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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here I've had the HTC One for a few days and I wanted to share my first impressions how the phone feels how the phone works and hope you decide whether or not you should pick one up pre-order it and figure out if it's the next phone for you let's go ahead and get started alright so I have had the HTC One for a few days and I wanted to share my impressions it's not enough time to give it a full review that will be coming later but I do want to share what I think about it what I've learned about the phone during my time so first let me refresh the specs for you what you're looking at here is an absolutely gorgeous 4.7 inch diagonal screen the resolution of 1920 x 1080 that means it is eight 1080p screen with the highest ppi i have ever seen of 469 this screen is absolutely ridiculous we'll definitely talk about that shipping with android 4.1 point2 at launch 1.7 gigahertz quad-core snapdragon two gigs ram 32 or 64 gigs of storage no external a lot of hoop love being made about that guy right there that is an ultrapixel camera it's got an HD video capable front-facing camera in a 211 ABG and n for the first time I get a say AC as well 2300 milliamp hour battery and I've seen coming in at five point oh four ounces or 143 grams alright so let's start with the first impression when I first took this device out of the box held it this was the best first impression I have ever had of a phone since the iphone 4 and that's held true or my few days with it the way this phone feels in the hand is absolutely incredible it's not something that I said about every other phone that I've tested this phone really stands out the way it feels the way it looks it screams premium quality HTC has learned a lot over the years but how to build phones and this is the culmination of those years of efforts this is one of the best looking phones I have ever tested and I've tested pretty much every phone over the past four years there are few oddities here as well the first one that sticks out for me is the button placement so you've got a back button in a home button position sort of oddly on the right as much as you want that HTC logo to be a button it is never going to be so you're missing the multitasking button i multitask you double tap the home button and you get HTC Sense fives new multi tasking UI and you can go ahead and open applications by clicking it or you can swipe them off the screen will talk about sense 5 though in just a minute continuing the button quirks the power button which is also an IR blaster and put it to sleep is on the left hand side I've never seen that before definitely taking some getting used to boom sound which is sort of the culmination of the speaker's here it's not just a speaker it's a software and technology that goes into it is really loud this is the best speaker I have ever heard on a phone HTC previously had the title HTC surround an older phone was one of the best this phone blows it away if you rely on speakerphone you want to play some music for some friends this is a great speaker I'll give you guys demonstration certainly not going to do much justice coming through YouTube but suffice to say the sound quality is really good for a speaker phone alright so let's talk a little bit about sense 5 I haven't been the biggest fan of HTC Sense and previous generations since five gets out of the way and I really like that things from that little widget to the top to how you control the app drawer here I really like what they did so I did a whole video going through sense 5 and demonstrating what it can do and i'll leave that link down below if you want to watch it but if you had issues with sense for previous version didn't like the way they worked don't worry about sense 5 it really does a nice job getting out of its own way it brings a lot of great features with it including a pretty awesome email clients I've been wondering about getting an email client one that works for you the one that's bundled with HTC one is pretty awesome a lot of hoopla is being made about this guy right here this is blinkfeed think of it as a flip board for your home screen you could pick from a ton of different options and able to up right on the home screen it works well I found it to be a bit of a battery drain I'll show you what it looks like we'll go ahead and select associated press you can also select your Facebook or Twitter streams here as well if you want me I push the home screen all the way over to the left I have not found a way yet to get rid of it if you don't want it but I just relegated over to the side so you can see it looks like right there pulls information do the same things with Twitter or Facebook it's kind of neat and if you go ahead and open it up it's not going to open a straight website or bring them serve a mini browser they can use to view the content I really like that touch so go ahead and go home when it comes to the camera we've got a full camera post detailing how those performs next to a ton of other phones might be interested in so I'm going to direct you to that if you want to judge for yourself let's take a look at some example images you can take a look at that link which will also be down below as soon as that post it goes live well so let's talk a little bit about performance this thing is blistering fast this is one of the most complete phones I've ever tested this is the way Andrew I think was meant to be outside of a Nexus device it is extremely quick everything opens up fast the boot up time is less than seven seconds HTC has got a quick boot technology in here it's absolutely incredible to see I mean I've never seen a phone boot up from cold in seven seconds the screen here is absolutely gorgeous as well and that's really the big story i'll go ahead and open up a gal could see what that looks like it seems a little bit even better than what we saw on the droid DNA night we do to the smaller screen size and the higher ppi with the screen is absolutely gorgeous stunning screen I've never seen anything look this good on a phone if I sound in love with the device because so far I am as i mentioned i really haven't had that positive and impression of a phone at least initially as I have with this since the iphone 4 so if you want to get a phone and looking for something that's going to suit you very well you're kind of owe it yourself to look at the HTC One it's still too early for me to do a full battery test but I will say it seems about on part of the droid DNA at least thus far as I continue to test of ice or a full review I'll make sure to go over battery life and performance I wanted to share with you guys my first impression of the phone is anything that you want to see be cover the review be sure to let us know but again we'll continue to test the camera will continue to test everything about it will sure to share all that with you in our full review thank you guys for watching give us a thumbs up we certainly appreciate it check us out at technobuffalo calm for ladies and greatest tech news i'm jon rettinger i'll see you next video you