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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  • Big Pig
  • n9b
  • 15 Apr 2012

It`s big big big one.To me,too big.Where i can place it?No one pocket in my house have this dimensions.Too large.

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    • Anonymous
    • pEZ
    • 15 Apr 2012

    vampyren, 15 Apr 2012....or maybe you dont understand what they value! I have bo... moreForgot to mention, why does this phone get a "disadvantage" for
    - MicroSIM support only

    Thats really a non problem to me, you can even cut your sim to micro sim, i got a 5 dollar cutter at home. Or just ask your operator to give you one. Seems the writer just wanted to fill the list.

    anyway this phone is very nice coming from HTC, i been very disappointed buy them lately but this is a nice phone, just to bad GSIII is around the corner so i want to wait and see what that brings into the table before i get my next Android phone.

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      • vampyren
      • pEZ
      • 15 Apr 2012

      AnonD-50503, 15 Apr 2012more so than any corporation in existence, the success of a... more....or maybe you dont understand what they value! I have both GSII and iPhone4S but side by side i take iPhone as my main phone everytime. Sure it has limitation but it just works much better and as i expect it, sorry but it has nothing to do branch or name or anything its pure usability.

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        • RocknTroll
        • mTW
        • 15 Apr 2012

        AnonD-44164, 15 Apr 2012Well looks like i need to take a little lesson here for you... moreThat's right, you do need a lesson. In your initial statement you mentioned that there are "plenty" of games optimised (specifically) for Tegra THREE. Sure, there are plenty that are designed for Tegra-powered devices (i.e. all the ones you previously mentioned), but ONLY two that are currently specifically optimised for Tegra THREE. These are Shadowgun (Tegra THREE version) and Glowball. By using the word "plenty", you are providing potential purchasers who rely on editor AND user reviews/comments with misleading information.

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          • Sammy
          • rA6
          • 15 Apr 2012

          Htc one x review -extra disappoinment

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            • AnonD-44164
            • w7i
            • 15 Apr 2012

            Anonymous, 14 Apr 2012In galaxy s2 you can't shoot 1080p video at low light or n... moreOk my friend ill admit it the galaxy nexus camera might beat those 2 phones but the camera isn't that good not as good as the real competition it has. Which is iPhone 4s, Galaxy note, HTC One X etc... I own the one x and Sensation XE i know the difference between the photos taken with those 2 phones and there's a big difference. The XE camera is bad.

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              • AnonD-44164
              • w7i
              • 15 Apr 2012

              RocknTroll, 14 Apr 2012You are mistaken my friend. None of those games are specifi... moreWell looks like i need to take a little lesson here for you. Do you know what THD means ? it means: The THD actually stands for (Tegra High Definition) where the THD apps are in High Definition, which the app is optimized for NVIDIA Tegra based Android devices only.Games in THD version are more attempting in every aspect, especially the graphics and processing speed. Now visit the tegrazone : www.tegrazone.com. and confirm for yourself any game with THD mentioned besides it falls in the category. Please keep your mouth shut if you don't have any information about it.

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                • Anonymous
                • wgC
                • 15 Apr 2012

                bought one friday arvo lost it friday night DOHHHHH!!!!!!!!

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                  • AnonD-50503
                  • Lxx
                  • 15 Apr 2012

                  more so than any corporation in existence, the success of apple's business model is predicated on the willful ignorance of the consumer.

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                    • 8IM
                    • 15 Apr 2012

                    Honestly, i think this hardware competition on smartphones is becoming ridiculous, there's no noticeable difference between a dual core an a quad core...reason why Samsung has not even unveiled the sgsIII yet. Waste of money, this phone can't be considered an upgrade from a sgsII which is a year old phone...

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                      • AnonD-1319
                      • K7g
                      • 15 Apr 2012

                      RocknTroll, 14 Apr 2012You are mistaken my friend. None of those games are specifi... moreAre you sure its not optimized?, as Far as i know those mention games are exclusive tegra version Google play games.

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                        • nC1
                        • 14 Apr 2012

                        AnonD-44164, 14 Apr 2012Well you forgot to mention the GTA III, Zen pinball ThD, So... moreYou are mistaken my friend. None of those games are specifically optimised for Tegra 3. They're just not. Really.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Hxi
                          • 14 Apr 2012

                          wbt, 14 Apr 2012Welli just bourgth the one x some hours ago it seems like a... moreRestart the router and try again.

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                            • yugam
                            • utu
                            • 14 Apr 2012

                            Holding this phone in my hand makes me feel glorious.. display is class apart..! Camera quality not the best .. image sense chip workz well wen u spontaneously click pics evn of moving subject

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                              • wbt
                              • pcE
                              • 14 Apr 2012

                              AnonD-252, 14 Apr 2012ICS have no really usable improvment at all over GB, it jus... moreWelli just bourgth the one x some hours ago it seems like a good phone but the one x have some serious problems with wifi i can not conect it to my homenettwork it has the problem like my old arc s which i yesterday updatet to ics but its strange when i use my sgs 2 which also runs on ics or my old sensation it works pretty good with wifi and by the way ics is pretty good its better then GB their is no reason to blaime ics for that i think its the phone i dont know why the one x behave like that

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                                • Mr. M
                                • Lxh
                                • 14 Apr 2012

                                Hello boys !!!!!

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • Hxi
                                  • 14 Apr 2012

                                  AnonD-44164, 14 Apr 2012Well you are correct the ICS provided for sensation has it ... moreIn galaxy s2 you can't shoot 1080p video at low light or night time unless if u changed to 720p! Galaxy nexus u can shoot with both 1080p and 720p at night and still looks good without any issue like galaxy s2 out of focus. I own galaxy s2, galaxy nexus and HTC sensation, yea galaxy s2 has powerfull hardwaer same as HTC sensation, but Nexus has better softwaer that doing the gob better than both phones even with some outdated hardwaer and 5 mp camera.

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                                    • w7i
                                    • 14 Apr 2012

                                    [deleted post]We need something future proof for a phone something we can manage to use atleast for 2-3 years. obviously you don't get it that a 512 mb ram and an overclocked processor with an OS nobody cares for isn't cut out for it. we need something we can use to do everything not just take photos and make a phone call send a message. The symbian isn't cut out for it there isn't any reasonable softwares or games being made for it anymore and we can't live with the lags anymore. People need the best that phone is still using the amoled display when we have super amoled + available now dont tell me that amoled is more stable then the super amoled + screens.

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                                      • AnonD-44164
                                      • w7i
                                      • 14 Apr 2012

                                      AnonD-252, 14 Apr 2012ICS have no really usable improvment at all over GB, it jus... moreLol so why don't you stick with your great gingerbread and enjoy the real racing 2 while everyone else enjoys the latest and most stable version of android. I'm not gonna argue with you anymore this here is not the right place to hold a debate about ICS talk about the one X its positives and negatives. The one you are holding out for is completely insane nobody is gonna be promoting the gingerbread anymore end of story if you don't like it stick with whatever you like.

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                                        • AnonD-252
                                        • 3LV
                                        • 14 Apr 2012

                                        ICS have no really usable improvment at all over GB, it just look a different, and the task switcher is a lot worse even though it looks better because scrolling in the long list of apps in history, obs not only actually active apps, makes multitasking a lot slower/worse, and not even the "hardware acceleration" add anything better because GB is handling every game and app and movie... just as fast as ICS, and ICS uses a lot more RAM memory than GB! ICS have problems with wifi and bluetooth, and is often overheating, and ICS is very bad at Adobe Flash movies with lot of lag...! If you have not used any incompatible apps or games, try ”Real Racing 2” and try playing a flash movie in fullscreen when using Dolphin Browser Mini! 4.0.3 is still only a beta and should never have been released as a "stable" official release!
                                        ICS is still Android, not iOS or MeeGo or..., so there should not be any reason for this many apps and games to be incompatible with ICS! ICS is a lot slower to start up than GB, try using gallery soon after restart, and ICS is very bad at handling apps installed/moved, to the sd-card and the "new" scrolling is very bad and is as if it was on ”rollers” and move in steps/jumps with no smothness ar all and user have no control because a slow scroll can suddenly jump into hyperspace without user changing speed of finger!