WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:05.040 this video is brought to you by coolermaster mobile featuring The Jazz 00:00:03.360 --> 00:00:10.639 proo notebook stand check it out at mobile. coolermaster usa.com welcome to 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.839 day seven of my experience with the HTC1 so this is my first time taking a 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:18.039 long-term crack at Android and I got to say the experience has been very 00:00:16.279 --> 00:00:21.840 positive so far so I'm going to start with the stock Gmail app which I 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.320 absolutely love it allows you to easily and quickly switch between all of your 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:31.160 different inboxes and it allows you to manage it through the notification 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:34.879 screen to sort of navigate to each one individually it's very very seamless and 00:00:33.440 --> 00:00:38.640 speaking of seamless just I mean obviously it's a Google OS so it's very 00:00:36.680 --> 00:00:43.440 well integrated as far as Google stuff goes but YouTube is a fantastic 00:00:41.239 --> 00:00:47.000 experience compared to here I'm just going to go back to the very beginning 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:51.440 compared to other platforms so you can see if I'm not signed into a particular 00:00:48.879 --> 00:00:56.120 YouTube account then all I have to do if I want to upload something is I go and I 00:00:53.800 --> 00:01:02.359 find something so in this case maybe there's a uh video tour of my motorbike 00:00:59.519 --> 00:01:06.880 which I'm planning to sell on Craigslist and I go okay I want to share this all I 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:10.200 have to do is go oh look at that YouTube is in my top options now that I've done 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:15.360 it a few times I can pick which one I want to throw that on Linus cat tips I 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:17.320 select it I press upload and it is ready 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:23.960 to go it is very very seamless once you're logged into YouTube you can 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:25.880 see trending see I'm logged in now all 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:29.040 of your uploads playlist favorites and all that good stuff so I just love the 00:01:27.479 --> 00:01:34.240 way that it's really well integrated I'm tempted to start vlogging based on how 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:36.119 easy it is to just sort of take a video 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:40.240 I mean it's 1080p it's extremely good quality I'm really enjoying this phone 00:01:37.759 --> 00:01:43.479 it's has a 1080p front camera as well and uh just how quickly I can upload it 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:48.560 whether I'm on mobile or whether I'm on Wi-Fi is absolutely great um automatic 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:53.680 synchronization of all of my junk made switching extremely easy so all of my 00:01:50.960 --> 00:01:57.520 contacts were synced no problem I also I never dial any other way now this is 00:01:55.719 --> 00:02:01.680 amazing sifting through your contacts list is just stupid compared to this so 00:01:59.320 --> 00:02:08.280 check this out all I have to do is go select so I start there you go so I 00:02:05.799 --> 00:02:12.360 start typing and it finds the right person and just in case it's not the 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:17.200 right person all you have to do is hold it down and it will give you the options 00:02:15.760 --> 00:02:22.760 of all the different people so in this case it's just multiple entries for slick so there's a WhatsApp entry and 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:27.840 then I think one other one so absolutely awesome I love swift key so I'm using a 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:31.680 hold on I'm using a 30-day trial of swift key so let's go ahead we'll just 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.680 go go right here um it's just much snappier much more responsive than the 00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:39.080 stock keyboard there's no weird sort of delay as the letter pops up showing you 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:43.959 what you press the predictive text is amazing within a couple times of typing 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:48.280 out things like Linus Tech tips it had learned it it was suggesting it for me 00:02:46.239 --> 00:02:52.640 um A+ for swift key definitely worth the $2 or $3 or whatever they're charging 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:55.800 for it on Google Play uh power toggles is another great one one of the first 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:59.840 things I complained about with this particular phone running sense 5.0 is 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:04.519 that I didn't have a quick way to turn auto rotate on and off oh well now I do 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.360 so I mean this is this is the strength of Android if you don't like something 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:11.319 about it and there were things I didn't like on day one the odds are excellent 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:16.760 that there's a way to fix it uh power toggles also addressed my uh distress 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:21.400 that I couldn't see the uh the battery meter with a more exact percentage based 00:03:19.159 --> 00:03:24.640 readout boom power toggles adds a little battery meter you can customize it you 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:30.879 can decide which things you want here so I went with data rotation 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:32.319 synchronization Wi-Fi flash yay need a 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:37.439 don't need a flashlight app anymore I can just scroll down from the lock screen and I'm ready to go GPS and 00:03:35.519 --> 00:03:41.159 Bluetooth so that does absolutely everything I need it to do which is 00:03:38.799 --> 00:03:45.080 great uh sliding notifications away without actually open anything is a 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:48.640 relief from iOS this worked on Windows phone as well but there you go I'm 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:52.920 offline on Skype apparently but that's extremely handy and now that I'm used to 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:57.040 the multitasking interface I use it all the time so a double tap on home gives 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:01.200 me all of the things that I've used recently and I mean it'll even do things 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:05.159 like pause a video that I was in the middle of which exiting the app and 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:11.319 reopening it doesn't necessarily do so for example emit the app that I use for 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:13.360 uh video playback oh there you go um 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:17.799 sure so something like that if I just go like this I can go okay I need to reply 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:21.639 to I don't know an email really quick blah blah blah blah blah YouTube service 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:25.680 something something and back to my video and I'm ready to go so it's very very 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:30.840 fast it took me maybe a day or two to actually get used to but now I'm using 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:34.720 it every time pretty much um I still don't really care for blink feed very 00:04:32.479 --> 00:04:39.199 much I'm more of a producer than a consumer of sort of Facebook LinkedIn 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:43.280 this kind of Social Media stuff so I'm not finding this that useful for myself 00:04:41.320 --> 00:04:47.199 but I can see how if you didn't have such a busy feed it might work pretty 00:04:45.479 --> 00:04:50.639 well for you so it's the same reason I didn't end up using the People app on 00:04:48.960 --> 00:04:54.880 Windows Phone 8 I'm not saying it's a bad thing it's just not necessarily for 00:04:52.800 --> 00:05:00.520 me and speaking of other things that are unique to sense 5.0 I'm not sure whether 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:05.280 I prefer the more traditional Android side to side scrolling or the more honey 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:09.600 uh rather honeycomb uh the more gingerbread style up and down um I find 00:05:08.039 --> 00:05:15.120 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 00:05:13.080 --> 00:05:18.840 grid size so you can add more icons to the screen it's actually not a lot of 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:21.600 scrolling even compared to the side by side you can see I haven't properly 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:27.479 arranged everything in folders yet these are still a lot of the stock folders but 00:05:23.479 --> 00:05:29.880 I've been super super busy so yeah there 00:05:27.479 --> 00:05:34.000 you go U another multitasking thing that I absolutely love is Chrome's tab 00:05:31.840 --> 00:05:39.600 switching so compared to um any other mobile OS that I've used 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:43.560 this is outstanding and then if you're switching between two tabs quickly you 00:05:41.880 --> 00:05:47.280 can actually do it quickly you just swipe from the side and boom you're on 00:05:45.479 --> 00:05:50.720 mobile YouTube Boom you're back on social blade boom you're back on mobile 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:55.240 YouTube looking at a completely different mobile YouTube your own your own live stream archive if you're 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:59.440 narcissistic like that I want to get into the phone itself 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:04.919 a little bit because the HTC1 really is a Unique Piece of Hardware I did drop it 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:09.039 already which was extremely distressing so I was running to get something that 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:14.360 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 00:06:12.080 --> 00:06:19.319 actually fell from pocket height which fortunately for short people like me 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:23.039 isn't that high to the tile floor and 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:24.720 there's a dent uh where is it can't find 00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:28.080 it there it is so there's a dent right here you can probably actually see it a 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:31.639 little bit better from this angle where this corner is kind of flat now and then 00:06:30.280 --> 00:06:36.240 there's another small dent on I think it's the opposite corner right there so 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:39.680 it did survive it didn't crack the fact that the edge you can see it's actually 00:06:37.919 --> 00:06:43.960 a little bit wider at the butt compared to the screen is that's probably helpful 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:47.199 for protecting it from a fall I mean if you dropped it straight flat on its 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.639 glass like they did in that one drop test on YouTube then yeah obviously the 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:54.240 screen's going to break but if it were to hit at any kind of an angle it would 00:06:52.479 --> 00:06:58.199 have to be a pretty extreme angle for it to contact the glass first so I don't 00:06:55.919 --> 00:07:01.599 know whether HTC thought of that or whether the curve is so that it fits 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:05.879 more naturally in your hand um but there you go either way that's uh an 00:07:03.639 --> 00:07:10.840 intentional or unintentional benefit speaking of the curvature in spite of 00:07:07.599 --> 00:07:13.000 its 4.7 in screen I have found that I am 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:23.840 actually able to type one-handed it's not that easy see it's not that easy but 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:26.120 compared to the 8X I can reach and since 00:07:23.840 --> 00:07:30.759 uh re okay it doesn't want doesn't want 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:34.120 anyway um so since swift key does a lot of the work for me anyway that helps a 00:07:32.520 --> 00:07:38.759 lot you can see in my Twitter feed there's this is uh this is some scary 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:43.240 game streamer that I follow it's a pretty scary tattoo that she's got going 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:47.720 on there anyway um ah okay if I had to come up with one 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:53.800 complaint about the phone it would be that the lock button on the top looks an 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:55.560 awful lot like the micro USB port here 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:58.280 and they're in the same proportion so if you were pulling it out of your pocket 00:07:57.159 --> 00:08:03.080 think about it this way if you're pulling it out of your pocket and you want know the orientation of the phone 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:08.280 at first glance that could just as easily be your lock button as this yeah 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:12.039 so I've had to I mean okay very minor complaint but I've had to get in the 00:08:09.960 --> 00:08:14.840 habit of putting my phone in 188 way and pulling it out the same way so that I 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:19.000 know where my lock button is but there you go that's pretty minor uh voice 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:23.120 quality on my end I would describe as outstanding maybe a little bit better 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:28.120 than the 8X whereas people on the other side are anecdotally describing it to me 00:08:25.599 --> 00:08:31.159 as pretty good so take take what you will out of that so that's my my 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:35.560 feedback on the speaker and the microphone um I decided to do a bit of a 00:08:33.599 --> 00:08:40.039 stress test on the battery now HTC wanted me to talk about their battery 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:42.959 bar which is a 6,000 milliamp little it's one of those little USB charge 00:08:41.719 --> 00:08:48.360 things so you can carry around a little bit of extra battery capacity with you but what I found is I actually didn't 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:54.399 really end up having a desire to use it because my torture test that I did on 00:08:50.640 --> 00:08:56.839 day two involved 6 hours 6 Plus so I'm 00:08:54.399 --> 00:09:00.600 being conservative 6 hours of playing music on the phone at a reasonable 00:08:59.079 --> 00:09:05.720 volume so I was sitting working on my computer I had it next to me playing 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:07.480 back music um so 6 hours of that uh 2 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:11.040 hours of streaming video with emit so bearing in mind most of the processing 00:09:08.959 --> 00:09:15.920 is being done by my home server not by the phone itself but either way we are 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:17.720 being pretty heavy on the Wi-Fi um and 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:22.160 then another two hours of listening to music on headphones with a few calls not 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:26.959 a ton of calls that day but regular Twitter as well as regular emails on the 00:09:24.440 --> 00:09:30.839 phone and I had 35% battery left at the end of the day this is with automatic 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:34.160 screen brightness and I am not using the power saving mode I haven't turned off 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:39.399 Bluetooth I haven't really engaged any tricks or any of those battery saving 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:41.240 apps to help me save more power so I'm 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:46.279 extremely impressed and it's sort of brought to my attention that not all X 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:51.839 milliamp hour batteries are created equal uh slick Galaxy S3 he he having 00:09:49.800 --> 00:09:57.440 only owned it for I think less than 6 months already doesn't make it through a 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.880 single day on a charge like at all um in 00:09:57.440 --> 00:10:03.920 fact he sent me sort of an amusing screen shot of how how ludicrous it's 00:10:02.160 --> 00:10:09.240 gotten over time and I mean remember guys the thing about a battery is that 00:10:06.959 --> 00:10:13.519 um here let me just find this okay well I can't find it but he 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:17.800 sent me a really funny uh screenshot of his phone saying 25% battery left 5 00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:21.360 minutes remaining um that's a little extreme it does last longer than that 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:26.200 but it's been pretty unsatisfactory for him so I'm really interested to see how 00:10:23.760 --> 00:10:29.360 this lasts over the longer term because when you compare it to the Galaxy S3 at 00:10:27.839 --> 00:10:32.920 least you can replace the battery on the S3 whereas this one you have to rely on 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:36.680 the battery inside being very high quality I mean my iPhone fored to last 00:10:34.640 --> 00:10:40.399 me an entire day even though it's 3 years old because at least the 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:44.200 integrated battery that you can't change doesn't have a horrible memory effect 00:10:42.040 --> 00:10:47.959 that causes the battery life to go down uh dramatically anyway I'm pleased for 00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:51.040 now auto brightness is handled extremely well to the point where I've actually 00:10:49.160 --> 00:10:55.000 left it on any phones I've had in the past I've never left auto brightness on 00:10:53.440 --> 00:10:58.760 because I find it drains the battery too fast but it's pretty smart so if you 00:10:56.920 --> 00:11:03.079 cover up the light sensor it's going to go ahead and dim itself pretty quickly 00:11:01.040 --> 00:11:06.720 and it'll dim itself like right way all the way down to the point where it's not 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:10.839 uncomfortable I find if you're like in bed watching a video and it doesn't dim 00:11:09.079 --> 00:11:13.760 it enough it's just kind of glaring and uncomfortable on your eyes and it 00:11:12.079 --> 00:11:18.760 actually takes it down to a to a good level so it's very readable in the day 00:11:16.040 --> 00:11:24.600 as well it heats up when I hammer it with tethering but I think that goes for 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:27.920 most phones pretty much at all um 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:31.200 because you are stressing both the Wi-Fi 00:11:27.920 --> 00:11:32.519 and the uh the mobile data chipsets and 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:38.000 the antennas and everything's just kind of going crazy in there but we didn't see any kind of weird performance issues 00:11:35.680 --> 00:11:41.160 or anything like that unlike my iPhone 4 which worked with tethering maybe half 00:11:39.279 --> 00:11:45.560 of the time and with half of the devices we had a couple notebooks and at least 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:49.000 one other phone Tethered to it all the same time so I think that pretty much 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:52.639 covers it this is day seven of my Android I switched and I'm ruining the 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:57.120 conclusion again but I think I'm pretty much going to be sticking with Android and I'm pretty much going to be sticking 00:11:55.240 --> 00:12:01.079 with this phone unless you guys really want me to try out another platform like 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:05.959 maybe Blackberry or Ubuntu and then maybe I'll do a 30-day switch to that 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:10.519 but in all likelihood I see myself going back to Android for the main reasons 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:14.959 being app availability you can find an app for almost anything uh as well as 00:12:12.959 --> 00:12:19.639 the easy integration with services that I use extensively like Gmail and YouTube 00:12:18.040 --> 00:12:22.880 thanks for watching this video and don't forget to subscribe to L's techtips for 00:12:21.160 --> 00:12:27.360 unboxings reviews and other computer videos thanks for watching this video 00:12:25.199 --> 00:12:30.560 was edited on a workstation powered by Kingston 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