My Top 5 Smartphones of 2013! #Helpful Post

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hey guys johnathan here with TLD hope

you guys are doing well 2014 is getting

closer and before we get there I wanted

to take a look back at my top 5 favorite

smartphone experiences of 2013

now as the disclaimer I did not get a

chance to check out every single

smartphone of the year there were a ton

of great options so my list may differ

from yours now that's the case that's

cool let me know the comment down below

your top 5 or simply your favorite

smartphone up 2013 and why this list is

in no particular order I think I enjoyed

each of these for different reasons and

to try to single out or narrow a

favorite phone of the year was a little

too hard for me so with that said

kicking off the list of my top 5

smartphones of 2013 first up is the

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 now the note 3 is

actually a big reason why the galaxy s4

did not make my list because it kind of

took everything that was awesome about

the s4 and kind of one up that we of

course have a bigger 5.7 inch Super

AMOLED 1080p display which is absolutely

killer for watching and consuming media

on top of that the note 3 has a bigger

beefier Snapdragon 800 processor which

features 4 cores at 2.3 gigahertz and a

massive 3 gigs of ram so we of course

can see the Galaxy Note 3 is packing a

tremendous punch in terms of hardware

and it also has a massive 3200 milliamp

hour battery to back it up so you get

tremendous battery life it also features

a really good 13 megapixel camera and a

hidden gem on these snapdragon models is

4k video recording yes you heard that

correctly for freaking K video out of a

smartphone now granite is not gonna look

great if your free hand in it because

there is no image stabilization but if

you can't mount it onto a tripod or

something like that you're gonna get

some tremendous looking video next up is

the Google Nexus 5 which of course was

the first Android 4.4 kitkat device to

ship but on top of that it packs a

massive amount of hardware into a

beautiful sleek design all for 350 bucks

off contract unlike the Nexus 4 which

sacrificed LTE to get it into that price

point we now see that on the Nexus 5

so assuming you're in a decently covered

area you're gonna get some fantastic

network speeds top that off with a near

5 inch 1080p display which I will admit

isn't the best quality or doesn't have

the best viewing angles compared to

other smartphones but for the price it

is a tremendous value now not only are

you getting the latest Android 4.4

KitKat experience but you're getting

that backed up with a Snapdragon 800

quad core processor so it's

happy responsive super fluid and I think

you can clearly see why this made my

list next up is the iPhone 5s and I know

there's gonna be some Apple haters and I

gotta admit it was a little hard after

using Android for most of the year

coming back to a smaller 4-inch display

aside from the relatively low screen

size compared to most smartphones these

days the iPhone 5s actually packed a lot

of awesome art in the hood starting with

the 64-bit a7 processor which on paper

you might laugh at it's dual-core it's

not clocked very high but if you stack

it up head-to-head it's actually faster

than the galaxy s4 competes right there

with note 3 and is a really powerful

processor and absolutely tears through

games pair that with an m7 coprocessor

which is dedicated solely for motion

data and that's gonna take some stress

off of the CPU so it's gonna track all

your steps for example and this is

something I used on a daily basis

because it worked really accurate and

really well the iPhone 5s also features

a fantastic eight megapixel camera with

better low-light performance and of

course we have my favorite the slow

motion video which shoots 120 frames per

second at 720p and you're gonna get some

outstanding results

you

last up is the fingerprint reader aka

Apple's touch ID sensor which allows you

to not only unlock your phone with your

fingerprint but you can also verify

purchases in iTunes and the App Store

which is really convenient next up is

the Moto X which to me was the surprise

smartphone of 2013 because on paper

these specs were really underwhelming

everyone looked at these 720p display

the dual core processor and kind of

really to give it a chance thought it

was gonna be in a whatever phone but to

me it was one of my favorite experiences

of 2013

ergonomically it was without a doubt the

most comfortable smartphone I've held

this year if not ever something about

the way it sits in your hands a little

dimple on the back it was just really

really comfortable to hold now

technically the Moto X has a skinned OS

but it's really probably the closest

pure Android experience you can get

without of course having a pure Android

phone they for the most part left

everything stock impure but added useful

features here and there active

notifications was one of those and one

of my favorite ways to check

notifications on any smartphone this

year it was a really quick and easy way

to check your updates and also conserve

battery life at the same time you of

course then have the shake to instantly

access the camera which is a really

useful feature it's a shame the camera

wasn't better it's not great but it's

definitely not terrible so you're gonna

get an OK camera with the Moto X I

really enjoyed the motorola assist

feature while driving and overall it was

just a great experience battery life

overall performance I just really really

enjoyed the Moto X last up and closing

out my list is the HTC One if you made

me choose and had a gun up to my head

and said Jonathan pick your favorite

phone of the year I might lean towards

the HTC One simply because I enjoy

pretty much everything about it it has

tremendous build quality super sexy

design made out of aluminium so it just

feels a really premium and I probably

called the best built smartphone in 2013

it features a Snapdragon 600 1.7

gigahertz quad-core CPU which at the

time was kind of the cream at the top

obviously we have seen faster CPUs but

it is still a very capable processor HTC

also try to shake up the game with their

four megapixel ultra pixel camera which

essentially just took bigger pixels

which equated to better low-light

performance and while it did suffer a

little bit in terms of sharpness it was

still one of my favorite smartphone

cameras of 2013 and of course we cannot

forget to boomsound which is probably

one of my favorite things on a

smartphone ever I don't know why we had

not seen this

get on a smartphone it's a pretty simple

concept we look directly at our phones

when we consume media so why not slap

two stereo speakers on there the end

result is an outstanding astounding

speaker on a smartphone in most

situations it was good enough for you

didn't need an external speaker and that

made me sometimes not even use

headphones and really consume like a lot

of media on the HTC One so that was my

top 5 smartphones of 2013 and before I

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now of course my list may be different

from yours I didn't get a chance to

check out much of these sony xperia lime

or the windows phones this year I really

wish I could have checked out the LG g2

as well and I will say that the Moto G

should definitely be an honorable

mention just for the sheer amount of

craziness as far as price to performance

you get out of that bad boy now I did

this video kind of in collaboration with

Marquez over at the mkbhd channel which

of course he needs no introduction

probably the best tech reviewer on the

planet right now so if you guys want to

check out his top 5 and kind of see why

he chose his as opposed to why I chose

mine definitely check out that video

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