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

[sharingan_sasuk]

You have an Xperia S as well?

I had a demonstration model to play with yea. I get to play with all the latest phones when they are out

 

[rogueblade]

Sweet, just got back home to find my One X wasn't delivered on Saturday as they said it would. Should I bother acting surprised?

 

[Robertnpmk]

Ive got 2h 53m 48s of screen on time before I plugged it in and it looks like my battery was on 30%. Hows that?

 

[crazybones]

Sweet, just got back home to find my One X wasn't delivered on Saturday as they said it would. Should I bother acting surprised?

I upgraded with TM on 5/4 and was also promised a Saturday delivery. When it didn't arrive, I phoned up and was told that it was on 48 hour delivery - however they'd forgotten that Good Friday was a public holiday! They did offer £10 off my next bill though as compensation.

 

[Bry]

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/exogear-exomount-universal-case-compatible-car-mount-p30552.htm

Id go for the official htc ones. I don't know if third party ones can take advantage of auto car dock mode?
Only they are not out for 2 weeks yet.

 

[Aedus]

So the battery life isn't as bad as what people were making it out to be? If so I may go buy 1.

 

[The Asgard]

So the battery life isn't as bad as what people were making it out to be? If so I may go buy 1.

77% 19 hours. Sips power in idle.

 

[Aedus]

77% 19 hours. Sips power in idle.

How about under normal usage? WIfi, browsing, playing games etc.

The main thing putting me off of this was the battery life which people/reviewers were reporting as poor. But now it seems as if it isn't as bad after all?

 

[stoke1863]

Anyone found any use for NFC? doesnt seem like there is any use for it right now.

I saw the Xperia S comes with some programble scanners, E.G put a scanner in the car so your phone automatically goes into car mode and switches bluetooth on.

 

[chriscpritchard]

Anyone found any use for NFC? doesnt seem like there is any use for it right now.

I saw the Xperia S comes with some programble scanners, E.G put a scanner in the car so your phone automatically goes into car mode and switches bluetooth on.

you can use some stickers, like these, or the tags that come with the xperia and using an app, program them to make certain actions happen. You can also use it to send files, and read information from NFC enabled items, for example, you can read NFC ID cards such as those provided by my uni.

 

[Ewaf]

No idea how to use NFC yet!

Do people recommend a task killer?

Also, I heard there's an app that like, turns WiFi on and off depending where U are? What's it called?

 

[teaboy5]

I noticed dropbox wont upload any photos etc if the battery is low.

 

[muon]

It's just like the sensation/XL/XS/Desire S but made more confusing with poor storage options, very different screens and SoCs.

All they've done is change the fancy names to One something.

Not really, at the top end alone they had concurrently

Sensation (+XE and 4G)
Rezound
Thunderbolt
Vivid
Amaze
Evo 3D (edit: don't really know if Desire HD and Incredible 2 count as high end devices as they are pretty similar to the Evo 3D)

http://www.htc.com/us/products#/?view=1-1&sort=0&filters=0-8-0

There are a crazy number of phones with many different names which were released in 2011 alone.

Now it's simply 3 phones to run in 2012. X/XL, S and V. However they are keeping the Evo brand in the Evo 4G LTE. They have stated they will follow a very simple approach now.

 

[kona786]

They have stated they will follow a very simple approach now.

What like putting the more powerful processor in the something other than the flagship?

 

[muon]

What like putting the more powerful processor in the something other than the flagship?

Was the e8400 faster than the q6600?

Up to you.

edit:

My point is that you won't be able to decide.

 

[kona786]

Surely your not saying Tegra 3 > S4, surely.

 

[muon]

Surely your not saying Tegra 3 > S4, surely.

Yes. For general use, more cores which can take threads is very useful. Blistering single thread performance isn't really necessary once you reach a point.

Would you prefer a single core A15 processor at 2Ghz (should have 20% IPC improvement over Krait)?

The only people that preferred the E8400 over the Q6600 were gamers. I doubt any games are cpu limited on smartphones anyway.

 

[The Asgard]

How about under normal usage? WIfi, browsing, playing games etc.

The main thing putting me off of this was the battery life which people/reviewers were reporting as poor. But now it seems as if it isn't as bad after all?

50 mins screen on, web browsing downloading and setting up apps. The rest of the time was idle just collecting emails over wifi every 15 mins. Obviously playing games will eat into the battery. I personally don't use my phone for games. I have a PC, Xbox, PS3, Nintendo, iPAD .... for all that.

Battery life if you take it off auto brigtness seems pretty good to me.

The phone is fast, well built with an amazing display. I don't have the urge to even root it yet. OS is perfect with Sense 4.0.

 

[kona786]

Yes. For general use, more cores which can take threads is very useful. Blistering single thread performance isn't really necessary once you reach a point.

Would you prefer a single core A15 processor at 2Ghz (should have 20% IPC improvement over Krait)?

The only people that preferred the E8400 over the Q6600 were gamers. I doubt any games are cpu limited on smartphones anyway.

There's nothing that makes use of 4xA9 cores better than 2xKrait cores. The difference between A9 and Krait is relatively massive (much bigger than krait vs A15).

And the Adreno 225 is substantially more powerful than Geforce ULP.

Then we have the much bigger memory bandwidth and more superior Video encoder.

To top it off its 45nm vs 28nm.

You just cannot compare current Gen to next Gen ARM processor/SoC - much more substantial than Intels incremental yearly updates.

 

[The Asgard]

Surely your not saying Tegra 3 > S4, surely.

I would say it will last longer. Just like quads have been a better investment over dual cores CPU's. Just takes longer for the software to catch up.