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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the HTC 1S so this is positioned

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slightly below the 1X in terms of HTC's product stack which means that you find

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a slightly different array of features so one notable thing that's not on this

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phone is NFC uh however it does have a lot going for it so it's using an a

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Snapdragon S4 crate uh plus core yes

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thank you plus it doesn't help when there's Pro and plus and play I mean

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couldn't they have just gone with like good better and like awesomest or

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something like that no no Pro Plus and play so unlike the Droid DNA which we've

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also had a look at recently it does not have the super high-end chipset but this

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should translate to better battery life as well as uh really not that much of a

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uh of a reduction in performance it's running adreno 225 GPU which is sort of

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like a like a souped up 220 on a lower manufacturing uh manufacturing node so

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the performance of it even though it's not a current generation adreno 300

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series is actually better than something like an adreno 305 which is a newer

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generation but actually lower-end chipset uh the resolution of the screen

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it is an Amo LED screen which should help you in terms of power consumption

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as well as in terms of black levels so we're going to go ahead and just power

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it up really quick here here so remember guys Amed means the actual pixels

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themselves on the phone are emitting light rather than relying on a backlight

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with an LCD overlay over the top so it's a 960x 540 resolution which is sort of

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uh coin the term is 540p so or QHD or

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whatever you wanted to call it so it's a 16x9 aspect ratio that is one quar the

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resolution of 1080p okay so it's not quite 720P but it should still look

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pretty darn good on a 4.3 in screen one of the other things they're including

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and I can't remember for the life of me what they call it anymore but is their

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sort of better P picture taking quality concept so that is an f2.0 aperture lens

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which basically amounts to more light being allowed into the lens now guys

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when it comes to taking pictures it's physics so there's your sensor size that

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assists in having more light hit it there's your lens quality your lens size

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that Gathers more light because when it comes to low light performance you can

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only do so many fancy digital tricks before it's just like okay well no we

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actually just need more light we need more data so having a clearer lens is

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one of the things that can help with light transmission through the glass to

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the sensor itself and give you a better quality image it's an 8 megapixel rear

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camera with a built-in flash and one of the other things you'll notice about the

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back of the phone is it has their Beats Audio branding so this pretty much

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amounts to an equalizer setting that I personally didn't find enhanced my

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listening experience however compared to the iPhone 4 that I used for U two years

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I guess uh it's not like the sound quality without beats enabled it's a

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software feature so you can just turn it off was any worse so they're using a

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good quality audio chipset on it it's just that I don't personally get any

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benefit from the Beats EQ setting so you

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can see right here that this is not a stock Android uh layout so there it's

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using HTC's sense 4.0 Plus or I think

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that's what it's called something along on those lines and they apparently want a SIM card in oh look at that they

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include little instructions for how to insert your sim card so you take this

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piece off apparently or nope this

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one you know what give me a minute ah

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yes right here so you peel this guy

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up and just like that ah come on you can do it go

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lus and that was when he broke it nope didn't break it there you go so SIM card

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goes right there and then you can also see there's some other stuff in here

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that presumably you wouldn't need to use for anything so we're going to go ahead

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and put that back on there you go also on the top you find your lock button as

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well as your headphone jack so it's your power and lock button rather on the side

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you find a volume rocker and then on the

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other side you find oh cool is that uh

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is that mini HDMI no USB I'm sorry I

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didn't look that closely at it so that's a USB connector or so they've opted for

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a side mounted charging connector which is something that I haven't seen as

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often as the more traditional bottom mounted charging connector so image chip

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that's actually a part of their whole sort of better camera concept so it's

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supposed to have a one second startup wow that was actually definitely less

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than a 1 second uh so it says unable to use the flash because the battery is too

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low right now but there you go how quickly can we take pictures Focus shoot

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Focus shoot hopefully you can see this I don't know if you can I think I might

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just totally be standing in the way so in terms of the pictures we're

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taking I think Auto rotates off Clarity wise it looks wow actually really

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good I guess it's about what you'd expect when we're using Studio lighting

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uh so let's move into some size comparisons how big is it it's a 4.3 in

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screen so I think I mentioned that before but how does it actually compare

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to something else so here is a Galaxy Note 2 so that's what it looks like

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compared to one of those all right here is an iPhone 4 so that's

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a significantly smaller screen size okay moving right along here is

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another HTC phone so this is an 8s

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dismiss dismiss go away there we go that's an 8s so that's only a 4 in

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screen so it actually doesn't make that much of a difference going from 4 to

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4.3 but here we go in terms of the size of the phone but it does make the images

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look a little bit bigger this is also a 4.3 in screen but a larger phone design

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design on the HTC 8X so you can see it's a little bit longer on the bottom one

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thing that I actually did not realize is that that little uh USB connector I

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showed you guys can be used for HDMI so that's why I thought it looked kind of

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weird but with a special cable you can use it as an HDMI output which I

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personally think is very freaking cool so they're saying that it comes with ice

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cream sandwich but it's Jelly Bean is going to be either rolling out or is

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rolling out right now according to the information that we found so it's up to

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date as far as Android operating systems go I don't think I've shown you guys

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what the phone looks like in any more detail so this piece right here on the

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back is actually metal and has a very nice feel to it uh the piece on the

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bottom here is rubberized and then the piece on the top here feels more like a

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well I don't know if it's rubber but it's soft touch anyway so this feels

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more like a soft touch finish up here as well I like this because the way that I

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hold a phone is I'll I'll tend to support it with my pinky so that I can

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reach the entire keyboard cuz I have kind of smaller hands so having this not

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be a slick metal piece here actually is beneficial to to certain people in terms

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of included accessories there's not a whole lot You' get a wallart so there's

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your little HTC uh this should be a one amp yep HTC 1 amp wallart as well as a

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micro USB cable for charging you also get a little quick start guide that

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shows you where all of the stuff on your phone is that's the touchcreen yay oh

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one of the other details of the touchcreen that I wanted to uh cover

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again Amed so super dark super deep blacks and then check this

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out viewing angle should be pretty much perfect with no Distortion regardless of

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how you're looking at it can you see that

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diesel I'm getting kind of an iffy sort of Y yeah we got it now so absolutely

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gorgeous I don't think I mentioned yet that the CPU is clocked at 1.7 GHz and

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it has 16 Meg 16 Megs yeah only 16 Megs internal storage don't worry about it

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store everything in the cloud data is free anyway uh 16 gigs internal storage

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unfortunately this particular phone can't be expanded with micro SD but

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given that you actually can't install apps off micro SD it's up to the

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individual user whether that's an actual uh detriment or not personally I never

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used all 16 gigs on my iPhone 4 in two years so I'm not a power user when it

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comes to storage space but if you are then that might be a bit of a problem

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for you I think that pretty much wraps it up I don't think I missed anything

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here and thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the HTC 1S so

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mentioned this already but the 1080p video that it records is actually at 30

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FPS so just for for Ls I'm going to

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record some video here maybe we'll catch our production crew hello so you guys

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can watch that video actually here we'll watch that video on the uh on the good

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one play oh I think I have auto rotate off

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we'll be back all right so here's our video playback now that I've uh enabled

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that there we go I have noticed already that it's

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smoother than the uh than the 1080p 30fps video that I was recording on my

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8X you can see it adjusts for the lights behind slick pretty well right there I

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don't think I mentioned before that it has one gig of RAM I don't think we're

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even on not even on full screen brightness

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yet there we go okay well I think that wraps it up

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