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The first time you see the One, theres a Whoa moment. And after you hold it, and use it, that astonishment bleeds into awe. The One commands respect. From a hardware design perspective, this phone is unparalleled.

It was machined from a solid block on aluminum, each piece taking 200 minutes to carve blackberry playbook 16g. Its pretty light (5. 04 ounces) and thin (0. 36 inches) but it feels rock solid.

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The curved back sinks into your palm, while the slightly angled edges help you grip it. On the front side of the device you find the Super LCD 3 screen nestled under Gorilla Glass 2. Its 1080p (1920x1080 pixels) spread over 4. 7-inches, which gives it a heretofore unheard of (in a smartphone, anyway), 468 pixels per inch (PPI), which is excessive bordering on silly. Safe to say, pixels are invisible to the naked eye. The bezels on the sides of the screen are very thin. Above and below the screen are speaker grates to give you actual stereo sound (more on that in a minute).

At the top of the phone sits an 88-degree wide angle front-facing camera, so you dont fill up the frame blackberry playbook 16g
your gigantic face when video-chatting. HTC opted to include just two capacitive buttons—Home and Back—though we would have preferred none. The micro USB port on the bottom doubles as an HDMI port (special cable required) for connecting your phone directly to a TV, though youll also be able to do this wirelessly via Miracast.

Speaking of TV, the power button on top the the device doubles as a IR blaster for using your phone as a remote control.

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the phone. There are a lot of goodies under the hood, too. Theres what youd expect in a contemporary high-end phone: 2GB RAM, 32GB or 64GB storage (unfortunately not expandable), NFC, LTE (on the U. S. versions), Bluetooth, etc. The real star of the show, though, is Qualcomms new Snapdragon 600. Its a quad-core chip clocked at 1. 7GHz, and its an absolute beast. Theres also HTCs proprietary ImageChip 2 attached to the 4MP rear camera.

Yes, just 4MP, thats not a typo. HTC claims its a totally redesigned imaging system that uses UltraPixels—bigger megapixels, basically—which lets in more light. The camera has an f2. 0 aperture and optical image stabilization, both of which are impressive for a phone. The battery is a 2300mAh, which is good, but we wish it had something closer to the 3300mAh battery on the RAZR MAXX HD. Then again, that would leave you blackberry playbook 16g
a bulkier phone.

At launch the One is running Android 4. 1 (Jelly Bean) blackberry playbook 16g
HTC Sense 5. 0 (the companys third-party skin) on top. Sense 5. 0 is a pretty major redesign from its predecessor, and it has a lot of new features. The most prominent of those, BlinkFeed, aggregates stories from your favorite news sources and social media into a more visually appealing array of tiles, much like youd find on Windows Phone. It takes up one panel of your desktop, and while its the default home panel, it doesnt have to be. There are other changes in Sense 5. 0, too, like a more customizable lock screen, an overhaul of the classic HTC clock weather widget, and a new layblackberry playbook 16g in the app drawer.

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Visually speaking, its cleaner, more minimalist, and more attractive than the old Sense, but it doesnt always work the way you want it to. For the full-skinny on Sense 5. 0 check blackberry playbook 16g our in-depth review.

The first time the phone makes a noise, its startling.

HTC has claimed that its BoomSound (i. e. the dual frontal stereo speakers blackberry playbook 16g
built-in amps) gives you bigger sound blackberry playbook 16g
less distortion and more detail.

I was sure that was just marketing jibber-jabber. It isnt. It is hands-down the best-sounding phone Ive ever heard.

Listening to music on a phones external speaker is generally an awful experience.

With the One, you can turn the volume way up and it still sounds excellent (for speakers that size, anyway).

You can really hear it on songs that utilize the two channels separately—theres a third-dimensionality that you just cant get from a mono-speaker. Its great for gaming, too. HTCs camera app is really nice, though it isnt as easy to switch between modes as it is on Samsungs Galaxy S IV. That said, HTC gives you a lot of granular control over the images you take, and the shutter is instantaneous. Viewing the things you shoot is much more enjoyable on the One, as the Gallery app has been revamped.

It now shows automatically cut-together slideshows day by day. Basically, it gives you a little preview into the folder before you click into it which ends up being just mostly useless fun. On the video side, not only can it shoot HDR (high-dynamic range) 1080p video, but it records HDR audio.

HTC claims that by using two mics tuned to different ranges (one higher, one lower), the One can cancel blackberry playbook 16g distortion. Indeed, recorded audio sounded terrific for a phone camera. We cannot give a conclusive opinion on reception, call quality, or battery life until we have the U. S. version.

That said, our AT T SIM card-wielding international units reception was generally pretty good. We are somewhat concerned abblackberry playbook 16g battery life, however.

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moderate usage, we generally made it until 10pm before we hit 15 percent.

The day we used it the hardest (lots of mapping, web browsing, some gaming, constant emailing, a couple phone calls, and even some Wi-Fi hotspotting, all the while in and blackberry playbook 16g of good bad reception), we still made it until 6pm before it got worrisomely low. This is better than most high-end smartphones perform (though, again, nowhere near the RAZR MAXX HD), but were nervous abblackberry playbook 16g what may happen when LTE gets flipped on, as its a known battery-muncher. Consider the jury blackberry playbook 16g for now. Having a high pixel count generally slows phones down, so our speed expectations were low. We were wrong! This thing is absurdly, unprecedentedly fast. How fast? It goes from fully powered off to all booted up and ready to go in eight seconds.

EIGHT! Lag is all but non-existant. Apps open faster than weve seen on any other handset.

Everything happening instantaneously simply makes this phone a joy to use.