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today's video is made possible by Hulu Plus for a free extended to a trial head over to Hulu Plus comm slash TLD hey guys johnathan here with TLD hope you guys are doing well 2014 is getting closer and before we get there I wanted to take a look back at my top 5 favorite smartphone experiences of 2013 now as the disclaimer I did not get a chance to check out every single smartphone of the year there were a ton of great options so my list may differ from yours now that's the case that's cool let me know the comment down below your top 5 or simply your favorite smartphone up 2013 and why this list is in no particular order I think I enjoyed each of these for different reasons and to try to single out or narrow a favorite phone of the year was a little too hard for me so with that said kicking off the list of my top 5 smartphones of 2013 first up is the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 now the note 3 is actually a big reason why the galaxy s4 did not make my list because it kind of took everything that was awesome about the s4 and kind of one up that we of course have a bigger 5.7 inch Super AMOLED 1080p display which is absolutely killer for watching and consuming media on top of that the note 3 has a bigger beefier Snapdragon 800 processor which features 4 cores at 2.3 gigahertz and a massive 3 gigs of ram so we of course can see the Galaxy Note 3 is packing a tremendous punch in terms of hardware and it also has a massive 3200 milliamp hour battery to back it up so you get tremendous battery life it also features a really good 13 megapixel camera and a hidden gem on these snapdragon models is 4k video recording yes you heard that correctly for freaking K video out of a smartphone now granite is not gonna look great if your free hand in it because there is no image stabilization but if you can't mount it onto a tripod or something like that you're gonna get some tremendous looking video next up is the Google Nexus 5 which of course was the first Android 4.4 kitkat device to ship but on top of that it packs a massive amount of hardware into a beautiful sleek design all for 350 bucks off contract unlike the Nexus 4 which sacrificed LTE to get it into that price point we now see that on the Nexus 5 so assuming you're in a decently covered area you're gonna get some fantastic network speeds top that off with a near 5 inch 1080p display which I will admit isn't the best quality or doesn't have the best viewing angles compared to other smartphones but for the price it is a tremendous value now not only are you getting the latest Android 4.4 KitKat experience but you're getting that backed up with a Snapdragon 800 quad core processor so it's happy responsive super fluid and I think you can clearly see why this made my list next up is the iPhone 5s and I know there's gonna be some Apple haters and I gotta admit it was a little hard after using Android for most of the year coming back to a smaller 4-inch display aside from the relatively low screen size compared to most smartphones these days the iPhone 5s actually packed a lot of awesome art in the hood starting with the 64-bit a7 processor which on paper you might laugh at it's dual-core it's not clocked very high but if you stack it up head-to-head it's actually faster than the galaxy s4 competes right there with note 3 and is a really powerful processor and absolutely tears through games pair that with an m7 coprocessor which is dedicated solely for motion data and that's gonna take some stress off of the CPU so it's gonna track all your steps for example and this is something I used on a daily basis because it worked really accurate and really well the iPhone 5s also features a fantastic eight megapixel camera with better low-light performance and of course we have my favorite the slow motion video which shoots 120 frames per second at 720p and you're gonna get some outstanding results you last up is the fingerprint reader aka Apple's touch ID sensor which allows you to not only unlock your phone with your fingerprint but you can also verify purchases in iTunes and the App Store which is really convenient next up is the Moto X which to me was the surprise smartphone of 2013 because on paper these specs were really underwhelming everyone looked at these 720p display the dual core processor and kind of really to give it a chance thought it was gonna be in a whatever phone but to me it was one of my favorite experiences of 2013 ergonomically it was without a doubt the most comfortable smartphone I've held this year if not ever something about the way it sits in your hands a little dimple on the back it was just really really comfortable to hold now technically the Moto X has a skinned OS but it's really probably the closest pure Android experience you can get without of course having a pure Android phone they for the most part left everything stock impure but added useful features here and there active notifications was one of those and one of my favorite ways to check notifications on any smartphone this year it was a really quick and easy way to check your updates and also conserve battery life at the same time you of course then have the shake to instantly access the camera which is a really useful feature it's a shame the camera wasn't better it's not great but it's definitely not terrible so you're gonna get an OK camera with the Moto X I really enjoyed the motorola assist feature while driving and overall it was just a great experience battery life overall performance I just really really enjoyed the Moto X last up and closing out my list is the HTC One if you made me choose and had a gun up to my head and said Jonathan pick your favorite phone of the year I might lean towards the HTC One simply because I enjoy pretty much everything about it it has tremendous build quality super sexy design made out of aluminium so it just feels a really premium and I probably called the best built smartphone in 2013 it features a Snapdragon 600 1.7 gigahertz quad-core CPU which at the time was kind of the cream at the top obviously we have seen faster CPUs but it is still a very capable processor HTC also try to shake up the game with their four megapixel ultra pixel camera which essentially just took bigger pixels which equated to better low-light performance and while it did suffer a little bit in terms of sharpness it was still one of my favorite smartphone cameras of 2013 and of course we cannot forget to boomsound which is probably one of my favorite things on a smartphone ever I don't know why we had not seen this get on a smartphone it's a pretty simple concept we look directly at our phones when we consume media so why not slap two stereo speakers on there the end result is an outstanding astounding speaker on a smartphone in most situations it was good enough for you didn't need an external speaker and that made me sometimes not even use headphones and really consume like a lot of media on the HTC One so that was my top 5 smartphones of 2013 and before I hop out here I want to give a huge shout out to Hulu Plus for making this video possible now I know most of you guys being on the interwebs know what Hulu is but Hulu Plus ramps up the awesome that is kind of like upgrading to an HD screen on your smartphone or tablet for the first time with Hulu Plus you can catch up on the entire season of currently airing shows you can watch old favorites or even a movie you can stream as many TV shows or movies as you want anytime anywhere so whether that's your ps4 your Xbox one your Roku or even one of these top 5 smartphones that we talked about Hulu Plus has a huge selection of shows like Saturday Night Live Jimmy Kimmel and of course Shark Tank they also feature exclusive original content like behind the mask and the wrong man and they were nice enough to reach out to me and offer those who watched eld a free extended two-week trial by heading over to Hulu Plus comm slash TLD now a lot of you ask how can you 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