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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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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. 🙂
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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 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 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]
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.
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 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 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.
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 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 first smartphone was an HTC and it was fantastic. My last HTC was the Desire 610, God I loved that phone. I miss the good old Nokia, Motorola and Blackberry days...
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 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 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.
My very first smartphone was an HTC phone. Loved it. Got it 2011, and kept it a little over two years. I remember trying to decide between the HTC Inspire on AT&T and the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon. AT&T gave me a student discount (I was in university at the time) so I went with them. Considered replacing it with an HTC One or an iPhone. I reluctantly chose the iPhone. I liked the HTC One but after 2 years with the HTC Inspire, one thing I didn't like about it that I wanted a phone I thought could last longer than 2 years and the Inspire showed its age before the 2 year mark. The touchscreen started to get laggy and unresponsive to the point where I couldn't even answer calls. My friends had their 2 years iPhones that were still moving smooth like butter. That's what ultimately made me consider getting an iPhone in the first place, even though I didn't really like iPhone and didn't plan on it being my next phone. I've had iPhones ever since and I wouldn't consider going away from it now.
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...
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.
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 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 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
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.
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 used to LOVE HTC. I loved their products and especially their branding. The HTC Wildfire S was my first android smartphone. I also had the HTC Evo 3D, and possibly the most beautiful phone ever: The HTC One (M7). HTC Sensation and HTC One X were sexy and I really wanted to own them. I loved them all so much, but then I saw in 2014 they stopped releasing amazing flagship phones, and I switched to Sony Xperia, which also ended up dying.
I remember my girlfriend in highschool getting her htc one and helping her set it up and going to messaging and whatnot, what a time! I remember it annoyingly performing much better than my Samsung.
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.
Loved the HTC One M8 when it came out, it just felt so good. It was lightening fast when I came away from iPhone and still to this day one of my favourites. 8:30 - They cut ties with Microsoft and pivoted away from phones in 2015 when Microsoft started falling out of the phone sphere, which isnt niche knowledge so I dont know how you missed it? They put their main focus into VR Headsets and since their headsets worked on the valve open VR framework, it lead to them being the market leaders for a long time when they released the HTC Vive in 2015 where they pretty much dominated the high end gaming VR Headset scene with Oculus taking the casual market share (due to their cheaper headsets which then moved to wireless). Basically how it worked was, if you wanted cheap you got the Oculus Rift but if you wanted to spend big for better graphics and more power you got the HTC Vive. HTC basically held the high-end share until Valve themselves decided to join the VR space and they brung out the Index in 2019, which basically killed HTC off. They were kind of struhgling because people couldnt justify the price of the Vive Pro for its gains - it was just too expensive at the time. After that they pretty much fell off as they tried to dive into crypto and like you said - started making phones for Google.
So much potential. I think it's because their cameras were bad and their phones would get hot quickly, and slowed down. The ladder is because of the metal casing.
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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
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.
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.
The UI of the HTC was some of my fav. That clock widget is still 110% on fire and nothing compares.
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
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.*
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 TH-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.
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.
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.😢😢
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Great video mate, subscribed! I do miss my HTC Hero, Wildfire and One S!
the in hand feeling of one of these phones literally felt better than most tech i have ever had. a true premium product
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
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
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!
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
Im crying bro. I love htc nokia and blackberry 🥲❤️
Yeah dude the goats
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.
I had a lot of HTC phones like the Evo from Sprint
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
Dude I love your channel. Been watching for a while. Keep it going.
Thanks my dude!
This is one cool video. Thanks for telling this story. HTC is a name to remember. I was in love with their products.
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.
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.
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
Stayed to learn what happened to htc, followed and liked because you’re a fellow Samus main.
you deserve way more attention than this, your videos rock!
Thanks dude! You rock!
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.
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 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!
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 love your content!
@@blank8327 thanks my dude!
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.
owen cooked with this one !! 🔥
i miss the good ol HTC days.
@@Ikram232 thanks my dude. They were the best.
Good video, you deserve more viewers
@@ing_gl thanks dude!
Great video!! Have you made a video like this but for blackberry?
I already did!
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+
I had the Evo 3D in high school. That camera was way ahead of its time.
love your channel straight to the point
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 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.
Really like your video, but your audio mixing is off at parts. Gonna make sure its consistent. Had to rock the volume back and forth nonstop
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 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.
Good video man. Love the Greenday tshirt!
@@akkinak hack yeah dude. I got it a few weeks ago at the saviors tour
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.
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 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 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.
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 htc for while, i love it people used to go crazy dor one back in the day !!!
I purchased a HTC Tytn 2 when I was young. Was amazing. I loved that thing
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 loved my HTC droid incredible. I also had the HTC one and liked that as well.
My HTC One was probably my favourite phone I ever owned. The sound was amazing!!
My first smartphone was an HTC and it was fantastic. My last HTC was the Desire 610, God I loved that phone.
I miss the good old Nokia, Motorola and Blackberry days...
I had the HTC M8, it was a gorgeous phone, metal case, quick and so much fun. So sad to see them gone.
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.
:)
HTC One is my favorite phone ever. Felt so revolutionary. I'll always miss it.
I loved my HTC One. Fantastic speakers, interface and usability. Even enjoyed the HTC Hero I had years before that.
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 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.
My very first smartphone was an HTC phone. Loved it. Got it 2011, and kept it a little over two years. I remember trying to decide between the HTC Inspire on AT&T and the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon. AT&T gave me a student discount (I was in university at the time) so I went with them. Considered replacing it with an HTC One or an iPhone. I reluctantly chose the iPhone.
I liked the HTC One but after 2 years with the HTC Inspire, one thing I didn't like about it that I wanted a phone I thought could last longer than 2 years and the Inspire showed its age before the 2 year mark. The touchscreen started to get laggy and unresponsive to the point where I couldn't even answer calls. My friends had their 2 years iPhones that were still moving smooth like butter. That's what ultimately made me consider getting an iPhone in the first place, even though I didn't really like iPhone and didn't plan on it being my next phone. I've had iPhones ever since and I wouldn't consider going away from it now.
Had the original G1, the Desire Z and then the HTC One, all were amazing phones!
I had a HTC when I was very young and loved it
Yeah those early 2005-11 phones are awesome
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
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.
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 remember wanting an HTC One M8 as it was gorgeous phone with a beautiful design with their boom sound speakers.
My HTC Mogul was my favorite phone of that era! Miss those days!😢
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 the HTC One X in university in 2011 and it was great. I miss it to this day.
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
Great video i always wondered where hTC ended up😅
Thanks my dude! Have an excellent day
The UI for HTC was beyond beautiful, the only reason I ever switched to android in my entire life back in like 2011.
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.
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 nearly forgot about HTC they were so big around 2010. Sad to see their downfall😢
I used to love my HTC. I had the Thunderbolt which I loved, the Resound and then the ONE. They ALL were better made then the competition but then.....
I used to LOVE HTC. I loved their products and especially their branding. The HTC Wildfire S was my first android smartphone. I also had the HTC Evo 3D, and possibly the most beautiful phone ever: The HTC One (M7). HTC Sensation and HTC One X were sexy and I really wanted to own them. I loved them all so much, but then I saw in 2014 they stopped releasing amazing flagship phones, and I switched to Sony Xperia, which also ended up dying.
Man I had a htc one m8 back in the day. Man that was the best phone bro
I remember my girlfriend in highschool getting her htc one and helping her set it up and going to messaging and whatnot, what a time! I remember it annoyingly performing much better than my Samsung.
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.
Love my htc desire and thunderbolt! Love them. Unfortunately, HTC just suddenly disappeared. Love the interface of the phone
When I took a break from Apple I got an HTC Sensation and an HTC one after that. absolutely loved them, especially my sensation..
I actually loved HTC. The HTC incredible 2 was my first android. Last HTC i owned was the HTC DNA, i loved that phone to.
Loved the HTC One M8 when it came out, it just felt so good. It was lightening fast when I came away from iPhone and still to this day one of my favourites.
8:30 - They cut ties with Microsoft and pivoted away from phones in 2015 when Microsoft started falling out of the phone sphere, which isnt niche knowledge so I dont know how you missed it?
They put their main focus into VR Headsets and since their headsets worked on the valve open VR framework, it lead to them being the market leaders for a long time when they released the HTC Vive in 2015 where they pretty much dominated the high end gaming VR Headset scene with Oculus taking the casual market share (due to their cheaper headsets which then moved to wireless). Basically how it worked was, if you wanted cheap you got the Oculus Rift but if you wanted to spend big for better graphics and more power you got the HTC Vive.
HTC basically held the high-end share until Valve themselves decided to join the VR space and they brung out the Index in 2019, which basically killed HTC off. They were kind of struhgling because people couldnt justify the price of the Vive Pro for its gains - it was just too expensive at the time. After that they pretty much fell off as they tried to dive into crypto and like you said - started making phones for Google.
So much potential.
I think it's because their cameras were bad and their phones would get hot quickly, and slowed down. The ladder is because of the metal casing.
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