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what's up guys is David here bump up calm and in this video I'm doing a review on the t-mobile HTC One S right here so before we get into the review and talking about what I like and dislike I'm gonna do a quick hardware tour so on the front of device you have your 4.3 inch Super AMOLED qHD display that's 960 by 540 resolution you have your home multitask and back buttons here at the bottom which is pretty much standard for Ice Cream Sandwich at the top of the device you have your front-facing VGA camera right here your earpiece regular sensors and of course your t-mobile logo on the back of the device you have your 8 megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture your LED flash little HTC logo right here Beats Audio logo at the bottom you have your speaker grille on the left side of the device you have nothing but the microUSB charging port on the right side you have nothing but your volume rocker volume up and down at the top you have your 3.5 milimeter headset jack your power key right here core secondary mic right here at the bottom you have nothing but your microphone and if you wanted to put your SIM card in you could prop this guy out right here by pulling it like that you see I have a spot from my micro or my Micro SIM but there is no external SD and of course the battery you can't pull out so it's an internal battery and that's what really what makes the phone thinner than what it could be or what it would have been if it was external anyways with that hardware tour I'll go ahead and get into what I like and dislike about the phone starting with what I dislike so that way I can end it on a positive note and I'll just go ahead and start with what I dislike also one of the first things that I dislike about the HTC One S on t-mobile is the screen and I say that you know mainly because it is t-mobile's flagship phone it's the best one that they have on their lineup right now and because of that you know I just really expected an HD screen I mean Timo was really the only carrier in the u.s. that doesn't have an HD device I mean Sprint Verizon HD all do so that's definitely something that I'm not too happy with it is a Super AMOLED screen it is q HD so it is a little bit higher resolution than that's seen on the t-mobile Galaxy s2 but again it's not Super AMOLED plus so you know that's a knock on it and also I mean with a pentile display you just really want to see an HD screen or higher resolution to kind of hide the sub pixel layout but you know what that said it's not that big of an issue the screen like I said it is pretty good I mean I'm not too mad about it you know I do enjoy it it's just really I just expected something better but that's the first thing that just like the second thing that just like about the HTC One S is the fact that it only has 16 gigabytes of internal storage so as you can see you know when I pull this guy out or the top off there's no slot for an SD card so you're pretty much stuck with what you got and there is services like Dropbox which HTC has a partnership with Google Drive you wanted to store your files on Google servers but you know is this a shame to see that you know there wasn't an external sd card and also you know only 16 gigabytes and you know considering the fact that it is t-mobile's flagship phone I just expected more but that's all I'm gonna say about that and the last thing that really you know is surprising is the Beats Audio logo over here I don't know if you guys can see it but it's kind of fading already I mean I've only had the phone for a couple of weeks now and that's probably mainly due to my case which I took off for this review but it's kind of chipping right here it's kind of like painted on while the screen are I mean the hardware itself you know you can scratch and you don't see anything on the actual body of the phone that Beats Audio logo seems to be fading a little bit and also the other thing that you know I'm not too happy about and you know really wish that manufactures will stop doing is putting the power key here at the top because when you're using the phone you're typically using like this you know scrolling about and when you want to turn off the screen or turn on you would reach right here but this is where the volume key is now to actually power the screen off I have to either move my thumb up all the way over here or after you know move my index finger like this to turn turn it off and turn it back on so it's kind of a hassle I don't know why agencies tend to stick with that design Samsung seems to be pretty much set on putting on the right side maybe they're just doing it to differentiate themselves but that's I definitely would rather see on the side of the device then on the top but that's pretty much it when it comes to the things that dislike because there's definitely more like about the foam then there is this like and I'll go ahead and start talking about some of the things I like starting with the design of the HTC One S when I first got this phone and you know till this day I still believe that the HTC One S is the best designed cell phone or smartphone I've ever used and probably the best out there I mean it says super thin only eight millimeters are less than eight millimeters thin it's I believe 7.5 the phone is super light less than 120 grams and the screen size seems to be just about perfect I mean it's not small by any means like the iPhone I'd say it's a little bit of a small screen where this guy it gives you the best of both worlds it's bigger but it's not too big where you have trouble reaching a corner of the screens for example I can reach the bottom left bottom right top right and top left without having to move the phone around so without having to maneuver or you know tilt my hands or in any way so definitely like the size definitely love the design I mean not just the size of it but the actual you know way the device looks you have the gradient gray the materials that age to use the unibody aluminum design makes it really tough I mean you can scratch the phone all you want and nothing really happens on here I mean there's no scratches at all and you know I really appreciate that it's about time phone manufacturers start doing that if you drop the phone you don't have to worry about a big old scratch I mean I'm not gonna test that theory but I you know take HTC's word as far as it being scratch resistant but that's pretty much all I want to say about the design I mean saying that it's the best design phone or the best feeling phone or best looking foam that I've ever had or ever seen I think says a lot about it but what that said I want to go over the next thing which I love about the phone name that's the processor I mean that's the main thing that you know wanted me to get this phone and that was the Snapdragon s4 I saw the benchmarks online and wanted to see how I performed in real life and it pretty much performs how I expected it to being just a dual-core it's really fast everything this flies in the West I don't see any lagging whatsoever everything a click or a tap on is pretty much instant which is you know what everybody wants on their phone I'm going to run a quadrant benchmark standard test so that way you guys could get a better idea as far as the performance goes so let's go ahead and pause the video and let you guys see the results as soon as this is done you