HTC 10 on Vodafone

[LordLanky]

So, exciting news about the HTC 10 yesterday.
The leaks left me doubting if the device was good enough, but initial reviews suggest it might have got it right.

In the meantime TechRadar suggests VF are sitting on the fence about whether to stock it.

I'm sure a helpful VF member of staff will point us to the pointless "Coming Soon" page. Thanks for that.

Meantime here in the real world who would like VF to stock the HTC 10?
Is it incredible or even possible that VF are considering to NOT run with it?

[iar1980]

I don't know if this has been mentioned in a earlier post, if so apologies but Tesco are also stocking the phone

http://shop.tescomobile.com/pay-monthly/mobile-phones/htc/10?deal=30165

Again apologies if already posted elsewhere.

[IWonder]

@burso83, no worries mate, I have got my phone now and as you say, I love it.  I had a few challenges with a Spigen screen protector, wasted 2 out of 3 fitting it their way, third was fine when I did it my way (sounds like a Frank Sinatra song lol). Amazon good at crediting for the damaged ones.  Ordered the rugged armor and it should be here tomorrow.

Vodafone Sure Signal didn't work to start with, but just had to call them to reset the number.  I haven't used the HTC 10 it in anger yet, but looks great. I preferred the old Gallery rather than Google Photos, but I am not a huge lover of Cloud storage for personal stuff although I can see the benefits, and I do use GMail for contacts after losing them all once when a backup failed.

Only bug bear at the moment is that I can't seem to find the swype feature that was on my previous HTC phone, can't find out about it on Google either.  Anybody got any ideas how to activate it or has the feature been removed?

Still setting up new apps, great to have a MicroSD as my old HTC One S didn't have one.

[burso83]

@IWonder re the micro SD, if you want to format it as internal storage HTC recommend a UHS 3 class card. These come with write speeds of 30MB/s and above. I have only found out by chance as I've tried to format my old micro SD and it failed as it was too slow. The message on the phone was "try using a UHS 3 class card"

Guys, how is your battery life so far? Mine is disappointing. I have completed 4-5 full night charge cycles. Coming off a 2yr old M8, using it the same way as the M8 I barely make it through a day. Last day (today) I went for 12hrs16mins on battery with 2hrs 46mins screen on time. No dodgy apps running, I wonder if the display is the big battery drainer. Brightness set to 70% and aufto brightness on. After the bold claims about 2 days battery life I have to say I'm disappointed so far. I hope it will improve within the next few days as I'm thinking of an exchange should it not get better.

[bizarre_adz]

@burso83 I was questioning my battery life too. Coming from an Xperia Z3 and regularly getting 4hr+ of screen on time through a day (off charge 6.30am and making it through to 10pm every day). The HTC is getting through the day with about 4.5hrs screen on and making it to an overnight charge, but I've had to install a battery app to kill any background processes for stuff like facebook and twitter as something was killing the battery life.I run the backlight at about 40% of the slide bar, but with auto-brightness.

So on any regular day I have a smartwatch plus 14-16hrs on wi-fi and 3.5-5hrs screen on time. Today is currently:

77% battery, power saving off (except the battery app in the background)

6h 10mins on battery

58mins screen on time

The battery app reckons I have another 27hrs 22mins remaining, but there's no way it's gonna hit that once I get home and start racking up the screen-on time whilst the mrs watches the soaps!

I've come to the conclusion that the standby time is really good on this phone, but once the screen is on it's not as good as others I've used. I'm putting that down to the overall screen resolution and brightness (it's MUCH brighter than my Xperia Z3 even at only 40% on the slider. Xperia equivalnet was about 2/3rds along). Yesterday I was working in the garden for most of the day and the phone stayed indoors (so still connected to the watch and the wi-fi). Off charge at 9am and when I checked it at about 2pm it was at 88%. I ran fotmob during the prem league matches (3pm-5pm) on full notifcations, and when I checked it again at 6pm it was still on about 72% and had racked up 1hr20mins screen on in total. I hit 3hrs screen on by the end of the day and it was down to about 46% at 11pm. Not bad, but not outstanding either.

[bizarre_adz]

Also on the SDCard, I'm running the 64gb Class 10 Sandisk (about £15 from Amazon) and had no issues on the speed or connectivity, but it did need to be formatted in my xperia Z3 before it would read correctly in the PC to transfer files off my old 32gb card.

[danjasonc]

I got an HTC 10 through mobiles.co.uk and it's on Vodafone. However the signal is non existent 99% of the time even though my other vodafone contract has full signal and when I put the sim in another phone it works fine. Texts all come through at once then suddenly there is no signal again. Is there anyone else out there that has an HTC 10 with a vodafone sim and does everything work fine? Does anyone have any suggestion to sort this? I've tried moving my number to a different sim. My old EE sim worked 100% in the HTC 10 before the number ported! I've spent more time than enough on to Vodafone CS.

Thanks!

[bizarre_adz]

I've skipped on google photos and keyboard and picked up piktures and kika keyboard. Both are better than the stock options IMHO. Had difficulties with pasting copied links. On my xperia and nexus 5 a long hold brought up a paste option, on the HTC10 I've had to go back to using clipboard actions, but it does give other features. +1 on the notification bar shortcuts. Very frustrating to not be able to edit these.

[jacippet]

Thie is getting silly Vodafone UK! Still no news when this is going to be getting stocked and my patiance is wearing thin as both Vodafone Australia and Germany now have it! Yes I know they are different companies but come on and get your act together please and stock the HTC 10!

[Kettleoffish]

I still own the HTC M7, my contract expired in January but I wanted to wait for the HTC 10 so I decided to change to a flexible contract which is much cheaper but you are tied in for a year but can upgrade after 3 months.

It's dissapointing to see Vodafone not selling the HTC 10 as I"ve been waiting for such a long time and now I'm stuck in this contract until January, if I want to leave or face paying a large cancelation fee so this'll be my third year with the 7 whereas I would really like to own the 10.

[IWonder]

@burso83 I'd already bought a Kingston 64 GB UHS Class 1/Class10 microSDXC but mainly for music, and to save the photos to; but I'll see how it performs and change it if I need to.

I have found it a little hungrier on the battery than I thought, It's not so bad but I don't use it heavily on access, more for looking the odd stuff up, bluetooth always on for the fit bit.  I charged it after getting back from the gym at 09:00 and its down to 67% now (19:10).  I use the timer to time rests between sets at the gym and that sucks some of the power and also photos and video. Certainly doesn't last 2 days, but acceptable I guess these days.  The  Rugged Armor is great BTW albeit nicer without a case :smileywink: