Departing from the standard black smartphone appearance, the HTC One X is offered in your choice of either Gray or White. After recently clearing U.S. Customs, the handset began arriving Thursday, May 23rd, and possesses what has to be considered the most desirable grand slam of features found on any 4G smartphone. The handset delivers a large extremely high resolution display, the high end, full range Beats by Dr. Dre audio package, a very fast CPU and Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 operating system out-of-the-box. Because of the delayed launch due to the U.S. Customs slow down, AT&T has lowered the retail price of the HTC One X price tag with a standard new two-year activation and data plan.
The HTC One X is on sale now starting at $99.99.
While the new lower retail coupled with those four high flying features above is enough to warrant a purchase, the HTC One X also debuts a feature never before offered in a smartphone. This is the first mobile handset in the world that not only shoots video in 1,080P HD resolution, but allows you to capture still photos while recording HD footage. And these are not typical 1,920 x 1,080 pixel snapshots. Wide screen, 8.0 megapixel 3,264 x 1,840 pixel images are captured without interrupting your video recording. You can also capture 1,920 x 1,080 pixel still images and snapshots from prerecorded video with a single tap of the screen while viewing. Those unique camera abilities led camera and video dedicated website Videomaker to bestow upon the HTC One X its 2012 Best of CTIA Smartphones award.
And it seems everywhere you look on the HTC One X 4G, you see a feature that is at least above average, if not at the extreme high end of performance, when compared to other 4G smartphones. The 4.70 inch display is one of the largest in the entire 4G smartphone marketplace, and the 312 pixels per inch and 720 x 1280 overall resolution are both at the very high-end of the smartphone arena. That S-LCD 2 display renders visuals in more than 16 million unique colors, and is protected by a layer of scratch resistant Gorilla Glass. 8.50 hours of consecutive talk time are delivered from a single charge of the 1,800 mA battery, above average for a 4G handset.
The HTC One X is one of only a handset of devices that offer Near Frequency Communications (NFC) support out-of-the-box, and the handset is powered by a Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon microchip package which includes a dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor and Adreno 225 graphics chip. A full 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board, and 16 GB of built-in, user accessible storage is present. The rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder delivers all of the high-end features mentioned above, comes equipped with an LED flash, and offers a back illuminated sensor (BSI), high dynamic range mode (HDR), geo-tagging and autofocus features. The front facing 1.3 megapixel chat cam also allows for portrait snapshots and video calls.
Buy the HTC One X now starting at $99.99.
