 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the HTC One S. So this is positioned slightly below the One X in terms of HTC's product stack, which means that you find a slightly different array of features. So one notable thing that's not on this phone is NFC. However, it does have a lot going for it. So it's using a Snapdragon S4 Crate Plus Core. Yes, thank you, plus. It doesn't help when there's Pro and Plus and Play. I mean couldn't they have just gone with like Good, Better, and Awesomest or something like that? No, no, Pro, Plus and Play. So unlike the Droid DNA, which we've also had a look at recently, it does not have the super high-end chipset, but this should translate to better battery life as well as really not that much of a reduction in performance. It's running an Adreno 225 GPU, which is sort of like a souped-up 220 on a lower manufacturing node. So the performance of it, even though it's not a current generation Adreno 300 series, is actually better than something like an Adreno 305, which is a newer generation but actually lower-end chipset. The resolution of the screen, it is an AMOLED screen, which should help you in terms of power consumption as well as in terms of black levels. So we're going to go ahead and just power it up really quick here. So remember guys, AMOLED means the actual pixels themselves on the phone are emitting light rather than relying on a backlight with an LCD overlay over the top. So it's a 960 by 540 resolution, which is sort of coined the term is a 540p or QHD or whatever you wanted to call it. So it's a 16 by 9 aspect ratio that is one-quarter the resolution of 1080p. Okay, so it's not quite 720p, but it should still look pretty darn good on a 4.3 inch screen. One of the other things they're including, and I can't remember for the life of me what they call it anymore, but is their sort of better picture-taking quality concept. So that is an f2.0 aperture lens, which basically amounts to more light being allowed into the lens. Now guys, when it comes to taking pictures, it's physics. So there's your sensor size that assists in having more light hit it. There's your lens quality, your lens size that gathers more light, because when it comes to low-light performance you can only do so many fancy digital tricks before it's just like, okay well no we actually just need more light, we need more data. So having a clearer lens is one of the things that can help with light transmission through the glass to the sensor itself and give you a better quality image. It's an 8 megapixel rear camera with a built-in flash, and one of the other things you'll notice about the back of the phone is it has their Beats Audio branding. So this pretty much amounts to an equalizer setting that I personally didn't find enhanced my listening experience. However, compared to the iPhone 4 that I used for two years I guess, it's not like the sound quality without Beats enabled. It's a software feature so you can just turn it off was any worse. So they're using a good quality audio chipset on it, it's just that I don't personally get any benefit from the Beats EQ setting. So you can see right here that this is not a stock Android layout, so there it's using HTC Sense 4.0 Plus or I think that's what it's called, something along those lines and they apparently want a SIM card in. Oh look at that, they include little instructions for how to insert your SIM card. So you take this piece off apparently, nope this one, you know what? Give me a minute, ah yes right here. So you peel this guy up and just like that, ah come on you can do it, go Linus, and that was when he broke it. Nope didn't break it, there you go. So SIM card goes right there and then you can also see there's some other stuff in here that presumably you wouldn't need to use for anything. So we're gonna go ahead and put that back on, there you go. Also on the top you find your lock button as well as your headphone jack, so that's your power and lock button rather. On the side you find a volume rocker and then on the other side you find, oh cool, is that is that mini HDMI? No USB, I'm sorry I didn't look that closely at it. So that's a USB connector, so they've opted for a side mounted charging connector which is something that I haven't seen as often as the more traditional bottom mounted charging connector. So image chip, that's actually a part of their whole sort of better camera concept. So it's supposed to have a one second startup, wow that was actually definitely less than a one second, so it says unable to use the flash because the battery is too low right now, but there you go. How quickly can we take pictures? Focus, shoot, focus shoot, hopefully you can see this, I don't know if you can, I think I might just totally be standing in the way. So in terms of the pictures we're taking, I think it rotates off, clarity wise it looks, wow actually really good. I guess it's about what you'd expect when we're using studio lighting. So let's move into some size comparisons, how big is it? It's a 4.3 inch screen, so I think I mentioned that before, but how does it actually compare to something else? So here is a Galaxy Note 2, so that's what it looks like compared to one of those. Alright, here is an iPhone 4, so that's a significantly smaller screen size. Okay moving right along, here is another HTC phone, so this is an 8s, dismiss, dismiss, go away, there we go, that's an 8s, so that's only a 4 inch screen, so it actually doesn't make that much of a difference going from 4 to 4.3, but here we go, in terms of the size of the phone, but it does make the images look a little bit bigger. This is also a 4.3 inch screen, but a larger phone design on the HTC 8x, so you can see it's a little bit longer on the bottom. One thing that I actually did not realize is that that little USB connector I showed you guys can be used for HDMI, so that's why I thought it looked kind of weird, but with a special cable you can use it as an HDMI output, which I personally think is very freaking cool. So they're saying that it comes with ice cream sandwich, but its jelly bean is going to be either rolling out or is rolling out right now according to the information that we found, so it's up to date as far as Android operating systems go. I don't think I've shown you guys what the phone looks like in any more detail, so this piece right here on the back is actually metal and has a very nice feel to it. The piece on the bottom here is rubberized, and then the piece on the top here feels more like, well I don't know if it's rubber, but it's soft touch anyway, so this feels more like a soft touch finish up here as well. I like this because the way that I hold the phone is I'll tend to support it with my pinky so that I can reach the entire keyboard because I have kind of smaller hands, so having this not be a slick metal piece here actually is beneficial to certain people. In terms of included accessories, there's not a whole lot. You get a wall wart, so there's your little HTC, this should be a 1 amp, yeah HTC 1 amp wall wart, as well as a micro USB cable for charging. You also get a little quick start guide that shows you where all of the stuff on your phone is. That's the touchscreen, yay. Oh one of the other details of the touchscreen that I wanted to cover again, AMOLED, so super dark, super deep blacks, and then check this out, viewing angle should be pretty much perfect with no distortion regardless of how you're looking at it. Can you see that, Diesel? I'm getting kind of an iffy sort of, yep, yeah we got it now, so absolutely gorgeous. I don't think I mentioned yet that the CPU is clocked at 1.7 gigahertz and it has 16 megs, 16 megs, yeah only 16 megs internal storage, don't worry about it, store everything in the cloud, data is free anyway. 16 gigs internal storage, unfortunately this particular phone can't be expanded with micro SD, but given that you actually can't install apps off micro SD, it's up to the individual user whether that's an actual detriment or not. Personally I never used all 16 gigs on my iPhone 4 in two years, so I'm not a power user when it comes to storage space, but if you are then that might be a bit of a problem for you. I think that pretty much wraps it up, I don't think I missed anything here, and thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the HTC One S, so that is the step down from the One X. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. I don't think I mentioned this already, but the 1080p video that it records is actually at 30 FPS, so just for for lulls I'm going to record some video here, maybe we'll catch our production crew. Hello, so you guys can watch that video actually here, watch that video on the on the good one. Oh I think I have auto rotate off, we'll be back. All right so here's our video playback now that I've enabled that. There we go. I have noticed already that it's smoother than the 1080p 30 FPS video that I was recording on my 8x. You can see it adjusts for the lights behind slick pretty well right there. I don't think I mentioned before that it has 1 gig of RAM, I don't think we're even on not even on full screen brightness yet. There we go. Okay well I think that wraps it up. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.