@everyone a decently clocked dual core processor and 1 GB ram in more than enough to smoothly run android and most of the apps in day to day use.
One should not based his buying decisions on things that wont be used even 5% of phone usage time.
Now if any company really putting hard efforts in innovation atm its HTC, From designing hardware to customizing software they really want end user to have best experience.
Samsung always boasts about loads of features in galaxy line of devices, Let me give you one simple example
In S3 sammy introduced a feature called smart stay, So screen will stay on if you are looking at the same.
This feature rely on front facing camera to track user's eyes and it hardly works in low lighting environment, in well lit conditions chances are like 50-50.
On the other hand in HTC one you can set screen time out to auto sleep, so screen will aromatically sleep when phone is not being used.
This feature use phone accelerometer to determine phone usage, and it works every time.
Small things like ability to customize phone from PC, HTC transfer tool feels good, its not like thing cant be achieved without these, but they just make life a little bit easier.
Being s/w architect my self it not very hard to guess that when features are part of initial roadmap and carefully included in framework and whey they are just patches to satisfy marketing bosses.
PS : I have used Galaxy Series for about 2.6 years (s1->s2->s3) and HTC one for 15 days
