Receiving awards from respected analysts and industry experts does not always guarantee that handset will be popular to the buying public. But in the case of the HTC One X 4G, both analysts and consumers expressing their opinions with their wallets have helped make the HTC One X 4G a flagship phone for the AT&T 4G LTE network. One of the many awards that handset has received in recognition of its full-featured package is the CTIA Best Smartphone award handed out by video dedicated consumer-electronics site Videomaker at this year’s CTIA Wireless Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Citing the fact that smartphones these days are “as powerful as laptops were about five years ago,” Videomaker pointed out the large high-resolution screen, powerful dual core processor and camera package when awarding the One X 4G its best smartphone title. That handset launched on May 6 of this year on the AT&T 4G LTE system, and is still exclusive to that wireless carrier in the United States. The HTC One X 4G was the first smartphone on the planet to offer simultaneous high definition video and image capture, and is arguably AT&T’s speediest handset.
The rear facing camera which provides that groundbreaking feature of simultaneous snapshot and video capture is an 8.0 megapixel model, recording video in 1,080P HD resolution. The One X 4G also delivers Near Field Communications (NFC) wireless connectivity support of apps like the payment processing Google Wallet and the unique wireless data share app Android Beam. Also offered wirelessly is DLNA video-out technology which allows you to mirror whatever is on the handset’s display to a large HDTV or monitor. The handset also delivers the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system out-of-the-box.
Shipping in the common smartphone form factor of the day as a rectangular slab, the HTC One X is thin and light, weighing 4.55 ounces (129 g) and measuring 0.35 inches (8.9 mm) in thickness. The handset contains a Super LCD2 display that is one of the largest in the entire smartphone marketplace, at 4.70 inches. Pixel density runs at the high-end compared to other handsets, at 312 pixels per inch, creating an overall screen resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels.
A protective layer of scratch resistant and glare reducing Corning Gorilla Glass is present, and light and proximity sensors automatically tune for the proper display brightness and offer battery life conservation. A Qualcomm MSM8960 microchip set is built around the dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor, a separate Adreno 225 GPU handles all graphics processing, 1.0 GB of RAM memory is on board and 16 GB of data storage come built-in out-of-the-box. A 1.3 megapixel chat cam faces the user and provides video call support. View the reduced price of the HTC One X,
