*** The official HTC One X thread ***

Since getting the official JB the battery life on my HOX has gone from bad to just plain awful. I can barely get 2 hours of screen time before its dead. It seems that some Sense related processes are really munching on the power.
I've switched launchers to Apex which has helped but battery life is still much worse than it was.
 
Is this phone still worth buying? I've seen it go for new for around £350 from expansys etc but for 30 quid extra I could get a SGS3. I want a new phone by Christmas as I'll be giving my current SGS to someone.
 
With the jellybean update and much needed improvements and if you like sense, a great screen, design/build and camera, I would say most certainly. Would rather get the XL or X+ though.
 
Rilot said:
Since getting the official JB the battery life on my HOX has gone from bad to just plain awful. I can barely get 2 hours of screen time before its dead. It seems that some Sense related processes are really munching on the power.
I've switched launchers to Apex which has helped but battery life is still much worse than it was.
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I guess you may need to do a full wipe in recovery
 
Nexus18 said:
With the jellybean update and much needed improvements and if you like sense, a great screen, design/build and camera, I would say most certainly. Would rather get the XL or X+ though.
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Price is key here, the X+ is far too expensive for what it is.

Checked out some youtube videos, seems the battery can be quite hard to change even with tools (important as I like to keep phones for another two years).
 
Yup the exact same as the S.

Personally I wouldn't be getting the XL for LTE either, no need for LTE currently IMO, but it would be purely for the better CPU chipset thus better performance and battery life.
 
Nexus18 said:
Yup the exact same as the S.

Personally I wouldn't be getting the XL for LTE either, no need for LTE currently IMO, but it would be purely for the better CPU chipset thus better performance and battery life.
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Is tegra3 good for anything except eat battery?
Having said that, aside from synthetic benchmarks, what real life benefits the dual core snapdragon bring?
 
Yup, it will keep your hands nice and warm in this cold weather! :D :p

There are some nvidia games that you can get, which are pretty decent and special versions of games i.e. better graphics for tegra devices but apart from that, not really anything at all.


Advantages of the S4 over tegra 3:

- More performance per core, which is better than having an additional 2 cores as android/apps/tasks don't fully utilise the potential of dual core let alone quad. When I compare my S to the X and GS 3, I notice that things are a lot snappier/more instant i.e. loading the gallery thumbnails, loading games/levels, apps, rendering maps etc. Of course, better software/driver optimisation would be a big factor here as well.

I haven't used a X with JB yet, so that difference might not be as noticeable any more, especially if the benchmarks are anything to go by. People who have got the update so far have said the improvement in performance is massive.

Saying that with all handsets running JB (especially the X), it isn't exactly an area of great concern.

- Amazing power efficiency thus better battery life

Again, the X has supposedly improved by quite a bit with the JB update, but it still wouldn't be as good as the XL.

- Doesn't get anywhere as hot or heat up as quickly as other chipsets, as we all know on this forum, over heating components can cause many problems.

- the audio on the XL (uses the same audio codec as the S) would also be better than the X

- smoother 1080P recording
 
Well, it's a shame no major retailers stock the One XL but then it's not officially released in uk, is it? I believe the S4 & Exynos are 28nm or 32nm whereas the tegra3 is still on 40nm transistors. Kind of poor for a 2012 flagship chipset.
 
It was officially released in the UK a while ago, iirc about a month or so ago, although as you said not many places have it and if they do, they charge a fair amount for it due to it supporting LTE mainly.


Yup:

S4 - 28nm
Exynos in GS 3 - 32nm
Tegra 3 - 40nm

Yeah the only reason HTC used the tegra 3 quad in the X was purely due to marketing, "quad core" sounds better/higher end to the majority of "average joes" :p
 
Nexus18 said:
It was officially released in the UK a while ago, iirc about a month or so ago, although as you said not many places have it and if they do, they charge a fair amount for it due to it supporting LTE mainly.

Yup:

S4 - 28nm
Exynos in GS 3 - 32nm
Tegra 3 - 40nm

Yeah the only reason HTC used the tegra 3 quad in the X was purely due to marketing, "quad core" sounds better/higher end to the majority of "average joes" :p
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It's sad that a lot of us fell for Nvidia's marketting. It's one reason why I wouldn't by the Asus tf700, tegra3 is too puny to power 1920x1080.
I think the 4+1 core thing is misleading as well! Power saving my arse...
 
Nexus18 said:
It was officially released in the UK a while ago, iirc about a month or so ago, although as you said not many places have it and if they do, they charge a fair amount for it due to it supporting LTE mainly.


Yup:

S4 - 28nm
Exynos in GS 3 - 32nm
Tegra 3 - 40nm

Yeah the only reason HTC used the tegra 3 quad in the X was purely due to marketing, "quad core" sounds better/higher end to the majority of "average joes" :p
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I'm not sure it was "marketing", as I don't recall seeing any HTC advertisement that specifically concentrated on quad core or nVidia exclusive content. For example, the TV advert was that awful sky diving photo shoot which was geared towards the camera performance and ease of sharing.

Makes sense that they wouldn't push the CPU/GPU performance as Joe Bloggs doesn't really understand that level of detail. They just know brand and product names like Intel and i3 etc.

I think it was more down to availability and cost, I recall the S4 had much greater demand than supply when it was first released, HTC also wouldn't use Exynos and TI OMAP4 wasn't anything to write home about. I think the availability of Tegra and the low cost was a win:win for a company struggling with profit.

Ultraman1966 said:
It's sad that a lot of us fell for Nvidia's marketting. It's one reason why I wouldn't by the Asus tf700, tegra3 is too puny to power 1920x1080.
I think the 4+1 core thing is misleading as well! Power saving my arse...
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I fell for it completely too, I was all over the TF201 when it was announced. A thin, light, premium aluminium cased tablet with a keyboard dock; what wasn't there to like?

Unfortunately Asus put slow flash memory in it and the Tegra3 SoC lacked raw horse power and battery efficiency was also awful.
 
True about the TV advertisements although I like the ad :o :p

But when you go into the shops and you have your sales people coming up to you and telling you about the phone, when they mention "quad core" it will sound a lot more impressive to the average joes than "dual core" and plus as you said there people knowing the brand names like intel etc. would probably have heard of nvidia too (regarded as being the best brand for GPUs in laptops and desktop PCs), which will sound even more "awesome" than qualcomm, which chances are, hardly any average joes would have heard of them.

And yup another reason as you said there, cost and availability.
 
The advert was great if they were selling a camera... for parachute jumpers!

So amazon are selling the white One X for 350, should I bite? It's the cheapest price from a reputable retailer.
 
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