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hey guys it starts to like away here reporting from Hong Kong we're taking a first look at the iPhone 5 versus the HTC One X now both are remarkably beautiful devices marvels of engineering really nice thin profile brilliant beautiful displays that are large obviously they are competitors now the HTC One X did come up a little bit earlier than the s3 and the timing was a little poor on HTC spart it really is a beautiful device and it features a remarkable display brilliant white high resolution very responsive but the iPhone is no suction this department either it has it its own beautiful display as well now obviously we are looking at was substantially larger footprint with the HTC One X just to give you an idea it has a larger width and it's slightly thinner as well excuse me slightly taller as well now bring it into specs and whatnot with the HTC One X in terms of his physical dimensions we are looking at a five point two nine inches in overall height with a 2.75 inch width the thinness of it is 0.35 inches making it quite svelte very nice and a hand easy to hold it feels really good and although it isn't actually curved the design does give the impression that it is in fact a curved device much like the Galaxy Nexus the iPhone 5 is four point eight seven inches high by 2.3 one inches wide and it is thinner 0.3 inches thin to be fact versus the 0.35 of the HTC One X now in the hand both actually are very comparable yeah HTC One X is only 130 grams whereas the iPhone 5 is 112 but really it's very difficult to notice what makes an impression on the hand is the actual width you know my hands aren't large by any means but they're not swelling either and the HTC One X is substantially wider and a screen is substantially wider - and speaking of screens we're looking at a super LCD display with an HD display it features the 1280 by 720 pixel display 4.7 inches and the iPhone 5 features the odd but high-resolution retina if Apple would have us fall under marking features a pixel of 11:36 excuse me 11 36 high by 640 wide making it 326 pixels per inch whereas the HTC One X is 312 pixels per inch with this 1280 by 720 display which is becoming the standard for phones going forward we won't really see any phones with any pixel density or PPI account less than 300 it almost looks like a painting actually the HTC One X and the iPhone 5 is remarkably beautiful with this brilliant IPS TFT LCD display of course there are other differences as well of which we'll talk about like battery the foot of the camera itself is quite similar and others but getting into memory the HTC One X is one of the few devices due to its polycarbonate unibody that does feature no expandable memory now you can't get it in a 32 gigabyte flavor which is enough for most people making it satisfying and with cloud and Dropbox and other such services getting mobile content on the move isn't going to be a problem so long as there aren't any bandwidth limitations in place the iPhone 5 features 16 32 and 64 gigabyte iterations and like the HTC One X has no expandable memory whatsoever in terms of batteries they're also comparable as well in that they aren't removable now of course the HTC One X features a larger battery which is necessary due to its large display we're looking at 1800 milliamp hours for the HTC One X and as I said it is not removable for the iPhone 5 it is only 1400 mil app now in terms of talktime we have eight hours of talktime with the iPhone 5 and we have up to 11 hours of talk time with the HTC One X of course these are always manufacturer suggested so there are obviously going to be differences in terms of your network or how you use the device and that's just for talktime now bringing you back to the internals of the device they're very different this features Apple's own design Apple a6 processor with design references board from arm which of course is powering you know hundreds and hundreds of millions if not billions of mobile devices today of course Intel is going to try and change that but that's the topic for another time now this features the Tegra 3 SOC now it is clocked at a very high clock speed but it does feature a different architecture so though it is a quad core it is still only going to be actually probably about 10% slower in terms of benchmarks and benchmarks really have very little to do with real-world application but just to give you guys an idea i've loaded up a benchmark excuse me a bookmark or android authority here i'm just going to open obviously you see both open quickly just going to type in and here on both okay all right and let's push it at the same time now it should be known that i've cleared the cache on both to give this a real fair world example demonstration for you guys let's just click it and see what loads first there we go detected oh all right HCC's off to a good start okay now it looks like okay the iPhone 5 did finish slightly before and it should be known though and we're still working on the HTC where that the iPhone 5 doesn't have flash support now we are running flash sure obviously a little bit of lag flash is extremely demanding and in fact as we know Apple has suspended excuse me adobe has suspended support for Apple and mobile devices and we are going to be moving towards the html5 standard now let's just see the rotation okay so now Apple has develop a great reputation for having an extremely responsive devices and the iPhone 5 really is no exception extremely fluid to the pinch-to-zoom is just I mean it looks like it's even faster than the jelly bean potentially 90 or 120 frames a second and it's next-generation LCD display a really renders images and text remarkably well now dolphin of course if we want to give a truer test we probably should give Chrome but it is nice actually to have flash it is still not been replaced by any existing technology online and you will still find out in the majority of sites but you know that's not to say the HTC One X is loved it's still renders content very very quickly and it's very beautiful it's just because there is no flash and because Apple controls the browsing experience essentially on on iOS and they are able to optimize it in addition the processor on this features specs that best the world's best-selling Android device of course the galaxy s3 now but only by above five to ten percent either way both are beautiful and both are fast let's bring it back to the home now of course these are competitors now this is an Android based device and it's running Android Ice Cream Sandwich at 4.04 iteration with Sense 4.0 overlay now jelly bean which is the next generation of Android is promised for HTC's devices we haven't been given a release date yet but it should be coming soon now the iPhone 5 features iOS 6 which a lot of people love and also a lot of people hate the mapping solution that's contained within sadly itself a lot of bad press and for good reason it's it's just nowhere near as good at what Google has offering and it's just it's just nowhere near as good it was just simple as that you can talk to anyone that's used it so far whereas obviously Google Maps is substantially better either way that's a small part but in an important part of what makes these devices different now bringing it back to other things on the front we have a 1.3 megapixel camera for the HTC One X and live phone five has a 1.2 megapixel camera making them very very comfortable other than that we have a micro USB plug in excuse me on the HTC One X so that you can add your own movies and music without the need for any third-party software suite sadly with the iPhone everything has to go through iTunes now you could jailbreak this device and you could make it your own but a lot of people are scared to do that what else so we have an an S LCD to display on the HTC One X it is really one of the best displays in the market and a lot of people really really love it when the HTC One X came out all the device whirs on all the prominent tech sites were saying that arguably was one of the best displays that ever laid witness to now this does feature a higher ppi count what it is negligible you really have to look at it with a magnifying glass that really spot the difference so let's see a camera test to see how quickly both can take pictures I've used both and both are remarkably fast let's just try and take a pictures of yes three here get them both in the hand let them focus which one focuses first okay this appears as though the iPhone is struggling with a close-up there we are okay and let's just take pictures one two three okay thank you so basically for every picture they are able to capture with the 1x you were able to capture as essentially three or four with the iPhone but it does have a problem focusing I'm trying to hold my ends as steady as possible okay now it's just clear that the iPhone is lightning fast let's just take a look to see if they're actually clear not bad really not bad at all okay and let's look at the HTC One X to see okay also quite clear and so essentially after you get them focused they are very comparable of course both are both our LCD technology rotation okay so I would say that they were very close to being on par now we're going to follow up with a much more thorough device review obviously in one of our articles in our site in which we're gonna be looking at benchmarks camera and all the other important features that matter to smartphone owners so talking about the iPhone 5 for a second this device launched today September 21st and they've sold millions them in fact they sold out of pre-orders and the lineups they actually still had to suspend lineups here in Hong Kong because there were fights last year and there's so many scalpers since so much animosity that Apple put in place a lottery system in which you have to go online and order one so now this is an a6 processor inside on the clock to 1,000 gig excuse me megahertz whereas this is a Tegra 3 quad-core so dual core 1,000 megahertz versus quad-core at one point form gigahertz so with the HTC One X we're looking to be powered by the tiger 3 clocked in at 1.5 gigahertz and it does feature a remarkably powerful 1.5 gigahertz clock speed now Tiger has excuse me NVIDIA has vast experience with gaming so taker is gaming they always have their own market the apps and the games available there are gonna be optimized for that and so you will enjoy your extremely fluid and immersive gaming experience with the Tegra powered device the iPhone 5 though is powered by a 1 gigahertz dual-core ne6 processor which Apple design themselves but initial benchmarks are showing that at best the HTC One X in a variety of situations albeit only slightly other than that obviously very different operating systems with iOS 6 versus Android it really depends on what you're looking for a lot of things that matter to smartphone owners I like one-handed operation no it is all really easier to use the iPhone 4 100 operation you still have a large display the width obviously is nowhere near that of HTC One X but it is comparable in terms of how tall it is so it's really up to you a lot of people don't really mind tapping it and having custom keyboards and everything with Android you can really customize the experience to make it your own and it's really funny to see how Apple is incrementally incorporated features into its software suite that mimic and emulate many many features of what Android already has on the table but they do say that copying is the best form of flattery or something similar to that so maybe apples just following androids lead either way these are two of the leading devices in the marketplace today so we wanted to give you a hands-on comparison of the gala excuse me in the HTC one extras to the iPhone 5 I'm really liking both simple as that obviously I'm an Android fan you know would have hundred authority here but competition between you know the serious players in the mobile business is really good thing for consumers and we need to we need to engender that need to encourage that people vote with their dollars more than anything today and there's no doubt in anyone's mind that the iPhone 5 will probably be the best-selling mobile device for the next little while either way I would have to say it really all depends on your personal preferences iOS is arguably more intuitive intuitive albeit less customizable than Android the response time of operation is slightly better and web browsing shows that - but you will be missing out on some key features like flash in addition to that the ability to add widgets and whatnot to your device makes the HTC One X and other Android devices very very appealing to many that like to own their experience - to maximize and to explore to create and to really make it their own whereas sadly unfortunately iOS is really adhering to a strict sort of top-down vertically integrated approach with its iTunes and the way that it it just mandates that you connect to a computer to get music on there and movies and so forth either way guys like I said two of the best devices on the market today iPhone 5 for stage 2 c1x we're reporting live here from Hong Kong thanks for checking in guys we hope you appreciated and enjoyed our vs. comparison and hit us up on Google+ Twitter Facebook or just um check out the site let us know what you think and have a great day thanks very much guys this is darcel a cuvette from android authority