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yeah this is Dan with the verge and we are looking at the HTC One max the one max is the latest member of HTC's one line of devices and it features a new 5.9 inch 1080p display considerably larger than the 4.7 inch screen that is on the HTC One or the 4.3 inch screen that's on the HTC One mini otherwise it's very similar in design and looks to the other HTC One phones you still have the boom sound speakers on the front so you have dual front-facing speakers it's got an aluminum and plastic design this particular unit is a silver model which HTC will be releasing this in it still has the ultra pixel camera so it's a four megapixel camera with HTC's ultra pixel technology it still has the IR port at the top a couple of big changes though are the power button has been moved to the side and HTC has included a fingerprint scanner which can be used to unlock the device with one hand so that you don't have to use the power button or the passcode on the screen if you don't want to inside the HTC One max has a Snapdragon 600 processor it's the same processor that we saw in the HTC One it's paired with two gigabytes of RAM and in the US it will have 32 gigabytes of storage so international models will be available with 16 gigabytes of storage the one max also has a micro SD card slot so you can expand the storage built-in it has a 3300 milliamp hour battery but that's non removable or upgradable software wise the one max is running Android 4.3 out of the box and it's got HTC's latest version of Sense which is now since 5.5 then cludes a couple of new features for the blinkfeed settings there's a new swipe in menu from the left that offers different options so you can drill down your blinkfeed into specific feeds and it also now integrates Google Plus as well as Instagram Twitter and Facebook as it did before in your feed and then you also now have the option to turn off blink feed entirely if it's something that you don't want to use other new features include tweaks in the gallery it's a couple different things now it's a different layout there's more video highlight options you can choose to have longer video highlights if you want and you can also import your own music into them that's stored on the device overall though this is pretty much the same sense experience that we have on sense 5 on an HTC one it's not really hugely different it's just blown up to the larger screen size performance wise the device is very fast even with the Snapdragon 600 processor it's very similar to what we see on the HTC One there's very little lag or delay with anything the hardware is the same type of build quality that we saw on the other HTC models too so it's got the aluminum finish as well as the plastic inlays that really just do feel nice when you hold it obviously this is much larger to use in your hand HTC says that it will be available for purchase by the holidays on Sprint and Verizon though we don't know an exact price yet we expect it to be competitive with other devices in this class