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hey what is up guys I'm Kay PhD here and in a world with 1080p smartphones now becoming more and more popular with the Droid DNA and the Oppo find 5 and the ZTE grand s and the lg optimus G pro and the huawei ascend mate and many others to have set themselves pretty clearly as the kings of the 1080p smartphones and they're pretty much guaranteed to be competing with each other side by side in stores around the country nationwide you guys already know it's the HTC One versus the samsung galaxy s4 to flagships we're going to be seeing a lot of this year so that may further adieu let's compare them and see which one ends up being the better choice for you so we'll start with the obvious and that's build quality and the HTC One is arguably the best built phone that's ever been made and it's definitely the best built phone that HTC has ever made and it's built so well that it brings into question the build quality of other smart phones like the galaxy s4 because that's actually at this point now the physically biggest difference between these two phones is the material and the construction that put them together and that's the funny thing because the first impression that people get of the smart phone is just holding in the hand so if I gave one of these and one of these to the same person that would probably immediately give you an answer about which one they like more which one feels better in the hand which one they think they would rather buy and then you turn the phones on and you get a whole different experience but the immediate first impression you get about the phone is how it feels now I want you guys to hear this I want you guys to hear this because this is probably the scariest part of the difference between the way these are built this is the HTC One I'm going to go ahead and flex it at the strongest that I would ever flex the phone this is going to be full strength flex and just listen and the phone barely budges it's not going to bend all that much and I'm probably going to damage it if I do any more stress to it but that's a whole lot of pressure to put a phone under this is the Galaxy s4 and have a listen to this I'm going to flex it at about 20% and you can see it's flexing when I do that and there's a whole lot of different weird noises and popping and creaking going on because the back is removable and that's probably a little bit of it but just I feel like I'm gonna break the phone if I do that anymore that's about 50% I'm not going to put any more stress on it that's concerning to me that there's such a big disparity in the build quality between these phones now Samsung has said and I've interviewed people up on the Samsung team but they have their own reasons for using plastic and they're perfectly valid reasons and there are pros and cons to using plastic and there are pros and cons to using metal like we all already know the pros to a metal built phone are build quality durability and feel on the hand and like I said with the HTC One it's a phone that I just kind of want to pick up and mess around with it's got the best feel in the hand of any phone I've ever used but the cons of metal are number one chipping it tends to get chipped more easily it's not as easily too easily broken like the Galaxy s4 is plastic but it's a lot easier to chip if you drop it and number two temperature sensitivity when the HTC one gets cold it gets really cold and when the HTC one gets hot it gets really hot because metal is naturally more conductive than plastic there's also another minor contem metal where there's not as great a radio sensitivity so the radios kind of have to have their own place to go through the bands of the phone the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and 3G and 4G reception might not be as good if the phone is all metal but luckily the HTC One takes care that with a few bands of plastic around the phone and then if we look at the pros and cons of plastic VR the exact opposite switched around upside down so the cons of plastic are build quality fuel mahan durability and the pros of plastic are radio strength and all same cons that we had with metal overall though if I had to pick a winner for build quality and sort of structure in the way it feels I think 9 out of 10 people would agree that the HTC one takes that it's probably the best built phone out there and if you hand both phones to someone on the street and say here 20 think costs more they'll probably have a pretty quick answer for you now besides the actual material that these phones are made of there are also some physical differences between the phones that potential buyers will notice so when you hold them side by side you'll notice the shape of the phones with the galaxy s4 being much more Square and the one being more taper along the back and there's also the weight naturally the metal HTC one will feel significantly heavier in the hand and in fact it's actually been said that the galaxy s4 feels really light it feels lighter than it looks so there's a pretty big weight difference here there's also the difference in the button layouts so around the outside I mentioned in the HTC One review which will be linked below that like button the top power button takes some getting used to it's on the top instead of the side like other devices and I stand by that it's still a little bit quirky at first and the volume rockers are on the opposite sides on these phones so again a minor difference but they're like a mirror image of each other it's something off to take a few days to get used to when switching and also on the front you also have a major button difference so the galaxy s4 has a physical home button in the middle plus a capacitive menu button on the left and a capacitive back button on the right that works for the most part and on the HTC One you have the logo in the center which does nothing when you press it and you also have a capacitive home button on the right and back button on the left so again mirror images of each other no menu button which means that certain apps will get their own gigantic dedicated menu button taking up precious screen real estate but again that's a minor difference not something that you'll never get used to another gargantuan difference though is these speakers the galaxy s4 has a single rear-facing speaker on the back of the phone that can actually be completely covered and muffled with a badly placed single finger by accident the HTC One on the other hand has two massive front-facing stereo speaker drivers that absolutely blow every other device out the water I've done tests with these it's in the HTC One review if you want to watch it but they produce insanely great crisp loud and clear audio that still impresses me today and I've been using the phone for weeks so it's really great speakers now on to the performance side of things if you see my review of each of these phones which I said are below you'll notice that they're both SPECT very very well both of them are endowed with that new Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor sim our clock speeds not identical but like I said pretty much everything is very well SPECT here and they also also get similar benchmark scores so they're very very close in terms of the performance Department but I did notice a bit of stuttering on some places in the galaxy s4 particularly in the gallery and sometimes in the notification shade that I absolutely did not notice in the HTC one now I mentioned that the HTC One in the review was a very quick phone and very responsive phone throughout that video and I stand by that and I would actually give a slight performance advantage at least in consistency to the HTC One it's just overall a really-really blisteringly fast phone even though again they come on with about the same battery life and you really probably won't notice a performance difference if you don't use them both but I would give just that slight edge to the one now another things about the operating systems the Galaxy s4 is actually running a newer version of Android underneath Android 4.2 instead of the HTC ones 4.1 so you will get some of those new Android 4.2 feature editions on the galaxy s4 like lock screen widgets and quick settings in the notification panel that you won't see on the HTC One at least right now I say that because HTC has so much riding on this phone that I wouldn't be surprised to see an update right around the corner for this guy very soon now that being said there's another hotly debated area when comparing these two flag ships and that is their cameras so on the outside the HTC One has a pretty flat element as you can see while the galaxy s4 is protrudes a little but the HTC One has a four ultrapixel camera while the galaxy s4 has a more traditional 13 megapixel sensor inside and it's tough because usually smartphone cameras no matter what are pretty similar and both takes such similar great pictures that it's not really worth comparing the two but with this HTC One it's pretty obvious that with only four megapixels they're taking a completely different approach the camera optics very risky but to sum it all up the galaxy s4 takes better more accurate more detailed pictures in regular light while the HTC One takes better more accurate more detailed pictures in low light the s4 in low-light is it's alright and the HTC One in regular light is it's alright I mean there are obviously way more software features with the galaxy s or and a sweet camera interface taken from the galaxy camera to back it all up so they're making it look very pretty but these comparisons really do most the talking so you can see that in low-light the galaxy s4 does a decent job but the HTC one does a better job again in low-light the galaxy s4 does a decent job but the one does a better job in regular light though which I don't know about you but that's where I take most of my pictures you can see that the HTC one's four megapixel shot kind of falls apart when you try to zoom in or look at any detail but the galaxy s4 is 13 megapixel shot is just crispy and crunchy all the way through thanks to that improved sensor from the galaxy s3 honestly if I was a huge picture taking person with my phone my pick would be the galaxy s4 every single time and I know that a lot of you guys are suckers for pixels just like I am and the more flexibility I have with zooming in and cropping my pictures with 13 megapixels the better another slight difference though then nobody ever seems to talk about between these cameras is the wider angle lens on the HTC one's front and back facing cameras so the front-facing camera is a wider angle to allow more people into the shot so if you need selfies with your friends you can fit more friends and even the back facing camera is also a slightly wider angle so the HTC one check out how many robots are in the frame with the ones camera versus the s4 is pretty neat stuff if you ask me a lot of people won't notice that because if you only use one of the phones and not the other you'll never know but there is definitely a noticeable difference in crop between the two we were speaking about pixels so I'll just go ahead and say that these are both awesome 1080p smartphone displays the galaxy s4 happens to be an AMOLED display coming in at 5 inches so you'll get deep blacks and very contrasting images and of course a very high pixel density and the HTC One is an LCD panel at 4.7 inches so an even slightly higher pixel density and get much brighter and more readable looks outdoors on the HTC One and you also get more accurate colors with that LCD panel so both of these I like a lot you're going to get crazy crazy sharp images and video when you're looking at any content on either of these phones and then of course there is HTC Sense versus TouchWiz and this one's your call they're both Android so you can make it whatever you want it to be no matter what it looks like out the box so at the end of the day no matter how you look at it these are both great phones and whatever you happen to go for if you go for the one or if you go for the s4 your money will probably be very well spent and I would have any problem recommending either one and I doubt you'll be disappointed if you do pull the trigger so you really can't go wrong with either one so put your money where your heart is so there you go that is pretty much every argument for and against each of these two super phones the HTC One and the galaxy s4 what is your pick what would you rather have what have you already bought over the other which one would you say is the better smartphone personally for my personal pick for those of you wondering I would I would give the nod to the HTC One as my potential most used phone now that being said if I'm just going to go leave somewhere and pick one of these phones to take with me eight times out of ten I'll take the HTC One but if I'm going somewhere where I need to take a lot of pictures for example I'm probably going to give the nod to the Galaxy s4 just because the camera is better it's just a better camera that being said HTC One I really really hope it comes to Verizon in some shape or form some variant maybe a black or red and black version on LTE bands that would really make this the ultimate daily driver for me throw some stock Android on it and it's a keeper but yeah go ahead and leave your comments down below what you think is the better device or which one you would pick and a thumbs up is definitely always appreciated but either way thank you for watching this video and I'll talk to you guys in the next one this you