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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the HTC One S so this is positioned slightly below the One X in terms of HTC's product stack which means that you find a slightly different array of features so one notable thing that's not on this phone is NFC however it does have a lot going for it so it's using and it's a Snapdragon s4 crate plus core yes thank you plus it doesn't help when there's pro and plus and play I mean couldn't have just gone with like good better and like awesomest or something like that no no Pro Plus and play so unlike the Droid DNA which we've also had a look at recently it does not have the super high-end chipset but this should translate to better battery life as well as really not that much of a reduction in performance it's running an Adreno 225 GPU which is sort of like a like a souped-up 220 on a lower manufacturing manufacturing note so the performance of it even though it's not a current generation Adreno 306 is actually better than something like an Adreno 305 which is a newer generation but actually lower end chipset the resolution of the screen it is an amo LED screen which should help you in terms of power consumption as well as in terms of black levels so we're gonna go ahead and just power it up really quick here so remember guys amo LED means the actual pixels themselves on the phone are emitting light rather than relying on a backlight with an LCD overlay over the top so it's a 960 by 540 resolution which is sort of coined the term is a 540 P so or qHD or whatever you wanted to call it so it's a 16 by 9 aspect ratio that is 1/4 the resolution of 1080p ok so it's not quite 720p but it should still look pretty darn good on a 4.3 inch screen one of the other things they're including and I can't remember for the life of me what they call it anymore but is there sort of better picture taking quality concept so that is an F 2.0 aperture lens which basically amounts to more light being allowed into the lens now guys when it comes to taking pictures it's physics so there's your sensor size that assists and having more light hit it there's your lens quality your lens size that gathers more light because when it comes to low-light performance you can only do so many fancy digital tricks before it's just like okay well no we actually just need more light we need more data so having a clearer lens is one of the things that can help with light transmission through the glass to the sensor itself and give you a better quality image it's an eight megapixel rear camera with a built in flash and one of the other things you'll notice about the back of the phone is it has their Beats Audio branding so this pretty much amounts to an equalizer setting that I personally didn't mind enhanced my listening experience however compared to the iPhone 4 that I used for two years I guess it's not like the sound quality without beats enabled it's a software feature so you can just turn it off was any worse so they're using a good quality audio chipset on it it's just that I don't personally get any benefit from the beats EQ setting so you can see right here that this is not a stock Android layout so there it's using HTC's Sense 4.0 plus or i think that's what it's called something along those lines and they apparently want a SIM card in oh look at that they include little instructions for how to insert your SIM card so you take this piece off apparently all right nope this one you know what give me a minute ah yes right here so you peel this guy up and just like that come on you can do it go align us and that was when you broke it nope didn't break it there you go so SIM card goes right there and then you can also see there's some other stuff in here that presumably you wouldn't need to use for anything so we're gonna go ahead and put that back on there you go also on the top you find your lock button as well as your headphone jack so that's your power and lock button rather on the side you find a volume rocker and then on the other side you find oh cool is that is that mini HDMI no USB I'm sorry I didn't look that closely at it so that's a USB connector so they've opted for a side mounted charging connector which something that I haven't seen as often as the more traditional bottom mounted charging connector so image chip that's actually part of their whole sort of better camera concept so it's supposed to have a one-second start up while that was actually definitely less than a one second so it says unable to use the flash because the battery's too low right now but there you go how quickly can we take pictures focus shoot focus shoot hopefully you can see this I don't know if you can I think I might just totally be standing in the way so in terms of the pictures we're taking I think I think got a rotates off clarity wise it looks Wow actually really good I guess it's about what you'd expect when we're using studio lighting so let's move into some size comparisons how big is it it's a 4.3 inch screen so I think I mentioned that before but how does it actually compare to something else so here is a Galaxy Note 2 so that's what it looks like compared to one of those all right here is an iPhone 4 so that's a significantly smaller screen size okay moving right along here is another HTC phone so this is an 8s dismiss dismiss go away there we go that's an 8's so that's only a 4-inch screen so it actually doesn't make that much of a difference going from 4 to 4.3 but here we go in terms of the size of the phone but it does make the images look a little bit bigger this is also a 4.3 inch screen but a larger phone design on the HTC 8x so you can see it's a little bit longer on the bottom one thing that I actually did not realize is that that little USB connector I showed you guys can be used for HDMI so that's why I thought it looked kind of weird but with a special cable you can use it as an HDMI output which I personally think is very freakin cool so they're saying that it comes with Ice Cream Sandwich but it's jelly bean is going to be either rolling out or is rolling out right now according to the information that we found so it's up to date as far as Android operating systems go I don't think I've shown you guys what the phone looks like in any more detail so this piece right here on the back is actually metal and has a very nice feel to it the piece on the bottom here is rubberized and then the piece on the top here feels more like I don't know if it's rubber but it's soft anyway so this feels more like a soft touch finish up here as well I like this because the way that I hold a phone is I'll tend to support it with my pinkie so that I can reach the entire keyboard because I have the kind of smaller hands so having this not be a slick metal piece here actually is beneficial to to certain people in terms of included accessories there's not a whole lot you've got a wall wart so there's your little HTC this should be a 1 amp yep HTC One and wall wart as well as a microUSB cable for charging you also get a little QuickStart guide that shows you where all of the stuff on your phone is that's the touch screen yay oh one of the other details of the touch screen that I wanted to cover again a moe LED so super dark super deep blacks and then check this out viewing angle should be pretty much perfect with no distortion regardless of how you're looking at it can you see that Diesel yeah we got it now so absolutely gorgeous I don't think I mentioned yet that the CPU is clocked at 1.7 gigahertz and it has 16 Meg at 16 Meg's yeah only 16 Meg's internal storage don't worry about it store everything in the cloud data is free anyway haha 16 gigs internal storage unfortunately this particular phone can't be expanded with micro sd but given that you actually can't install apps off micro sd it's up to the individual user whether that's an actual detriment or not personally I never used all 16 gigs on my iPhone 4 in two years so I'm not a power user when it comes to storage space but if you are then that might be a bit of a problem for you I think that pretty much wraps it up I don't think I missed anything here and thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the HTC One S so that is the step down from the 1x don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos I don't think I mentioned this already but the 1080p video that it records is actually at 30fps so just for for lulz I'm gonna record some video here maybe we'll catch our production crew hello so you guys can watch that video actually here we'll watch that video on the on the good one play oh I think I have auto-rotate off we'll be back all right so here's our video playback now that I've enabled that there we go I have noticed already that it's smoother than the than the 1080p 30fps video that I was recording on my 8x you can see it adjusts for the lights behind slick pretty well right there I don't think I mentioned before that it has one gig of ram I don't think we're even on blue not even on full screen brightness yet there we go okay well I think that wraps it up don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos