Hey dudes! Thanks so much for checking out the video! I'm committed to getting the facts straight, so let me know if you've noticed any mistakes. I'll post them here in the show notes! Party on!
@oniconic5168 lol I'm here to talk about phones, not how to degrade women. I hope to be the better Owen Cook, but as long as he buys subs, he'll be before me in search.
@@jwadie Yes. Symbian OS was way bigger than Windows mobile. Both Nokia and Sonny Ericsson used Symbian on their proto smart phones ( like SE P800/P900).
Man, I still remember back when the HTC One was THE enthusiast phone to have. Metal body, front firing speakers, good UI, it was great. I was over the moon when my dad gave me an HTC One M8, especially because back where I lived, HTC didn't sell phones officially, mine was imported from Europe. To say the HTC M9 was disappointing would be an understatement. HTC even screwed up one ad, accidentally using a picture of the M8 instead. RIP HTC, you were great until you weren't.
The only thing I remember about my old HTC One was how I could probably cook eggs on it after 15 minutes of Boom Beach. That same 15 minutes would also have killed 75% of my battery. Good times.
I loved my HTC One M8, I used it until it wont run any more. I think I still have it in a box somewhere. I was never a fan of samsung. I remember suffering 2 years on an A series. But the Pixel 3 was like going back to HTC. I've only been buying pixel phones ever since.
It didn't just felt that way: Nokia always had an incredible reputation as a phone manufacturer, Blackberry was THE smartphone before the iPhone came out, and HTC was the standard for Android devices before Google decided to create their line of phones.
They never left, took a big step back though. Their highest offering is just a mid high tier at best *looks and sighs at HTC U24 Pro*. imho it's their software that got left in the dust by the now big players in the market. They're just plain and boring, not that there's anything wrong with that and it works but that's not how phones get market share and expand.
@@owencooktech HTC are making phones sooo its not lost or gone... or failed......... thay waithed to the 10 years was gone and now it is soo now its on agine
Who is increasing prices? Why do people keep saying this 😂 for instance. The iPhone 16 pro costs the same amount as the iPhone X did 7 years ago at release and is a 10x better phone. Headphone jack isn’t a feature either
@toptiertech7291 news flash, releasing a new phone with the SAME features doesn't mean you should charge the same amount of price you used to on pioneering phones
@Shyv100 you Apple haters are hilarious 😂😂 the 16 pro and X have the same features? So the X has a 120hz screen? The X is 6.3 instead of 5.8 inch screen? The X has a telephoto zoom lens? The X has always on display and camera control button? The X has 27 hours of battery instead of 16 hours? The X has 5G antenna ? The X has MagSafe? The X starts at 128GB? The X hits 2000 nits instead of 675 nits? No 😂😂so all those changes I named aren’t new? For the same price phone? You’re crazy 🤡
Ah. I bought the HTC One (M7) back in the day. It probably one of the only phones with a metal casing at that time. It had the tendency to warm up but damn it definitely felt premium.
Yeah, I heard that a lot from some of these comments. It sounds like their phones tended to overheat. Honestly some phones that come out today still do that. I remember my pixel 7 overheated a lot and it was still a great phone.
@@owencooktech Tesla don’t patent their stuff because they want the automobile market to move towards electric where Tesla is a leader (specifically in battery tech) vs. conventional automobile market where Tesla is a nobody in comparison to market leaders like Toyota, Ford, etc. Also, hearting your own comment is pretty lame, dude.
oh man, htc brings so much memories with my dad. he almost always on his htc dream at the back porch every night after dinner. scrolling through the internet and just taking pictures of anything he could see; plants, insects, the moon, our fish pond, etc. rest in peace old man
Man, HTC was such a good brand. I bought a HTC One A9 at my local flea market and I managed to install a developer ROM just to unlock the phone and use my services. The phone was alright but the battery died, it had an OLED screen iirc.
Not smartphones tho. Yeah the DynaTAC came out in 1983 but the first real "smartphone" was the first blackberry in 1999. HTC help pioneer the space with their "pocket PC's"
@@owencooktech Cell phones were a thing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, even if smartphones weren't yet. The Nokia 1100 (2003) remains the best selling cell phone of all time, following by the Nokia 1110 (2005) in 2nd place. Even the Nokia 3210 (1999) is in the top 10 best selling of all time. None of these were smartphones.
I love HTC. I spent many, many years as a loyal HTC user, starting with the addiction of Windows Mobile, cooking ROMs, and flashing everything possible. Their devices were always my favorite at the time. This video brought me back with hearing and seeing names and features of devices I have long forgotten. I jumped to one generation of iPhone in 2012 while still rocking a killer HTC one. I had so many devices over all those years from Nokia and Blackberry although HTC was always my favorite. I jumped to Samsung in 2014 and I haven't looked back. Great content! You have a new subscriber! 🤙
I have to say, Samsung smartphones are just _so_ reliable. They're the smartphone equivalent of Toyota cars and trucks. My employer-provided "work phone" from early 2016 to late 2018 was a Galaxy S4 which launched in 2013. It understood its mission, handling calls, emails, work apps, PDF documents and photography like a champ the whole time. Next up was a Note 9 in late 2018 or early 2019, and then surprise sidegrade to an A53 in 2022. All lovely phones. They all just keep soldiering on, taking good photos and videos and only needing a charge every 2-4 days as long as you're not logging a lot of screen time on them.
I still remember the metal feeling of HTC one, the camera, graphics... it was ahead of its time. Just the design itself was so timeless. I could still use this phone today.
The one M8 and especially M9 broke their neck. Like the Galaxy S6 absolutley put the M9 into a bodybag. And their final Flagship, the U12 Plus sadly was a absolute failure.
@@Che9009 them not being around has literally nothing to do with the quality of the device. It's completely unrelated. Samsung won advertising. I never cared for advertising, and I still think HTC had the best advertising. For me, the best advertising is that which just lists the features matter of factly, instead of some fun skit or video that doesn't actually list the features of the device. I want pedantic advertising. And I really dislike trendy advertisements. Samsung didn't have anything that made it as good as the HTC M series phones. Heck, I still have no interest in Samsung. They just don't do anything interesting and throw out worthless gimmicks like folding screens. Who would even want a folding screen lmao? Who wants a creased up screen? Nowadays I own a nothing phone 2, that brand continues in the footsteps of HTC imo. Though I do miss aluminum unibody and want bigger front facing speakers. Also, the 3d display HTC phone was goated at the time.
@smallpeople172 ive had m9. What a horrible phone it was 😂. I remember upgrading from sony xperia z1 and the m9 was worse than z1 in every way except for audio. The boom sound speakers were mad tho. M9 camera, video, display,battery, all inferior to sony 2013 flagship. And after 2017 this phone suffer the htc classic bootloop😂 In 2024 my xperia z1 still actually works Massive Mistake getting m9 over s6
I remember getting the original HTC One back in 2013... It was a good soldier for fhe next 4 years of my life. And the first day out, i was listening to Midwest Emo in a forest near my house... I kinda wish they sticked around. Because the origjnal HTC One, was an absolute Masterpiece.
I still have my original HTC one(m7)? I believe. It's my alarm clock. But before that when I used it from 2013-early 2015 it worked well enough. Especially like it's dual speakers.
I owned a HTC One X, M8 & U11+. They all were amazing phones. I just wish HTC concentrated a bit more on marketing like apple and Samsung when they started getting good results with the M7, M8 era. Back then I was the only one who promoted HTC between friends and colleagues and everyone just brushed over them like they were useless... Without realising how much of an impact HTC made in the overall scheme of smartphones as we see today. The main reason of me going to Google Pixel after the HTC phones was that google buying HTCs team to develop and build their pixel line up...
HTC One X wasn’t that good lol I had that phone and I remembered replacing it FIVE times with Best Buy’s old warranty policy. Final straw was the lack of updates on it, HTC went back and forth on whether they wanted to implement Android Lollipop and at the end they said no. Not seeing how it was amazing phone.
My Desire Z was one of my favourites phones of all time. The hinge on that slider was THE most satisfying thing ever. I moved on to LG. And now I'm on Sony. I really hope Sony sticks around...
Yeah dude, the Xperia line is really something else. I looked into getting one for a while, but it was a little out of my price range. The desire series seemed pretty sweet as well.
They stopped because they ended up paying lionshare of profits in the US to Apple and Samsung, its better for them to exit at that point also because of HTC One's success they are further threatened with more lawsuits from Samsung especially.
Why no mention of the HTC Vive? Was it not a main contributor to the company? I felt like it was such a big force in the initial Oculus Rift vs HTC Vive battle in the mid to late 2010’s. Other than that, great video!
@@DaltonJWood I didn't see anything about the vive in my research, I was focused on their phones. Several comments have pointed it out. it seems like cool tech
@@owencooktech However, Vive is what is one of the things keeping them afloat(except for the 5g equipment) and is one of their current cash cows(not just through enthusiasts, tons of Arcade operators also use VIVE headsets).
I had an HTC phone with windows mobile. I had it for a year and a half then it just turned off one day and wouldn’t turn back on. Not surprised they’re out of business.
I think HTC could have made a major comeback if they had adopted _Android One_ as the main operating system for their phones. Since Android One is very close to "pure" Android, it could have been a viable alternative to the Google Pixel line of phones.
I can't even count how many HTC phones I've had, those are the ones I remember: HTC Wildfire HTC Desire HTC Desire Z HTC Desire HD HTC ChaCha HTC Sensation XE HTC One X HTC One M7 HTC One M9 HTC 10 HTC 825 HTC U12 Most of them were great phones, I've moved on to Sony since then.
Worked for HTC during the hayday 2010-2015 was a great time. Miss there phones in Canada :-( HTC One M9 was my last HTC device. A parting gift from them when they left
I really do miss all the cool designs from 2000s. Now we just have the same boring brick. My first HTC phone was the mytouch 4G from tmobile. Loved it so much i got the M7 as well... loved it even more, the absolutely most perfect phone i ever owned. Awesome RF performance, strong solid headphone amp, dual speakers, literally all day battery life, the keyboard and predictive text were absolutely beautiful. I never had a phone since that measured up to it, these samsungs and iphone are good but not perfect like that M7
Every time you said "All other smartphones were Windows" I groaned. There was Symbion OS that came in 2 flavors on Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones, Blackberry has its own OS, Palm had Palm OS and then WebOS. You even mentioned Palm and Blackberry in your video.
sybian was wildly outdated, and the others were closed to manufacturer. Windows CE and other windows phone OS's were the only real open-source option. It's not like HTC could have just used Palm OS is it? That's what I meant. Just that windows was the only viable open model.
@owencooktech Actually Palm OS was licenced by Sony, Handspring(the Treo brand was originally Handspring), IBM and other brands. At one stage Palm even broke itself in half(PalmOne making hardwear and Palm Source making software) in an attempt to bring in more licensees. So yes they could have licenced PalmOS. To say Symbian was outdated and then mention Windows CE in the next sentence is laughable. Yes, Windows kept getting developed into WP7 and WP8 but doesn't make WCE any less crap. If you had have said Windows Mobile was the most wide spread licenced smartphone operating system then I wouldn't argue with you but you said it was the only one and that's just plain wrong.
@@owencooktech Symbian S60 was licensed by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens. Symbian UIQ was made by Ericsson and Motorola, licensed by BenQ. Symbian itself is open source, but the UI framework that runs on it is not. So it's not like it was impossible to license it, but of course it was much more difficult than licensing Windows CE or Android. Samsung even added TouchWiz to the Omnia HD. Imagine TouchWiz home screen on top of S60v5...
HTC fumbled the bag so hard but I can't blame them. The market was on a rapid rise and eventually only 2 or 3 companies at the most could be at the top. Those ended up being Samsung and Apple but it could've easily been HTC and Apple or even Windows and Apple.
do you think that maybe the phones they make now are just an attempt to provide a portfolio for what the company are able to produce, to acquire 3rd party contracts?
Man the audio mixing is all over the place on this one, feels like on most clips you accidentally made the end volume lower, and so each cut also causes a volume jump
@@owencooktech It's especially obvious at 4:12, your voice getting quieter and then suddenly loud after the cut, seems to keep going quiet then loud a couple times after that as well
@@owencooktechno he’s right. The microphone seems to be picking up the voice almost like you’re moving closer and away from the mic. It’s either a physical movement or processing issue. It’s very obvious and strong. It’s not voice range. it could be the microphone trying to block out background noise. It sounds like you’re switching between 2 different microphones every sentence or moving back and forward. It’s okay though. It’s a nice video. I do recommend fixing it for future uploads though or it will hurt once you hear it.
They did try to improve and do some things. They had the special fan club that you could get in to try to help recommend products, be an enthusiast, etc. I was in it.
Every mobile phone up until iPhone used windows mobile or windows CE? Man, I think you are really over stating things. I cannot even think of a single person during that time frame who had a phone based on a Microsoft platform at all. Symbian, PalmOS, WebOS, and BlackBerry OS were are far far more popular.
Those were all manufacturer locked. The windows options were the only open sources ones that were widely adopted. I talked a little more about that in my android video.
HTC One V (the phone with a "chin") was my first smart phone. I loved that thing. I died when I got caught in heavy rain on a summer day with no place to hide it.
Brilliant and informative video. I remember really wanting a One M7 back in 2013, but never ended up with one. Anyway, I’ve subbed. Will look forward to seeing/hearing more from you in the future. 🙂
I loved my HTCs. Had the M8 and that pulled me away from apple phones, then I got the M9, but carriers in the UK stopped offering it so to get a new phone you had to stump up hundreds of pounds and just didn't have that kind of money. So switched to Samsung and stayed with them ever since but still miss my HTC phones.
I have used HTC Wildfire, HTC Incredible S, HTC One Mini, HTC 10, HTC U Play, HTC U11+. Guess only which one still works today. The oldest HTC Wildfire ❤😂
I had the 'budget' htc desire phone and it was one of the strongest phone. It fell out of my pocket and down 5 floors, while flipping over concrete stairs. It had some deformations on sides, but it continued to work well without any damage to screen itself.
Loved my HTC, but then went through 4 of them - all overheated and with a metal back you couldnt hold them for more than 15 minutes. Thats what killed them for me.
this is odd 7:00 in 2016 a childhood friend of mine who moved to another country, visited us. and she had an HTC phonei tho i haven't seen an htc phone ever before in the shopping mall i used to buy phones from..
I do miss the HTC One. Along with the Palm Prē, LG V30 & LG Velvet... The One was one of my all time favorites. *Honorable Mention:* HTC EVO 3D. [currently using ASUS ROG 8 Pro]
I had an HTC "One Mini 2" (after a "Desire 601") until it broke down and kept rebooting continously..., and it is still my most favourite phone ever (ignoring the small screen size, compared to nowadays).
I wanted the Iphone 6C when it came out, but got suckerd into getting the HTC M8. I really hated the interface and that their were tabs to things you're not really interestted in or the fact that you simply coudn't just have a blank homescreen. it was just an unstylish candybar formfactor boringt phone . Signal never flexchuated, showed full service everywhere you went , which was the only good thing about it. Still I wanted the Iphone really bad so traded it in withinin the 30 days Glad I did never ever let someone talk you into something you dont want...
I used to really like HTC phones around 2010 or so. Android back then was exciting, it was new, it felt different and to be honest it looked cool. That was in a rawer form than what you saw later with the likes of Samsung OneUI, etc. The HTC Desire in particular was beautiful. I couldn't afford it, but desperately wanted one. A few of my friends had it and I really loved how weighty it felt and how sleek the design was.
I had the Evo 4G and THAT was one of my favorite phones I owned next to the iPhone 4! I loved that evo! "The scramble mode" sounds right. I feel Apple if not is in that mode now with the iPhones, they are very close now lol!
This is a awesome video and I needed it because I was wondering what happened to HTC after the Evo 4G. After that phone i stopped caring about HTC for years lol.
The HTC One is still one of my favourite phones I had, especially like that it used metal. Felt very durable and classy. Today everything is plastic or glass with a little of metal at the edge. Would love an HTC comeback.
I had a HTC one M8 and it's to this day the best phone I've had. Full metal body, speakers facing you, good camera at the time. I had it for years and it handled being wet, dropped down the stairs, and got ran over by a forklift and kept working perfectly fine. Only got rid of it after several years because something broke inside it and it kept crashing badly, I went to get another HTC only to find I wasn't able to buy anything the same quality without spending a fortune Ive also had Samsung devices occasionally as well as other family members having Samsung and i absolutely hate the ui on anything Samsung does
HTC is a strange case. I just never got the craze with Blackberry. Their phones all felt like garbage to me with atrocious battery life. There was even a full touchscreen model that needed to be physically pressed down to make the entire screen click in order to register a tap. The brand through and through irritated me.
My father had the HTC One M8. Superb phone, but later had many software bugs, specifically with headphone jack, went to service centre every 3 weeks, they couldn't fix it, eventually they replaced motherboard, and guess what same bug happened after 2 months. :)
I had the HTC HD, the first phone with a 6.5-inch screen, and it came with a tranformers movie for some reason. It was a very nice build phone, till I lost it, and every memory of high school I had in it. Still hurts knowing I lost all those memories I'll never get back.
I was so sad when my M9 One was laggy compared to my M8 (that was dropped in water by my baby bro 😢). I guess it was due to the hot metal backing. But it was so difficult to find a replacement phone when HTC used to have the ABSOLUTELY AMAZING front speakers.
Still got the tattoo, one m7 and one X. My first androids. Great phones, great memories. I loved the Sense UI on tattoo. Was the Aero Glass UI on Windows Vista for Android. They should bring it back.
The HTC One m7 was such a beautifully designed phone, I still have one. My wife's last HTC phone was the U11 and mine was the Pixel 2 (I very much still consider that a HTC phone). They had a fantastic team who knew how to design gorgeous phones. It's a real shame the company went the way it did because I genuinely enjoyed their phones.
I owned nothing but HTC phones since they released the Desire up until the U11. My favourite was the M8. I had one for a few years which slipped out of my coat pocket into a puddle which wrecked it. I bought another seemingly new unopened one which turned out to be fake. I had a few screen protectors left from the last one and wondered why they wouldn't fit. The screen was too curved which was how I worked out it was fake. Ended up getting a refurbished M8 in red which lasted 3 months until it heated up like hell one day and fried itself. Turns out it was also fake... The best thing about the M8 was the car kit HTC sold for it. You slipped it in sideways into the holder and the HTC Car UI automatically came up. Absolutely awesome feature.
I had the HTC 1 (M7) for over a decade...i loved the metal design in a primarily plastic industry and the speakers were awesome! Even the camera was decent. I remember showing it off for years
I remember, unlocking the boot loader on the HTC Evo using a custom boot loader to PlayStation 3 into factory service mode .. I think one of their best phones which I still have is the HTC Evo 3-D
Dude i had that htc one m7 and it humiliated everything else on the market even had a ar blaster to control stuff. Man i wish they brought back the glorius one line
I got the M8 and still the best android phone I ever have till now. The metal, the dual front speaker design, the simplicity of both looks and OS really got me.
The last HTC phone I had was the HTC ONE M8 and I loved that phone. However, when I was looking for a newer HTC model, I noticed how the new ones didn't have anything close to what other phone manufacturers had in their phones. So I decided to jump ship and not long after I did, I saw where HTC announced it wasn't going to make anymore phones. It was good while it lasted.
I like how everyone is focusing on HTC being an android company and just mention a few words about Windows Mobile like it was nothing really special. HTC was THE smartphone brand before most people ever imagined something like that would ever happen, not to mention getting into the mainstream. Their QWERTY slider design was a pinnacle of mobile tech at that time. Anyone seeing it in the street thouht it was a PC you're holding in your hands. It's a great part of their history. Holding one in your hand was a total guarantee of interest from the people standing next to you. They bought me with their QWERTY keyboards and I'm ready to be bought by the same feature again. Just use the TyTN II case and update the internals, I'll buy it right away.
I had the HTC one after i grew sick of apple after my 3G. The HTC one was amazing at the time. I remember wanting to upgrade maybe 3 years later, though there wasnt another good HTC on offer - I ended up with a samsung s10 or something and have had samsung since.
I had an HTC One. It was one of the best phones I’ve ever owned. Back in the days of replaceable batteries and easily rooting phones without running into nasty security systems (hello Knox!!!) and installing highly customized ROMs and kernels. Good times.
I was quite an early adopter with the HTC Desire. I wish I'd jumped on board with the HTC Hero but, at that time, upgrading my contract, I was too intimidated by the learning curve of moving over to that new form factor. At the time, everybody admired my Desire, like my then-girlfriend, saying things like, 'Oh, it's like a little computer' but she was a major speed texter who used to wear out dumbphone physical keyboards with her nails (which I used to replace and repair). I have no doubt in my mind that, now, about 10 years later, she will probably have a Samsung and be all over Facebook on it (which I am not). I'm now one of the dwindling few who use Sonys, for the Micro SD slot and headphone jack. The HTC One used to be a beautiful phone. Another company I don't understand not being more successful and rising is ZTE. They had a great specced budget phone that was popular, called the Blade and the Axon 7 I had for a while had an amazing screen and speakers, an aluminium body and all-round flagship phone specs for a lower tier price. I thought the relative popularity and bang for buck of those 2 phones were going to be the beginning of great things for ZTE and for us but their potential didn't get realised, after that.
The HTC One M7 was my first real smartphone & introduction to Android. Really miss their offerings tbh. That phone really struck me as one of the best phones I'd ever had.
Its sad. I worked at Rogers Wireless during the fall of HTC, Nokia, BlackBerry, Motorola. I remember they launched the HTC One. Was like their last ditch at a premium phone. Lots of glitches.
I've recently purchased the OnePlus Nord 4, it has a unibody metal build very simular to the old HTC One phones (and it's 5G too boot). It sort of reminds me of a cross between the HTC One phones, and the camera housing of the Pixel 2/3.
I had 3 HTc Phones, the Legend, One & One M8 - felt in love with full body aluminium casings! All really great phones and much sturdier than my friends Galaxies / iPhones :D
I had a Samsung S4 when the HTC one came out, I had serious phone envy and it seemed like the HTC one was the enthusiasts phone to have. I got sick of the S4s plastic body, so when the HTC M8 came out I went to the local phone store and asked to see one. Turns out I was the first person who had asked to see it and they didn't even have one on display. I bought one and the excitement I felt about it being made of metal quickly faded when it came to use it. Within the first day the fact the screen looked lost on the phone annoyed me due to the speakers, screen boarders, buttons and HTC logo taking up so much room. Then there was the camera, it seemed terrible compared to the camera in my old S4. I hated the phone from day one and sold it within the first year even though I was still in contract and ended up having to pay it off just to get out of it.
The only HTC phone I have any experience with is the Touch Pro 2, and it was absolutely awful. There wasn't a working day where I didn't want to heave that phone across the room in the hopes it would break and I'd get a Blackberry.
Had the Cingular 8125 twice. Then I had the T-Mobile G1 android experience. After that I had the HTC HD1, which i eventually converted from terrible Windows OS to a rooted Android device. I didn't know it was Windows before I bought it. HTC Glacier was my last stop before switching over a Galaxy S3. I used to love the big clock on HTC Sense. All Samsungs and iPhone rotations now.
Hey dudes! Thanks so much for checking out the video! I'm committed to getting the facts straight, so let me know if you've noticed any mistakes. I'll post them here in the show notes! Party on!
Thanks dude your the best
Bro the owen cook i know is a lifestyle coah
@oniconic5168 lol I'm here to talk about phones, not how to degrade women. I hope to be the better Owen Cook, but as long as he buys subs, he'll be before me in search.
Prior to the iPhone and Android, the most popular OS for Smartphones was actually Symbian, not Windows mobile
@@jwadie Yes. Symbian OS was way bigger than Windows mobile. Both Nokia and Sonny Ericsson used Symbian on their proto smart phones ( like SE P800/P900).
Man, I still remember back when the HTC One was THE enthusiast phone to have. Metal body, front firing speakers, good UI, it was great. I was over the moon when my dad gave me an HTC One M8, especially because back where I lived, HTC didn't sell phones officially, mine was imported from Europe. To say the HTC M9 was disappointing would be an understatement. HTC even screwed up one ad, accidentally using a picture of the M8 instead. RIP HTC, you were great until you weren't.
The only thing I remember about my old HTC One was how I could probably cook eggs on it after 15 minutes of Boom Beach. That same 15 minutes would also have killed 75% of my battery. Good times.
I loved my HTC One M8, I used it until it wont run any more. I think I still have it in a box somewhere. I was never a fan of samsung. I remember suffering 2 years on an A series. But the Pixel 3 was like going back to HTC. I've only been buying pixel phones ever since.
I had every single one of them except for the m9+. Luckily I got it second hand from someone who sold it in my country because it wasn't released here
The M8 was easily one of the best phones I ever had. I was so disappointed when the M9 came out to be what seemed like a massive step backwards.
Sounds like Sony phones these days😅
It feels like HTC, Blackberry and Nokia could have been way bigger than they are.
@@danielosawaru9045 yeah for sure.
Nokia was, but complacency happened
@@JayTechZM Nokia bet on wrong horse. Windows phones flopped hard
It didn't just felt that way: Nokia always had an incredible reputation as a phone manufacturer, Blackberry was THE smartphone before the iPhone came out, and HTC was the standard for Android devices before Google decided to create their line of phones.
not with the iphone arrival.
The UI of the HTC was some of my fav. That clock widget is still 110% on fire and nothing compares.
They were way ahead of everyone else
I loved all the HTC phones that I've owned. I wish they'd come back
@@jeffcook3747 yeah totally dude
They never left, took a big step back though. Their highest offering is just a mid high tier at best *looks and sighs at HTC U24 Pro*. imho it's their software that got left in the dust by the now big players in the market. They're just plain and boring, not that there's anything wrong with that and it works but that's not how phones get market share and expand.
I remember theme old little mobile phones with the keyboard. My mother had one
@@owencooktech HTC are making phones sooo its not lost or gone... or failed......... thay waithed to the 10 years was gone and now it is soo now its on agine
Same as LG. Budget "flagship killer" options from China left only room for one "premium" android phonemaker.
They're from south-korea 😅
@@starcrash1750 yeah, read the sentence... LG died to the budget phones from China. I never said they were from China.
@@JimIBobIJones right right 😅
@@starcrash1750I believe OP is referring to Xiaomi.
@@starcrash1750 *This is why reading is fundamental. He never said LG was from China. smh.*
I miss HTC, and when the smartphone was new and exciting. Now, it’s just a contest of removing features, and increasing prices.
Who is increasing prices? Why do people keep saying this 😂 for instance. The iPhone 16 pro costs the same amount as the iPhone X did 7 years ago at release and is a 10x better phone. Headphone jack isn’t a feature either
@@toptiertech7291SD card, jack, charger (but some countries made it illegal), replaceable battery
@toptiertech7291 news flash, releasing a new phone with the SAME features doesn't mean you should charge the same amount of price you used to on pioneering phones
@@toptiertech7291 Check the price of the baseline flagship today vs 2016. It used to be, most phones released at $649, now the base model costs $799+.
@Shyv100 you Apple haters are hilarious 😂😂 the 16 pro and X have the same features? So the X has a 120hz screen? The X is 6.3 instead of 5.8 inch screen? The X has a telephoto zoom lens? The X has always on display and camera control button? The X has 27 hours of battery instead of 16 hours? The X has 5G antenna ? The X has MagSafe? The X starts at 128GB? The X hits 2000 nits instead of 675 nits? No 😂😂so all those changes I named aren’t new? For the same price phone? You’re crazy 🤡
I had two of them, including an HTC One. They were by far my favorite smartphones.
Yeah dude they looked like a lot of fun I remember wanting one.
Ah. I bought the HTC One (M7) back in the day. It probably one of the only phones with a metal casing at that time. It had the tendency to warm up but damn it definitely felt premium.
Yeah, I heard that a lot from some of these comments. It sounds like their phones tended to overheat. Honestly some phones that come out today still do that. I remember my pixel 7 overheated a lot and it was still a great phone.
I had that phone too. Windows was really bad on it. No Apps, I rooted and converted to Android eventuality
Yeh i had the M7 and as i recall the entire phone was basically a giant heatsink lol.
Patents - copyrights and trademarks aid only in creating/maintaining monopolies. They are anti-competitive and anti-free market.
Yeah that's why it's cool how Tesla doesn't patent their stuff.
@@owencooktech interesting! I didn't know that, that's great!
Why do we need UA-cam when we have elixexo4011 giving us 1 word answers, I mean who needs nuance, who needs details 😊
@@cosmolove it's 2 sentences and I'm not going to go into a whole essay about it every single time it happens.
@@owencooktech Tesla don’t patent their stuff because they want the automobile market to move towards electric where Tesla is a leader (specifically in battery tech) vs. conventional automobile market where Tesla is a nobody in comparison to market leaders like Toyota, Ford, etc. Also, hearting your own comment is pretty lame, dude.
oh man, htc brings so much memories with my dad. he almost always on his htc dream at the back porch every night after dinner. scrolling through the internet and just taking pictures of anything he could see; plants, insects, the moon, our fish pond, etc. rest in peace old man
Man, HTC was such a good brand. I bought a HTC One A9 at my local flea market and I managed to install a developer ROM just to unlock the phone and use my services. The phone was alright but the battery died, it had an OLED screen iirc.
LOL, cell phones absolutely were a thing in the late 1990s. I think I got my first cell phone in 95.
Not smartphones tho. Yeah the DynaTAC came out in 1983 but the first real "smartphone" was the first blackberry in 1999. HTC help pioneer the space with their "pocket PC's"
@@owencooktech well, the nokia 9000 communicator came out in 1996, but probably more focused in big company executives
@@owencooktech Cell phones were a thing in the late 1990s and early 2000s, even if smartphones weren't yet. The Nokia 1100 (2003) remains the best selling cell phone of all time, following by the Nokia 1110 (2005) in 2nd place. Even the Nokia 3210 (1999) is in the top 10 best selling of all time. None of these were smartphones.
I love HTC. I spent many, many years as a loyal HTC user, starting with the addiction of Windows Mobile, cooking ROMs, and flashing everything possible. Their devices were always my favorite at the time. This video brought me back with hearing and seeing names and features of devices I have long forgotten. I jumped to one generation of iPhone in 2012 while still rocking a killer HTC one. I had so many devices over all those years from Nokia and Blackberry although HTC was always my favorite. I jumped to Samsung in 2014 and I haven't looked back.
Great content! You have a new subscriber! 🤙
I have to say, Samsung smartphones are just _so_ reliable. They're the smartphone equivalent of Toyota cars and trucks. My employer-provided "work phone" from early 2016 to late 2018 was a Galaxy S4 which launched in 2013. It understood its mission, handling calls, emails, work apps, PDF documents and photography like a champ the whole time. Next up was a Note 9 in late 2018 or early 2019, and then surprise sidegrade to an A53 in 2022. All lovely phones. They all just keep soldiering on, taking good photos and videos and only needing a charge every 2-4 days as long as you're not logging a lot of screen time on them.
I miss custom roms and flashing. It was fun. Was happy doing.😢😢
I used to flash this phone too
Do you have any old htc cooked roms or kitchens? Im building a web archive for hermes to touchpro2
I still remember the metal feeling of HTC one, the camera, graphics... it was ahead of its time. Just the design itself was so timeless. I could still use this phone today.
The one M8 and especially M9 broke their neck. Like the Galaxy S6 absolutley put the M9 into a bodybag. And their final Flagship, the U12 Plus sadly was a absolute failure.
Yeah totally
M8 and m9 were phenomenal, and muuuuuch better than anything Samsung had
@smallpeople172 it was better? Must be why they're still around right? Oh wait.....
@@Che9009 them not being around has literally nothing to do with the quality of the device. It's completely unrelated. Samsung won advertising. I never cared for advertising, and I still think HTC had the best advertising. For me, the best advertising is that which just lists the features matter of factly, instead of some fun skit or video that doesn't actually list the features of the device. I want pedantic advertising. And I really dislike trendy advertisements. Samsung didn't have anything that made it as good as the HTC M series phones. Heck, I still have no interest in Samsung. They just don't do anything interesting and throw out worthless gimmicks like folding screens. Who would even want a folding screen lmao? Who wants a creased up screen? Nowadays I own a nothing phone 2, that brand continues in the footsteps of HTC imo. Though I do miss aluminum unibody and want bigger front facing speakers. Also, the 3d display HTC phone was goated at the time.
@smallpeople172 ive had m9. What a horrible phone it was 😂. I remember upgrading from sony xperia z1 and the m9 was worse than z1 in every way except for audio. The boom sound speakers were mad tho.
M9 camera, video, display,battery, all inferior to sony 2013 flagship.
And after 2017 this phone suffer the htc classic bootloop😂
In 2024 my xperia z1 still actually works
Massive Mistake getting m9 over s6
HTC One M7, One M8 and HTC 10 were my most favorite phones ever. I hope HTC would stick to the unibody metal design for their latest phones.
Yeah they're beautiful phones.
the in hand feeling of one of these phones literally felt better than most tech i have ever had. a true premium product
I remember getting the original HTC One back in 2013... It was a good soldier for fhe next 4 years of my life. And the first day out, i was listening to Midwest Emo in a forest near my house... I kinda wish they sticked around. Because the origjnal HTC One, was an absolute Masterpiece.
I still have my original HTC one(m7)? I believe. It's my alarm clock.
But before that when I used it from 2013-early 2015 it worked well enough. Especially like it's dual speakers.
Watched a lot of htc what happened videos but this is the best, great video didn't expect it to be soo good especially from a small channel
Thanks dude! Means a lot.
I owned a HTC One X, M8 & U11+. They all were amazing phones. I just wish HTC concentrated a bit more on marketing like apple and Samsung when they started getting good results with the M7, M8 era. Back then I was the only one who promoted HTC between friends and colleagues and everyone just brushed over them like they were useless... Without realising how much of an impact HTC made in the overall scheme of smartphones as we see today. The main reason of me going to Google Pixel after the HTC phones was that google buying HTCs team to develop and build their pixel line up...
HTC One X wasn’t that good lol I had that phone and I remembered replacing it FIVE times with Best Buy’s old warranty policy. Final straw was the lack of updates on it, HTC went back and forth on whether they wanted to implement Android Lollipop and at the end they said no. Not seeing how it was amazing phone.
My Desire Z was one of my favourites phones of all time. The hinge on that slider was THE most satisfying thing ever.
I moved on to LG. And now I'm on Sony. I really hope Sony sticks around...
Yeah dude, the Xperia line is really something else. I looked into getting one for a while, but it was a little out of my price range. The desire series seemed pretty sweet as well.
@@owencooktech My Xperia 5 IV is one of the best phones I've ever had as well. But like you said, LORD are they pricey
They stopped because they ended up paying lionshare of profits in the US to Apple and Samsung, its better for them to exit at that point also because of HTC One's success they are further threatened with more lawsuits from Samsung especially.
Why no mention of the HTC Vive? Was it not a main contributor to the company? I felt like it was such a big force in the initial Oculus Rift vs HTC Vive battle in the mid to late 2010’s.
Other than that, great video!
@@DaltonJWood I didn't see anything about the vive in my research, I was focused on their phones. Several comments have pointed it out. it seems like cool tech
@@owencooktech However, Vive is what is one of the things keeping them afloat(except for the 5g equipment) and is one of their current cash cows(not just through enthusiasts, tons of Arcade operators also use VIVE headsets).
I had an HTC phone with windows mobile. I had it for a year and a half then it just turned off one day and wouldn’t turn back on. Not surprised they’re out of business.
@@techwiz81 yeah it's crazy
just because your particular model turned off randomly doesnt mean its a bad phone, and i never had a htc phone, plus htc came back this year
@@archux_ they didn't "come back". They never left. If you're referring to the u24 pro, that line of phones has been around since 2019.
@@archux_ that’s actually exactly what it means, when a phone becomes completely unusable before the contract is even up it’s a bad phone
was it htc hd2?
I think HTC could have made a major comeback if they had adopted _Android One_ as the main operating system for their phones. Since Android One is very close to "pure" Android, it could have been a viable alternative to the Google Pixel line of phones.
My first smart phone was a HTC. Thanks for bringing back some old memories.
HTC One was a great phone for it's time. I still miss the ful metal case and and the sound quality for it's time was top notch.
The flip clock and weather widget is still one of my favorite widgets
HTC P3400i, HTC Touch 2, HTC Desire, HTC One X, HTC One M8, HTC U11. Those are the HTC phones I owned. I dare anyone beat that.
That's a crazy stacked list. You're really lucky those are somee historic phones.
I can't even count how many HTC phones I've had, those are the ones I remember:
HTC Wildfire
HTC Desire
HTC Desire Z
HTC Desire HD
HTC ChaCha
HTC Sensation XE
HTC One X
HTC One M7
HTC One M9
HTC 10
HTC 825
HTC U12
Most of them were great phones, I've moved on to Sony since then.
Worked for HTC during the hayday 2010-2015 was a great time. Miss there phones in Canada :-( HTC One M9 was my last HTC device. A parting gift from them when they left
Miss their* phones
I had a lot of HTC phones like the Evo from Sprint
I really do miss all the cool designs from 2000s. Now we just have the same boring brick. My first HTC phone was the mytouch 4G from tmobile. Loved it so much i got the M7 as well... loved it even more, the absolutely most perfect phone i ever owned. Awesome RF performance, strong solid headphone amp, dual speakers, literally all day battery life, the keyboard and predictive text were absolutely beautiful. I never had a phone since that measured up to it, these samsungs and iphone are good but not perfect like that M7
@@mr_ice117 dude that's awesome. Couldn't agree with you more. Phones where better when they didn't all look the same.
This is a nice quality video, keep up the good work.
Every time you said "All other smartphones were Windows" I groaned. There was Symbion OS that came in 2 flavors on Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones, Blackberry has its own OS, Palm had Palm OS and then WebOS. You even mentioned Palm and Blackberry in your video.
sybian was wildly outdated, and the others were closed to manufacturer. Windows CE and other windows phone OS's were the only real open-source option. It's not like HTC could have just used Palm OS is it? That's what I meant. Just that windows was the only viable open model.
@owencooktech Actually Palm OS was licenced by Sony, Handspring(the Treo brand was originally Handspring), IBM and other brands. At one stage Palm even broke itself in half(PalmOne making hardwear and Palm Source making software) in an attempt to bring in more licensees. So yes they could have licenced PalmOS. To say Symbian was outdated and then mention Windows CE in the next sentence is laughable. Yes, Windows kept getting developed into WP7 and WP8 but doesn't make WCE any less crap.
If you had have said Windows Mobile was the most wide spread licenced smartphone operating system then I wouldn't argue with you but you said it was the only one and that's just plain wrong.
@@owencooktech Symbian S60 was licensed by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Siemens. Symbian UIQ was made by Ericsson and Motorola, licensed by BenQ. Symbian itself is open source, but the UI framework that runs on it is not. So it's not like it was impossible to license it, but of course it was much more difficult than licensing Windows CE or Android. Samsung even added TouchWiz to the Omnia HD. Imagine TouchWiz home screen on top of S60v5...
HTC fumbled the bag so hard but I can't blame them. The market was on a rapid rise and eventually only 2 or 3 companies at the most could be at the top. Those ended up being Samsung and Apple but it could've easily been HTC and Apple or even Windows and Apple.
Sort your volume levels out dude 🤷♂️
@@johntknight I normalized the whole video. Maybe it's your speakers/ headphones? What part did you notice it in?
The b roll is strangely loud and it slides up and down a bit in the middle. I thinks a combo of gain and eq. The loud parts sound too sharp.
@@owencooktechI heard it too
@@owencooktech try a compressor and limiter
do you think that maybe the phones they make now are just an attempt to provide a portfolio for what the company are able to produce, to acquire 3rd party contracts?
Man the audio mixing is all over the place on this one, feels like on most clips you accidentally made the end volume lower, and so each cut also causes a volume jump
Huh. Could you point out a spot? I spend a lot of time editing these. Maybe it's your speakers/headphones.
@@owencooktech It's especially obvious at 4:12, your voice getting quieter and then suddenly loud after the cut, seems to keep going quiet then loud a couple times after that as well
@@araghon007 I think that's just vocal range. I listened to it with my nice headphones and phone speakers it isn't that jarring to me.
@@owencooktech I see. Thank you for letting me know, and taking the time to check
@@owencooktechno he’s right. The microphone seems to be picking up the voice almost like you’re moving closer and away from the mic. It’s either a physical movement or processing issue. It’s very obvious and strong. It’s not voice range. it could be the microphone trying to block out background noise. It sounds like you’re switching between 2 different microphones every sentence or moving back and forward. It’s okay though. It’s a nice video. I do recommend fixing it for future uploads though or it will hurt once you hear it.
They did try to improve and do some things. They had the special fan club that you could get in to try to help recommend products, be an enthusiast, etc. I was in it.
That’s the problem. They sold to enthusiasts. Smartphone enthusiasts might be 1% of buyers yet 10-11 phone companies fight for their money
Every mobile phone up until iPhone used windows mobile or windows CE?
Man, I think you are really over stating things. I cannot even think of a single person during that time frame who had a phone based on a Microsoft platform at all. Symbian, PalmOS, WebOS, and BlackBerry OS were are far far more popular.
Those were all manufacturer locked. The windows options were the only open sources ones that were widely adopted. I talked a little more about that in my android video.
HTC One V (the phone with a "chin") was my first smart phone. I loved that thing. I died when I got caught in heavy rain on a summer day with no place to hide it.
0:42 oh so that's why they failed
What?
@@owencooktech nepo baby leadership
@@thecianinator nah her dad had nothing to do with it. She's a super smart lady and she designed a lot of stuff we take for granted today
Thanks for the summary
Brilliant and informative video. I remember really wanting a One M7 back in 2013, but never ended up with one. Anyway, I’ve subbed. Will look forward to seeing/hearing more from you in the future. 🙂
Thanks my dude! Make sure to vote on the poll for my next video
Htc was my favorite brand
I loved my HTCs. Had the M8 and that pulled me away from apple phones, then I got the M9, but carriers in the UK stopped offering it so to get a new phone you had to stump up hundreds of pounds and just didn't have that kind of money. So switched to Samsung and stayed with them ever since but still miss my HTC phones.
Im crying bro. I love htc nokia and blackberry 🥲❤️
Yeah dude the goats
Thanks!
Thanks my dude!
yoo this brings back memories, that HTC one was my first reak smartphone back in the day
I have used HTC Wildfire, HTC Incredible S, HTC One Mini, HTC 10, HTC U Play, HTC U11+.
Guess only which one still works today.
The oldest HTC Wildfire ❤😂
I had the 'budget' htc desire phone and it was one of the strongest phone.
It fell out of my pocket and down 5 floors, while flipping over concrete stairs.
It had some deformations on sides, but it continued to work well without any damage to screen itself.
Loved my HTC, but then went through 4 of them - all overheated and with a metal back you couldnt hold them for more than 15 minutes. Thats what killed them for me.
Ya, I had the Thunderbolt. All that I can remember is that they got too hot.
this is odd
7:00
in 2016 a childhood friend of mine who moved to another country, visited us. and she had an HTC phonei
tho i haven't seen an htc phone ever before in the shopping mall i used to buy phones from..
that must be the comeback
I do miss the HTC One. Along with the Palm Prē, LG V30 & LG Velvet... The One was one of my all time favorites.
*Honorable Mention:* HTC EVO 3D.
[currently using ASUS ROG 8 Pro]
Damn bro, I just watched the whole video and the quality of video and the edits that you make deserves huge number of followers. 🙌🙌
Thanks dude!
Nice video! I remember back in 2011 my mom had the evo 3d what a beast that phone was for its time
yeah no kidding full sized hdmi is crazy
I had an HTC "One Mini 2" (after a "Desire 601") until it broke down and kept rebooting continously..., and it is still my most favourite phone ever (ignoring the small screen size, compared to nowadays).
Yo bro when you said the EVO, a whole flood of memories came flooding back. I remember how they heavily marketed the cameras capabilities too
I wanted the Iphone 6C when it came out, but got suckerd into getting the HTC M8. I really hated the interface and that their were tabs to things you're not really interestted in or the fact that you simply coudn't just have a blank homescreen. it was just an unstylish candybar formfactor boringt phone . Signal never flexchuated, showed full service everywhere you went , which was the only good thing about it. Still I wanted the Iphone really bad so traded it in withinin the 30 days Glad I did never ever let someone talk you into something you dont want...
5C or 6S?
@@AzVfL 5c
I used to really like HTC phones around 2010 or so. Android back then was exciting, it was new, it felt different and to be honest it looked cool. That was in a rawer form than what you saw later with the likes of Samsung OneUI, etc.
The HTC Desire in particular was beautiful. I couldn't afford it, but desperately wanted one. A few of my friends had it and I really loved how weighty it felt and how sleek the design was.
I had the Evo 4G and THAT was one of my favorite phones I owned next to the iPhone 4! I loved that evo! "The scramble mode" sounds right. I feel Apple if not is in that mode now with the iPhones, they are very close now lol!
I had three HTC phones back-to-back in the 2010's, the last one being the One M9 and I still think that's one of the nicest phones I've owned.
This is a awesome video and I needed it because I was wondering what happened to HTC after the Evo 4G. After that phone i stopped caring about HTC for years lol.
Great video mate, subscribed! I do miss my HTC Hero, Wildfire and One S!
The HTC One is still one of my favourite phones I had, especially like that it used metal. Felt very durable and classy. Today everything is plastic or glass with a little of metal at the edge. Would love an HTC comeback.
Not to mention there headquarters in the UK is in Slough.
A literal dump of a town.
What does that say to people visiting the headquarters?
I had a HTC one M8 and it's to this day the best phone I've had. Full metal body, speakers facing you, good camera at the time. I had it for years and it handled being wet, dropped down the stairs, and got ran over by a forklift and kept working perfectly fine.
Only got rid of it after several years because something broke inside it and it kept crashing badly, I went to get another HTC only to find I wasn't able to buy anything the same quality without spending a fortune
Ive also had Samsung devices occasionally as well as other family members having Samsung and i absolutely hate the ui on anything Samsung does
HTC is a strange case. I just never got the craze with Blackberry. Their phones all felt like garbage to me with atrocious battery life. There was even a full touchscreen model that needed to be physically pressed down to make the entire screen click in order to register a tap. The brand through and through irritated me.
My father had the HTC One M8.
Superb phone, but later had many software bugs, specifically with headphone jack, went to service centre every 3 weeks, they couldn't fix it, eventually they replaced motherboard, and guess what same bug happened after 2 months.
:)
I had the HTC HD, the first phone with a 6.5-inch screen, and it came with a tranformers movie for some reason. It was a very nice build phone, till I lost it, and every memory of high school I had in it.
Still hurts knowing I lost all those memories I'll never get back.
I was so sad when my M9 One was laggy compared to my M8 (that was dropped in water by my baby bro 😢). I guess it was due to the hot metal backing.
But it was so difficult to find a replacement phone when HTC used to have the ABSOLUTELY AMAZING front speakers.
Still got the tattoo, one m7 and one X. My first androids. Great phones, great memories. I loved the Sense UI on tattoo. Was the Aero Glass UI on Windows Vista for Android. They should bring it back.
This is one cool video. Thanks for telling this story. HTC is a name to remember. I was in love with their products.
you deserve way more attention than this, your videos rock!
Thanks dude! You rock!
Always love your content!
@@blank8327 thanks my dude!
The HTC One m7 was such a beautifully designed phone, I still have one. My wife's last HTC phone was the U11 and mine was the Pixel 2 (I very much still consider that a HTC phone). They had a fantastic team who knew how to design gorgeous phones. It's a real shame the company went the way it did because I genuinely enjoyed their phones.
I was looking at tbe progress bar and getting worried that the video was about to end without mention of the M7 for whatever reason
lmao never man its one of their most influential phones.
I loved my HTC EVO 4g with the built-in kickstand! And of course, the HTC One M8. That was truly a thing of beauty to have and hold.
I owned nothing but HTC phones since they released the Desire up until the U11. My favourite was the M8. I had one for a few years which slipped out of my coat pocket into a puddle which wrecked it. I bought another seemingly new unopened one which turned out to be fake. I had a few screen protectors left from the last one and wondered why they wouldn't fit. The screen was too curved which was how I worked out it was fake.
Ended up getting a refurbished M8 in red which lasted 3 months until it heated up like hell one day and fried itself. Turns out it was also fake...
The best thing about the M8 was the car kit HTC sold for it. You slipped it in sideways into the holder and the HTC Car UI automatically came up. Absolutely awesome feature.
They make VR headsets right?
I had the HTC 1 (M7) for over a decade...i loved the metal design in a primarily plastic industry and the speakers were awesome! Even the camera was decent. I remember showing it off for years
I remember, unlocking the boot loader on the HTC Evo using a custom boot loader to PlayStation 3 into factory service mode .. I think one of their best phones which I still have is the HTC Evo 3-D
Dude i had that htc one m7 and it humiliated everything else on the market even had a ar blaster to control stuff. Man i wish they brought back the glorius one line
I mean their VR headset still slaps. I lived in Taiwan during the time they were doing crazy sales with the htc one and the vive headset
I got the M8 and still the best android phone I ever have till now.
The metal, the dual front speaker design, the simplicity of both looks and OS really got me.
The last HTC phone I had was the HTC ONE M8 and I loved that phone. However, when I was looking for a newer HTC model, I noticed how the new ones didn't have anything close to what other phone manufacturers had in their phones. So I decided to jump ship and not long after I did, I saw where HTC announced it wasn't going to make anymore phones. It was good while it lasted.
I like how everyone is focusing on HTC being an android company and just mention a few words about Windows Mobile like it was nothing really special. HTC was THE smartphone brand before most people ever imagined something like that would ever happen, not to mention getting into the mainstream. Their QWERTY slider design was a pinnacle of mobile tech at that time. Anyone seeing it in the street thouht it was a PC you're holding in your hands. It's a great part of their history. Holding one in your hand was a total guarantee of interest from the people standing next to you.
They bought me with their QWERTY keyboards and I'm ready to be bought by the same feature again. Just use the TyTN II case and update the internals, I'll buy it right away.
HTC One M8 was probably the last phone I had from HTC before I went Samsung, I did enjoy having a infrared blaster on both the regular M7 and M8
I had the HTC one after i grew sick of apple after my 3G. The HTC one was amazing at the time.
I remember wanting to upgrade maybe 3 years later, though there wasnt another good HTC on offer - I ended up with a samsung s10 or something and have had samsung since.
I had an HTC One. It was one of the best phones I’ve ever owned. Back in the days of replaceable batteries and easily rooting phones without running into nasty security systems (hello Knox!!!) and installing highly customized ROMs and kernels.
Good times.
I was quite an early adopter with the HTC Desire. I wish I'd jumped on board with the HTC Hero but, at that time, upgrading my contract, I was too intimidated by the learning curve of moving over to that new form factor.
At the time, everybody admired my Desire, like my then-girlfriend, saying things like, 'Oh, it's like a little computer' but she was a major speed texter who used to wear out dumbphone physical keyboards with her nails (which I used to replace and repair).
I have no doubt in my mind that, now, about 10 years later, she will probably have a Samsung and be all over Facebook on it (which I am not).
I'm now one of the dwindling few who use Sonys, for the Micro SD slot and headphone jack.
The HTC One used to be a beautiful phone.
Another company I don't understand not being more successful and rising is ZTE. They had a great specced budget phone that was popular, called the Blade and the Axon 7 I had for a while had an amazing screen and speakers, an aluminium body and all-round flagship phone specs for a lower tier price. I thought the relative popularity and bang for buck of those 2 phones were going to be the beginning of great things for ZTE and for us but their potential didn't get realised, after that.
The HTC One M7 was my first real smartphone & introduction to Android. Really miss their offerings tbh. That phone really struck me as one of the best phones I'd ever had.
Its sad. I worked at Rogers Wireless during the fall of HTC, Nokia, BlackBerry, Motorola. I remember they launched the HTC One. Was like their last ditch at a premium phone. Lots of glitches.
I've recently purchased the OnePlus Nord 4, it has a unibody metal build very simular to the old HTC One phones (and it's 5G too boot). It sort of reminds me of a cross between the HTC One phones, and the camera housing of the Pixel 2/3.
I had 3 HTc Phones, the Legend, One & One M8 - felt in love with full body aluminium casings! All really great phones and much sturdier than my friends Galaxies / iPhones :D
the htc one m7 had a 1.7ghz clock speed, but it was faster than the s4 at 1.9ghz simply because of heat dissipation
I had a Samsung S4 when the HTC one came out, I had serious phone envy and it seemed like the HTC one was the enthusiasts phone to have. I got sick of the S4s plastic body, so when the HTC M8 came out I went to the local phone store and asked to see one. Turns out I was the first person who had asked to see it and they didn't even have one on display. I bought one and the excitement I felt about it being made of metal quickly faded when it came to use it. Within the first day the fact the screen looked lost on the phone annoyed me due to the speakers, screen boarders, buttons and HTC logo taking up so much room. Then there was the camera, it seemed terrible compared to the camera in my old S4.
I hated the phone from day one and sold it within the first year even though I was still in contract and ended up having to pay it off just to get out of it.
The only HTC phone I have any experience with is the Touch Pro 2, and it was absolutely awful. There wasn't a working day where I didn't want to heave that phone across the room in the hopes it would break and I'd get a Blackberry.
Thanks for this! My HTC evo 3D & the HTC One are my two favorite phones I've ever had. Close up there was my Note 10+
Had the Cingular 8125 twice. Then I had the T-Mobile G1 android experience. After that I had the HTC HD1, which i eventually converted from terrible Windows OS to a rooted Android device. I didn't know it was Windows before I bought it.
HTC Glacier was my last stop before switching over a Galaxy S3. I used to love the big clock on HTC Sense. All Samsungs and iPhone rotations now.