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day seven of my experience with the HTC1 so this is my first time taking a
long-term crack at Android and I got to say the experience has been very
positive so far so I'm going to start with the stock Gmail app which I
absolutely love it allows you to easily and quickly switch between all of your
different inboxes and it allows you to manage it through the notification
screen to sort of navigate to each one individually it's very very seamless and
speaking of seamless just I mean obviously it's a Google OS so it's very
well integrated as far as Google stuff goes but YouTube is a fantastic
experience compared to here I'm just going to go back to the very beginning
compared to other platforms so you can see if I'm not signed into a particular
YouTube account then all I have to do if I want to upload something is I go and I
find something so in this case maybe there's a uh video tour of my motorbike
which I'm planning to sell on Craigslist and I go okay I want to share this all I
have to do is go oh look at that YouTube is in my top options now that I've done
it a few times I can pick which one I want to throw that on Linus cat tips I
select it I press upload and it is ready
to go it is very very seamless once you're logged into YouTube you can
see trending see I'm logged in now all
of your uploads playlist favorites and all that good stuff so I just love the
way that it's really well integrated I'm tempted to start vlogging based on how
easy it is to just sort of take a video
I mean it's 1080p it's extremely good quality I'm really enjoying this phone
it's has a 1080p front camera as well and uh just how quickly I can upload it
whether I'm on mobile or whether I'm on Wi-Fi is absolutely great um automatic
synchronization of all of my junk made switching extremely easy so all of my
contacts were synced no problem I also I never dial any other way now this is
amazing sifting through your contacts list is just stupid compared to this so
check this out all I have to do is go select so I start there you go so I
start typing and it finds the right person and just in case it's not the
right person all you have to do is hold it down and it will give you the options
of all the different people so in this case it's just multiple entries for slick so there's a WhatsApp entry and
then I think one other one so absolutely awesome I love swift key so I'm using a
hold on I'm using a 30-day trial of swift key so let's go ahead we'll just
go go right here um it's just much snappier much more responsive than the
stock keyboard there's no weird sort of delay as the letter pops up showing you
what you press the predictive text is amazing within a couple times of typing
out things like Linus Tech tips it had learned it it was suggesting it for me
um A+ for swift key definitely worth the $2 or $3 or whatever they're charging
for it on Google Play uh power toggles is another great one one of the first
things I complained about with this particular phone running sense 5.0 is
that I didn't have a quick way to turn auto rotate on and off oh well now I do
so I mean this is this is the strength of Android if you don't like something
about it and there were things I didn't like on day one the odds are excellent
that there's a way to fix it uh power toggles also addressed my uh distress
that I couldn't see the uh the battery meter with a more exact percentage based
readout boom power toggles adds a little battery meter you can customize it you
can decide which things you want here so I went with data rotation
synchronization Wi-Fi flash yay need a
don't need a flashlight app anymore I can just scroll down from the lock screen and I'm ready to go GPS and
Bluetooth so that does absolutely everything I need it to do which is
great uh sliding notifications away without actually open anything is a
relief from iOS this worked on Windows phone as well but there you go I'm
offline on Skype apparently but that's extremely handy and now that I'm used to
the multitasking interface I use it all the time so a double tap on home gives
me all of the things that I've used recently and I mean it'll even do things
like pause a video that I was in the middle of which exiting the app and
reopening it doesn't necessarily do so for example emit the app that I use for
uh video playback oh there you go um
sure so something like that if I just go like this I can go okay I need to reply
to I don't know an email really quick blah blah blah blah blah YouTube service
something something and back to my video and I'm ready to go so it's very very
fast it took me maybe a day or two to actually get used to but now I'm using
it every time pretty much um I still don't really care for blink feed very
much I'm more of a producer than a consumer of sort of Facebook LinkedIn
this kind of Social Media stuff so I'm not finding this that useful for myself
but I can see how if you didn't have such a busy feed it might work pretty
well for you so it's the same reason I didn't end up using the People app on
Windows Phone 8 I'm not saying it's a bad thing it's just not necessarily for
me and speaking of other things that are unique to sense 5.0 I'm not sure whether
I prefer the more traditional Android side to side scrolling or the more honey
uh rather honeycomb uh the more gingerbread style up and down um I find
myself actually using this one a fair bit and once I figured out that all you have to do is go in here and manage your
grid size so you can add more icons to the screen it's actually not a lot of
scrolling even compared to the side by side you can see I haven't properly
arranged everything in folders yet these are still a lot of the stock folders but
I've been super super busy so yeah there
you go U another multitasking thing that I absolutely love is Chrome's tab
switching so compared to um any other mobile OS that I've used
this is outstanding and then if you're switching between two tabs quickly you
can actually do it quickly you just swipe from the side and boom you're on
mobile YouTube Boom you're back on social blade boom you're back on mobile
YouTube looking at a completely different mobile YouTube your own your own live stream archive if you're
narcissistic like that I want to get into the phone itself
a little bit because the HTC1 really is a Unique Piece of Hardware I did drop it
already which was extremely distressing so I was running to get something that
was overflowing in the kitchen and I was like whoop I'll put it in my pocket whoop oh it fell on the ground so it
actually fell from pocket height which fortunately for short people like me
isn't that high to the tile floor and
there's a dent uh where is it can't find
it there it is so there's a dent right here you can probably actually see it a
little bit better from this angle where this corner is kind of flat now and then
there's another small dent on I think it's the opposite corner right there so
it did survive it didn't crack the fact that the edge you can see it's actually
a little bit wider at the butt compared to the screen is that's probably helpful
for protecting it from a fall I mean if you dropped it straight flat on its
glass like they did in that one drop test on YouTube then yeah obviously the
screen's going to break but if it were to hit at any kind of an angle it would
have to be a pretty extreme angle for it to contact the glass first so I don't
know whether HTC thought of that or whether the curve is so that it fits
more naturally in your hand um but there you go either way that's uh an
intentional or unintentional benefit speaking of the curvature in spite of
its 4.7 in screen I have found that I am
actually able to type one-handed it's not that easy see it's not that easy but
compared to the 8X I can reach and since
uh re okay it doesn't want doesn't want
anyway um so since swift key does a lot of the work for me anyway that helps a
lot you can see in my Twitter feed there's this is uh this is some scary
game streamer that I follow it's a pretty scary tattoo that she's got going
on there anyway um ah okay if I had to come up with one
complaint about the phone it would be that the lock button on the top looks an
awful lot like the micro USB port here
and they're in the same proportion so if you were pulling it out of your pocket
think about it this way if you're pulling it out of your pocket and you want know the orientation of the phone
at first glance that could just as easily be your lock button as this yeah
so I've had to I mean okay very minor complaint but I've had to get in the
habit of putting my phone in 188 way and pulling it out the same way so that I
know where my lock button is but there you go that's pretty minor uh voice
quality on my end I would describe as outstanding maybe a little bit better
than the 8X whereas people on the other side are anecdotally describing it to me
as pretty good so take take what you will out of that so that's my my
feedback on the speaker and the microphone um I decided to do a bit of a
stress test on the battery now HTC wanted me to talk about their battery
bar which is a 6,000 milliamp little it's one of those little USB charge
things so you can carry around a little bit of extra battery capacity with you but what I found is I actually didn't
really end up having a desire to use it because my torture test that I did on
day two involved 6 hours 6 Plus so I'm
being conservative 6 hours of playing music on the phone at a reasonable
volume so I was sitting working on my computer I had it next to me playing
back music um so 6 hours of that uh 2
hours of streaming video with emit so bearing in mind most of the processing
is being done by my home server not by the phone itself but either way we are
being pretty heavy on the Wi-Fi um and
then another two hours of listening to music on headphones with a few calls not
a ton of calls that day but regular Twitter as well as regular emails on the
phone and I had 35% battery left at the end of the day this is with automatic
screen brightness and I am not using the power saving mode I haven't turned off
Bluetooth I haven't really engaged any tricks or any of those battery saving
apps to help me save more power so I'm
extremely impressed and it's sort of brought to my attention that not all X
milliamp hour batteries are created equal uh slick Galaxy S3 he he having
only owned it for I think less than 6 months already doesn't make it through a
single day on a charge like at all um in
fact he sent me sort of an amusing screen shot of how how ludicrous it's
gotten over time and I mean remember guys the thing about a battery is that
um here let me just find this okay well I can't find it but he
sent me a really funny uh screenshot of his phone saying 25% battery left 5
minutes remaining um that's a little extreme it does last longer than that
but it's been pretty unsatisfactory for him so I'm really interested to see how
this lasts over the longer term because when you compare it to the Galaxy S3 at
least you can replace the battery on the S3 whereas this one you have to rely on
the battery inside being very high quality I mean my iPhone fored to last
me an entire day even though it's 3 years old because at least the
integrated battery that you can't change doesn't have a horrible memory effect
that causes the battery life to go down uh dramatically anyway I'm pleased for
now auto brightness is handled extremely well to the point where I've actually
left it on any phones I've had in the past I've never left auto brightness on
because I find it drains the battery too fast but it's pretty smart so if you
cover up the light sensor it's going to go ahead and dim itself pretty quickly
and it'll dim itself like right way all the way down to the point where it's not
uncomfortable I find if you're like in bed watching a video and it doesn't dim
it enough it's just kind of glaring and uncomfortable on your eyes and it
actually takes it down to a to a good level so it's very readable in the day
as well it heats up when I hammer it with tethering but I think that goes for
most phones pretty much at all um
because you are stressing both the Wi-Fi
and the uh the mobile data chipsets and
the antennas and everything's just kind of going crazy in there but we didn't see any kind of weird performance issues
or anything like that unlike my iPhone 4 which worked with tethering maybe half
of the time and with half of the devices we had a couple notebooks and at least
one other phone Tethered to it all the same time so I think that pretty much
covers it this is day seven of my Android I switched and I'm ruining the
conclusion again but I think I'm pretty much going to be sticking with Android and I'm pretty much going to be sticking
with this phone unless you guys really want me to try out another platform like
maybe Blackberry or Ubuntu and then maybe I'll do a 30-day switch to that
but in all likelihood I see myself going back to Android for the main reasons
being app availability you can find an app for almost anything uh as well as
the easy integration with services that I use extensively like Gmail and YouTube
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