokia arent seeing any returns from their handsets and a lot are already paying MS a license fee from the android patents so theyre not going to keep paying 2. I'd say most are going to release the bare minimum until the deal runs out because Android has a userbase, allows them to play with it and has already brought them success.

This leaves Nokia as WPs only driving force and I think theyve made a mistake in putting all their eggs in the Wp7 basket and leaving Meego (which showed a lot more promise then anthing theyve done in years) almost abandoned. Elops ties with MS will do that company more harm then good.