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you guys it's random in omim from pocketnow.com here at the HTC launch event for the HTC one previously known as the m7 this is the hotness this is what we've been waiting for we're gonna take a look at the hardware the software right now so let's check it out so let's start off with the hardware this is an all aluminum foam which is pretty amazing because all the other phones out there that have aluminum have plastic parts because the antenna reception needs to come through but HTC has found a way to have an entirely aluminum phone and it's extremely than four millimeters at the edge like the Droid DNA gets thicker so it's kind of an illusion but when you hold it in your hand it really feels really thin and over on the back we've got this ultra pixel camera a camera which is really two four megapixel camera sensors in one we've got two microphones HTC claims they have double membrane microphones so you can actually record at a concert really slick aluminum on the top and the bottom we've got this interesting thing we're calling the g-string here just this little line that goes down to the camera and we've got these white accents will be available in white or black this is just a handsome phone you've got the volume rocker on the side and an interesting design cue here we've got the power button in a different location the upper left corner now let's talk about the software here we've got the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 here which is really the s4 pro plus so this is the s4 pro quad core chip and what we have here is called the blinkfeed and then HTC has done something kind of innovative here so this idea that you always have content that you want at your fingertips through various sources you just flick around on your blinkfeed you click on these various stories it comes up in this little in this little application here and you can actually configure this and then interesting notice that the clock stays at the top and you kind of pull it down you tap on those three lines got topics and services here's all the stuff that you can add it's a wide variety of items we can add you can also tap into apps like your calendar like your Facebook this thing called Zoe which we're going to talk about in a sec it's five to the right you can enable and disable all of these different things oh of course this device has a 1080p screen at 4.7 inches which means the pixel density is really really sweet and beyond the blink you've got a traditional HTC home screen setup here with widgets and so forth but it looks just so good on this screen HTC Sense is changed I'd say that the headline here is minimal everything is minimal the icons the colors the temperatures are flattened out aligned we get a little bit of a shine on the top down here but that's pretty much it if we bring up the keyboard look at this keyboard very flat keyboard no shine doing it off it feels really nice hello this is a test I'm not even looking not bad right and here's something very interesting HTC is gone with the two button design so we've got a home button and a back button how do you get to the multitask UI glad you asked you double tap the home button an entirely new UI for the multi test HTC listen to customers thank goodness did away with that 3d UI and this is really a very efficient way to multitask double tap and watch this you can close apps by just clicking them off the screen kind of guess webOS style a little bit right Fisher a little a little bit now if you tap and hold the home button you would think that it would launch the multi test but it brings up Google now let's stick around take a look around some more we've got our notifications it's running on jelly bean so we've got rich notifications and of course you might have notes you might have notice that this device has two front-facing stereo speakers which are pretty loud you probably can't tell but let's try anyway and watch this a new visualization feature for the music app which brings up lyrics this is pretty cool isn't it I think most people who use music through other third-party services but for those of you that load your music onto your device you can take advantage of some cloud services that pulls in the lyrics that is super cool now let's stop the music and move around some more when you go to the app training now back to the home screen after has been redesigned it's minimal it keeps your time and the weather up here if you tap there you get to the weather of course and you can scroll down and you can like on the blank field you pull down a little bit here you can change whether it's alphabetical custom our most recent you can change the grid size you can hide apps which is really cool now how about performance we've got the two gigabytes of RAM and as mentioned the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 let's go to the web here so here we're on pocket now check screen rotation speed it feels like the DNA but faster in fact this whole device kind of feels like the DNA but better a lot better so let's zoom in see how long text takes clear I'm pretty fast there let's go back to the home page here we're over a Wi-Fi connection with like 50 million people so it might not come up that best but actually that's pretty good let's check for checkerboards but not to bet that's that's really good that's to a pinch-to-zoom looking really good there's no doubt that this has extremely good performance with bouncing between apps there's so much to talk about here we're going to the camera now because there are some cool camera features that they used to talk about that so for example flipping between front and rear cameras as easy as doing that right which makes a lot of sense hey are you doing this behind the camera and it's really interesting ways to apply effects we've got a variety effects here that you sees before HTC's introducing this thing called Zowie which what it does is it takes pictures and then it adds a video to it so then it can kind of create this storyboard and we're gonna probably do another video shortly demo demonstrates demonstrating that but that seems to be a really cool feature overall we are darn impressed with the HTC ones we should say that it it has some design cues from the iPhones this chamfered edge and hopefully this chamfered edge doesn't look destroyed like the one on the iphone check the durability report for that but this is a thicker a chamfer edge it is just hotness it looks like jewelr yeah I hate to say that because we said that about the iPhone 5 but it is just supreme looking here now this thing feels like a million when I tell you that there's a lot of features we're gonna have more videos of course we're going to review the heck out of this phone but for now first look kind of a long ago here that the HTC one that's it we're now searching