Wow, seems like there are a lot people not liking this phone. I have an HTC EVO 4GLTE, not the greatest phone in the world but it has never given me a problem other than the crappy network its on (Sprint). I'm not disappointed with HTC jmore than I am with Sprint but that's another forum.
From what I see, I have to give it to HTC. They really do make beautiful phones. I'm really surprised, thought this forum would be raving about the phone instead all I'm reading about is that HTC doesn't give updates quick enough. Well who does other than google itself..?
I'm not an HTC fan boy and I'm actually considering waiting for the xphone but wow am I tempted get this phone. The Ultrapixel camera looks great, the processor is the top notch, it has super speakers that are done right (finally), iR blaster, and that design is beautiful. I'm rooted running CM10.1 and I would love to see how this bad boy performs rooted-s-off. Could we see 2.2 ghz stable, super smooth, no lag UI. What about mods that improve on the camera? Also, I wonder what kind of enhancements could be made to the speakers...wow! That screen is the best one out so far, can it really get that much better? and lastly it's such damn good looking phone! Dag, I think I just convinced myself to get one.
The GS4, I'm sure will be great but how much greater probably not much. Now, If they throw an octacore processor then its not a fair fight. You would have to compare these 2 separately.
So many possibilities.
Anyways, I really want HTC to do well because they really do make the best hardware in the market. HTC your innovation is great, but what good is it if you don't market this bad boy like Samy did the SG3. Do that and I think people will start to recognize and make it a household name, like Samsung and Apple.