Many in the industry believe that HTC, which was in one case most beloved amongst Android fans, has fallen from grace. That the company has lost its way, its edge. I am here to tell yous that those people are wrong. I offer as evidence the new HTC One X.

The 1 X, the visitor's new flagship Android smartphone, is the kind of phone that merely leaves you breathless. Its single-slice polycarbonate body is unique in the Android globe, and it is as comfy to hold as it is drop dead gorgeous. The Ten's 720p resolution touchscreen display is only as attractive and functional as it is expansive, measuring 4.7 inches across the diagonal.

The Ane X's two marquee features, however, are probable its Android four Bone with the new Sense 4 user interface and the phone'due south powerful NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, which has 4 processing cores that can run at speeds of up to 1.5GHz. The real world touch of a quad-core processor might be negligible for most tasks, but there's no denying that the marketing appeal it offers is great.

Well-nigh the simply thing that is missing is 4G connectivity, since that shiny new Tegra 3 processor lacked LTE support until very recently.

Apart from LTE, the HTC One appears to exist everything that the Google Galaxy Nexus by Samsung is and should take been. Read on.

Hardware

The HTC Ane X is an exquisitely designed device. The white body of our evaluation handset is fabricated from a single piece of polycarbonate that features a matte finish, relieve for the high-gloss edge of the phone. It is supremely bonny and comfy, and it blends perfectly into the tapered edges of the Gorilla Glass front of the phone that protects its 720 ten 1280 pixel Super LCD2 brandish.

Offering a dot pitch of 312dpi, the One X's 4.7-inch HD touchscreen is more than abrupt enough to brand even the smallest of fonts look entirely readable - bold your optics are upwards to the job. The X'southward display as well shows significantly deeper black levels than previous HTC HD displays, such every bit the 1 seen on the HTC Bright for AT&T. It even so can't quite compete with Super AMOLED for black levels and color saturation, but it is getting quite shut.

Since it is an Android 4.0 device, and was designed from the ground up equally such, the HTC One X features but three touch sensitive controls under the display. Users volition discover a back button, a home push button, and the task switcher button. Missing is the search button establish on near older Android smartphones, and I am glad to bid it farewell since a three button organization is much easier to use without looking, as LG showed on its Nitro HD for AT&T.

Above the display on the front end face of the telephone is the secondary i.3 megapixel camera for video chatting, which supports the primary 8 megapixel camera, with LED flash, that resides on the back of the phone. A power button sits on the elevation edge of the I X, where information technology is somewhat difficult to reach - even with large easily. A three.5mm headphone jack resides there as well, as does the hidden tray for the telephone's mandatory micro-SIM card, which requires a newspaper clip or something like for removal. A micro-USB port for charging and data is located on the left edge of the telephone, with the book control sitting exactly on the opposite right hand edge.

With a weight of only 134g (four.7oz) and a svelte contour of nine.2mm (.36in), the One X fits easily into a pocket. Its 134.5mm x seventy.8mm (5.3in x ii.8in) length and width can brand information technology a scrap unwieldy to utilize unmarried-handedly for those with smaller hands, only it is no worse than Motorola's popular DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX smartphones in that regard, even though it offers users a much larger, higher resolution display.

Apart from the position of the power button and the micro-USB port, I find the industrial blueprint and build quality of the HTC Ane X to be merely well-nigh as good as information technology gets. It is a device worthy of both love and lust.