HTC One X Review: A Quad-Core Superpower Discussion

[Dragan Petric]

Overview

This model is first on the market with a number of features: its quad-core processor on a NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipset (which in fact offers four plus one cores), its 4.7-inch second-generation Super IPS LCD screen with HD resolution, Sense 4.0 user interface upgrade for Google's Android OS 4.0, and its 8 megapixel back-facing camera which takes photographs with aperture of f/2.0 and the widest shooting angle of 22 mm.

In reality, HTC One X is an impressive smartphone and even after just a few minutes of using it, one can clearly see that this is the most powerful model with Android OS currently available. The difference compared to HTC's previous top models (above all, I am talking about the Sensation series), is evident from the way it lies in ones hand, the more convincing and modern-looking body (finally) and especially the screen imaging. Still, the One X has certain shortcomings.

This review is of the international (European) version of the One X. The upcoming U.S. version adds support for 4G LTE but lacks a quad-core processor.

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[Varjak]

That's pretty impressive-sounding; and the Sprint version might actually be even better (bigger battery, perhaps a card slot?). It's too bad they went with the MHL setup. I thought HTC offered HDMI-out on most of their phones as opposed to Samsung. And I like Sense. It usually is a nice overlay. Very shocking about how much the various benchmarks vary. One being totally the opposite of another, although that one is not as often cited in what I've read. Maybe it's more comprehensive or less so.

[Drillbit]

The HTC EVO 4G LTE appears to have the card slot. So is the Droid Incredible 4G. Picture this --- Sprint and Verizon telling HTC that you need a card slot.

[weegie]

I've watched a ton of comparisons and reviews on this device and the browser performance looks awful compared to the last gen samsung and apple devices with dual cores....not much point in a quad core if the OEM's implementation is poor

[weegie]

I watched a mobilesyrup review of the S4 [dual core] powered XL version for Rogers and it looks the better of the two versions to me, selling a 16GB version seems a bit meh when there's only about 11GB left for the user and no way of expanding capacity though.

[Varjak]

Apparently the benchmarking apps vary significantly. I noted in another thread that cited various speeds that it was odd that the results were reversed between two different benchmarking apps.

On the BGR site which has a Sprint Evo LTE preview, I think they cover this. I'll go back and check. I think no matter what, the speed will be, in Rolls-Royce's old locution, 'adequate.' Oddly, they seemed to love the phone at BGR, but in the conclusion they knocked it for not being revolutionary like the original Evo, seemingly because they didn't like the shiny plastic back cover! I wasn't enamored by that cover either (why not go rubberized plastic like on the original Evo?); but it's somewhat minor if the rest of the phone is so good.

What I can't understand is why HTC doesn't sell their own model like Sprint's (sans the red highlighting and other signature marks).

I also read somewhere that the dual-core actually seems to outperform the quad-core models too.

[Drillbit]

Krait core is much more powerful than the Cortex A9 core used on Tegra3. That's why two of them can more than keep up with four of the A9s.

The question is whether the Krait has what it takes to keep up with the incoming Cortex A15 core, which is coming with the Exynos 5250.

[weegie]

Apparently the benchmarking apps vary significantly. I noted in another thread that cited various speeds that it was odd that the results were reversed between two different benchmarking apps.

On the BGR site which has a Sprint Evo LTE preview, I think they cover this. I'll go back and check. I think no matter what, the speed will be, in Rolls-Royce's old locution, 'adequate.' Oddly, they seemed to love the phone at BGR, but in the conclusion they knocked it for not being revolutionary like the original Evo, seemingly because they didn't like the shiny plastic back cover! I wasn't enamored by that cover either (why not go rubberized plastic like on the original Evo?); but it's somewhat minor if the rest of the phone is so good.

What I can't understand is why HTC doesn't sell their own model like Sprint's (sans the red highlighting and other signature marks).

I also read somewhere that the dual-core actually seems to outperform the quad-core models too.

I prefer to watch web browsing and general use as a benchmark, benchmarks are easily fiddled and optimized for, they have much more work to do to make it perform well with browsing, the one X quad core looks like dog dung to me, and HTC don't seem to have fixed that very annoying thing where their browser does a little jerk to another part of the page a couple of seconds after it finishes loading, it doesn't sound like much but is incredibly annoying when you're trying to quickly navigate to somewhere and you end up hitting the wrong thing because it's spazzed along the page a bit just as you touch the screen.

Are you thinking of getting the Evo LTE Varjak ?

[Varjak]

Weegie, I really like what I read about it; but I don't like Sprint. First, their coverage (at least by me) is pretty awful, and I had a terrible experience with them years ago and don't want to give them my business. But it is a tempting phone.

[Drillbit]

What's going to be nicer, the EVO 4G LTE or the Incredible 4G?