HTC's high-end One X has a large HD screen and a camera that HTC claims is its best yet--both features that will help anchor the smartphone maker's new signature brand.
BARCELONA, Spain--If it's a quad-core Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone you want, then add the HTC One X to your list. Just announced today at Mobile World Congress, the One X is the flagship phone in HTC's new "HTC One" family of devices.
The One X features Android 4.0, the most up-to-date (and coveted) version of the Android operating system, topped with a revamped version of the HTC Sense interface, Sense 4.0. Unlike the buttonless Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the One X will feature three touch-sensitive buttons below the display, for back, Home, and pulling up recent apps.
Specs are appropriately vaulted on this handset, with a large 4.7-inch Super LCD 2 display that features a 1,280x720-pixel HD resolution and Gorilla Glass. With a 0.36-inch (9.27-millimeter) profile, the black or white One X is a pretty big device, the same size as the HTC Titan and the Sensation XL.
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For multimedia, the One X sports an 8-megapixel camera with five levels of LED flash and automatic focus, plus recording and playback support for 1080p HD video. There's a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front that's capable of shooting 720p HD video. There's also Beats Audio onboard, and a music hub that automatically pulls together your music apps.
Sure, the 8-megapixel rear-facing camera produces half the image size of the 16-megapixel camera we saw at CES on the Titan II bound for AT&T, but HTC swears this is its most advanced yet, thanks to a new lens (f/2.0), better image sensor, and an imaging chip dedicated to processing photos and videos.
Under the hood is that 1.5GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor we mentioned, one of the first phones to fire on four cylinders, as well as an 1,800mAh battery. The HTC One X has Bluetooth 4.0 as well. There are 32GB of user-accessible storage, but no expandable memory slot; instead, HTC and Dropbox are offering 25GB of online storage, similar to Microsoft's setup on Windows Phone.
As far as speeds go, this unlocked global version we're seeing here is capable of GSM HSPA+ 42 speeds. Americans waiting to get their hands on the device will be happy to know that AT&T has snagged the One X with LTE; however, our version won't come with quad-core, since Tegra 3 isn't LTE-capable just yet. Instead, it'll pack a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. It's a pity that one of the world's first quad-core smartphones won't be quad-core in the U.S., but with LTE and a dual-core ticker, it should still be plenty fast.
There's no pricing or availability yet, but the company does expect to make it available to its first regions within the next 60 days. Hmm, not to get ahead of myself, but that time frame would perfectly coincide with an AT&T CTIA announcement in early May
Source : CNET
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