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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and this is that 1080p phone it's the Droid DNA now when I first came out a couple of months ago actually I didn't give it a whole lot of attention and I actually didn't do any videos on it because I was so enthralled in the galaxy note 2 but now that I've come back to and I've spent a lot more time with it over the past couple of weeks I've gotten to know it a lot better and to be honest it's really worth taking another look at so without any further ado this is the Droid DNA revisited so when it was announced HTC made a big deal about how this is not a phablet like the Galaxy Note 2 that I carried and to be honest they feel completely totally separate very different devices so HTC is totally right these are not competing for the same customers they're not competing in the same form factor space and having big hands I tend to use the Galaxy Note 2 of one hand but for most people this is a two handed device with this for me it's still a one-handed device so again they're very very different and they almost they just feel different in the hand as well considering that the note 2 is made of all plastic and the Galaxy Note 2 doesn't feel anything like the Droid DNA which is all a unibody feel polycarbonate back very very well sealed in just if anything the build quality is one of the most impressive reasons to get this phone so let's talk about that build quality shall we this guy is a beast when it comes to build first of all it's made of all glass and metal and on the back it's this polycarbonate which is I guess a fancy word for hardened plastic but it feels really good it's a soft touch back now in the front as you'll see it's a sort of curved around the edges here so it feels like the entire thing is one just sheet of glass and you never really encounter any seams and the entire device is sealed in now that does mean you can't upgrade the battery or swap out batteries or use external storage and you can only access the micro sim by using that SIM card ejector tool on the top but other than that it's also then for good reason and that allows them to have this sort of a prism shaped look where they stack the internals inside the phone in a sort of a pyramid and that gives them extra space for a larger battery at2020 milliamp hour battery I'll get to that in a second and it also has you know a high-end camera 8 megapixel camera has a Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro inside and all kind of wrapped into a pretty compact package but in terms of pure quality everything about this is high-end from the power button on the top to the volume rocker on the side to the capacitive buttons to the red speaker grille on the side the metal ring around the camera on the back all of this screams quality except the beats logo on the back that that does not scream quality at all so overall I'd say I prefer the design and the build of this phone to the Galaxy Note 2 now I do happen to like screen size of the note 2 better but I got to say that this this next thing I'm about to talk about the 1080p display is the killer feature on this phone and we all expected that it's the Droid DNA it's that 1080p phone in the United States this was the first iteration and I got to say this is the best display on any mobile device period better than the iPhone better than the note 2 better than the galaxy s3 better than any other displays available at least in the United States that you can get this happens to be on Verizon but if you want an international version it's called the J butterfly it's not red and black but it's also got that 1080p display and now it's kind of started this first wave of other 1080p devices that we're going to see for example the Sony Xperia Z that I showed you guys from CES that's a 5-inch 1080p display the ZTE grand s that's a 5-inch 1080p display and I'm probably going to go ahead and put my money saying that the galaxy s4 is going to be a 5-inch 1080p display so this is the first one in the United States that has that so with that resolution in that size that gives it a pixel density of 441 PPI and a lot of people like to say oh you'll never see the difference between that and the iPhones Retina display is this display all that it's cracked up to be yes it is all that is cracked up to be and you absolutely can see the difference watching videos gaming the overall media experience the preview when taking pictures with the camera everything you see on the display is really really sharp and crisp and also it happens to be extremely bright I didn't really realize how dim the AMOLED displays are in the galaxy s3 and the note 2 until I took this guy outside and pumped up the brightness and it looks like I'm indoors you can see everything perfectly legibly it's very visible so I gotta say the brightness was really impressive viewing angles were also extremely impressive if you check out the viewing angles you can pretty much say that you can read anything from probably almost 90 degrees on this phone so overall this is a great display and it makes this phone worth buying almost every category that being said can this phone push all these pixels well they also answer to that is yes I didn't really find any performance hiccups especially with HTC Sense you know it's not stock Android but it is Android 4.1 but you know sense kind of does its thing you know people like HTC Sense that have been using HTC phones before this and you'll be used to it you'll find yourself right at home of use an HTC phone before performance is pretty smooth especially the notification bar I found that that was like extremely fast really responsive when I was pulling it down actually more so than the Galaxy Note 2 but I really did like that the performance of this phone is pretty fast it also has a Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 pro inside so you would expect it to be pretty good performer you'd also expect it to have good battery life it doesn't the droid DNA has a 2020 milliamp hour battery inside to put that into perspective the galaxy s3 has a 20 100 million power battery and the galaxy note 2 has a three thousand one hundred million power battery so a two thousand 20 million power battery is a lot closer to the days of the one year old Galaxy Nexus which had an eighteen hundred million power so it's not the biggest battery in the world and you're also pushing 1080p display and a Snapdragon s4 pro quad-core 1.5 gigahertz processor I was charging it at 3 p.m. every day this is the the worst thing about this phone as the Droid ena has a terrible battery life now that doesn't matter for a lot of people who might find themselves near a charger all the time but you got a don't want to recommend this phone just because the battery life is so bad if you do have multiple chargers you can bring them with you also it doesn't support wireless charging but it's also sealed in so you can't replace the battery so you can't carry a spare battery so it really depends on having a plug in a charger wherever you go that's the killer feature on this phone in the bad way of killer it's got a terrible battery life other than that when I come from other phones like the note 2 and s3 to come to this phone you notice a lot of the little things besides the incredibly great build quality I noticed a lot of the software features that were different for example the multitasking that they changed is just very bad it take it takes up a whole entire full screen app it hides the notification bar but you can only see one app at a time and you can only close one app at a time where with regular Android you can see like five or six so I don't know why they did that I hope they can at least adjust that so you can see more apps with HTC senses a multi app preview other than that Beats Audio is some kind of weird gimmick I had headphones plugged in and if I turn Beats Audio on it just kind of turned up the volume a little bit bumped up the bass a little bit kind of like an equaliser I also was using bluetooth headphones with these and I turned Beats Audio on and it did the same thing so clearly it's not an internal hardware thing it's just changing an EQ it's and they call it Beats Audio add-on in terms of optimized apps that's a pretty important thing which apps take advantage of a 1080p display well obviously not every app does but apps that use a lot of text and apps I'd show a lot of video and images are going to look awesome things like Flipboard your Twitter apps your browser's they all look great so I was using Chrome Beta and I use a falcon Pro still for Twitter and those look extremely sharp especially with the text in the media previews so I can definitely say that the app set might not be optimized that just happened to use a lot of text and elements and things like that still look great icons also look great it doesn't have the same problem as the Nexus 10 where you know tablet apps are lacking and it has a 2560 by 1600 display but you'll notice that it does look a lot sharper when using apps on the screen but my conclusion on the Droid DNA is that this is a bit of a mixed bag it's obviously got a bunch of great features an awesome display a great build quality but then it has that awful battery life that kind of kills the entire package and you can go ahead and add this phone to a long list of devices that have all but awesome specs for just one thing on the list is bad for example the Nexus 4 a lot of people love that phone great budget great build quality great OS no LTE you know a lot of people will love the Galaxy Note 2 great you know battery life great display huge display awesome apps s-pen features but it's too big so there are a lot of phones that kind of fall short on one particular thing this phone's critical pad thing about it is the battery life so just know that if you're going to get into this that's we're going to have to beware yeah that being said I've got a video for you guys that will probably blow you away coming up next because it's kind of the daddy of this phone so puts this phone to shame so stay tuned for that make sure you subscribe if you haven't already and click that like button below if you enjoyed thank you for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next video peace you