Gadgetory

how is it going guys I'm Aaron Baker from technobuffalo and it's time for a smartphone smackdown just to start off the new year we thought you know what let's pit two of the highest in Android phones together and see which one comes out on top one is the samsung galaxy s3 now it's packing some awesome specifications and it's been out for a while and it's got things like a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon s4 CPU a four point eight inch Super AMOLED HD display an eight megapixel camera and now Android 4.1 voice crack included on the samsung galaxy s3 actually you'll get the voice crack but we're gonna pretend like you do they have the HTC One x+ over here the successor to the HTC One X and it's packing a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 cpu a 4.7 inch HD display an 8 megapixel camera and Android 4.1 which one's going to take it home in the smartphone smackdown let's go take a look two of the hottest Android devices here in the office right now that are available on US carriers one is the samsung galaxy s3 this is available on verizon AT&T sprint t-mobile US Cellular for 199 dollars but what's really great about this device is you can find it cheaper in a lot of different places the Amazon wirefly all those different third-party retailers best buy mobile and more are often selling this device for less than the 199 price which it debuted at at least for the 16 gigabyte version in their respective either online stores or brick and mortar stores so you've got this device it's been out for a while it's available in different colors depending on what carrier you're on on AT&T you've got blue and white on every carrier but on AT&T you have it in red and Verizon you have it in brown and in black as well as the white and then the blue as well so the one x+ over here at ATT device available for 199 dollars the killer here is specifications it's got a 1.7 gigahertz quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor a 4.7 inch HD display 720p HD display 8 megapixel camera on the back with 1080p HD video recording and HTC's image sense chip then you've got android 4.1 as well with HTC Sense 4 plus and then over on this side 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon s4 CPU a four point eight inch Super AMOLED HD display it's also 720p and 8 megapixel camera on the back with 1080 HD video recording and then of course a 2,100 milliamp hour non removable battery scuze me removable battery over here on this one it's a 2,100 milliamp hour non yes using a non-removable battery on this device so both of these devices are incredibly spect they're great Android devices they're high in contenders this one what really draws it though even though only has one gigabyte of RAM is is 64 gigabytes of internal storage on this device 64 gigs out of the gate compare this to something like the apple iphone 5 which if you wanted the 64 gigabyte variant you're going to pay 399 to get it for that price or for that with that amount of storage so that's something that's really nice about the one actually get a great deal of internal storage for a good price point then you have this device like I said over here to galaxy s3 packing some great specs incredible seller let's take a look at some of the personalization on both of these devices but before we get too far into that take a look at the build quality on both this one polycarbonate shell very similar to the HTC One X that came out earlier in the year on AT&T in terms of design you've still got the same micro USB charging port on the left side the volume rocker over on the right side 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and power button up top your micro sim card slot right back here in the back that of course your camera on the back as well then the galaxy s3 a little bit more of a plastic feel which you're either going to love or hate some people love the lightweight feel of it some people hate it it's got a volume rocker on the left side power button on the right side 3.5 millimeter headphone jack up top and you got your micro USB charging port down here at the bottom and then on the front you've got capacitive buttons as you do down here three capacitive buttons back home and recent applications then over here menu back and then a physical home button which doubles up in android 4.1 to bring up Google now and of course your recent applications as well to get to that over here press and hold home to access Google now and then press and hold the menu button to access your recent apps you can customize that menu button and make it your own in terms of if you want it to be a menu button or recent applications button all you have to do press it for menu press and hold for recent applications if you have that enable but let's talk about personalization so we don't get too far off of the beaten path here you've got a couple of different options here and both of these devices do a great job when it comes to personalization you have the typical android stuff your things i love like notification bar things where you can get all your all your messages in one place then of course you have your wallpaper configurations things like that what I really like in applications widgets over here we'll take a look at the widgets on this device and then just press and hold the one x+ to access those widgets so out of the box you get three home screens on the One X plus you have the ability to add four more to make seven and we'll bring those in so you can see and then we'll press and hold and bring up our widgets now HTC both HTC and samsung i should say offer a great number of widgets on their devices some of which are obviously stock google widgets and some of which are manufacturer based widgets for example calendar HTC you can see the two different calendar options you've got an android option then you have an HTC option within that you get a couple of different types of calendar you get a monthly calendar we got a week of the calendar and then you've got a per appointment calendar and then over here on widgets you've got your calendars in here to buy three or four by four so you got some different Samsung options in addition to the stock Google options as well so Samsung brings in their own widgets HTC brings in their own widgets and the great thing about android 4.1 is their customizable there we go so I can customize that make it my own as you can see they're very similar with the HTC widget as well so we'll just do all calendars and hit ok we'll go back home and we'll scroll over to that widget press and hold it you can see that it's customizable as well quickly and easily which is really really nice so call quality and battery life are pretty interesting as well in addition to the customization both of these devices do really well in the call quality department the earpiece sounds nice and loud I've had no problem with the speaker phones on either the galaxy s3 or the one x+ and I find that the battery life is a little bit better on the galaxy s3 now granted it's a 2100 milliamp hour battery powering both of these devices and they both have 4G LTE capabilities on a TMT so you're not going to get blazing awesome battery life if you're using this device for more than kind of light to moderate use that said I'm finding about 11 to 13 hours on the galaxy s3 I'm finding about 9 to 10 on the HTC One x+ and obviously that depends based on your personal usage if you email more than I do or you watch videos more than I do but I do find that while the standby time is incredibly good on the 1x plus the actual battery life itself could use a little bit of work even though this is moving up from the original 1x the original 1x had an 1800 milliamp hour battery this has a 2,100 milliamp hour battery so a bigger battery but a processor that consumes a little bit more that battery makes for a slightly better battery performance all around but still not quite a part of some of the other devices like the galaxy s3 and other high end android devices on the market now let's take a look at camera is well there's some great camera settings on both of these devices that really make them useful it's going to applications will go to the camera and take a look start a camera well start this one up and what we're doing that will do this one as well an HTC offers an awesome feature on there's their image sense chip and what I love is let's say you're at a soccer game or a football game and you want to take pictures in burst mode as quickly as possible maybe your daughter's soccer game you can quickly take a bunch of different pictures and then save those and it will bring up a list of all those pictures you can choose the best shot you can delete the rest but you've got 20 pictures to choose from and likewise you can be recording and so will be reporting a video like we are right now and I can click the button and take still pictures as well so little features like that I find particularly useful this is something that was a carryover from the original one series The One X and the 1s that were announced at Mobile World Congress last year and of course you got your settings in here as well where you can change iso white balance continuous shooting all that good stuff now over here great options as well you've got your settings which you can come here and you can do very similar settings in here you can press and hold and do kind of a burst mode of sorts coming here so you can see burst shot and I can quickly take and I have the sound turned off but you get to take 20 quick burst pictures in here as well and I could choose best photo and I've actually best photo it allows me to choose the best of eight pictures and I could click and processes and find my personal favorite the one that I think came out the best and snap a picture and be good to go which is really a nice feature so you've got these features on both devices what I really like though about the galaxy s3 is the personalization it brings in addition to Android's obviously Android has some great customizations and great personalization choices what I really like is that they moved it to the next level with the galaxy s3 so let's take a look for example let's say going down through here and you want to take a look at some of the lockscreen customizations now you have some lockscreen customizations on the one x+ as well you got this typical half circle lockscreen that you've seen on HTC devices with sense in the past and there's some great new benefits to the 1x plus some new lock screens and new themes and more we can go into settings and personalized you can take a look at some of those skin wallpaper lockscreen style bunch of different options here we can change the skin around really make this device our own where I think Samsung takes it to the next level as we can come over here to lock screen options and you can see some really cool things that a lot of times I think to myself why weren't these in stock Android or maybe this could be a springboard for future Android options and stock versions so you've got dual clock here information ticker you can set this and really make it your own for example we can come down here to camera quick access and turn it on I can hit okay turn it off and back on and I can press and hold the screen and as soon as I turn the device and then it goes right into the camera so there are a lot of different cool shortcuts in the software that really make this device useful and it's not just with the lock screen it's also in the main area as well let's go into settings and not music hub let's jump in here to settings and we'll come up here to display and let's go down here too smart say things like the screen stays on as long as you look at it so with smart stay enabled if I'm staring at the screen the screen stays on its smart rotation it will detect when I'm laying in bed for example and it won't rotate the screen if it sees that my face is staying in a certain position that's a really really nice feature in addition to font style and font size and battery percentage and more so I'm a big fan of a physical battery percentage you do get that on TouchWiz as well you can see it says ninety-four percent up here in addition to kind of the arbitrary battery meter over on the HTC side you don't get that level of customization just yet although I hope to see that in future versions of HTC Sense so it's a tough call and this smartphone shootout between two high-end Android devices both of these on AT&T then of course the galaxy s3 is available on a bunch of different carriers in the US who's going to win so as always it's a tough call between smartphones it really depends on what you use your device for if you use email more web browsing more there may be a phone that's more suited to you than another one that said it's got to be a winner and a smartphone smackdown on the winner is the samsung galaxy s3 this thing has got the best of almost every bit of the world in terms of specs in terms of performance in terms of features and availability across multiple carriers so it is the champion and smartphone smackdown thanks so much for watching be sure to like this video if you want to see more smartphone smackdowns and stay tuned technobuffalo check out our instagram feed at instagram calm / technobuffalo follow me on twitter at air and sea Baker and the company account at technobuffalo I'm Aaron Baker I'll see you next time you