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how's it going guys is David here from farmville calm and today I'm reviewing the HTC amaze 4g available from t-mobile so to start off this guy's a 4.3 inch Super LCD qhd display that's 960 x 540 resolution on the screen and on the top of the screen you have a two point O marisol camera you have your standard for capacitive buttons on the bottom for home menu back and search on the very top device you have a 3.5 million headset jack with your power key on the right side you have your volume rocker for up and down and one of my favorite features is a dedicated camera button but also dedicated camcorder button so that's really nice to see on the left sided device you have your micro USB charging port on the bottom you have your microphone and of course in the back you have your 8 megapixel camera with dual-led flash and that's capable of taking 1080p video capture with your speaker grill on the very back as well so that's a hardware tour a quick harder for you guys I'm going to run a benchmark while give you some of the other specs so we're doing out two things at once here alright so on the inside of device as a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core processor 2 Snapdragon s3 and has one gigabyte of RAM it has 16 gigabytes of internal storage built in with a microSD card slot expandable up to 32 gigabytes of additional storage you have a 1730 milliamp battery and you have android 2.3 point for at least right now running the show which HTC said they're going to update it to ice cream sandwich whenever that is so i'll go ahead and let this test run i'll skip to the end and give you the results all right so it looks like the benchmark is done i'll go ahead and hit yes so you get the results and for what it's worth this device scored a 20 35 so 2035 so of course this is squadron and the app hasn't been updated for you know over a year now so take it for what its worth of course I think real life performance a lot better than that go ahead and run another benchmark a 22 so go ahead and run the test and I'll just skip to the end so you guys see the results all right so it looks like tests done scoring a 5581 I'll go ahead and go to score chart and the bar chart so you can see a comparison so when you bring this closer to the screen right you can see my device 5005 and 81 so above phones like the LG optimus 2x and evo 3d and you can see is just below the samsung galaxy s2 and galaxy nexus and devices like that but pretty good score I mean that's kind of the performance you get I mean I've tested the galaxy s2 end I'll say this one's a little bit slower than the galaxy s2 but not by much so that's a pretty accurate benchmark in our from my point of view all right so the last benchmark I'll run is the browser mark benchmark for the browser so I'll go ahead and open up the browser type in browser mark brow whoops browser mark you know I'll just go to Google all right browsing work and go ahead and run the test and again I'll just skip to the end so you guys can see the results alright so the benchmark is done and the phone scored a 60 2269 so that's my last benchmark that'll do and hopefully that gives you a better idea as far as how the device will perform when you get it alright so I want to talk about a look and feel device because that's something that really makes it stand out compared to some of the other devices out there on the front you can see this silver outline and that goes around all the edges on the back you have this rubberized material alongside the aluminum casing so it is a unibody design so when I take the battery our back cover off you can see it's just two pieces but a lot of the internals are on the battery or the back cover itself so uh really just gives you a high-end feel I mean I I got this why I just felt like it was you know a premium device and it felt really high quality especially comparing it to a phone like the galaxy s2 which has more of a plastic infield but of course the plastic mix phone lighter this one's a little bit heavier weighing in at 6.1 ounces it also makes it a little bit thicker at eleven point eight millimeters but you know that's the kind of that's the college that you get with having more of that premium build quality or at least feel that you get from the Amaze alright so another thing I want to talk about is the screen it's a qhd screen so it has 960 x 540 resolution if you're comparing it to another tmobile phone like the galaxy s2 are you going to get a lot more clarity on this screen because of the higher resolution so when you're looking at the text going to look a lot more crisp when you're in the browser you're not gonna have to zoom in as much to be able to read the text which kind of makes up for having a smaller screen size at 4.3 pushes 4.5 screen is very bright now it isn't super amoled like the galaxy s2 is it's a super LCD but from my test you know it's comparing side side it looked pretty good and I do like the higher resolution on the screen but the screen isn't really what makes this phone stand out I really feel like that's the camera and you can see that from the initial harbor tour that has a dedicated camera and camcorder but you can see that the focus this phone has is on the camera so i'll go ahead and launch the camera up and i'll try to take a picture of let's see i'll just take a picture of this Duracell battery so like you get it in here alright so I you can see how clear that looks I'm not sure how well it's going to come through on camera but what I really like is the close-up shots you know when it gets nice and close the autofocus just gets so I compared this to some of the other phones like even the iPhone I this one you know you're able to zoom in a little bit closer and it comes to nice and clear so definitely definitely a good camera HC put a lot of focus on that and actually let me show you some of the different modes that they have so you have your auto shot and then you have your smart shot which is I used for basically an array of shots combined to create the best photo at least that's what HTC is saying on the sweep shots more of a pattern mode you have your clear shot which is made for things that are in you know bright situations or environments birdshot take a whole bunch of pictures at once your night shots to have better low-light situations and let's see the macro shots really what can make you zoom in even closer than i was earlier to take up you know i took a picture of my fingerprints and it looked great so just that gives you a better idea as far as how close you can zoom in and you just have your portrait mode as well so you have a lot of different options as far as scenes for the camera and a HTC really put a emphasis on the camera and you know front facing camera is to mex so it's really good as well and i just really love the camera i can't say enough about it i'd even say that it's better than the iphone 4 s's camera at least from my experience testing the two devices i'm not too sure about the video because i feel like the video quality is a little bit better on the forest but actual picture quality I feel like it's better on the ACMA's alright so the last thing I want to show you is HTC sense 3.0 which is running over top of Android on the Amaze and basically what sense is is it's HTC's custom UI which adds a lot of features that you normally wouldn't get with a stock rom and also makes things a little bit easier to access for example on your home screen you can pinch out and you'll have a display of all seven of your home screens and you can tap on whatever one you want to jump right to it so it makes a little bit easier to go to Home screen the home screen such when you have so many like seven on this device and you can also go to the old way by you know scoring left and right like you normally would and that what's cool HD has this little animation where it'll spin around like that so it's nice to look at but as far as functionality doesn't really do much fact actually gets in the way because sometimes I found over the last two weeks that I've been using the device that when I'm trying to scroll from home from the home screen sometimes it will just jump like that when I'm trying to go over one so you can get annoying or get in the way sometimes but like I said I like to pinch out and go to ocean ocean like that unless i'm going over just one where I make sure I go slow but overall I do like the layout of the home screens if I go to the app tray one thing I'll say normally I don't like vertical outcries like this because it's kind of hard to track what app you're looking at you just have like one long list but HD has done a good job by separating that and that making them pages like you would get with a horizontal layout so you see there's four pages right here that I'm scrolling through and it makes a lot of easier to find the app you're looking for especially when you get familiar with the device so not only does it have that but it has a frequent tab which shows you to your top 20 apps that you use most often you'll also go to downloaded tab and see what actually downloaded from the market yourself and going to look at the notification bar so you have your recent 8 apps that you've used similar to the way that you'd see when you press and hold home but it's nice to have right here in a notification bar in scroll through them makes it really easy to switch tasks while you're in them and you can also go to quick settings here at the very bottom right which gives you toggles for Wi-Fi your hotspot mobile network Bluetooth GPS and at your settings and right here it says total memory and what it is is a task manager which will show you your open apps which I don't have any right now but i'll show you open apps and also show you how much RAM your phone is currently using so you can free up your RAM is what hitting kill wall and closing those applications in the background so that's pretty much what you'll see as far as the HTC Sense layer goes out I want to show you the personalized tab that you get on here so you have the option do scenes which is one something that unique that you'll see on that HTC phone that you normally won't see on other phones and basically what scenes are is a custom layouts of your home screen you could actually save them or switch them for example right now on t-mobile's scene I'll go to this place theme Arsene yeah basically it's like a theme should I say but they call it scene so anyway now you can see my whole home screen layout is different from what it was before so it's a pretty cool especially if you're you know when I customize like one scene for work one scene for home and one seam for you know road trip or whatever so that's a cool feature you know it's nice to see that customizable option and then of course you could do skins which lets you change the color scheme of the so I'll just put burgundy so that way everything I you know press on or when I press a button it'll highlight in Burgundy so I'll show you what I mean go ahead and a tap once when you can see is it's all Brittany so close out of that alright so let's go back to the personalized tab and you can see you also have the option for your wallpaper and lock screen you have your normal options like widget apps shortcuts and folders they get add to your home screen and then your personalize your sound options like your ringtone notification sound an alarm so uh you can access this again by pressing the little button right here or you could press and hold anywhere on an empty spot on your home screen and we'll bring it up so it's nice little feature that you know HTC has on here and lets you really personalize your phone to the way you like it alright so some of the apps that come pre-loaded with sense our apps like french stream and flashlight and clock clock giving you the alarm a world clock a timer in a stopwatch you have flashlights which is a normal flashlight app but it gives you three different levels of brightness for the LED on the back which is pretty nice i'm works better than any of the flashlight apps out there at least for this phone and you also have apps like HTC hub and HTC likes you have your preloaded t mobile apps like my account and t-mobile TV HD video chat by quick and of course visual voicemail so uh everything you have is pretty much installed on the phone of course you have the android market and overall i have to say i really do like sense like I said it gives you a feeling of customization I could personalize the phone to however you like and I do like the the way the app tray works and how everything's all organized alright so that's pretty much it on the HTC mas 4g I really enjoyed this phone over the last two weeks that I've been testing it and I feel like this phone is really made for those of you who are looking for a top notch camera on the smartphone with the premium build quality and fast speeds because it really delivers all three areas especially with the build quality and the camera just by looking at it you can tell that HT put a lot of work into it with a dedicated camcorder and camera buttons you can see even from the lock screen I could access it by pressing and holding on it so you'll never miss any of your moments with this phone build quality is great and of course you're on that t-mobile 4g network and like i said it's pretty much it if you're looking for more information hit the link below in the description box for the full review and that's it for me this day from phone booths calm thank you for watching the video