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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile cooler master - usa.com welcome to my unboxing and first look at the HTC one now we've already seen a 1x and a 1s and a 1x plus but this is just one that's all there is to it so they have gone instead of sort of a hedged BET's multi-tiered phone strategy and they're saying ok nope this is it this is gonna incorporate all of the best technology that we can build the shell itself so the aluminum frame the aluminum body that it uses has 200 minutes minimum on a machine for each individual phone that's produced so to put this in the appropriate context those machines cost tens of thousands of dollars potentially for high-end CNC machines and they are occupying 200 minutes each they had to put a bunch of advanced technique techniques into it just to manufacture this thing so I'm gonna go ahead and put it down here and we're gonna start actually I'm not gonna put it down here we're gonna start with a size comparison so compared to the HTC 8x it is actually a very similar size in spite of the fact that the screen is a little bit larger at 4.7 inches so if I go ahead and turn it on so I'm just gonna try and get an HTC logo on the screens here there we go you'll see it goes a little bit closer to the edge there's the sound when it boots up then the 8x so that's a Windows Phone this is an Android phone and it runs HTC's Sense 5.0 alright so by comparison here's a Galaxy Note 2 we should probably also do thickness comparisons here as well I'm not going to put it quite up against the other phone because this is Diesel's and I'm sure he'd freak out if he saw me doing that so it's much smaller than a note 2 however the resolution is actually higher this is a 1080p Super LCD 3 phone now I've seen Super LCD 2 and Super LCD 3 this is a galaxy s3 by the way guys the s4 is a little bit bigger also has a 1080p screen and Super LCD 3 is out absolutely better than Super LCD - especially with respect to color shift so they both have pretty vibrant colors good text all that stuff here's an iPhone 4 by the way guys there's a size comparison there but Super LCD 3 doesn't really shift the colors as you move around and look at it from different angles up and down so here's is a 1s so that's a previous generation phone not quite a flagship like the Droid DNA so this is only one of the first one of the first two or three phones on the market that has a 1080p display it also has the all new Snapdragon s600 platform so that includes a 1.7 gigahertz quad-core processor wireless AC and Adreno 320 GPU as well as 2 gigs of memory so we're into the setup wizard so I'm going to go ahead and get that started and we'll be back in a moment so now let's take a really close look at the phone itself there are a few things about it that are particularly innovative so number one is I'm gonna take it I'm gonna hold it in portrait that I'm gonna go BAM landscape because these two speakers right here are stereo speakers with what HTC is calling boom sound so boom sound is pretty much their way of saying it actually has sound that will actually be usable in the context of sitting and looking at your phone like this I'm watching a movie for example this makes perfect sense because if you look at something like an iPhone 4 which has one port for audio that comes out of the bottom or even something like an 8x that has one speaker on the back of the phone how many times have you done this where you're cupping your hand behind the phone in order to direct any noise at your face so boom sound looks incredibly cool they've also added a 1080p front-facing camera in addition so that's a 2.1 megapixel still 1080p 30fps video camera in addition to the four megapixel 1080p 30fps rear camera so hold on a minute why did I just say four megapixel they're calling this ultra pixel so rather than having lots of tiny tiny micro dense dense pixels what HTC has gone totally in the opposite direction of the regular industry trend and gonna you know we're gonna put bigger pixels in the phone because those will actually be able to capture more light because they're larger and should give you better low-light performance and from what I've seen sort of looking around so far it's actually working so in spite of fewer pixels you're able to get better dynamic range and oh yeah so it's got a 1/3 inch sensor as well as an F 2.0 lens that gives you more light transmission and a larger sensor to capture the light on as well so this is a very different way of going about it in fact if you look at H teeth the HTC one product page on HTC's website you'll see that they don't even list how many megapixels it is because they feel it shouldn't be about that it should be about what actual quality are you getting out of the images you're taking now one of the other things that's changed about the front here is that instead of having three buttons there are two buttons so there's a back button and a home button instead of a recent app button you can double click the home button to access your recent apps and then you can hold it down to get to Google now so that's the way that that functionality is enabled but so it's a little bit different there's also added their HTC Sense 5.0 UI so if there are there are some intricacies to it it works well with the apps that they include so another thing they've changed about the camera is you can use a mode called zou 0e in order to take about four or five stills as well as a several second 1080p video so part of their their whole thing here is they want it to be more like sort of like a Harry Potter type picture so you're capturing a moment as opposed to just as still so they've included a management application a gallery for it but it's a very cool concept I haven't tried it yet but it sounds neat so instead of just taking a picture you get a little bit of the lead up you get the smile and then you get a little bit of whatever it happens to be very very neat stuff so let's keep moving around the phone on this side we find not a whole lot just a spot for a micro sim other than that you can see just the beautiful finishing on the phone with the aluminum backing as well as the beveled aluminum front that meets seamlessly with the Gorilla Glass 2 front so it should be extremely durable and it looks fairly drop resistant as well because the glass doesn't go right to the edge there is a little bit of a buffer zone although that's not to say that if you drop it directly the glass that wouldn't break on the top we find a headphone microphone combo Jack as well as check this out so the power button is not only a power button but also an IR emitter and receiver so you can use it as a universal remote with any infrared devices very very cool little innovation and it doesn't detract from the overall look of the device either on this side we find a volume rocker and what I like about it is it's a little bit it's got it's flush at or slightly recessed so when you pick up the phone because it's a little bit wider here at the at the back of it you can pick it up easily without accidentally triggering the volume buttons which is a problem that I had with the 8x during my 30-day windows phone trial on the bottom we find a USB /mh l port so that allows it to also output HDMI signals to compatible MHL devices finally there's a little uh oh sorry there sighs nope that's it there's on the back a little noise cancelling microphone and an overall very symmetrical looking design this is a solid piece of aluminum back here and you've got a couple of cool things so there's a flash right next to that camera I've talked a lot about before as well as a little Beats Audio logo and an HTC logo now the Beats Audio logo maybe this is part of just the the general I don't know if it's Beats Audio or just part of HTC's internal direction but the audio is significantly better on the device than what you'll find on a typical smartphone whether that's the headphones which have a reasonable headphone amp on them which is great but also those front-facing speakers that I talked about before accessory wise they also include a bit of a more premium looking headphone headset than you're generally used to seeing so it's got a non tangle cable it's got a red and black color scheme where have we seen that before guys and of course it includes three different sizes of ear tips they are I am so they're meant to go right into the ear canals they also include at least with our demo model not to say the retail one won't have more stuff a SIM card tool as well as a micro USB cable charger and a cable and a charger alright so this will be the shop where I finish up with all the little other little things that I forgot so for one thing it's got a 468 pixel per inch density this is pretty much the more I believe this is the mole dense display on the market for a smartphone because it is a slightly smaller screen than there was on the Droid DNA it's only 4.7 inch making it a little bit easier for someone like me to use in spite of my small hand syndrome I'd say already that just because of the shape of it it's easier to hold on to than the 8x was so since this is the device I'll be using for my 30-day Android I switched trial I'm really glad that that's something that I discovered about it on the back this isn't something you can see but it does have NFC so you can easily exchange data apps or whatever else you want however there is no wireless charging built into this phone for those of you who were hoping to see that option you pretty much cannot open it up it has a 2300 milliamp hour battery though so hopefully that's enough for you and same thing with respect to not being able to open it up you can't add a micro SD card for more expansion so you're gonna be stuck with either the 32 gigs or 64 gigs that were included with your phone it comes with Android 4.1.2 but it is upgradable to 4.2 and they include the HTC Sync manager to facilitate moving whether it's from iOS or from another Android device to this new platform and I think that pretty much wraps it up for this unboxing and first look thank you for checking it out on - tech tips and as always don't forget to subscribe