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Beauty With A Beast (Inside)
HTC
ONE X
HTC
ONE X
There can only be One... as a saying from a
movie goes. The monicker for the one product to rule them all has been thrown
around here and there by many manufacturers for quite some time. HTC has jumped
in the bandwagon with their latest family, the HTC One. Here, we have the HTC
One X as a review, and let's see how it fairs on our test bed.
1.
Beauty In White
First impressions are that we fell in love
with the phone at the moment we opened the box. What is not to love? The large,
expansive no-scratch glass covering the front of the phone is part of the
industrial design that went into the overall look of the phone. You will also
see there are three buttons on the front - all touch only - instead of the
usual four for Android phones.This is because of the directive from Google to
not use the settings button you usually see before.This is an overall directive
for new Ice Cream Sandwich devices. Yes, this is an ICS machine, but we will
talk more about that a bit later.
Beauty
In White
2.
Minimal
Other than the three buttons on the front,
the One X has a very minimalistic design. A power button on top, volume rocker
on the right side and a mini USB slot on the left side makes up the whole
phone. The SIM, which uses the micro variety, sits on top, just behind the
power button. The One X also features a non-removable battery so you cant swipe
the 1800 mAh battery with a bigger one if you want to.
The
One X has a very minimalistic design.
3.
Sense Around
The HTC One X is the first official device
from the company, apart from its sister phone the HTC One S and V that uses the
new HTC Sense III. The big difference between the previous Sense versions is
that this iteration has less bloat - i.e. not many unwanted graphics that will
bog the system down.
The
HTC One S/X/V
4.
Best screen ever.
Apart from the design, the One X also
features a LCD screen - not AMOLED screen like some phones out there. The net
result is that the screen is vibrant not to the extent of overÂsaturation like
AMOLED screens will have. Using NVIDA's Tegra 3 processor, the One X breezes
through all our daily usage scenarios, and even running our test with Quadrant
yielded an impressive 4626 points - well ahead of contemporary phones on the
market. We are very happy with that.
Apart
from the design, the One X also features a LCD screen - not AMOLED screen like
some phones out there
5.
Sad Battery Life
What we are not happy is the battery life
on the phone. With occasional calls, SMSs and background 3G polling for social
media, we managed to get only around six hours and 20 minutes, with the screen
at half brightness. Not good HTC.
Battery
Life only around six hours and 20 minutes
