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what's up prizefight fans I'm Brian Tong and the smartphone season is getting hot and heavy so we're bringing in a new contender it surprised five-foot out between the HTC One and Apple's iPhone 5 our judges for this fight are senior editor Jessica the people's dual court senior editor Brian boom-shaka-laka Bennett and myself can't go wrong tom now we'll take all three judges scores and ABB's them out to the nearest tenth each round the final prize fight score will be an average of all rounds using the same system let's get it started round 1 is designed the HTC One is a really unique piece of beauty with its contoured aluminum body polished metal edges and the highest build quality on an Android phone we've ever seen and let's not forget about its four point seven inch screen with super sharp 468 pixels per inch now Apple's iPhone 5 design was one of their best ever but it's not the best anymore it still looks great but the industry copycats have made this design stale and it's 4-inch Retina display looks like a shrimp with its pedestrian 326 pixels per inch that's still thinner and lighter than the HTC One you might call it the one that took down the iPhone and HTC does it with a perfect 5 and the iPhone 5 gets a 4 next round is user interface and controls HTC brings our next generation of its Sense UI that runs on top of android jelly bean and it's a clean and easy to operate experience for an Android device now a new feature is the blink feed that shows you all your social media updates and if you like it it's nice but if you don't there's no way to hide it or get rid of it and it lives as one of your main home panels now you'll still get all of androids customizations for creating folders and widgets and the notifications pulldown is still right where you expect it now Apple's iOS is still the easiest OS hands-down and there's no surprises here it's intuitive enough for kids and adults you can create your own folders but there's little to no customization it's ease-of-use vs customization but really it comes down to what you want and we don't all agree here and the iPhone takes round two with the 4.7 and the HTC one gets a 4.3 softer averaging two rounds the HTC one leads the next round is features I don't think we really have a list long enough for everything the HTC One brings but guess what I'll try now it starts with its blazing quad core 1.7 gigahertz processor its power button doubles as an IR blaster to use your phone as a TV remote ACC brings what they call boom sound with dual frontal stereo speakers that sound better then let's just add on all the Android jellybean features like Google Maps for the best maps with turn-by-turn and speech the text for search and directions there's NFC for sending content from one phone to the other and Google now for happenings around you now they're single piece aluminum body design means no removable battery and no expandable memory but guess what you might not care now Apple's iPhone 5 brings a dual-core a6 processor that's fast and snappy and Siri can do more with sports movies and food recommendations but it's still not as accurate and it still takes way too long to get information back from its servers Apple Maps is more than a step behind Google Maps right now and passbook still remains rarely use and the phone doesn't have any kind of built-in NFC can you guys guess who takes this round it's the HTC One with another perfect 5 and the iPhone gets a 4.3 next round is web browsing and multimedia the HTC One comes pre-loaded with Chrome and the default browser with Flash support now we'll take chrome as one of the best mobile browsers with incognito mode synched bookmarks and a sweet tabbed interface Apple bring Safari which is also an excellent mobile browser but you can install chrome and others on the iPhone as well now most of the time with multimedia people want to know about the cameras and the HTC One takes a different approach with a four megapixel camera but they call it an Ultra pixel that's able to gather more information and handle lighting situations better with similar results as the best phone cameras now we know megapixels don't really matter and the iPhones 8 megapixel camera has been one of the best so here's the breakdown in our camera test both cameras can take 1080p video and both cameras took great pictures but the difference is that specifically in low-light situations the HTC one excelled with more image detail and handled dark conditions better compared to the iPhone 5 in our examples but then at normal daylight situations the iPhone had an advantage with slightly sharper and more saturated images compared to the HTC one that still took great pictures but they were a little duller with color temperature pretty much being the same for both now the other advantage the HTC One has is a more expensive camera that can take pictures with different filters and really extensive editing features for retouching people's faces different effects transforming the images in different ways and then the ability to remove objects from a picture with their Zoe feature that is Krait now the ecosystems are extensive and Google Play has done a great job of catching up as a legit option and movies look and sound amazing on the HTC one but we also know Apple still has the advantage for more exclusive content on iTunes and apps that come out on the platform first now the HTC One has really raised the bar with what a camera can do but a lot of people would still rather take the best camera overall this one's a toughy but the HTC One gets up 5 and the iPhone 5 gets a 4.7 so after averaging 4 rounds the HTC One still leads but by a smaller margin the final round that decides it all is performance both phones are snappy performers and we always tell you the same disclaimer that your call quality will vary on your carrier and location but from our testing both phones sounded great the battery life is going to be different for everyone but the ACC one has a power saver mode that's handy to turn off functions to save you juice over time now in our battery video drain test both phones were close to 10 hours of juice and that's pretty much a push these two are great performing phones but we're handing out 4.7 points to each phone because there's still better performing ones out there so let's average out all 5 rounds and in a prizefight with the ACC one jumped out early on Apple it stayed on top with three perfect rounds taking this battle for point eight the four point five and is your prize fight winner the smartphone world is only getting more competitive and we'll find out how Samsung Apple Google and others step up their game with their next flagship phones i'm brian tom thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time for another prizefight you