Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google Edition HTC One Review!”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is the google edition htc one now the regular htc one was one of my favorite phones of this entire year. I gave it the number one choice in my top: five 1080p smartphones, it’s just a brilliant phone altogether, but now that there’s a google edition of this phone it’s time to take a look at what sets this thing apart? What makes the google edition phone worthy or different from the regular htc ones without any further ado? Let’S take a closer look at the google edition htc one. This device on the outside is basically exactly the same as the regular htc one. You simply cannot tell the difference because well, there is no difference.
The google edition one only comes in the silver 32 gigabyte model and everything that was great about the build quality of the regular htc. One is still great about the google edition one as well. The aluminum body, the slight curves the front facing speakers, the zero gap technology the front and back facing cameras, the sealed and battery.
Even the beats audio logo which we’ll get to in a second all of that stuff, is the same on this phone, and up till now i could have been showing you a regular htc one and you would have never known, but the real difference comes as soon As you turn on the phone because, as you know, the google edition htc one is running a stock build of pure android, the regular htc one is just getting the android 4.2 update now with htc sense. But this google edition phone comes out of the box with the latest version of android 4.2.2 and we’ll get all the os updates right behind nexus devices very early, which is great. So all the differences that make this different from the regular htc one are in the software department, so we’ll go ahead and take a look at those. First of all, there are actually a new boot animation for the google play edition phones. This isn’t a nexus boot animation right now. This is only found in the google play edition htc one and galaxy s4.
So that’s pretty cool that that’s new. Now, yes, this is booting into pure aosp stock, android, vanilla, android, pure android. However, you want to put it.
That is what comes on board, so no htc sense. Skin no carrier installed apps, no bloatware, just pure android, because there’s no htc stuff, you actually do get some nice bonuses like uh, that non-expandable storage space you get more of it. Free out of the box and you get slightly better battery life with less blink feed and other htc stuff running in the background, so other things have changed too.
First of all, i found this rom to be overall a bit snappier when compared to htc sense, 5 and since 5 was already really fast on the regular one. I think that’s to be expected, though, by now with aosp, it’s just naturally a bit snappier and more fluid overall, and that’s even more apparent with the google edition galaxy s4 when you compare it to touchwiz, and i also think that stock android happens to look really Pretty on the black bezel around the display, i just wish i could get a black google edition htc one, since i think that would look even sexier. Now, of course, htc sense isn’t all bad. In fact, some of the htc ones – hardware specifically depended on optimizations from sense to be good, the speaker and the camera. Now the speakers are already huge, but, like i mentioned earlier, the google edition one still has a beats audio logo on the back and you’re. Actually going to find in the sound settings a beats audio toggle, so this device still has a dedicated, separate, audio amplifier inside for those massive speaker, drivers and they’ve chosen to continue to label.
It beats audio whether or not you decide to use it is up to you have a listen to the difference in the sound. It makes awesome so beats. Audio is still in full effect here, and i just leave it on all the time to avoid all the suppressions that come with turning it off i’ll leave. My beats audio explained video in the description below that like button. If you’re looking for any more information on that now, as far as the camera goes, this is still htc’s: 4 megapixel ultra pixel camera. I didn’t explain video on this too, so i’ll link that below, but basically because this only takes 4 megapixel shots.
Htc had quite a few algorithms and tweaks in sense, five for some sharpening and some optimization for low light performance to make this look better in regular light after spending a lot of time with the device and looking at the photos, i’ve taken. It looks like a lot of these optimizations are still present, turns out they’re, not all completely built into htc sense, but they’re built into the imaging chip that is still part of the google edition one’s hardware like the beats audio amplifier. So it comes with the new google camera software interface and swipe gestures to change, settings and everything. But the images you’ll be able to take will look exactly the same, so you’ll be able to switch to video mode, take hdr shots, panoramas and photo spheres, etc. With google, software and it’ll have the same quality as a regular htc one. So of course, you’re going to be missing all of htc’s extra little camera features like zoe and the effects and live filters, but overall it is very fast and definitely not a bad. Quick point and shoot camera for just the regular photo taking experience, so i think it’s pretty obvious by now. I really like stock android.
I like the way it looks, and i prefer it over sense in just the way it operates, and i like how quick and responsive it is on hardware that it’s optimized for and this google edition isn’t just a regular htc one with pure android. On top of it, it actually has quite a few tweaks and adjustments behind the scenes to make it work for the one. The button layout is a good example on the bottom. It’S not on screen buttons, but you do get to have to long press the home button to get to google now and double tap it to get to multitasking, and that back button is always a back button, so no menu button down there. You still have to use on screen menu button, but nothing else, switches about that. The bottom line here is it works. It has all of those delicious hardware specs that make the htc one the flagship of the year for htc minus that infrared port.
So, at the end of the day, i really like the google edition htc one. There were some initial concerns about whether or not stock android would run fine on it, but, like we said there are some little behind the scenes. Improvements to stock android that make this run really well on the one: it’s not a nexus, obviously because of those you know, hardware, button layouts and it’s slightly different, because there’s no on-screen buttons, but i figured this – would be a good chance to take a look at What native stock android basically would look like on a phone when it’s not cyanogenmod or anything like that now you can also download a google edition from for your htc one, if you have one so i’ll include the links below to any of that stuff.
If you want to check it out, if you’re daring enough to root and flash something like that, but uh yeah at the end of the day, it’s a great phone and i’m a fan, i’m gon na be recommending it to a lot of people who, like stock Android, either way, thanks for watching this quick video be free to stay tuned, because the google edition galaxy s4 review is also in the works. That’Ll be coming up very soon, either way, thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace you .