My Clove order has changed from BACKORDER to SHIPPING. Crossing my fingers to have it by this weekend. Set aside $200 for DHL just in case SIRIM requires approval

I placed my order on 12 March. I ordered a silver HTC One 801n

Wanted to order with Handtec due to free case but decided against it since the everybody is ordering from Handtec. When I emailed Handtec I got the hint that I will be at the bottom of a very long list since everyone is jumping from Expansys/Clove/Amazon UK.

After two days in Subang, DHL has released my ONE

No kena tax, no kena SIRIM AP permit (form JK69). Total cost RM2133 from Clove UK

Here is a quick review
- So far no noticeable gap at the top or bottom of the screen. Very good build quality
- Anodized Alu makes the phone more grippy than Lumia 920
- Tapered sides makes the phone feels slim and makes you forget about the bulk in the middle
- Notification LED is very bright given the fact it is smaller than Note 2's notification light
- The power button is more recessed that I expected
- Sense 5 takes a while to get used to, especially since Im coming from TouchWiz
- Great speakers, no distortions even at max settings. 40% vol on HTC One = 80% on Note 2 (this is subjective)
- The phone is quite cool to touch. Been configuring/playing with it for 35-40 mins and it doesn't feel warm at all

Order date - 12 March 2013
Shipped date - 2 apr 2013
Received date - 8 Apr 2013 (reached Subang on Friday but our Kastam is super slow on that day)

Works fine. It gives u 3 keypads - directional, numeric and play/pause/rec for DVR

Set up is easy u dont even need to know ur model. U tell the TV is samsung and will blast some IR commands and you need to tell it if the command works. The same for Astro decoder.

Day 1 with my One
- battery is quite good. 12hrs on battery, it drops to 55%. Wifi, NFC and GPS is set to ON, heavy usage/molest by my peers blasting youtube and mp3 to max and testing out games
- signal reception quite good. At my cubicle my Note2 cant barely connect on 3g/H+, HTC1 constantly gives me H+. I am on Celcom
- I consider HTC Blink as eye candy. I dont use it that much

The default HTC battery apps does not track screen on time. So there is not much help there. Plus I dont want to make a mental note to count my screen usage everytime I switch it on.

12 hrs period mentioned earlier is a mixture of idle time and actual usage.

Normal apps pops out faster than Note2. Text reflow is fast on the default browser (not chrome)

I have yet to install heavy apps so I cant be definitive on HTC1 performance

Now that I have more time after my gym session, here is a more 'scientific' performance test
-Opening a local PDF file under ezPDF, roughly 50MB in size.
- GNote2 - 4.3sec
- HTC1 - 3.9sec
- Nex7 - 5.1sec