HTC announces Desire X, their new Android budget smartphone

30 August, 2012
Known formerly only as the HTC Proto, the Desire X is a budget phone that should slot below the One V.

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  • AnonD-110712
  • fmm
  • 08 Feb 2013

desire x is super faaast , good for gaming ,better camera resolution and bigger RAM

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    • nd
    • uvn
    • 07 Nov 2012

    single core phone are good or dual core????
    I'm confused between htc desire v and htc desire x???
    plz suggest me...

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      • KP
      • mAm
      • 23 Oct 2012

      Even though this phone comes with dual-core CPUs. They are based on the lower end Cortex A5 architecture. A5 lacks L2 Cache and its performance is about 60% of an A9.

      So despite having dual-core, Desire X should performance about the same as the single-core One V. With a less powerful GPU, no wonder why it is priced lower than the One V.

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        • ttY
        • 03 Oct 2012

        wen ll this be released in indian market???

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          • Manisss...S
          • wMH
          • 31 Aug 2012

          Why HTC not increase the Camera capacity to 8.0 + MP...

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            • Anonymous
            • rwj
            • 31 Aug 2012

            Same old design.

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              • Sar
              • 31 Aug 2012

              Don't like how HTC is manufacturing its phones like Apple does. I.e. The casing is difficult to open thus making repaires more difficult.

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                • wildchild
                • PSL
                • 31 Aug 2012

                The only difference between desire vt and this is the dual core processor, RAM size and may be slightly lesser in price compared to desire vt..
                This suits for a budget minded buyer..

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                  • Spark10
                  • vG7
                  • 31 Aug 2012

                  so this is a phone, with seemingly better spces than the one v and desire vc, and yet, how is it supposed to be priced below the one v?
                  Also, When is this releasing in Indian markets?

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                    • AnonD-66721
                    • tUn
                    • 31 Aug 2012

                    AnonD-36731, 30 Aug 2012No GSMArena are wrong as they clearly say they are referrin... moreThe following words are from AnandTech:

                    "Today HTC announced the Desire X, a device that resembles their higher end One S, but is targeted at budget minded consumers. According to The Verge, it has a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play inside. Unlike the Snapdragon S4 SoC we're familiar with, the 28 nanometer model with a pair of 1.5 GHz Krait cores and an Adreno 225 graphics processor, the S4 Play is a 45 nanometer SoC that uses a pair of ARM Cortex A5 cores and the Adreno 203. Performance wise, ARM says that a Cortex A5 can deliver 1.57 DMIPS/MHz. To put that into some perspective, the Cortex A8 delivers 2.0 DMIPS/MHz, and the Cortex A9 that's inside many of today's devices can pump out 2.50 DMIPS/MHz.

                    Qualcomm's Krait core can do 3.30 DMIPS/MHz, more than double the performance of ARM's Cortex A5."


                    so when GSM ARENA , techradar guys say its specs are not good enough.... believe them....n if its priced above one v then guess its over priced...

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                      • Karthik
                      • CV5
                      • 31 Aug 2012

                      No front facing camers?

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                        • Chandler
                        • nxc
                        • 30 Aug 2012

                        So, Dual Core, Bigger Screen, more recent and generally a better phone and its supposed to sit below a single core 3.7 inch phone?

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                          • nY@
                          • 30 Aug 2012

                          jbitounis, 30 Aug 2012Well, judging from the similarities to Desire S, I think th... morehey, ICS for desire S is already online at htc-dev site, or at xda. good luck :)

                          aaa, and the phone sounds good. if i had to replace my desire s, i go with this one :)

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                            • AnonD-41271
                            • tt1
                            • 30 Aug 2012

                            Guest, 30 Aug 2012Well actually Ace 2 and Sola have dual-core Cortex A9 CPU(N... moreI am even considering the price range. So I compared these.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • t4k
                              • 30 Aug 2012

                              naming, 30 Aug 2012it's sad name desire went from high end phone to budget phoneAnd I'd take THE HTC Desire over any of these wannabes any day.

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                                • jbitounis
                                • SwA
                                • 30 Aug 2012

                                Well, judging from the similarities to Desire S, I think the release of this phone means there won't be an ICS update any time soon for the S. This is really embarrassing for HTC and one of the main reasons I don't go for Android yet.

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                                  • naming
                                  • 3nq
                                  • 30 Aug 2012

                                  it's sad name desire went from high end phone to budget phone

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                                    • AnonD-36731
                                    • PZw
                                    • 30 Aug 2012

                                    Andrei, 30 Aug 2012Why is this between the One V and Desire C? C is clearly in... moreYes the Desire X has superior specs to both the Desire C and One V.

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                                      • AnonD-36731
                                      • PZw
                                      • 30 Aug 2012

                                      Anonymous, 30 Aug 2012Its specs are well above Desire C and One VAnother sensible person.

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                                        • AnonD-36731
                                        • PZw
                                        • 30 Aug 2012

                                        AnonD-10068, 30 Aug 2012between One V and desire C ? how come ? desire X is far sup... moreGood post. Yes you are right.