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that I can get it even with my thumb this is also something that I love about Android compared to iOS and Windows Phone you don't have to use the accurate cursor here you can usually go okay I'm gonna try and get it here and it'll at least give you a shot at it before it gives you the option to correct what you've done so the screen is very accurate which makes that actually work a lot of the time the stock keyboard layout does feel a little bit weird look look what they've done here so these middle keys are actually wider and I understand why that is because if you have small hands they're gonna be easier to reach in the middle but it does make typing on it a little bit awkward because I expect the keys to be the same size I also expect these two bezels to be the same so what I found myself doing sometimes is sort of typing on one side of the keyboard and missing things like the left shift it's not the end of the world and I'll just get a download XT board apps such as Swift key or swipe I think are two of the popular ones no matter what you want to play playback they can get extremely loud with no distortion they weren't quite as loud as a Diesel's Galaxy Note 2 but definitely loud enough that you could actually be doing something and listening to it and then over something else so check this out so for contrast this is me talking in a normal conversational voice with Big Buck Bunny running in the background so which is easy to hear as someone talking to you from you know like a foot away a next NFC is a huge plus so I've already used it a couple times I would have liked to see wireless charging I hate microUSB I think I'm well documented as being a hater of microUSB it's an extremely fragile connection and I wish it would just die but it seems to have just become a standard for some reason when mini be like there's no reason you couldn't have put a mini B here I'm not convinced micro USB actually improves the slimness of devices battery wise I've had a lot of people ask me about this so check this out I've been using this all day this is day one it's midnight is after midnight now I watched at least 3 hours of videos on the phone whether with headphones or with speakers throughout the day I've made some calls I've done some tweets I've used it the way I would in a pretty heavy workload day this is a weekend so while I didn't make as many calls I was definitely streaming video over it much more often I am extremely impressed compared to my older iPhone 4 which in its defense was a little bit on the older side this is way more usable and compared to the HTC 8x running Windows Phone streaming video using Amit which is the app that I've got as my replacement for air video so using em it is much less demanding on the phone and on the battery life than the Windows Phone equivalent which I can't remember the name of for the life of me so Amit is something I would consider to be actually a suitable replacement for air video it starts up extremely quickly I'm not going to play this back because I'm worried about any kind of copyright infringement on the video but there you go it starts very quickly very responsive you have to run a server app on a computer in the household but awesome so I figure I could get through two light days with this no problem which is exciting however I'm not using 4G because this isn't 4G in my area yet hopefully I'll be swapping it out at some point and I'm not using wireless AC with that said it's pretty sweet that it supports wireless AC because Anandtech actually posted an article on this saying they got up to 275 megabit tested not theoretical on this phone using Wireless they so I have an AC router in the mail on the way to me and hopefully I'll be able to update you guys on that sometime soon the auto rotates a little bit hyperactive so this has been this has been bothering me a little bit so let's say I wanted to reply to a tweet normally I would I'd go okay maybe I'm you know laying doing something watch how quickly it auto rotates and there it goes so I'm actually oh I'm only halfway between horizontal and vertical and it's Auto rotated already which for some people maybe this seems like a fairly small complaint and it actually is it's a beautiful phone there's no way I'm going back to the iPhone for after this having spent only a day with it so far but I wish it was a little bit more like yeah I want you to rotate then then it would rotate versus I'm halfway and between like I have with the iPhone 4 you could kind of go ya know do this and then you could kind of play with it a little bit and get it closer you could kind of use it also I wish that like TouchWiz I wish that HTC's interface had a quick auto rotate here however there's got to be an app for that or something screens amazing the viewing angles outstanding here I'll just give you guys like a browser page to look at or maybe like here's a here let's play back in unboxing you guys can see what it looks like ok speakers are loud so you can see what it looks like ahead on and then you can see what it looks like from the side there's no color shift it uses Super LCD 3 so you don't get any of that weirdness that Samsung has with their emo LED screens where they are actually slightly higher resolution in some color versus other colors text is extremely crisp this is the kind of thing I can't convey through a video like this but no matter how small the text is on the screen I can read it clearly even at a distance because it is so crisp it's really really nice those zoe's or whatever they're called so you open up the camera app and there's an option that you click on right here and you go okay I want to record as owee so let's have a look at my fps Doug poster here so I go do-do-do-do-do you can see there's a little bar going so it's taking some still pictures as well as a video and what it does with with those is it allows you to either see like a of a 1 to 2 second video capture moment or a still image and so it's a neat way of capturing both at full res at the same time and and and getting a moment sort of even if you would have missed it with the and the shutters quick so the odds of missing it are slimmer but even if you would have missed it check out the gallery for a minute though guys so here's the I want to show you guys the highlight reel feature okay so here it sorts things into events so my photos events so I can go I can pick a day you can you can move things in and out of different events and it does so up at the top so all the individual things are down here and then up at the top it has a highlight reel so it'll automatically set it to music and it'll add a bunch of cuts it'll add some kind of effect I'd love to see what HTC is gonna do with this over time in terms of adding more music more effects more cool stuff like that but it's a really neat way to review the photos and videos that you took throughout a day in about 30 seconds so if you're showing someone with a short attention span which let's face it we all have short attention spans these days it's it's just a really cool effect once that let's watch the highlight reel for this day it just does it automatically so there's the baby using the phone it puts like a film grain effect on it all of this is without any work whatsoever here he is trying to drink some water I'm just the fact that it's jumping around to two different different angles different points in the movie all the time makes it very impactful so I'd love to be able to put my own music on it which is another thing the haptic feedback on this phone is excellent so some some phones some devices you touch it and the whole thing kind of goes burn and it just feels crappy it feels cheap not on this one it's very tight very very responsive the default app loadout it's not bad I'm not sure if I'm a big fan of the blinkfeed here so this is just social media and like sort of other things like updates but you don't have to make that your home you can set to more of a standard Android home and then this interface here is a vertical scrolling interface kind of more like Gingerbread not sure if I'm a big fan of this either so I think I'm gonna go for the default Android layout once I've had more time to personalize it and add the apps that I want an old speaking of apps the default app loadout is not bad so I mean they've got things like SoundHound on here which is awesome the music app needs a lot of work the UI is not great on this one so things like like just little simple stuff like if you search for something so-so I don't know let's find my Ace of Base if you search for something it doesn't have this option here to add it to a playlist whereas when you're just going through your songs you can see there's here there's a bunch of options for things you can do with it so it needs some it needs to be refined a little bit I just found it not that easy - oops not that easy to navigate but here let's go so we've got your media apps your google apps it comes with Twitter it comes with car maps clock productivity wise it comes with Dropbox almost everything you see here was pre-loaded on the phone nothing unnecessary and stupid so I mean okay I don't know if all of its necessary I haven't done through it this is all stuff that I added so far Beats Audio seems to be just an EQ setting not that impressed in terms of the overall audio quality over headphones coming from the iPhone 4 so let's let's talk general Android I wouldn't mind if there was an easier way to see battery life percentage but I'm sure there's a widget or an app for that or something moving from platform that does not have great app support like Windows Phone 8 is is just a breath of fresh air being able to go okay I need I need a scanner app I need movie streaming app I need whatever there's something there for sure you want to change the fonts on your phone you might have to read it for that actually I'm not sure I recently rooted my wife's droid DNA and install the custom ROM on and everything so I'm familiarizing myself with with the platform as much as I can and there's a lot of really cool options when you do that but I won't be rooting the HTC one during my 30-day period with it I'm gonna you be using so actually Sense 5.0 hasn't bothered me yet so this is this is one thing I mean I'm not a this isn't something that I think I'll end up using and blinkfeed is kind of the kind of thing that I would it's is sort of like the people app on Windows Phone 8 where it's like okay here's another to come some interesting stuff and I love highlight reels and those are good the camera on this thing is awesome so here's just a video of the baby eating eggs just oh looks so good okay well that was a very short video no that was oh that was as Oh or as oe- twitter app is so superior to the iPhone one on the iPhone one you'll reach the top and I'll go loading loading loading and then you can scroll up again so when there's a been a lot of them it used to be you could double click on it in the iPhone 1 and it would just go to the top but yeah this one's butter smooth interfacing with this thing which is just awesome so overall I'm pretty much sold on Android at this point but there'll still be more updates I'm not just gonna cop out and go yeah day one Android wins so stay tuned guys don't forget to subscribe Lyons tech tips more unboxings reviews and other computer videos