HTC One X review: eXtra special

12 April 2012
How about this for a rebound after a rather quiet second half of last year. A massive change of game plan sees HTC focus on a special few products instead of trying to create a smartphone for every taste. An outstanding result of this effort...

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  • 12 Apr 2012

Epic fail! Image sense, stand back and watch how photography is done, Pureview-style!

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    • AnonD-44164
    • w7i
    • 12 Apr 2012

    Dave, 12 Apr 2012Right can anyone else who has this phone please help me cau... moreI have had the one x for around a week now the battery life is average right in the middle not good neither bad surely not awful. it lasts 7-8 hours with extensive use and with medium to light usage lasts a full day. techradar stated that they might have received a faulty device nd they got a new phone to test it again and they will update the review according to them if there is any changes.

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      • Anonymous
      • Ns1
      • 12 Apr 2012

      LMFAO!!!!:) Just like I said on the one s review. I knew the one x wouldn't be much better. HTC hyped their cam modules so much. Turns out it was just hot air. Anyway the hardware is good and I love sense but I am a camera centric guy so I will pass:-)

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        • Anonymous
        • na0
        • 12 Apr 2012

        Dave, 12 Apr 2012Right can anyone else who has this phone please help me cau... moreI know Engadget stated they got about 6hrs of video playback and that the battery life was quite impressive, especially the stand-by time ;) On really light usage you can achive almost a week before you drain it out - but only on very light/liht usage. By the same standards you can empty the battery by playing Tegra3 games for a few hours :)

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          • Sdm
          • 12 Apr 2012

          what about battery life?

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            • Denzo
            • 7se
            • 12 Apr 2012

            Dave, 12 Apr 2012Right can anyone else who has this phone please help me cau... moreBattery, I agree with GSM. I can get a full day no probs with moderate to heavy usuage. 3.5 hours screen time. Just have to drain and top up battery, then get maybe 14 hours with wifi and bluetooth on, 2 hours phone calls, some games internet.. internet is good.. fast phone and feels beautiful. Its exactly what I said before, and like I said the camera is not the best, but if you play with the settings you can get it I found to take photos better than the SGS2 or iPhone 4s.. in automatic though the ONE X is terrible.

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              • Anonymous
              • L4x
              • 12 Apr 2012

              ithehappy, 12 Apr 2012Okay, read the review, nice device it is indeed, but i didn... moreRead it again... It's there.

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                • Anonymous
                • nFe
                • 12 Apr 2012

                32gb is a nice amount of memory to have, but geeks won't go for a phone that has no removable storage.

                And phones like this really need an extra battery for a quick swap in case you're out an about for more than a day.

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                  • Dave
                  • myA
                  • 12 Apr 2012

                  Right can anyone else who has this phone please help me cause other reviews like Techradar and Engadget said the battery life is poor for this phone but GSM says they can get heavy usage of it?

                    Okay, read the review, nice device it is indeed, but i didn't get the point, "Uninspiring image and video quality, video framing is tricky" has been mentioned under Main Disadvantages but where inside the review it mentioned that/those stuffs?

                    Confusing from GSMArena!!

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                      • IVx
                      • 12 Apr 2012

                      ThX GsmArena , been waiting for ur review :)

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                        • uuJ
                        • 12 Apr 2012

                        Costs 37k in India.

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                          • w7i
                          • 12 Apr 2012

                          AnonD-28671, 12 Apr 2012LOL. It's quad core is less powerful than a dual-core.my friend don't rely on the benchmarks and even gsmarena stated that its a more smooth experience with the one x unlike the one s and the screen is way better. you read part of the review and comment on it which makes this phone look bad. please don't try to bash a phone so much even if u hate it. and everybody please read the whole review before comin to a conclusion don't look at comments made by ppl. u might make the mistake of your life doing that.

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                            • IWQ
                            • 12 Apr 2012

                            GSMArena, why didn't you mention about the presence of NFC inside the One X?? This feature is becoming widespread in all the latest Android phones (since ICS supports Android Beam), and I hope you can state it in your reviews or articles to give a more informed view to the consumers.

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                              • 12 Apr 2012

                              AnonD-28671, 12 Apr 2012LOL. It's quad core is less powerful than a dual-core.It's because NVIDIA put the same A9 chips as Tegra 2 and an additional single threading companion chip. Qualcomm has learned their lesson on their S3 dual cpu scorpion chips. Their new S4 Krait 28nm chips are much more fluid despite being dual core.

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                                • 12 Apr 2012

                                LOL. It's quad core is less powerful than a dual-core.

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                                  • FMY
                                  • 12 Apr 2012

                                  eXtra special indeed :))

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                                    • Simon
                                    • 3ZH
                                    • 12 Apr 2012

                                    Thanks. A very good and fair review.

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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 12 Apr 2012

                                      [deleted post]Learn to read:

                                      it has Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich with latest HTC Sense 4.0