Now naturally you would think that as progress happens every phone you used would be the best phone you''ve used. Not so though. Some phones I''ve used have been a step in the wrong direction, or have solved one issue only to have 3 more pop up. The HTC One, however is such a pleasure to use! The device is sleek, and for me, reigns in the title of the best looking/feeling android phone to date. The attention to detail is great (there are a few quality control issues however, but nothing major. For example the screen to the speaker grill isn''t quite flesh, it''s a very very small amount of on mine, but the device functions perfectly despite that. Just an OCD thing.)The Positives:1) Audio: Now the most amazing thing on the device is the sound and microphone quality. The dual front facing speakers (known as BoomSound), is able to blast music and other audio through them. It does so with amazing clarity from a phone that I have never heard before. The next thing is the microphone and it''s noise canceling technology is crystal clear. When you get the phone, just open up the voice recording app and give it a little demo. You''ll be blown away by how realistic the audio that it records is. Plus, it''s clear. A great feature to have in a phone. Youtube, calls, skype, hangouts, now sound that much better.2) The screen: This screen is sharp and goes well with the clarity that we get from audio. With a ppi of 468, and a full 1080p screen, movies, pictures, and just web browsing look extra sharp. Good speakers and a good screen make this a multimedia powerhouse.3) Processing Power: The device blows through what ever you throw at it. The device doesn''t just idle behind as it''s trying to process stuff. One thing however, the device isn''t running Android 4.2 (yet!) so there is a small amount of non buttery smoothness when scrolling through lists for example. That should be fixed through a software update to Android 4.2, but you really have to pay close attention and not blink to even notice it.4) Camera: The camera is great, it has a lot of features. Unfortunately it doesn''t wipe the board of all other manufactures. It excels in low light, and the feature sets that it has. Zoe''s, Burst shots, action shots, object removal, always smile, and more. HTC really packed the camera app with features. But as I said it doesn''t win every camera measurement. Other cameras will get better daylight photos. It''s not to say that the camera on the One is bad, just that there are cameras that do one thing better, but then the HTC One does lowlight, video recording (clear audio), file size, features, etc much better. Bottom line as far as the camera goes, you won''t be disappointed with the quality it takes, and unless you are coming from a current generation smartphone device, the camera will be an upgrade in almost every capacity.5) Sense: HTC has loaded a lot of features into sense. They have their BlinkFeed homescreen which aggregates information together and puts it into a sleek scrollable view that looks quite amazing. Did I mention they have an IR Blaster (ability to use your phone as a universal remote)? Yeah, it does and the Sense TV app that goes with it makes it a lot easier to watch tv. Seriously, try it out. Sense has been flattened a lot and become less intrusive. HTC still has a way to go (I hope they come out with a more google experience looking theme), but it looks great and adds extra functionality to stock Android.6) Battery: The batter is not great, but it''s not terrible. You have to think what it''s powering too. A super powerful snapdragon quad core processor, and a full 1080p 4.7" screen. It''s load speakers, and 4G LTE. That''s a lot of juice needed. I was hoping for a little higher capacity battery. I ran a battery test on the device (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufo0YeP5T8c) and it got great video play back and I get from normal usage about 24 hours of usage out of the device.7) Modding: For a lot of people this point won''t matter much. But for me it does. The device can be easily unlocked through HTCDev.com. This allows me to continue my obsession of tinkering with my devices.The Meh:1) HTC decided to go with a 2 button navigation approach. A misstep if you ask me. It won''t kill your user experience on the device, but it gets some getting use to, and in some instances when an app isn''t going by google''s design guidelines, it adds a fugly onscreen menu bar to the bottom of the device''s screen. This may be resolved by allowing long press back button to be used as menu key fall back in a future update.2) Wish there was a better more visible notification LED. Something like on the nexus 4 or galaxy nexus. Multi color and having customization. There is a notification LED, but it isn''t that visible, it stops after 5 mins and it is only green for notifications.3) Not available on Verizon. Hopefully it will be soon, but it isn''t right now. I''m chalking this up to being Verizon''s fault, however.The Bad:1) Bloatware: I have the T-Mobile version and there is some uninstallable bloatware on the device that you can''t get rid of. You can disable it, but it still takes up space on your device. Kinda of annoying. But I put more of that blame on T-Mobile, and carriers that do that.2) Software issues: There''s a few things that HTC missed. The recent apps multitasking only allows for the last 9 applications, comes shipped with 4.1 and I''m not sure when we''ll get Android 4.2, hopefully soon. This means stuff like emoji''s won''t be supported until then. In the multitasking window, you can''t hold down an app to go to the app info page. Sense is a little quirky for the homescreen. For example you can''t just directly add one of the apps on the homescreen to the lockscreen shortcut, you have to drag it from the app drawer to the lockscreen. There''s other small annoyances like that. I hope they get changed, but they are by no means a deal breaker.Conclusion: The device is a great device, even with it''s short comings (which are small) I would give it a resounding must buy. Even if you aren''t in the Android camp and are an iOS, blackberry, featurephone, Windows Phone user, I would recommend you try the device. It''s a very capable device. I''ve been thoroughly impressed by the device and the HTC has made an improvement to their audio experience that will amazing all smartphone users.