otacon72 :
HTC won't touch it. They already have arguably the best smartphone on the market right now with the HTC One. Not putting the HTC one on Verizon is ridiculous though. The HTC one is superior to the S4 and iPh5.
i5 ya, but S4, ehh... One thing that is critical for me is extended memory and for some ungodly reason, HTC took it out. My EVOs had it and now the One is missing it. So I went S4 this time. Other then being so darn thin and having a plastic back, it's a darn nice phone and really, at least Sprint's version has very minimal bloat on it that can't be completely removed or at least disabled.
I really don't care how much internal memory they have cause the extended cards are where everything will go and where my information, videos, etc will be and I have 64G UHC1 cards by the stacks from my cameras that I stick into my phones that give me a mere 10M/20M performance in my S4 (better then the EVO though) but not the full 30M the card could do).
As for apps to the SD card, the phone has 10G of space just for apps alone... that's plenty for apps that you'll install. If you have more apps then that, you're doing something wrong or just an app whore and need to re-evaluate your life. Or there are the 32/64G versions with more room. I'm not a fan of the emulated sdcard folder but... it really shouldn't ever be a true killer of stopping me from doing anything. And for people who root their phones, they could care less.
Honestly, if the One had an SD card slot, I would have gone that route, but for some reason, HTC removed it. Why ohh why?!? With what I do, I have a collection of about 6 SD cards with my music, movies, etc. on them for traveling, etc. On the S4, one nice thing is I don't even have to shut it off to swap it out (if I'm careful to not pop out the battery since the card slides out the side instead of the battery slot). With the One, I'd have to store them to some other media, laptop, portable drive, etc. and pull out some other device to power up, plug in and wait forever while gigs of data swap around... also burning up battery doing a hard data write. Swapping memory sticks are just SO much more convenient. Especially when my laptops also have a memory slot on them also so I can just plug them in there when I get to the hotel, home, etc. I have true, fully portable entertainment. HTC dropped the ball to save $0.02 on a memory port per phone. Bummer too, I liked my other HTCs and the One was in my cross-hairs until the specs came out. Just didn't understand it.
I really don't give a crap what the phone physically looks like... plastic, aluminum... etc... how thin, heavy etc... I care how it WORKS. How much battery life it has. How the screen, CPU, etc works. Honestly, the S4 could be a bit thicker and heavier for my tastes. Add a thicker battery too. When the Seido extended is released I'll pick that up for sure. But dropping the SD slot for aluminum shell? Asinine!