Consumer electronic awards from industry analysts and respected tech centered websites do not always guarantee the success or social acceptance of a mobile handset. However, they can often times prepare the buying public for the arrival of a stellar offering. The HTC One X Android smartphone was voted the 2012 CTIA Best Smartphone award winner by video dedicated consumer-electronics site Videomaker at this year’s CTIA Wireless Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana. The handset beat out all other smartphones that debuted in 2012 to take down that coveted title as the The spotlight award winner.
Pointing out that while most handsets these days are as powerful as laptops were only 5 years ago, videomaker stated that they preferred the overall feature set of the HTC One X to all other smartphones which launched this year. Obviously dedicated to video, the website also pointed out that the HTC One X was the first handset to ever deliver the ability to capture still images while simultaneously recording high resolution HD video footage. That handset arrived in the United States on May 6 of this year on the 4G LTE network of AT&T, and has been a flagship device for the cellular provider ever since.
Offering one of the largest displays in the entire smartphone marketplace, as well as an extremely high resolution, the HTC One X 4G also delivers a powerful dual core central processor and 1,080P HD video capture. The handset is currently exclusive to AT&T, recently received a retail price reduction, and is arguably the most powerful phone on that network in the United States. The HTC One X delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) wireless connectivity out-of-the-box, supporting data share apps like Android Beam, as well as popular wireless retail payment processing applications like Google Wallet.
The HTC One X delivers the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 operating system and the full range Beats Audio sound system, and offers wireless video mirroring to a large screen HDTV or monitor through DLNA connectivity. Arriving in the popular candy bar form factor as a standard rectangular slab, the handset weighs a very light 4.55 ounces (129 g), and measures a skinny 0.35 inches (8.9 mm). The 4.70 inch Super LCD2 display delivers a resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels, at 312 pixels per inch. A layer of Corning Gorilla Glass protects the screen, and a dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor is the cornerstone of a Qualcomm MSM8960 microchip set that powers the device.
October 2, 2012 at 7:17 am
I don’t understand how the “Beats” thing is still a selling point.
It’s only software. No hardware involved.
The actual sound output from the OneX is one of the worst quality in this generation of smartphones.