HTC One X Smartphone – Indepth Analysis

Blair McClelland June 11, 2012 Android, Featured Tech Reviews, Mobile, Smartphone

The rear of the One X continues the white polycarbonate body, which itself feels really good in hand. The Micro SIM tray is there in the top left, which will probably require many people to go out and buy a new SIM or a SIM cutter tool. Luckily, HTC includes a nifty little tool for opening the slot. The exposed slot also means you can change SIM cards whenever you please.

The camera exposes itself like a volcano, with its sides covered in a silver finish. The camera lens is not recessed by much, if at all, and will be very prone to scratching. Even an HTC employee we recently spoke to admitted to having scratched a lens.

Further adding to possible camera problems the sensor is not fixed firmly within the housing. Shaking the phone causes it to rattle around inside and this has been proven to be a widespread problem. Its real life complications are yet to be witnessed however.

Perching to the right of the camera unit is the LED flash, which also doubles as a rather decent flashlight.

Moving down the phone you have a shiny silver HTC logo followed by a smaller Beats Audio, whose implementation is strictly software only with the One X. No Beats earphones are present in the packaging like the Sensation XE and XL late last year.

The loudspeaker sounds pretty good, but not amazing. It struggled with the lows but this is expected with a speaker of its size. Also sound enhancers, like Beats Audio cannot be enabled when using the external speaker, although they work fine whenever the 3.5mm jack is involved.

Also found on the rear on the One X are five pins that allow charging and data connections with docks that are compatible with it. So far this list is rather limited to HTC’s own car and desktop docks, though DIY docks are a possibility.

Before you start wondering where the mention of the battery compartment is – well there is none. Not because we’re lazy, but because the 1800 mAh Li-Po battery in the One X is non-removable. To those who wonder what happens if the phone freezes then a long hold of the power button will make the capacitive keys flash and subsequently force a reboot.

There is also no MicroSD slot, something that is not much of an issue to most users when there is 32 GB of internal storage. Of which 2.11 GB is available for applications and 25.24 GB is there for everything else. It is worth mentioning that HTC One owners get 25 GB free Dropbox storage for two years.

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