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this video is brought to you by coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile Coolermaster usa.com welcome to day seven of my experience with the HTC one so this is my first time taking a long-term crack at Android and I got to say the experience has been very positive so far so I'm gonna start with the stock Gmail app which I absolutely love it allows you to easily and quickly switch between all of your different inboxes and it allows you to manage it through the notification screen to sort of navigate to each one individually it's very very seamless and speaking of seamless just I mean obviously it's a google OS so it's very well integrated as far as google stuff goes but YouTube is a fantastic experience compared to here I'm just going to go back to the very beginning compared to other platforms so you can see if I'm not signed in to a particular YouTube account then all I have to do if I want to upload something is I go on I find something so in this case maybe there's a video tour of my motorbike which I am planning to sell on Craigslist and I go okay I want to share this all I have to do is go oh look at that YouTube is in my top options now that I've done it a few times I can pick which one I want to throw that online as cat tips I select it I press upload and it is ready to go it is very very seamless once you're logged into YouTube you can see him do-do-do-do-do trending see I'm logged in now all of your uploads playlist favorites and all of that good stuff so I just love the way that it's really well integrated I'm tempted to start vlogging based on how easy it is to just sort of take a video I mean it's 1080p it's extremely good quality I'm really enjoying this phone it has a 1080p front camera as well and just how quickly I can upload it whether I'm on mobile or whether I'm on Wi-Fi is absolutely great automatic synchronization of all of my junk made switching extremely easy so all of my contacts were synced no problem I also I never dial any other way now this is amazing sifting through your contacts list is just stupid compared to this so check this out all I have to do is go slack so I start there you go so I start typing and it finds the right person and just in case it's not the right person all you have to do is hold it down and it will give you the options of all the different people so in this case it's just multiple entries for slick so there's a whatsapp entry and then I think one other one so absolutely awesome I love Swift key so I'm using a hold on I'm using a 30-day trial of Swift key so let's go ahead we'll just go go right here it's just much snappier much more responsive than the stock keyboard there's no weird sort of delay as the letter pops up showing you what you press the predictive text is amazing within a couple times of typing out things like Linus tech tips it had learned it it was suggesting it for me a plus for SwiftKey definitely worth the $2 or $3 or whatever they're charging for it on google play power toggles is another great one one of the first things I complained about with this particular phone running Sense 5.0 is that I didn't have a quick way to turn an auto rotate on and off oh well now I do so I mean this is this is the strength of Android if you don't like something about it and there were things I didn't like on day one the odds are excellent that there's a way to fix it power toggles also addressed my distress that I couldn't see the the battery meter with a more exact percentage based readout boom power toggles adds a little battery meter you can customize it you can decide which things you want here so I went with data rotations synchronization Wi-Fi flash yeah you don't need a don't need a flashlight app anymore I can just scroll down from the lock screen and I'm ready to go GPS and Bluetooth so that does absolutely everything I needed to do which is great sliding notifications away without actually open anything is a relief from iOS this worked on Windows Phone as well but it offline on skype apparently but that's extremely handy and now that I'm used to the multitasking interface I use it all the time so a double tap on home gives me all of the things that I've used recently and I mean it'll even do things like pause a video that I was in the middle of which exiting the app and reopening it doesn't necessarily do so for example omit the app that I use for video playback there you go sure so something like that if I just go like this I can go okay I need to reply to I don't know an email really quick blah blah blah blah blah YouTube service something something and back to my video and I'm ready to go so it's very very fast it took me maybe a day or two to actually get used to but now I'm using it every time pretty much um I still don't really care for blinkfeed very much I'm more of a producer than a consumer of sort of Facebook Linkedin this kind of social media stuff so I'm not finding this that useful for myself but I can see how if you didn't have such a busy feed it might work pretty well for you so it's the same reason I didn't end up using the people app on Windows Phone 8 I'm not saying it's a bad thing it's just not necessarily for me and speaking of other things that are unique to sense 5.0 I'm not sure whether I prefer the more traditional Android side to side scrolling or the more honey art and rather honeycomb the more gingerbread style up and down I find myself actually using this one a fair bit and once I figured out that all you have to do is go in here and manage your grid size so you can add more icons to the screen it's actually not a lot of scrolling even compared to this side by side you can see I haven't properly arranged everything in folders yet these are still a lot of the stock folders but I've been super super busy so yeah there you go another multitasking thing that I absolutely love is Chrome's tab switching so compared to any other mobile OS that I've used this is outstanding and then if you're switching between two tabs quickly you can actually do it quickly you just swipe from the side and boom you're on mobile YouTube boom you're back on a social blade boom you're back on mobile YouTube looking at a completely different mobile YouTube your own your own live stream archive if your narcissistic like that I want to get into the phone itself a little bit because the HTC One really is a unique piece of hardware I did drop it already which was extremely distressing so I was running to get something that was overflowing in the kitchen and I was like Google put it in my pocket fell on the ground so it actually fell from pocket height which fortunately for short people like me isn't that high to the tile floor and there's a dent where is it nope can't find it there it is so there's a dent right here you can probably actually see it a little bit better from this angle where this corner is kind of flat now and then there's another small dent and I think it's the opposite corner right there so it did survive it didn't crack the fact that the edge you can see it's actually a little bit wider at the butt come to the screen is that's probably helpful for protecting it from a fall I mean if you dropped it straight flat on its glass like they did in that one drop test on YouTube then yeah obviously the screen is gonna break but if it were to hit at any kind of an angle it would have to be a pretty extreme angle for it to contact the glass first so I don't know whether HTC thought of that or whether the curve is so that it fits more naturally in your hand but there you go either way that's a intentional or unintentional benefit speaking of the curvature in spite of its 4.7 inch screen I have found that I am actually able to type one-handed it's not that easy see it's not that easy but compared to the 8x I can reach and since doesn't want anyway so since SwiftKey does a lot of the work for me anyway that helps a lot you can see in my Twitter feed there's this is uh this is some scary game streamer that I follow it's a pretty scary tattoo that she's got going on there anyway doo-doo-doo ah okay if I had to come up with one complaint about the phone it would be that the lock button on the top looks an awful lot like the microUSB port here and they're in the same proportion so if you were pulling it out of your pocket think about it this way if you're pulling it out of your pocket and you want to know the orientation of the phone at first glance that could just as easily be your lock button as this yeah so I've had to I mean okay very minor complaint but I've had to get in the habit of putting my phone in 1/8 way and pulling it out the same way so that I know where my lock button is but there you Gilman's voice quality on my end I would describe as outstanding maybe a little bit better than the 8x whereas people on the other side are anecdotally describing it to me as pretty good so take take what you will out of that so that's my my feedback on the speaker and the microphone I decided to do a bit of a stress test on the battery now HTC wanted me to talk about their battery bar which is a six thousand milliamp hour little it's one of those little USB charge things so you can carry around a little bit of extra battery capacity with you but what I found is I actually didn't really end up having a desire to use it because my torture test that I did on day two involved six hours six Plus on being conservative six hours of playing music on the phone had a reasonable volume so I was sitting working on my computer I had it next to me playing back music so six hours of that two hours of streaming video with Amit so bearing in mind most of the processing is being done by my home server not by the phone itself but either way we are being pretty heavy on the Wi-Fi and then another two hours of listening to music on headphones with a few calls not a ton of calls that day but regular Twitter as well as regular emails on the phone and I had 35 percent battery left at the end of the day this is with automatic screen brightness and I'm not using the power saving mode I haven't turned off Bluetooth I haven't really engaged any tricks or any of those battery saving apps to help me save more power so I'm extremely impressed and it's sort of brought to my attention that not all X milliamp hour batteries are created equal Slick's Galaxy s3 he having only owned it for I think less than six months already doesn't make it through a single day on a charge like at all in fact he sent me sort of an amusing screenshot of how how ludicrous it's gotten over time and I mean remember guys the thing about a battery is that here let me just find this Cara I can't find it but he sent me a really funny screenshot of his phone saying 25% battery left five minutes remaining that's a little extreme it does last longer than that but it's been pretty unsatisfactory for him so I'm really interested to see how this lasts over the longer term because when you compare it to the galaxy s3 at least you can replace the battery on the s3 whereas this one you have to rely on the battery inside being very high quality I mean my iPhone 4 still lasts me an entire day even though it's three years old because at least the integrated battery that you can't change doesn't have a horrible memory effect that causes the battery life to go down dramatically anyway I'm pleased for now auto-brightness has handled extremely well to the point where I've actually left it on any phones I've had in the past I've never left auto brightness on because I find it drains the battery too fast but it's pretty smart so if you cover up the light sensor it's going to go ahead and dim itself pretty quickly and it'll dim itself like right way all the way down to the point where it's not uncomfortable I find if you're like in bed watching a video and it doesn't dim it enough it's just kind of glaring and uncomfortable in your eyes and it actually takes it down to a to a good level so it's very readable in the day as well.i heats up when I hammer it with tethering but I think that goes for most phones pretty much at all because you are stressing both the Wi-Fi and the the mobile data chipsets and the antennas and everything's just kind of going crazy in there but we didn't see any kind of weird performance issues or anything like that unlike my iPhone 4 which worked with tethering maybe half of the time and with half of the devices we had a couple notebooks and at least one other phone tethered to it all at the same time so I think that pretty much covers it this is day 7 of my Android I switched and I'm ruining the conclusion again but I think I'm pretty much gonna be sticking with Android and I'm pretty much gonna be sticking with this phone unless you guys really want me to try out another platform like maybe blackberry or a bun too and then maybe I'll do a 30 day switch to that but in all likelihood I see myself going back to Android for the main reasons being app available 'ti you can find an app for almost anything as well as the easy integration with services that I use extensively like Gmail and YouTube thanks for watching this video and don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos thanks for watching this video was edited on a workstation powered by Kingston memory