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buddy thank you for joining us in our hangout today our special edition of the pocket I'll live we are here with none other than our own managing editor Anton d not good morning to you good morning america good afternoon Europe good afternoon Europe yeah lucky you and we've got our senior editor our new acquisition mr. Taylor Martin how are you sir I'm doing great how are you I'm just doing fine my name of course is Jaime ivetta it is a real pleasure to be with all of you we are doing this hangout as sort of an experiment we always have a lot of work to do every time we have an event to cover whether it's the fact that we have two people on the show floor right now which is branded minimun and Michael Fisher and the fact that we are back here at our free at our offices of course dealing with absolutely everything that goes on from the coverage of all the videos that go on to the post that we have to go up to so obviously the fact that we always have an opinion of every device that gets launched so let's just say that we do this on a sort of a live chat all the time but we do it privately so we decided to do a broadcast this time and we hope we don't bore you with everything that they say it's gonna be kind of funny guys right yes indeed and for for those who are just logging in and checking us out now there are quite a few the event is simultaneously happening in in New York City and in London our guys Michael Fisher and Brandon minimun are on the show floor in New York City so as soon as we get information live from them will share it with you and of course we're going to comment on everything every little aspect and feature that will be unveiled today despite the fact that we've heard so many rumors of this phone which is probably the most anticipated HTC phone of all times if i recall well what do you guys think well to be honest with you I think it's probably like the most anticipated phone for even most of us actually I mean how many HTC devices do you have I mean Taylor how about you ooh um yeah I've got three right now some old ones show up come on show up yeah look at this I can I think this was called the diamond this was never actually my phone I was my mother since she just got rid of it pull on his ass wasn't wasn't a diamond another qwerty keyboard yeah that's the wrong al that's the Raphael okay so I don't know what it was called here I can't remember it was something like that the diamond was thousands that was a touch pro two that was a touch pro the HTC touch pro yeah it wasn't seeing you with your device's I have one which will fit in between that and your next device which is the never dying HTC hd2 let me just clear god oh god you're gonna put me to shame i'm not gonna pull anything out of here now come and now you guys can continue chronologically you know that one was little dirty and then ok rock chronologically let's let's see what we have here wow I jump the gun cup yeah what is that what is that I can see it it's the Tucker not touch HD 70 the hd7 oh nice Oh windows phone nice nice well let me start with Windows Mobile i have got the hdcp 4350 which was considered the herald for any of you that remember that was the tmobile wing that was the variance had a slide out keyboard that was my first HTC branded advice but before that I had the compaq ipaq 3630 I think it was I'm and even my old old HTC Trinity I think that those clothes your fur that was your first device that was yeah yeah I think they're working temperate imeem both your phone and my phone were released sometimes in 2007 I think yeah 2007 early on yes i think i was still in a diaper then oh really oh just the heads up to everybody apparently the event has not started yet it is 10 a.m. it's 1003 already and nothing has started uh apparently they're still waiting for people to arrive so we will keep you posted Brandon and and Michael are keeping us heads up with everything that's going on so let's continue touch pro two how do you think of this this was probably I think this is the device that I have most wanted in my life it wasn't the tilting screen it was the fact that the keys were staggered you remember that yeah I used to sell that thing like crazy I wanna hello it's nice to get best buy right yeah I asked to work there and we'll come in just everyday touch pro2 touch furtively ran him every week so I was really popular yeah yeah I've got the HTC sensation which is sadly dead is it be specific what not non waterproof phone this is the specific non waterproof phone that mr. Brandon minute minimun tested in a toilet oh wow what do you got there what do you got there yes Taylor my favorite phone Taylor what do you got it's one of my favorite home ever can you do me a favor I've got I've got the black one x would you mind that we switched I hate this color I love the black one is it it's not ATT though I can't give up my LTE actually I don't even use this thing now i use it for hotspot jaime do you remember last year in barcelona how excited we were about the 1x in particular I mean this year everything and I'll tell you something I mean if there's one thing that I love about HTC is their showmanship if you want to go to a really good event I mean we were at Shoney's events previously before that event in Barcelona and then you know we were at Sony's event this year at CES it was nice but I don't know HTC has got these the this beautiful way of portraying emotion in their background that the event before the event starts really good music really good food really I don't know that everything is like really nice at HTC events and you know I'm just sad that I'm not variant I'm not area I was about to say that I loved the HTC One X because I really wanted that phone to succeed and my love 41 x didn't go away with the galaxy s3 unfortunately it went away as soon as I fired up a couple of pictures with a camera because to be honest I were saturated and he pixelated a lot of noise and I know that this is probably a thing to which most of the guys out there will not agree but I made some comparisons and it just came out not that good so I'm expecting a huge camera improvement on on today's phone at least thats that's what I want yeah you know I thought I think it's something everybody boniface you know I thought the same thing about for example here's the 8x and you know they made a big deal about the fact that the front-facing camera was a wide angle camera um and yeah it is a wide angle lens the problem is I don't know if it's really wide angle probably I don't know enough about photography probably the readers can come in and let us know but I didn't notice that it's really wide angle all I notice is that my cheeks are like twice as big every time I take it you sure you don't have silly you sure you don't have like one of those filters installed or turned on now it works your fade up oh there what do we have here it's like yeah this is um I guess they shot from the show floor this is where I guess Michael sit on these are Brandon these guys days each man yeah it's mirrored it's guys I'm looking keeping keep in mind this is that it's not on Michael's right he's on his left so he thinks tired that is very important I think it's most the most important thing is that we are I think in the second row or third row or at least very close to to the stage itself yeah he's got some great seats great seats by the way I would like to just a short announcement I'm sorry Jaime just a short announcement you guys if you guys are commenting right now on on YouTube we are currently not reading that so there's no way for us to be on our YouTube channel to watch the stream and to see your comments so if you're just having questions why don't you go over to pocketnow.com there's a boat there should be this video embedded and there you can comment we are reading that we can do that and I'm sorry I'm it back to you yeah and no problem I mean youtubers uh don't worry we will respond to your comments as soon as the event ends we really and just for you know just for confirmation I know that we've always done the pocket now live as a reader editor sort of mingle but the reason why we're not doing this you know we're not broadcasting this open to the public is because obviously we have to focus on the life you know on the live system that we're using with Brandon and Michael and we you know we have to try to you know figure out what things were going to post what impressions we have so we are trying to provide you with an immediate insight you know oh wow this is the real cool thing just happened right now for example etc et-cetera so we will you know keep you posted with everything that we see everything that we like everything that we don't like so we will let you know and we have mr. Michael Fisher are you there I think he's gonna be only uh oh he's there for a second he was mr. Michael Fisher can you hear us no but I think it would be I think you don't think I some text text only yeah here we go uh we got text and by the way by the way listeners and readers the reason why we we try to do this like immediately live like we have the equipment in order for us to be able to film whatever is happening live but trust me whenever you're at trade shows the network is the only thing that's not there everything else is there to look look it does not work and you know what and you know companies try they always have like these really good wires and everything but if you're trying to do anything that's not chatting it's not gonna work at the video live streaming is just not going to work and the event is still not started let's mr. Fisher any news on on how early what will happens I think the front with rum from what I've seen I think that it is just starting as we speak with a slight 9 to 10 minute delay yeah aibelin we're still we're still waiting here but we will keep you posted I have another device to show you you remember when the HTC Titan came out this was the first 4.7 inch display device yeah yeah you remember this I was yeah I remember when Brandon got this device for review you was like oh my God look at how big this phone is and stuff like that and now everything is 4.8 inches 5 inches now we're going 5.5 inches I wonder what this Tino m7 or one device will be because it was rumored initially to be four point eight inches then other people are saying five inches what do you guys think is going to happen I think that is going to be a 4.7 inch herb but I might cheat because I might have some information but I think that this is right now ten minutes after 10am so I might be able to tell you this but a let's see what do we have here dealer so um I call t-shirt oh look at him he looks like he's working Oh interesting it's just he's just posing a saying it event is delayed for 10 minutes now announcement is said they're waiting for more people to show what oh my god it looks back there I what are they waiting for I i was reading Michaels tweets and he was not stop constantly complaining about the queues I mean of course at any event there's a certain queue to get in the event but I was never expecting a new york city HTC event to be delayed because there are insufficient people or maybe it's it's those who were on the list that didn't show up I don't know but this doesn't feel good agreed we've got some reader comments here let's see the five-minute video is back up again yes we're up Harlem shake on pocket now anybody know how to do a Harlem shake I have no idea what that is I don't think different way to do it I don't know I have no dancing bones in my body sir oh yeah yeah well I am oh let's say Donny says he is very excitable we all are everybody is here we're just crazy here we're just waiting for this to start and let's see has been the Brandon is on the HTC house music yeah he's always on music not only that but he says this is the best song on repeat I've ever heard and on that exact note i will try to michael fisher is not sure he's hearing us but when Michael and myself were at Aoife there was a certain booth which had a music going on I think there were exactly three or four musical notes and that thing just went on and on and on and on for four days non-stop until I thought that I was going nuts oh let's see cash pervez is asking will HTC website stream this life sadly no there won't be a live stream so that's why we're here and are you okay anthem I am very good though they look okay hey you're looking I thought you were doing something weird but I think there's some lag in the Hangout then we probably have a lot of audience so that's probably the reason why come on ladies ask 56 viewers know nice that's awesome thank you very much for tuning and everybody just a recap again hi metairiela from bergen.com our own Anton Dean arch get it right yeah managing editor is here with us and we've got tailored Martin as well who's our senior editor were currently live streaming this hangout to tell you everything our first impressions everything that we think about that's happening at the HTC event currently michael fisher and brandon minima at the show floor they're covering everything but sadly since we can't stream the hangout for you we're providing impressions we have communication with them and they're telling us everything that's happening just for the record everything is delayed currently 10 minutes we are 30 minutes too late already and apparently they're still waiting for more people which is weird but anyways we have Anthony janitors being a question go ahead go ahead take was gonna say maybe Peter Chao hasn't showed up yet late to a commitment you know if it's interesting by the way oh nice a lot of people there I think not a great event that might be the wrong event you know you know this is visitin this is uh I don't know this is interesting Peter I've been you know I've seen Peter Chou CEO I've seen um sony co which I always struggle to remember his name um we were earlier I've seen the lenovo CEO um uh i think it was huawei yeah huawei you know I don't know I Peter Chou may struggle you know with his english but i love the emotion that he provides every time do you remember when they launched I don't know which windows phone it was and it was in butler with peter chao anh on the stage and a beat I'll just took I think it was the windows phone 8x or something even you hire to that and he said in his good English but with an accent that that phone was quote boom boom boom I mean that would not yet moment I think I left my ass up yeah I know but but i love the emotion that the guy provides this event you know if you really forget that you're having understanding what he's saying and you just love the fact that the guy is enjoying his product we've got another picture there what are you doing there Michael let me see well nobody's looking he's one of the viewers of this hangout so Roxy rocket he's watching himself I am watching him solo taylor brown and says smile more oh come on smile more why not got me do any much I can't think about smiling so let's get back to rumored specifications so far we have established that i believe and i think i will be right that the HTC m7 will have a 4.7 inch screen which will have a full HD resolution that I don't have a ppi calculator at 10 but I think that's close to 4 30 ppi which is good at four-thirty and that's going to be a super lcd3 screen now what do you guys think about the other specifications mom said I have a comment here from I have a comment here from anthony chen he's asking if HTC One was uses the new Snapdragon 800 series for 600 series can it compete with compete with the galaxy s4 well you know from our experience with HTC we've seen you know quad core processors the Tegra 3 on the One X now we saw the x and o's and you know it doesn't really matter it at the end of the day meaning you know samsung has done a really good job at optimizing TouchWiz up to the point where i've tested TouchWiz in just about every processor and it works fabulous so it's it's really hard you know it i hope that HTC tunes sense this time just when we we we hope the same thing last year so it could be so just to be on the on the unbiased and fair side of things it doesn't matter what I think or what time I thinks because we don't want our personal opinion to get involved in this but unless we use the Snapdragon 600 or 800 and the new processor within the galaxy s4 we're just guessing because to be honest nobody saw those processors running in real time in real life except for some benchmarks which were leaked which might be true might be not but be sure one thing once we'll get those two phones in our labs will compare oh heck out of them oh yeah oh yeah and by the way you apparently they're waiting for the sink feed from London to get started but for all of you that don't know these are actually two events that are happening simultaneously what is happening in London the others happening in New York City Brandon and Michael are at New York City right now and we are still waiting to the event to start and can you guys believe we already have 23 additional comments in the website and we have Kate hundred and sixty four viewers and Counting for which we thank you very much and we are sorry for as lot of people yeah but yeah Taylor minutes no word yet you shared some leaked specs Taylor what else do you remember from the leaked specs leaked specs uh that wasn't me that was Tony Tony alright thanks thank you for keeping this between us so here's here's what I can tell you it's not been confirmed but it's pretty close to what it will happen there's going to be a 4.7 inch full HD screen with 430 BPI resolution and it's going to be a super lcd3 the processor on the HTC One will allegedly but most probably be a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor a quad-core processor clocking and 1.7 gigahertz it's gonna have two gigabytes of ram 32 gigabytes of internal storage and here's the interesting thing it will have a secondary front firing speaker which will be so loud according to what I've heard that it will probably be one of your favorite boom boxes in terms of cameras there's gonna be really 2.1 megapixel front-facing camera and a 8 megapixel ultrapixel camera 8 mega pick eight megapixel ultrapixel camera which will be made out of 24 megapixel sensors and on top of everything powering it all it's going to be twenty three hundred million power battery with Android 4.1 point2 sw3 yeah that's bad oh come okay for the record guys yet sorry to interrupt the event is starting Jason Mackenzie which is president of HTC is on stage New York right now so the event is starting and apparently he's saying that well let me see what does Michael say here um there I was wrong on the big di calculation yes yeah it's for sixty eight ish this is 1080p 4.7 so 1080p of five is for me if I'm wrong but that's so far the highest resolution and a full HD display on the phone I mean all other phones out there are flow highest density 4.29 so this this is should be the highest density on a smartphone yet yes by quite a bit not wrong yeah yeah bike ride another I i I've never held a 1080p display I mean Taylor tell us about the VNA used to have it yeah the displays great but you can't really tell how great it is I mean it's kind of beyond what you can really distinguish side-by-side would like the 1x or anything else really you can definitely tell it's clear but you can see that full 1080p watching a movie it's very clear though that it's 1080p deep 97 20 oh interesting interesting you know probably and now that you mentioned the 1x I just and and this is for the record I mean for me the 1x had the most incredible screen till this date I still consider it to be the best display and I hope that they figure that same mentality out for the for the m7 or one whatever they're going to call it how was your experience with the with the DNA was the display just as good yes yes it was just as vibrant pretty accurate a little more on the saturated side then say the nexus 4 but unkindly I will kindly interrupt you and tell you that the HTC One has been officially announced it's just the 81 it's no letters it's nothing it's just the HTC One president of HTC Mackenzie has been announced it in New York at the New York event which is also earring live in London so it's a double event and with that I'm gonna get back to you guys to your to your conversation and look at it in the end that ended up being the design with the two speaker grills which just think about it guys how smart it is we've complained about this in the podcast for so long you know having the speaker at the back always gets muffled by your hand I mean how smart it is to have the speakers in front I mean that I think it's genius it is smart and overdo it isn't really going to do after you use a tablet with the speakers on the front versus the back it's a world of difference like the Nexus 10 it's got those speaker grilles on the side you know I've heard about it Joe said talked a lot about it in the in his review of the of the nexus 10 I already forgot the name um but I have never really experienced that I mean how is it really that significantly different yeah wow it's pretty noticeable I have a little I don't know if I've got it right here but I've got a little thing that directs the sound towards you so if you have a speaker on the back you can pop it on the bottom of the device where the speaker isn't it'll shoot okay shows so for the comment for the commenters we've already got 66 comments on the post and yes it is called the HTC One apologies it's not apparently it's not going to be called the m7 but I don't know I still think that there will be two devices launched I mean the design of that other device that looks so much like the ax was so cool I mean just think about it bringing what design to Android should be awesome what if they're holding back on that until nwc to show something off in Barcelona too well they don't have a trail from the VC do they mmm they will have a booth most that most definitely and Taylor can you see if we have any pictures we should have any pictures of the phone and while you're looking for that Mackenzie also said that the HTC One improves every part of the smartphone experience so I'm I'm already excited I mean I've been waiting for this phone for quite some time and I'm so jealous that I'm not there to get my hands on it I just hope they bring it to Barcelona because else I'm gonna go crazy now here on the industry apparent apparently it has dual speakers and just two capacitive buttons yes that is true it is one button for back and one button for home if i recall well and the home button also acts as a multitasking button and also a way to fire up google now so how am I gonna work slide up for the for Google now okay so so so so look at this I mean you've got three buttons sparsely displayed on this humongous 4.7 inch display why can they fit an extra button in there I think that they found it um wide listening I don't know couldn't knife why couldn't they fit a bigger battery in it I will always handle him for that twenty-three hundred million pounds everybody else is doing three thousand and beyond and they're doing 2,300 it makes sense guys because the back but the 1i the 1x had a great battery life by the way oh I don't know your experience was but for me it's the best battery life I've used you haven't used a note too heavy yeah I do that's my daily driver and for some reason but the thing is i use the t-mobile variant of the note 2 so i'm not sure if it's the fact that that you know that that device is not too well in because that because of the fact that I unlocked it could be um apparently the new the new HTC Sense has been announced but I still can't find the name I'm still waiting on pictures until then I was just about to say that it somehow makes sense to have two buttons because the back button is just normal compulsory for Android and they ditch the search button because there's Google now and that can be accessed from the home button and if you guys remember ad HTC one x + 1 x plus all had some sort of a either double touch or touch to hold on the home button to get into multitasking or to get into a search function so they they just slammed it down and I had a conversation with with Brandon last week when we talked about the two buttons and he was like what happened and then I had a crazy idea what about the HTC logo was a button but that doesn't seem to be the the thing here but yeah two buttons that's that's for sure okay going through some reader comments I will assume you guys asking is this device gonna be better than note than the note 2 that's a good question Stadium of unity especially for a comparison and you find out yeah michael has the note 2 with him so most likely we will have a comparison on the show floor hopefully we will be getting a review unit today that's the idea but i don't know let's let's see what they would in the end Taylor do we have any images show no I'm I tried to tell Michael to stop uploading all his other images and he didn't so we're still just getting his images not the so just a quick reminder for those who have just started watching this is bucket now live a special episode we are currently checking on HTC's announcement for the one happening in New York and simultaneously in London i have here with me hi Matt Rivera who is the multimedia manager of pocketnow.com Taylor Martin is here as a senior editor of pocketnow.com I am Anton denied managing editor and we're commenting live as it happens on all the features and all the good stuff HTC is showing off so far we have a name it is officially the HTC One it is running a new version of sense which is so far unnamed what we think and we believe that it sends five point 0 and as soon as we get more information we will be the first ones to let you know and with that and good at you guys I'm trying to communicate with Michael here I mean what apparently they're starting to mention HTC Zoe some somebody from ESPN was showing off a nap right now but I still we still can't figure out what the name of senses right now so hopefully these guys will will chime and give us the information I'm just I'm still trying to understand um how this whole hold on i think i have brandon here uh pics coming soon okay thank you very much yeah we've got the facebook oh here we go okay Peter Chou is live in London now apparently the London event is starting finally I'd suspect or only way he's speaking from there and they're going to sink his video and audio to the New York event where were mackenzie as president of HTC USA is hosting it could be could be i again i love peter chao showmanship I think that he makes HTC events you know different and nice and I'm I'm just setting out there it would have been really cool quick question for you guys last year a left last year the One X was introduced in Barcelona and then the galaxy s4 was introduced close to two months after that and lung so there was quite a difference between them now we've got the HTC One today on februari 19th and if the rumors are right we'll have the galaxy s4 some time at the beginning of March some some say that in less than one month so the distance between the two main competitors on the Android blend landscape today is getting closer and closer and closer do you think that this will make a difference as in the galaxy s4 will not immediately kill the HTC One it depends on the HTC One man I think I don't know I feel that that what answered it's a hard question like for example um ok let's talk about what happens on the iOS space for example um the reason why people buy an iphone is not because it's launched first they buy an iPhone because it's an iphone and I feel that Apple has done a really good job in marketing the iPhone to be its own brand that shown unit that people are crazy about and I feel that Samsung has done that exact same thing with the galaxy brand and I i wish that HTC would have figured that out but their marketing their their marketing appeal I mean you hate the fact Tony that you hate the fact that um Samsung has billboard ads and bathrooms and stuff but that's really how you make a brand something popular that is Jim let's let's just hope that HTC does the same thing you know the problem is when you call the device the HTC One I really hope the next year it'll be called the HTC One again but you know the 23rd of the 2014 edition you know just the new HTC One but now changed is a good name yeah keep one as a brand you know when they were launching the 1x I remember that I'll he you know Peter shout during the whole presentation was like the HTC One the HTC One and you always set HTC One and never in the whole presentation that he say 1x or 1s or ones or 1v the presentation ended and then when I got to the booty is like oh this is the one x and I'm like oh okay oh this is another and this is the one x I'm like oh ok so there are three devices okay fine okay camera you know but you know I thought that one was gonna be the brand I hope that they remain HTC one just one just leave it there that's my thought how about you Taylor um my problem is what happens with the next device or even another device psych mid-range devices and anything other than the flagship 1x last year was also a one device so what do you call Cece to call it the two of it but then what do you call the successor to the HTC One the HTC one two or like the iPod the iPod has been the ipod has been called the ipod ever since it was launched in two thousand so when my ipod torn you know the to the 2004 vision by the way let me just interrupt everybody then the apparently they already gave a name to the front firing speakers on the one that's being called boom sound sound booms i got these names names ah boosts am still waiting any barriers no i was i was about just to say that HTC is very very fond of its camera and i can't wait to see exactly what kind of images it will produce but until then I'm really excited about the one thing from what I see from from the pictures this HTC One is a really really thin phone but if you turn it it is it looks clean if you lay down on its back it's the nakia smile all over I mean it's not only tapered but it's it's it's it just smiles and and that's I think we lost Taylor but I'm gonna invite him back I think we lost Taylor it yeah and let's say while you invite him let's just go through some raider comments we have Rashid carbot and I hope I'm sorry if I butcher your name you're asking of this device will be better than the HTC butterfly up most likely I mean the device looks very thin so just imagine the HTC butterfly with a little bit of a smaller profile in a fit of design and obviously better speakers so I do believe that this device will be much better but then again we've got the new Snapdragon 600 processor which apparently willpower this device it's not being mentioned yet and there's there's just a lot going for this device we have another comment who is saying Samsung is going to kill HTC lids it depends um and see any other comment yeah we yeah we already covered the fact that it's cooking called boom sound and then let's see it's it has a design new music player that can launch a visualizer that pulls lyrics and displays them at the time of the music but you can already do that with soundhound by the way and you can also do that with use em yes yeah you you're just playing a song in your music blaring you just launched sound how you can do that so it's cool to have it within the player that's cool but but sit it's not really something revolutionary okay and I'm he I'm seeing here something about sense and voice I'm not sure what this is but Peter Chou is apparently on live as we speak and he's continuing to show off the phone that is happening oh the camera the camera the camera is being talked about now it is called ultrapixel um but you you told us Tony that it was I'm trying to understand is it 18 megapixel sensor or to sell my understanding is that there are 24 megapixel sensors and why HTC thinks that this is good is that because of the two sensors it will produce a clearer image a sharper image an image with more contrast more saturation now this is completely opposite from what for instance nokia was doing with the 808 PureView where they oversample actually downsampled images for sharper and even crisper pictures I'm again excited about this technology for megapixels i believe is more than enough for everybody's photographic needs you don't need huge 12 megapixel images because you're not printing billboards so for your social life for your own media library for sharing with friends for megapixel images will be more than of guy just guys just one question I mean looking at the photos of the design I mean are these chamfered edges yes and and i think that the HTC one is a if the blackberry z10 and the iphone 5 would have had a baby it would have been oh my god i mean this thing looks well aside from the front firing speakers obviously it looks like a trifle and apparently it has an freret port which will be acting as a remote control which is nothing new Samsung bin it has been including infrared port on I think it was the galaxy note 10.1 if i recall well but with that infrared port you are able to control samsung Display samsung smart tvs now the HTC One also has an infrared port and it will allow you to remote control your other home appliances interesting interesting well apparently they're talking about music right now obviously they're talking about the camera I'm just trying I'm trying to make out how could I don't know how did this how could this ultra pixel technology be better and apparently they're saying that the myth of more megapixels on a camera is a big fat lie which is something that David Polk said in one of his reviews you know it's interesting I mean seriously you don't need more megapixels no you don't if you're gonna keep looking at those photos on your smartphone this way you don't the problem is when you've got a Retina Display MacBook Pro and you try to look at a an eight megapixel photo it looks small I can tell have you guys ever seen that yeah I don't have a written up Excel on my on my laptop but I have a huge 27-inch I do on your iPad yeah you do on your iPad I mean just think about it you have 2048 x 1536 on your iPad and you know if you have a photo that is gonna be of I don't know how much is 8 megapixels by the way for 4 megapixels that is a tricky question 4 megapixel I think it's close to 3,000 something by I one close to two mega so something like that okay okay so yeah but but the myth of megapixels is is a big fat lie okay true yes but ok what's the beauty of having a DSLR it's like I we were in Barcelona with Tony for example and we were probably like three blocks away from a sign that we wanted to read and what Tony would do was grab my DSLR zoom into it take a photo and then just grab the digital image and then zoom into it digitally to know what the sign was saying so what's the point about having so many megapixels what is the fact that if you don't like the whole picture just crop it to whatever you want and you have a usable photo so the band's also on how you use the metal pixels because the 808 PureView uses it to a great extent I haven't I have a last minute information the HTC One will go on sale on March 15 that is if you are in the UK and it will be launched on all carriers at the same time so this is great news and I hope in the US will follow suit immediately because that's what HTC needs as more carriers as soon as possible oh man this is really interesting oh wait a second they're saying that this device is gonna have HDR video is that even possible well I think that it's possible because the the Snapdragon Snapdragon 600 processor definitely supports it and the HDR video is already there on the sony xperia z if i recall well you guys saw it at CES and that was one of the main points but it wasn't mentioned as it as a feature HDR video i'm trying to think of that I think it was do you remember that you are muted I'm around you're talking for like five minutes oh so nobody's heard anything upset we know but obviously we know I was saying that for megapixels I went over in the article I wrote the other day is twenty to forty by sixteen eighty which for most cases is more than enough on and I ok no the ipad is 25 its larger yeah and and then you have the nexus 10 which is even more than that so it's gonna be smaller than that but still you know it's good enough for most cases ok so going back to the and we're going back to another reader comment that i'm trying to find here but i can't find we have a hundred and eight comments already on the post by the way but ok so here's the deal why was it that the galaxy s3 was better than the HTC One X um it has to do with marketing but you know you know HTC he last year reminded me of blackberry you guys Tony remember the days where if you would buy a blackberry girl you had to either choose if you bought the Wi-Fi model or gpsphone yes because the SI de they were not integrated in the same device okay so yes say media guys with you just hold on just one second the HTC Yahweh has been announced as a feature of the camera on the HTC One it apparently allows you to automatically capture high-resolution photos as well as short videos at the same time so just to put it in layman's terms while you are using the camera most of the phones currently allow you to snap pictures while you are shooting video now apparently this HTC Zoe z OE that's the three letter naming allows you to uh it says Zoe captures one second before the shutter is pressed then three more seconds for a short for second video so no more blurry images no more photo bombers you if will start capturing before you actually press the button or you touch the display and it will end capturing three seconds after that so you probably get a nice great sharp frame that is very interesting the question is um so so you're taking a photo um but you can we can simultaneously take video but obviously in the past that was just the frame of video so now you're taking high resolution photos at the same time is what you're saying yes plus if i was to snap a picture of you right now it will start recording one second before i would press the shutter button in the HTC one is case the actual button on the screen and it will end recording three seconds after I release the shutter button so it will have a four second video clip of you and it will probably allow either you or automatically select the best frame within those four seconds what do you think the other is am i right um yeah that sounds about right I would imagine that it just snaps a larger photo that's what you're saying right so because with the problem with your when you're capturing pictures while you're shooting images is that you only capture at 1080p or whatever video resolutions are shooting at okay so yeah got got a lovely gotta love these reader comments you guys don't even know about the resolution of 89 so cameras unprofessional I'm like yeah like if you know no comment for sure wait wait let me let me pull that up I don't know Oh Oh God 60 bad pixels come on pull out of here all right and it's different per camera it's different per aspect you know it exactly exactly if you want to take an eight megapixel photo for example on the One X it will not give you 16 by 9 you have to crop it to six megapixels for that to happen gentlemen I just received the official specifications the press release is out it is called HTC One and if you'd like I can read you the entire spec sheet which is officially arrived to my inbox from HTC server lands good to me the size is 130 7.4 x 68.2 x 9.3 millimeters and it's as thin as four millimeters towards its edges so it's tapered design and it tapers all the way to four millimeters it weighs 143 grams with the battery it has a 4.7 inch full HD 1080p display for a total of 468 ppi again the biggest ppi on a smartphone if i recall well the cv is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor running at 1.7 gigahertz it runs HTC Sense with Android it's interesting it's not it's not Android with HTC sense it has certain it has a certain HTC blinkfeed which is basically the feet on your home screen for all the social news and our assess news to which you are subscribed to it has 2 gigabytes of RAM and yes finally we have two storage options 32 gigabytes and 64 gigabytes are also available even though there's a melt here and it says available storage is less due to phone software of course and 64 gigabyte variety of a label in select markets only please bring that to the US hopefully right by the way go ahead go ahead Taylor um I just got confirmation that AT&T will carry it from oh I'm fabulous um no pricing availability no pricing or availability but it will come in 32 or 64 gigabytes okay let me let I have a couple of specs and then we can discuss about those I'm not going to talk about the sensors because they're the usual suspects there's a special dedicated segment to the HTC boomsound which is dual front there's two dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers for studio quality sound with Beats Audio it has to be there and then HDR microphone as far as connectivity goes we have DLNA Wi-Fi Bluetooth NFC everything you'd expect and now comes the dedicated paragraph for the HTC ultrapixel camera it has a dedicated HTC image chip f 2 point 0 a preacher and 28 millimeter lens with optical image stabilization smart flash and all the others HTC Zoe is being being called out the battery 2,300 milliamp hours and that just sums it up so there we have it that's the HTC One officially I got a picture okay reader comments here Andy thank you very much yes the HTC website has been updated so if you want to see the one it's there by the way for the I have another comment down here but we already have a hundred and eighty comments i can't find that you were asking what sort of body is being used this is an aluminum body by the way and we do get the iphone 5 chamfered edges so if you wanted those on android there now available or they will be available in much it's a picture of the camera i finally got one picture that is that is a huge zoom on the lens and michael is just informing us that this zoe technology on the camera is awesome i know i'm hugely excited about this and he says that this is like the story maker on steroids and I can totally agree to that because it is just excellent to have those four seconds being shot what else we have also he's currently excited and so are we about the four millimeter standing that's just this this then when it tapers out to the edges so I wonder how that will feel in the head what is the taper on the droid DNA it you know oh no remember I don't remember either but it be slimmer than the droid DNA well then I love it Nene was this one is aluminum body so everybody everybody was criticizing Apple that they went back to the aluminum body or adopted the aluminum body after the glass on the iphone 4 and the iphone 4s excel to taylor guilty no hours and now it looks like I not only carbonate for that I criticized it but by the way just to give you an idea this is where is um I'm trying to find where is my iphone 5 Tony Guinea show is yours I have enough somewhere oh here we go I have it I have it okay so this is the iphone 5 this is seven point six millimeters so just think about half of this and that's how thin it tapers dealers if we have an image of the HTC One being laid down on its back or be known from its tied let this case so seriously here's the here's the 8x I think that I think that they're doing the 8x design in a way and then they're doing like sharp quorum not sharp but um how do you call this um but they're not you know like they just went tapers all the way to the borders I think that it's tapering to some part of the part of the edge and then you get like the structural wall he'll hear that separates everything so just think about this I mean that's the price is extremely thin extreme this is this is what I'm worried about that right there on my my oh yeah these do you guys think that there will be a risk with the HTC One especially the HTC One and black because I'm not sure there are any so many technologies to color aluminum I mean aside from anodization you can't really make make aluminum being one color or the other so the white one will probably be safe just like the white iphone 5 but these guys think that maybe the black HTC one is prone to chips and scuffs just like the iphone 5 the other one else do the one else was the one of us anodized but why can't they just do this all time what we they thought that polycarbonate was so last year and they had to I don't know maybe aluminum speaks of quality and this is again a concept which was introduced by Apple Apple introduced glass and aluminum and everybody immediately thought of quality when when father these two materials samsung galaxy s free if i recall well was almost always bashed by iphone users as feeling cheap while polycarbonate is still a plastic it definitely feels good in the hand but i think HTC wanted to up the game and go with aluminum taylor i sent you a bunch of pictures of the HTC one so if you can show us a couple of those and everybody who's watching thank you i have pull out HTC for going with aluminum honestly i think that you know it's it's hard to keep aluminum well you know you obviously don't have to drop your phone or you have to use a case um but i feel the feel in the hand of an aluminum phone is just amazing and i feel that when the original iphone was launched with aluminum um it felt good but the problem is it at the bottom with the plastic so it then feel as well as the iphone five fields so i feel you know there are two things that I like about that is this HTC One Design the first one is the fact that it's obviously aluminum so it'll feel cool in the hand and the second is the fact that it's got the curt back so that actually fits better in your hand then the current fully sharpened the iphone 5 design so i like this design how about you guys well i was just about to say that with that the HTC event is officially over after you guys finish with this idea i will quickly recap the specs for everybody to know and then i will ask you for your top two or top three features of the HTC One all right I'm getting pictures right now okay well Emily while you're getting the pictures let me run again quickly really quickly through the specification so the HTC One is officially out it is being powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 quad-core processor clocking at 1.7 gigahertz it has a 4.7 inch full HD screen width 468 PPI it has two gigabytes of free 32 gigabytes of internal storage 64 gigabytes in certain certain markets there's this HTC ultrapixel camera with that mysterious Zoe capability which we will definitely check out and it is very very thin tapers 24 millimeters on its edges being made of aluminum everything is powered by I believe a small 23 hundred million power battery okay wait a second apparently HTC will give you a hundred dollars okay HTC is launching a new trade program where customers that pre-order can turn in their current phone and get a hundred dollars off oh god you're going back yeah oh you're going back this is right this is a solid marketing and this is what what you talked about Hyman I'm happy to see that HTC is finally pushing from what I recall I think there was a story which I covered that HTC has refreshed their marketing department and we're seeing HTC move away from trade shows they have their own event in New York and in London today they are choosing a great name for this phone the HTC One just resonates just sound you can feel that it is so far a great foam and with this offer $100 up for any pre order if you turn in your old phone I think they're they are thinking big and now i think the the bowl is in Samsung's court it's in Samsung's court I just you know and going back to the whole comment that we were talking about okay is this device going to be better than the galaxy s4 okay so here's the problem with samsung um Samsung is the no compromise company they're not after trying to sell you beautiful design compromise for no replaceable battery or no replaceable storage they're like you want it all here we gave it all to you and we even made it thinner than the 1x um so you know that's that's really the only thing that upsets the about HTC they are so pure in their design that they're trying to do the apple thing and you know the apple thing doesn't really work all the time you know Android users want expandable storage we want expandable everything and that's not that I don't think this device has a whole battery I have just received more information on the ultrapixel camera with Zoey it's a short paragraph so I'm going to read it right and I'm going to quote the breakthrough HTC ultrapixel camera redefines how people capture relieved and share their moments blah blah blah blah blah get back to the point HTC Zoe gives people the ability to shoot high resolution photos that come to life and three-second snippets these Zoe's photos and videos are then displayed in a unique way that brings the gallery to life and transform the traditional photo gallery of still images into emotion gallery of memories it also automatically creates integrated highlight films from each event comprised of zoe's photos and videos set to music with professional and so on and so forth so basically it will capture an image and that image from my understanding is that it will have a corresponding three second video like a preview this is what I'm getting out of it but again we'll just have to see for ourselves and going through reader comments a lot of people are complaining about the fact that this device is not coming to verizon and i think that's a like like a big you know obviously verizon got the DNA which nobody else got but then a lot of us were actually disappointed with the DNA i mean it had everything except storage everything except battery so it was like all right it's not really a great device and it was a good device and the one seems to be a great device so it's just sad news to see Verizon being left off Syria we predicted this on the podcast if you recall well we were talking about this and I was I didn't think that it was a wise choice for for verizon to get the HDS you want but mark my words I think that the one will get eventually to verizon but i think that horizon and HTC still have to sell that certain amount of HTC droid dna's until the HTC one gets to them and we have another picture of this time the black HTC one right here Tom Tony have you noticed something that's really interesting I mean this event was about the device and not about sense and since looks extremely different to the way it was before that is true that is true but i think that the there they were probably focusing the event was like 15 minutes late and it's been over since like 10 minutes with us a 30 minute event they were probably highlighting the most important features of the phone and believe me I am impressed hardware looks really really good but I totally agree with you since five point 0 or whatever the name is should have had at least or maybe it did then we missed it so we just have to add so we have a reader week we have a reader comment here from Sally catharsis why am I disappointed it's a great phone features i love HTC but I was expecting more hmm what more were you expecting I and let's go through impressions I mean free and just as a recap guys pocket now live we're having a special edition event I'm Brandon minimun and Michael Fisher are at the show floor they are most probably filming our hands on footage right now so it'll probably be live in the next couple minutes obviously it'll depend network connection and trade shows and events is terrible so we rely on our separate connections and it's hit or miss sometimes so just bear with us right now we will try to get you hands on footage as soon as possible even if it doesn't look as beautiful as we always try to make videos look for you but tony is with me here Taylor Martin is also here with me we are covering our impressions of everything that just happened the HTC event so far Tony I will return my one x and get those hundred dollars off and get me an HTC one that's i will about i will be so pissed if I cannot see this phone in person in Barcelona that I'm gonna probably have a heist area or something like that I am getting the HTC One I love that phone and I'm gonna get the black one this time I am so so so curious about Samsung's move I mean this year the fight between the one and the galaxy s4 is going to be tougher than ever before and that's good for everybody sure yes all of this it the others you know that that fight wasn't such a I mean that that fight was an easy one and whether we like it or not it wasn't easy fight this one will be definitely a tough one to win yeah I'm gonna give you a variety of colors here see how that it's gonna be an interesting fight I I think that Samsung apparently and we've heard the rumors we read these rumors today i believe it was her yesterday that samsung is going to focus more on and honestly I wouldn't change the the galaxy s3 designer like the design as the way it is so if they focus on you know improving software experiences more than hardware and not make things too gimmicky because yeah this this device had a lot of motion gestures and things but I never use them um so I don't know I think it's anybody's game and I love the fact that HTC is going to launch this phone on sale probably hopefully before samsung announces their galaxy s3 but we heard the rumors yesterday that apparently the samsung of it is going to happen on march 14th so and the only reason why i think that samsung is changing this is because they learned about the HTC launch and that's why they want to launch their phone before people go out and make lines for the one I think that's why they're doing it that is true and I definitely agree with you guys real quick top two or top three features of the HTC One okay well I can give you a the only feature I don't like which I think quicker that's the battery I have hounded them for ages over their battery life and Taylor what if what if the Snapdragon 600 processor coupled with with Sense 5 point will be very very light on the battery and that 23 the hundred million power battery will be enough for a day long usage what what about who wants just enough no I want I want two or three days fair enough your mum minimum Marinette now here's now here's a point just think about this how's the battery life on your Nexus 4 it's bad but i only paid 300 4 or 3 43 49 really ok so here's the deal um this Snapdragon 600 is twenty-five percent more efficient than the s4 pro on your Nexus 4 so what would be twenty-five percent more battery life in your usage scenario here here's my thing all these features this is more efficient this is more battery efficient this is more battery efficient that doesn't help that much it might sound like it does 25 more or twenty-five percent more efficient may sound like it's a lot but in my use I've noticed that all these things that they say are more battery efficient display this this display doesn't use the battery it's still the most it counts for the most battery drain on any of the diocese ever and it's it's not what exams the only way to fight battery drain is more battery for now yes but you know that again there's the chicken and the egg story if you were HTC and you were thinking of a nine point seven millimeter thick foam which tapers 24 millimeters you don't have enough space to shove in a huge battery with that so you have you have to have a trade-off and I think that big go on go ahead go ahead go good I think that this is the dilemma of our days I don't mind carrying a thick phone the 808 PureView raid raid I mean give me a thick phone with at least a max battery like Motorola does but my wife is actually one my one fear the one is that it might be too thin I've always felt that way about some phones the 1x that's about as thin as I want really honestly um I don't know I I'll tell tell I'll tell you this much I I have to agree with you guys I would prefer a thick phone with an amazing battery if it's not gonna be replaceable that's me that's also please it's an amazing design it's it's beautiful awesome that's great HTC um but to 2,300 milliamp hours is cutting it real short with a 1080p display why don't they leave them at my hydrogen make a max yeah the bat that the battery life on the DNA HTC was terrible that was one of our biggest complaints with the with with DNA and this will probably repeat itself and I mean hey it's fine that you want to play the non replaceable battery game it's it's okay just get us a better battery that's all I carry on I carry around to peak 6000 Chargers to keep all my phones charged it's not bad it um top features the display obviously it's going to be the highest density display it's above and beyond what anybody can ever see but it's still it's gonna be great um front-facing speakers and the camera those are the only things that I really even care about since the battery life isn't gonna be great how about how minor how about storage 32 or 64 gigabytes for you um like I said yeah well I know how is good enough what is just enough okay come on okay and here's the problem and here is my problem with Android as an operating system um when you when you buy the HTC One X you'll notice that out of the 32 gigabytes of storage that you don't really get those 32 gigabytes accessible for applications or at least not everything so you you actually only get I think it's like seven gigabytes of available storage for apps and you know I find this really i find it really stupid that with um with a jetta with jelly bean and ice cream sandwich I think it's only jelly bean that you can't really select that you want part of the app to go into the storage section and and I wrong guys because I've had this problem with the 1x that and I'm also having it with the galaxy s3 i only get 16 gigabytes on the galaxy s3 for apps and then i have to use the rest of the SD card firm for music but i can't really use it for apps as I wish you know i was showing there i have the 16 gigabyte nexus 4 here and i have 12.9 2 gigabytes free or not free but just amazed are available yeah i mean one of those features okay for me for me honestly number one is designed the phone is pretty it's just as it is it because it looks a little bit like the iphone 5 you know i will you remember you remember my posta of what would Steve Jobs say about the iphone 5 and then I wrote you guys screwed up you know my first impressions on the iphone 5 were that it was an ugly phone I mean I well the first thing that I saw said I was like what I was like what is this you know a headphone jack at the bottom and then one speaker is not the same size as the other like this looks terrible like if the Steve Jobs would have seen this thing but you know once you hold the desired the device for the first time you like okay fine pictures don't do it any justice so you know the thing is this device looks really beautiful in photos it looks really nice it looks really really elegant and I think that it is a phone that I would be proud to show around you know i I just I like it um I don't know I I really like it I that's my point number one is designed number two I want to see that 1080p display um I you know from me the one x is like every time I would look at the screen it's like if it was painted on the display and I would be like oh it was just such a WOW factor for me that I really wanted to see the display and to be honest with you I know that a lot of people out there hate HTC Sense I'm on the list that doesn't hate it I actually like it a lot I feel that it's very smart it's not the fastest operating system or or plugin but it's it's it's the smartest one in my opinion um and then the third thing thing is I want to see that ultrapixel camera I really want to see it i want to see how good it is I want to see HDR video that's like I'm really looking forward to that you know because probably one of the things that pisses you off the most is when you're in a low light situation and the flash of the camera of any phone is not really going to do much for the video and then you notice that every time that you're trying to shoot a video you know obviously it frames into the shot so if you try to take a photo um and you're going on if you're on camera mode the photo actually is able to take more of the canvas then if you're shooting a video it crops in for some reason and you know I really want to see how this camera will perform in night or in low light situations that's me I just got a last-minute information it appears that here in Europe the phone will go unlocked for brace yourselves 699 euros which translates to none less than 800 0909 $35 so that's unlocked in some countries of Europe oh wow um I got this in a press release the HTC ultrapixel camera which gathers three hundred percent more light than other camera sensors for better low-light performance so they said that about they said that about the 1 xn yeah but this I did but allegedly is even more light-sensitive than for instance Sony's backlit camera sensor but for that I am very curious to see how this HTC one compares to the low-light performance of the Lumia 920 and the low leiper from low life low light performance of the Sony Xperia said I don't know I I remember I was hold on you