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@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 🤡
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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 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 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.
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.
The first 4G Verizon phone in the US was an HTC that I bought (Thunderbolt or Evo). It had a kick stand that was very handy. One of those was for a different carrier but it kept getting delayed so I went with the Verizon one as soon as it launched. 4G was amazing. And I had no complaints about the phone. In the following years, Sony's Xperia then Samsung Galaxy lines took over my attention. I still remember HTC as the first 4G phone I used, though. Good times.
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.
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. 🙂
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 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.
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).
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
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...
I still have an HTC One in my collection. Sadly, it is the only phone in which the battery has swollen, and ruptured the screen - and it did this with zero charge, several years after I retired it. It was a great phone, with amazing stereo sound!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
My first smartphone was HTC Tattoo, which was an Android phone as I can't afford a pricey iPhone 3GS at the time. The resistive screen was not fluid and not quite responsive, making it so annoying when playing a game on it. Your video reminded me of my brief good old time with the only HTC phone I owned before I switched to iPhones ! Thanks for sharing ! I am surprised that HTC still exists given that Android phone markets are significantly dominated by Samsung.
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.
I remember getting an HTC Wildfire when I was 12/13 and being super excited at having a touch screen phone. Soon after I tried to play Angry Birds and it was literally unplayable, the title sequence progressing at about 1fps. I never understood why the phone was so grindingly slow and by the following year I'd switched to IPhone.
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.
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 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.
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.
We can say...OWEN COOKED with this one. Reminder when the HTC One was the ONLY phone apple would put on their website, as their Android alternative..insane!
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.
Fun fact: the HTC One was the very last Droid I used daily before migrating over to iPhone in 2015. Stayed with them ever since. Funny thing is...I remember around that time thinking, "Ya know...there aren't really any other Droid phones I want anymore. Guess I'll give iPhone a try." The rest, as they say, is history.
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
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.
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. :)
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.
In 2008, my first non-brick phone was the Mogul. Loved that phone since I could do just about anything including homework. Especially with the keyboard.
Always crazy to ruminate on the rise and fall of HTC, at one point seemed like everyone either had a Samsung, HTC or Iphone and that was it. There were so many variants of HTC phones as well, and they had a badass tablet called the HTC Flyer. Then suddenly they were rapidly getting worse and less common. Wild that they got hammered with lawsuits over copying designs, when the whole smartphone industry is literally everyone copying eachother. Haven't laid my eyes on an HTC device in nearly a decade now.
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.
My dad gave me an HTC one with a cracked screen when I was 9 in 2011. I wanted to save up some money to replace the screen, so I put it away for a while. Little did I know it’d be the last year of their reign
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
The HTC EVO was my first android phone, the kickstand was the icing! I wish a kick stand would be a feature on modern phones. I personally think it would be a perfect feature for the pixel, to accompany the among us style camera lenses 😂
HTC was crazy when it lasted. I still have an HTC e9p5 lying around. It still works and the battery lasts longer than my pixel 2. It's extremely laggy, and not to mention the discontinued apps. I also noticed that you don't need a case for it, but drops are completely fine. Personally, I think it proves that older phones and companies around a decade ago cared more about customer satisfaction and usability than the ones we have nowadays, where they only support software for a few years and force you to buy a new phone. Sure, there are iphones that last a long time and samsungs as well, but they never capture the feeling of those old phone we used to love and use. I'm a big Android supporter and I've been an HTC all my life untill their downfall. It's amazing how much the entire concept and goals for smartphones changed within such a short time. Espescially the little tweaks and bits of those phones that just bring it to a whole other level, sense ui, the flip clocks, headphone jacks and everything. Those little features just make you love the phone even more and feel like the company is actually putting effort into it. New smartphones don't seem that big of a deal anymore, after all, it's just another smartphone right? I miss the olden days where smartphone develpment was still just beginning to get popular. Long live HTC and Android! (sorry apple.)
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
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 subscribed at “party on dude’s” nice video, I’d forgotten about HTC, I remember the ONE, and then they just faded away… I remember a google edition where you got the build quality and a un skinned version of android.
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.
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😅
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.*
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.
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
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 😊
@@Joos-f3k 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.
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.
the in hand feeling of one of these phones literally felt better than most tech i have ever had. a true premium product
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 flip clock and weather widget is still one of my favorite widgets
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 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 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.
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.
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.
The first 4G Verizon phone in the US was an HTC that I bought (Thunderbolt or Evo). It had a kick stand that was very handy.
One of those was for a different carrier but it kept getting delayed so I went with the Verizon one as soon as it launched. 4G was amazing. And I had no complaints about the phone.
In the following years, Sony's Xperia then Samsung Galaxy lines took over my attention. I still remember HTC as the first 4G phone I used, though. Good times.
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
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
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
My first smart phone was a HTC. Thanks for bringing back some old memories.
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.
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).
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
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...
I still have an HTC One in my collection. Sadly, it is the only phone in which the battery has swollen, and ruptured the screen - and it did this with zero charge, several years after I retired it. It was a great phone, with amazing stereo sound!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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 a lot of HTC phones like the Evo from Sprint
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.
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
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.
Great video mate, subscribed! I do miss my HTC Hero, Wildfire and One S!
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.
This is a nice quality video, keep up the good work.
Im crying bro. I love htc nokia and blackberry 🥲❤️
Yeah dude the goats
yoo this brings back memories, that HTC one was my first reak smartphone back in the day
Htc was my favorite brand
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!
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
Thanks!
Thanks my dude!
you deserve way more attention than this, your videos rock!
Thanks dude! You rock!
My first smartphone was HTC Tattoo, which was an Android phone as I can't afford a pricey iPhone 3GS at the time. The resistive screen was not fluid and not quite responsive, making it so annoying when playing a game on it.
Your video reminded me of my brief good old time with the only HTC phone I owned before I switched to iPhones ! Thanks for sharing !
I am surprised that HTC still exists given that Android phone markets are significantly dominated by Samsung.
Great video. Except the up and down volume levels. Highly suggest you check out Vocal Rider by Waves. Keeps your volume levels constant.
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
This is one cool video. Thanks for telling this story. HTC is a name to remember. I was in love with their products.
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.
Always love your content!
@@blank8327 thanks my dude!
I remember getting an HTC Wildfire when I was 12/13 and being super excited at having a touch screen phone. Soon after I tried to play Angry Birds and it was literally unplayable, the title sequence progressing at about 1fps. I never understood why the phone was so grindingly slow and by the following year I'd switched to IPhone.
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.
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.
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.
Good video, you deserve more viewers
@@ing_gl thanks dude!
I had the HTC M8, it was a gorgeous phone, metal case, quick and so much fun. So sad to see them gone.
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.
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.
The trackball in the early days of android was a gift when a lot of websites didn't have proper mobile pages yet.
We can say...OWEN COOKED with this one. Reminder when the HTC One was the ONLY phone apple would put on their website, as their Android alternative..insane!
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 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.
Fun fact: the HTC One was the very last Droid I used daily before migrating over to iPhone in 2015. Stayed with them ever since.
Funny thing is...I remember around that time thinking, "Ya know...there aren't really any other Droid phones I want anymore. Guess I'll give iPhone a try." The rest, as they say, is history.
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
Nothing beats the wiper on the home screen when forecast app says it's raining haha
Stayed to learn what happened to htc, followed and liked because you’re a fellow Samus main.
A core memory of mine is playing a metal ball game on my dads htc, thanks for that
I loved my m7 and m8~
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+
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.
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.
:)
The HTC Wildfire was my first ever touch screen phone and I loved that thing. I even still have it in my bedroom
I had the Evo 3D in high school. That camera was way ahead of its time.
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.
Great video!! Have you made a video like this but for blackberry?
I already did!
love your channel straight to the point
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.
In 2008, my first non-brick phone was the Mogul. Loved that phone since I could do just about anything including homework. Especially with the keyboard.
Always crazy to ruminate on the rise and fall of HTC, at one point seemed like everyone either had a Samsung, HTC or Iphone and that was it. There were so many variants of HTC phones as well, and they had a badass tablet called the HTC Flyer. Then suddenly they were rapidly getting worse and less common. Wild that they got hammered with lawsuits over copying designs, when the whole smartphone industry is literally everyone copying eachother. Haven't laid my eyes on an HTC device in nearly a decade now.
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.
My dad gave me an HTC one with a cracked screen when I was 9 in 2011. I wanted to save up some money to replace the screen, so I put it away for a while. Little did I know it’d be the last year of their reign
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
The HTC EVO was my first android phone, the kickstand was the icing! I wish a kick stand would be a feature on modern phones. I personally think it would be a perfect feature for the pixel, to accompany the among us style camera lenses 😂
I had the HTC One X in university in 2011 and it was great. I miss it to this day.
HTC was crazy when it lasted. I still have an HTC e9p5 lying around. It still works and the battery lasts longer than my pixel 2. It's extremely laggy, and not to mention the discontinued apps. I also noticed that you don't need a case for it, but drops are completely fine. Personally, I think it proves that older phones and companies around a decade ago cared more about customer satisfaction and usability than the ones we have nowadays, where they only support software for a few years and force you to buy a new phone. Sure, there are iphones that last a long time and samsungs as well, but they never capture the feeling of those old phone we used to love and use. I'm a big Android supporter and I've been an HTC all my life untill their downfall. It's amazing how much the entire concept and goals for smartphones changed within such a short time. Espescially the little tweaks and bits of those phones that just bring it to a whole other level, sense ui, the flip clocks, headphone jacks and everything. Those little features just make you love the phone even more and feel like the company is actually putting effort into it. New smartphones don't seem that big of a deal anymore, after all, it's just another smartphone right? I miss the olden days where smartphone develpment was still just beginning to get popular. Long live HTC and Android! (sorry apple.)
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
Good video man. Love the Greenday tshirt!
@@akkinak hack yeah dude. I got it a few weeks ago at the saviors tour
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 subscribed at “party on dude’s” nice video, I’d forgotten about HTC, I remember the ONE, and then they just faded away… I remember a google edition where you got the build quality and a un skinned version of android.
I had htc for while, i love it people used to go crazy dor one back in the day !!!
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.