The frustration is however that there is a software bug that won't detect a connection after it does find service. I can watch the signal change from 3G to LTE, the signal bars change, and even putting the device in and out of airplane mode all have no effect, it still doesn't find a connection.
This worries me so much for two reasons.
Firstly, without data, a smartphone isn't smart. It also doesn't get notifications if there is no data. The most basic smartphone should be able to switch between cell data and wireless without dropping the connection. Other Windows Phones are capable of doing it, so it's something specific with the One. It also affects the Live Tiles and Skype integration. Every time I soft reset my phone, at least one app has screwed up live tiles, and they don't work properly without disabling and re-enabling them in Battery Saver. Similarly, the phone shows "no compatible apps" for integrated video calling in the Phone settings. So to reset it now and then wouldn't be such a problem - but it causes a whole setup again every time it happens. I have to uninstall and reinstall Skype, and then enable and disable certain live tiles each time it happens. For a 2014 smartphone, it's unacceptable.
Secondly, I don't expect HTC to fix the issue - at least not in the time before another phone comes out. Windows Phone 8.1 was announced in April - it's now SEVEN months later and still not on the HTC 8X. (Or the Icon, or the 928, 822 etc.)
This is taking it off topic, but this whole thing has really added to an already serious concern for the future of WP and whether it is worth it to stay anymore.
RANT WARNING, lol, skip it if you don't want to read!
If we get major apps (unlike Snapchat,) we get them way later, and they either don't have feature parity (Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard) or stay in un-updated beta forever (Instagram.) Even when there are major releases on Microsoft's own gaming platform (Destiny, Watch Dogs) the companion apps are not available on their mobile platform (despite shared Xbox branding,) the music player is an absolute mess, which though they are working on updating with some regularity, is still a disaster (download a few Deluxe versions of albums to your SD card, and watch as a few days later they are broken up into 2 or 3 albums, some Deluxe, some not, with no way to fix it but to redownload them all.) Live tiles and notifications are still hit or miss depending on how many apps you have installed, and then we have the update situation.
And now this specific phone can't even maintain a data connection if you are in a location with a lower signal for too long. Which I guess is an improvement from the constant rebooting that many had.
I realize at this point I'm just venting, but why stay?
I can still listen to Xbox Music (and have one library on my computer, tablet, phone and Xbox) with an iPhone, I can still access Office, I can still auto backup my photos to OneDrive, etc.
And as weirdly ironic as it is, you get a better experience gaming on an Xbox because the companion apps (not of all which are useful, but Destiny and Watch Dogs certainly are) are iPhone and not Windows Phone.
And now we have no idea when/if the current phones will get Windows 10, other than "it's technically possible, pretty likely, but nothing concrete."
If we assume it will take just as long as it's taken to get 8.1, a less significant update, figure another 8 months minimum? Which means better hardware will be out by then anyway.
So really, why stay? :angry:
Here is perhaps a better question to my Windows Phone loving brothers and sisters: why have you stayed on WP?