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alright how's everyone doing this is clay know we're coming at you from the best Android web site on the web and read Authority calm today I've got an in-depth review of the HTC One S for tmobile got our HTC One S right here we'll just check out some of the hardware the software the native apps give a run-through of the performance of the device as well so first off let's take a look at the body this has got a 4.3 inch qhd AMOLED display with a 960 x 540 resolution this is packing a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 processor those are pretty fast we're going to be doing a benchmark for this as well in the video we've got one gigabyte of RAM in this bad boy and we've got a 1650 milliamp lithium-ion battery which is non-removable its embedded in the body now the body feels really nice is HTC's thinnest device yet this is only seven point eight millimeters thick our 4.3 inch AMOLED display has this nice curved glass that kind of extends into the body like that on each side let's see we have our micro USB here got our speakers here in our Beats Audio branding the bottom we've got a small Mike got our volume rocker right here on top we have our power button another small mic and our 8 millimeter headphone jack we cannot take off the case right here and then we just pop it off when we pop the case off we can see this is where our a millimeter headphone jack is this is our SIM card slot and then we have our nice blue color we've got a blue surrounding our 8-megapixel rear-facing camera blue bezel there we can snap this back on this is a really nice device feels great in my hands it's very very light it has gotten a little bit hot the aluminum backing does feel slightly hot when you're running a lot of apps or when you're doing the graphic intensive program i'll just go ahead and turn on this screen as you can see here we greeted with the sense 4.0 running atop the Android Ice Cream Sandwich for dot 0 dot for operating system our lock screen is pretty cool it's our classic pull the ring up for HTC and also grabbed the phone and bring it down or we can grab mail messages and even a folder we bring down a folder we actually open up the folder on the home screen this is our basic home screen we've got our location data and our weather with our HTC flip clock they use and they implement often we just scroll through the home screens we don't have infinite scrolling but it is preloaded with some HTC widgets as well as some t-mobile widgets and we'll scroll through that our power bar there this is our notification bar as you can see we're actually getting a system update right now you can go to our settings and we have our airplane mode our Wi-Fi our bluetooth mobile network now under our personal tab here we can personalize the HTC One S we can select through a few different scenes that HTC comes with we have our HTC social work play and travel all with different widgets setups there's no theming going on with the different scenes like this but it does configure different widgets as well as different wallpapers we also have our skins there are skins it's basically the same thing we do have our Luminum skin to actually just changes some of the background and stuff in the lock screen and we have our mat and their serene we have our default wallpaper we can choose we can choose our lockscreen style and we can choose lock screen lock screen shortcuts and we can organize apps and widgets on the home screen also have sound configurations where we can choose our different alarm notification ringtones we have our counts nsync where you can add different accounts now if you had a facebook and stuff like that HTC is going to requested a permission for your Facebook the sense is and I really don't like that but it's fine we can have our location settings our security settings we can set up the different screen lock configurations and can encrypt the SD card in the sim with our privacy and accessibility settings under the display and gestures is where we can choose our brightness how long the screen stays awake and we can enable HTC gestures with three finger gestures we have our usual sound settings apps storage power under the power we can check out our battery level and what's actually been using the battery we have our developer options available with Android for auto with USB debugging we also have 4th GPU rendering and then all the other great stuff that comes with ice cream sandwich under the about device we can see under the firmware information here we're running Android 403 not 404 anyways we have our sense version for dotto no easter egg with HTC devices unfortunately going back anyways we can check out our app drawer here when we open that up we have our all frequent and downloads different segments and we don't have infinite scrolling on the app's you can see some of the tmobile preloaded apps are the 4 11 and more the game base we have our HTC hub preloaded app this comes out this comes with mobile lookout security we have our t mobile hotspot my t-mobile the more for me we have Polaris Office pre-loaded as well as where's my water this game here's our task manager we can get into that later do i frequently used apps it's just a list of the apps that we use frequently we have our downloads as well we also have links to the play store right there or we can search through our apps and bring down a menu where we can manage apps edit tabs and share anyways once we have a few apps running we can check out the recents which is very nice and it's sexy this is a lot different than the normal Android phone auto task management system this is a lot more chic it's nice it's easy to use we can just grab and fling upwards remove the apps you can remove them all at the same time which I've creates somewhat of an inconvenience but it's just fine because it's a nice i interface just like that we have our home back capacitive buttons will impress the home it also brings out these we can select which one of our screens will be our default home button you can also do that by pinching in using their gestures when we do that we can add a panel as well so let's go into our task manager under our task manager we have our RAM management here and we can end all the applications stop all then we can refresh and we also have a menu in our task manager we have our settings automatic startup we can actually start the task manager when we boot the device up and then we can have a memory use notifications anyways we'll just do a nice little quadrant test on this device to show you how fast these Snapdragon actually is coming in the benchmark ok so the HTC One escort a 5073 which is a fairly high score it even scored higher than the HTC One X our cpu is 8420 with our memory coming in at 70 612 which is very good for memory considering this only has one gigabyte of RAM anyways we'll go back this device does have Corning Gorilla Glass 4 display so it's fairly strong we have Beats Audio across the spectrum for audio video movies all that stuff the great stuff these will check out our browser right now not connected to any web page the 2g is all I'm getting in this area my name is going to check out the settings when we open up the menu we can view the desktop site which I always liked in the browser options we can enable flash player also has html5 support we can go to our browser settings where you can enable labs with our quick controls it was our tab management on the browser is very nice as well so if we're actually viewing a web page we can bring our finger down and swipe and this is our tab management of course these are all like on displayable web pages but you can just cancel by pressing the X we can create a new incognito tab as well access our bookmarks and are saved but our most visited in our history anyways we can check out our camera our 8 megapixel camera on this is great we also have a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera okay now we can just take a picture of this cruzerlite case with the camera this has to be fast burst okay we have the super fast capture available on the HTC One S and it has super fast autofocus as well the aperture on the lens for the HTC One S provides forty percent more light that's very cool we can also capture pictures while we're recording videos says great focus we can go to our settings here and choose our image resolution or video quality we can choose full HD we have our ISO our white balance we have continuous shooting mode our camera options are face detection auto smile capture widescreen your video options and camera interface options and choose our flash there here we can choose slow motion video we have our different camera scenes Auto HDR panorama portrait whiteboard landscape low-light what's really cool is we can actually choose to take a video or a picture just right at the click of a button here these are different effects that's really cool our front facing camera is 720p HD now the beats audio only works when it's actually coming out of the headphone jack so it's no use to do a test to show you but the Beats Audio is a very nice improvement so all in all you guys this is a really fast phone has great features pre-loaded a great camera and awesome screen super lightweight it's super thin it also looks sexy with the grey and blue finish going on so if you guys got t-mobile go ahead and check out the HTC One S you won't be disappointed and stay tuned with android authority calm guys we've got plenty more reviews and everything else is good I