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what's up prizefight fans i'm brian tong and this is the prize fight you've been waiting for between two of the top android titans it's a prize 5-foot shout between the Samsung Galaxy s4 and the HTC One our judges for this fight are senior editor Brian boom-boom Bennet senior editor Jessica the people's soul quartz and myself reeling a ding dong that will take all three judges scores and average them out to the nearest tenth each round the final prize five score will be an average of all rounds using the same system let's get it started round 1 is design the Samsung Galaxy s4 brings its biggest screen yet with a 5-inch HD Super AMOLED display with 441 pixels per inch but it's screen is dimmer compared to others some people still complain about its plastic style body which really isn't that big of a deal but it keeps a very similar design to the s3 and still can't compete with the build of other phones now the HTC One is sex on a phone with its beautiful contoured aluminum body polished metal edges and it's the best built Android phone you've ever seen it brings a slightly smaller 4.7 inch screen but it has a higher 468 pixels per inch density that's brighter and less reflective the HTC one's designed still can't be beat and it takes this round with a perfect 5 and the X 4 gets a 4 next round is user interface and control the galaxy s4 brings its snappy TouchWiz interface running on top of Android 4.2.2 it really looks a lot like previous versions except there's even more UI bells and whistles tucked in here that you'll have to dig for deep into the settings now if you don't know what you can do just pull down the notifications bar and you'll see everything and I mean everything now we don't think the interface is bad and the UI is still just as customizable but it's not as clean anymore because there's a lot going on here HTC is next-gen since UI is just as fast and snappy running on top of Android 4.1.2 it's super clean and easy to operate but time will tell how quickly it will receive future updates their new blinkfeed panel shows you all your social media updates and it's a sweet Flipboard like edition but if you don't like it you can't really get rid of it now you'll still get all the androids customizations for creating folders and widgets but between the two phones this is the cleaner experience these tasty see one gets a 4.7 and the galaxy s4 gets a 4 doctor averaging two rounds the HTC One leaves big 4.9 2 for next round is features samsung galaxy s4 is truly the king of features with its powerful 1.9 gigahertz core quad processor so let's just tell you some of the unique things that can do even if you won't use them all it has a replaceable battery and memory expansion two things the HTC one doesn't have it also takes a page from the note and brings multi window support to run two apps at the same time it has air view from previewing content like blowing up text on a website by floating your finger on top of it if you want to be a Jedi scroll through pictures with the wave of a hand with its air gesture support eat your heart out Yoda now watch a video and then turn away and the video clip will stop until your eyes return to the screen it also has an interface built s voice drive to keep your eyes on the road and it can even be used as a fitness device to track your steps oh yeah it also has the watch on app to act as your TV remote and that's still not everything the ACC one brings a blazing quad core 1.7 gigahertz processor and its power button is also an IR blaster that can be used as a TV remote now the ACC ones biggest distinguishing feature is its boomsound dual frontal stereo speakers that sound better than anything I've heard on a phone so far and it's that good now you can add on all the Android jellybean features like Google Maps for turn-by-turn and speech-to-text for search and directions NFC for sending content from one phone to the other and Google now for happenings around you but both phones can do this the galaxy s4 really can do almost everything and it gets a perfect vibe and the HTC One gets a four next round is web browsing no time both phones have their standard browsers and chrome so you're pretty much getting the same web quality experience the galaxy s4 is a larger screen is nice but I take a ccs dual boomsound speakers over a slightly bigger screen with excellent deal playback on both now as usual this tends to come down to the camera and its really Samsung's 13 megapixel camera and cornucopia of shooting modes including the drama mode for action shots or beauty mode which I've been advised to use and the dual shot mode that uses both the rear and front facing cameras and I guess that can be fun and it's editing features are just as extensive ACC has its own special camera tricks with its 4 megapixel ultrapixel that does the best job of handling low-light situations without a flash the Zoe feature can remove objects from photos take action shots and has its own batch of cool filters as well now there's a lot of bells and whistles and it comes down to image quality I personally prefer the HTC One overall but really majority rules here and the galaxy s4 edges out to the HTC One 5 to 4.3 so after averaging four rounds the s4 has a slight lead and this decision comes down to the final round its performance both phones are snapping performers and their processor performance is basically the same using the phone we tested graphics performance for gaming and the s4 edged out the ACC one but the results were so close it was pretty much negligible now the big find here is that the s4 is 200 megahertz boost didn't yield any clear performance benefits battery life will be different for everyone but the HTC One has a power saver mode to save you more juice now in our battery video drain test both bones were close to 10 hours of juice and that's pretty much a push call quality will vary on your carrier and location but from our testing both phones were solid these are two great performing smartphones but not the best when it comes to battery life and we're handing out four each side let's average out all five ramp in a prizefight where a CC jumped out early samsung stormed back with two perfect rounds but this prize fight ends up in a tie at 4.5 points a piece now you know we can't end it like that and we couldn't even end it with hundreds of a point so we had to take it the thousands of a point and the Samsung Galaxy s4 takes this prize fight four point five three two two four point five three and is your prize by it winner will fool you guys you can't deny that these are two amazing phones and if I had to personally make my own pick it would be the HTC one but really the final decision is always up to you I'm Brian Kong thanks for watching I'll catch you guys next time for another prizefight you