HTC One X Review

HTC One X. PHOTO COURTESY HTC

HTC One X is one to watch for

The smartphone is a great camera, entertainment centre and phone

by Hiranand Sunny Naresh 

 

04:45 AM May 09, 2012

 

The brand HTC may not immediately come to mind when you think cool smartphones. But a redesign with its latest flagship handset, the One X, may change your mind.


The ergonomic curved corners on the HTC One X's casing looks and feels superb to the touch, while a change from icons with rounded corners to square ones gives it an updated look.

However, it is the protruding silver lens on its back that points to its star - an 8-megapixel camera. Starting up in only 0.7 seconds, the intuitive camera autofocuses in a mere 0.2 seconds so you'll get to document every magical moment before it vanishes.

Shots taken in low light conditions turn out amazing due to the HTC Smart Flash. A panorma feature overlays the screen with consecutive frames to help you stitch together a beautiul horizon easily.

And the camera's burst mode shoots up to 99 frames in succession so you can pick the best one out of the basket and delete the rest with a click of a button.

A nifty integration with Dropbox, the file sharing site, expands its onboard 32GB space by letting you archive photos on-the-go with an additional 25GB for two years.

The One X comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with a quad-core 1.5GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor for one of the smoothest performance I've seen.

The battery life proved to be decent with about half left after a 24-hour test, which included phone calls, emails, texting, listening to music and watching around two hours worth of videos. Strangely though, a 30-minute run on games depleted the battery by a third.

With the Beats Audio Technology inclusion and high 720p resolution display on its 4.7-inch Gorilla Glass panel, the One X could be the one to raise HTC's profile.

The HTC One X is available at S$898 (without contract). Hiranand Sunny

Source:  www.todayonline.com