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hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com and in this video we're going to compare the HTC One X with the iPhone 5 let's get to it okay so both of these devices are very different but they have one thing in common they both have extremely highly regarded displays in fact for the last six months or so most people would agree that the HTC One X is the phone to have the best display it's got amazing color amazing contrast a great PPI and overall it just has really good qualities of a good display then the iPhone 5 came out which improved upon the iPhone 4s is display by increasing color saturation it's higher resolution and it you can fit more on the screen at one time so in this video we're let you decide if you think the One X is better than the iPhone 5 or if the iPhone 5 is the new reigning champ in terms of quality of display so let's talk about specifications these are obviously very different there are two versions of the One X this particular version is the Tegra 3 quad-core international version which has a gigabyte of RAM but in the u.s. on AT&T you can only get it on one carrier you get it with a Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 1.5 gigahertz dual-core CPU with one gigabyte of RAM and 16 gigabytes of storage now the Apple iPhone 5 is available on three carriers in the US and in some places it actually will work on t-mobile we've got the a6 dual-core 1 gigahertz CPU care with 1 gig of ram and 16 gigabytes of storage to start and these are about the same price actually the 1x might have come down a little bit they both started at $1.99 for the 16 gigabyte version and the 1x might actually be at about 99 bucks now with a two-year contract both of these devices have LTE they both have 8 megapixel cameras we'll talk more about camera quality later they both have about 1.2 megapixel front-facing cameras and a lot of other features that you would expect so in a lot of ways they're very similar obviously they're running different software we've got Android 4.0.3 here and iOS 6 now let's talk about the hardware on both of these the HTC One is about 8.9 millimeters thick and you know in the hand that feels extremely thin because what HTC has done is that they carved out this nice edge so when you wrap your hands around the device you're actually feeling this part edge and not sort of this sort of bulbous backing that contains the battery kind of a trick that a lot of manufacturers are doing now but it works it makes the device feel thin HTC also has this infinity display so it kind of looks like the display keeps going as it sort of wraps around the edges definitely has a really unique design then on the back we've got the polycarbonate here and a very attention-getting lens or ring around the 8 megapixel camera HTC has their dedicated image sense chip which should make taking photos much better with with their software and the quality should be a lot better of course we have a flash here Micro SIM 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and the standard micro USB the iPhone 5 on the other hand is no slouch in the design department Apple went with a truly unique design here we've got this beautiful aluminum on the back flanked by pieces of glass depending on what color you went with then we've got these beautiful chiseled edges to kind of give it a shiny jewelry like that's what some people are saying I don't think it looks like jewelry it just kind of looks elegant and we goes all around the edges on these these beveled edges are really nice it looks good on a table we've got a 4 inch screen here over here it's a 4.7 inch screen 312 PPI 326 PPI slightly higher here on the iPhone 5 and we've got a nice standard 1280 by 720 resolution on the One X but on the iPhone 5 not a standard resolution we get 11 36 by 640 so not true HD although playing back HD content on the on the iPhone 5 actually looks pretty good beyond that we've got the 8 megapixel cameras mentioned with a flash we've got non-standard lightning which won't work with anything right now it's the first iOS device to have it you probably don't have a cable for it and you're going to have to buy the converter for 29 bucks and of course we've got the nice speaker grille along the bottom kind of similar in a way to what HTC has done with these drilled holes kind of a new trend from smartphone manufacturers ok so let's talk about display quality I've got both of these devices set to 50% screen brightness and it's not on auto brightness so it'll stay at that 50% level obviously here we've got totally different interfaces iOS 6 with lots of icons and cents 4.1 with a lot of widgets so what I want to do now is go into the web browser and bring up the same image and see if we can get a comparison but first I kinda want to give you a close-up of the screens on these devices so I'm going to get close to some text let the camera focus so you can kind of look at the clarity and the PPI and the color saturation without getting a reflection and then we'll go over here now over here to the HTC One X they both have just fantastic screens it's going to be really difficult to pick a winner something that's very clear right off the bat is if you want a bigger screen obviously you're going to go with the One X 4.7 inches is 0.7 inches bigger than the iPhone 5s 4-inch screen and it's it's it's significant at the end of the day ok so let's go to the internet browser on both and we're going to just open up a blank page here then we're going to do a google search go to Google Images actually and we are going to search for palm tree there we go here we are we have the same results and let's look for something that looks kind of nice I like this right here we'll bring both of those up we'll hit full-size image here full-size image they're not sure if this is a high-res image or not good enough to see the difference in color so the iPhone 5 at medium brightness is dimmer than the HTC one exit minimal brightness which means that the One X has a brighter screen if you turn it up to 100% it's going to be brighter because at 50% it's brighter so that's something to consider you can see that the whites are the kind of the whites in the cloud are more apparent in terms of color profiles they both have very similar color profiles what I mean by that is that the blue here is very similar to the blue here just looks a little brighter here slightly whiter but I think that's because of the brightness the green is nearly the same shade green this is not like a comparison when we compare the iPhone 5 with an AMOLED screen because these are both LCD displays RGB sub pixel configurations very similar display types just one is bigger and apparently one is brighter as so let's go back to the previous page and see if we can get another picture of a palm tree all right let's go to this guy here full-size image and once again we're seeing the exact same thing so on the one X we're seeing that everything's kind of a little bit lighter a little bit brighter we're actually seeing a little bit of gray here in the water whereas here it's very much aqua which which again it might be because of the brightness but it looks like the the one X is actually displaying a nicer picture here so they're very similar displays it looks like the One X might be slightly better it's a matter of personal preference and this is not a scientific test but based on this it does look like I'd prefer anyway looking at the One X for 12 hours a day then looking at the iPhone 5 which is not to say that the iPhone 5 has a bad screen the one X just has an incredible screen by the way if you want to see our comparison of iOS and jellybean which will be on the One X in the near future we'll put a link up at the video right here so you can check out that comparison so we hope you enjoy this comparison video it does look like that the One X's display is slightly better than the iPhone 5 we're going to have more on camera quality in an upcoming video so keep an eye on that both of these devices have great hardware the iPhone is just a little bit faster thing of the day but when jellybean hits the 1x that might be a different story if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you