HTC One X review

May 15, 2012

So, how’s this for a recoil effect?  HTC was somewhat silent for the second half of 2011 and this is clearly the reason why. The HTC One X – an outstanding device bringing quite a few debuts to HTC and the mobile industry. Sitting at the top of the food-chain, the HTC One X sports a quad core processor, Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset and the latest Android operating system – Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3)

Key features

• Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
• 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
• 4.7" 16M-color Super LCD 2 capacitive touchscreen of HD resolution (720 x 1280 pixels); Gorilla glass
• Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich with latest HTC Sense 4.0
• 1.5 GHz quad-core Cortex-A9 CPUs, low-power companion core, ULP GeForce 2 GPU, Nvidia Tegra 3 chipset
• 1 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage
• 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash; face detection and geotagging
• 1080p and 720p video recording @ 30fps with stereo sound
• 720p front-facing camera for video-chat
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA
• GPS with A-GPS
• Stereo FM radio with RDS
• Accelerometer, proximity sensor and auto-brightness sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v4.0
• MHL TV-out (requires MHL-to-HDMI adapter)
• Smart dialing, voice dialing
• DivX/XviD video support
• HTC Locations app
• HTCSense.com integration
• HTC Portable Hotspot
• Office document editor
• Beats audio enhancements

Sense 4.0

This is the latest and greatest Sense that Google and HTC have to offer, yet.  The gleaming lockscreen has been improved, sealing its spot as the most handy, most customisable lockscreen on a smartphone. By default, it has four shortcuts and a ring at the bottom, which you drag towards the centre of the screen to unlock the phone. You can also drag one of the shortcuts into the ring to unlock the phone and launch the corresponding app (any four apps can be assigned to the lockscreen).

The HTC One X comes with eight different lockscreens. Apart from the old ones, there are two newer ones: ‘Productivity’ and ‘People’. Productivity basically lists the latest missed calls, texts, emails and scheduled events. People lets you choose a group from your phonebook and a rectangular grid of their contact images will pop up on the lockscreen. Grab one of them and drop them on the ring to view their details. Now that’s convenient!

Wrap-up

We are very impressed with the HTC One X, which is not only astonishingly compact for its screen size and feature set, but also every bit as dominant as the quad-core chipset inside will have you believe. It's extremely easy to suggest the One X to those in search of a cutting-edge smartphone – its specs and design combination can't be matched by any other device currently on the market. Tegra gives you access to exclusive games, the HD display is something extraordinary, and according to HTC, it has the best camera that they have ever made!

Naman Singh

www.dionysuscellular.co.za

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