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what's up guys david here from film buff and in this video we're going to be doing a speed comparison test between what just may end up being to the top smartphones in 2013 and the samsung galaxy s4 and the HTC one both phones here are the u.s. variants from AT&T meaning that they both have the qualcomm made Snapdragon 600 processor and are each coupled with two gigabytes of RAM there are a few differences however with the galaxy s4 having a slightly higher clock speed at 1.9 gigahertz with ddr3 RAM compared to the 1.7 gigahertz and the ddr2 ram found on the HTC One will start off the speed test like we usually do here at phone buff and do a boot up test to see which smartphone loads up it's version of Android first while these guys are loading up I want to let you know that both phones are connected to the same Wi-Fi network and both of had their browsing history and cache cleared out which is going to be important for the browser test that we do later on alright so as you can see here the HTC One with this fast-food optimizations loaded up faster with a galaxy s4 following shortly thereafter the next steps we'll do here is a video transcoding test where we compress the same video file down to a smaller size which is a very processor and memory intensive task that isn't really heavily dependent upon software now this whole process actually takes over 6 minutes so I'm just going to skip through it here so we can get straight to the results alright so as you can see the two phones are neck-and-neck in this test but the slight edge here does go to the galaxy s4 with a transcoding the video about 4% faster than the HTC One did the next P test we're doing here is the app speed test where we load up the same map on both phones to see which one loads up faster maybe a split second faster with score Center on the HTC One the videos tab look to be just about the same and on the headlines tab again pretty much neck-and-neck no separation really we'll go ahead and try to tap on an article here to see if we get any kind of difference and they're actually both taking quite a bit of time this time but there you go so you can see the HTC One was about a split second faster than the Galaxy s4 in this case so for the score center overall give the lead to the HTC One loading up the Flex our app we see the splash screen first on the HTC one but it looks like the Galaxy s4 I should load up the thumbnails first the ad may have played a part so we'll try another movie listing and no real separation here I mean maybe a split second faster on the HTC one but nothing really no worth mentioning which doesn't come at much of a surprise considering that they both have pretty much the same processor the only difference is the clock speed again so the fourth and final test will do here is the browser test and at first sight will load up it's going to be phonebook calm and you can see the content loading up first on the HTC One but the status bar actually finishes up first on the galaxy s4 so a little bit of mixed results can't really see the rest of the site because it's a mobile site go ahead and tap on this article and see if it makes any difference and again we're not seeing much separation here the status bar finishes first on the galaxy s4 we see the content first on the HTC One but we're not sure what's going on behind the scenes so we'll go ahead and go to the verge which hopefully will give us some separation because I'd really hate to end this on a tie considering that the app speed test was pretty much at I maybe a slight advantage for the HTC One and actually we're seeing it load up much faster on the galaxy s4 so it's actually a pretty significant difference well go ahead and tap on this article right here in the center so that we can see if we could replicate that result and actually it does so definitely faster on the mobile site on the verge on the galaxy s4 we'll go ahead and try the full site and see you know which phone actually loads it up first so for mobile site I'd say that the edge definitely goes to the galaxy s4 for the verge on phone book movie the HTC one had the edge but this is the real test which has a lot of content on it and we're seeing the content first on the galaxy s4 galaxy s4 says it's done and now the HTC One is done so really close but the edge does clearly go to the galaxy s4 in this case similar to how wasn't the video transcoding but honestly both phones are super super smooth them and you can see no lag whatsoever and you'd probably be happy with either or at least when it comes to speed but overall I'd have to say that the edge goes slightly to the galaxy s4 even though the HTC One in the boot up test because when it came to the more processor memory intensive tasks like video transcoding in the browser the galaxy s4 I had a bigger margin of victory but honestly both phones are super super fast you wouldn't really notice a difference unless you were doing a side-by-side comparison like this and I'd say you'd be better off making your purchasing decision based off other factors which will be doing a lot of videos on here on farm above so make sure you subscribe to that alright guys that is pretty much it for me in this video if you found it helpful please give it a thumbs up and follow us on Facebook Twitter and Google+ for more mobile technology content just like this thank you for watching