HTC One [Megathread]

WolfForager · 09-04-2012 1:12pm

As long as I can get as much out of it's battery as I currently do with my desire (or near enough), I'll be happy enough!

partyatmygaff · 09-04-2012 1:24pm

After a day of use yesterday, here are some observations.

All of the following were observed with screen brightness set to auto:
With 3G on and multiple applications syncing and with music playing (And the screen being turned on between each song to change...), the battery drains by about 10% an hour.

On battery with 3G on and multiple applications in the background, playing a fairly resource-intensive game (GTA III) for five minutes drained the battery by about 2%.

Messing with the camera for five minutes (To be specific, taking a 30s long slow motion video, taking a 1080p video for 1 minute and taking snapshots during both videos and applying effects to the photos afterwards) the battery drained by 4%.

On the whole, i'd say the phone is no worse than my HTC Desire. Considering my Desire was running a custom rom/kernel and had SetCPU undervolting and throttling the CPU and the fact that the One X is still stock I have to say i'm fairly happy with the battery life. There's also an OTA update that apparently improves battery life so i'm sure that with a bit of modification the phone's battery life can be improved upon.

WolfForager · 09-04-2012 1:41pm

Cheers PAMG!

Will definitely be picking this up once I get some cash in the next couple of weeks.

EDIT: Actually, what colour do you have?

partyatmygaff · 09-04-2012 1:50pm

White. The texture of the material they used for the phone seems more suited to white rather than grey.

WolfForager · 09-04-2012 1:51pm

partyatmygaff wrote: »

White. The texture of the material they used for the phone seems more suited to white rather than grey.

How are you finding it for scratches/colour transfer from jean pockets? A couple of reviews mentioned a few problems.

partyatmygaff · 09-04-2012 1:53pm

WolfForager wrote: »

How are you finding it for scratches/colour transfer from jean pockets? A couple of reviews mentioned a few problems.

No issues yet but i'm getting a pouch for it regardless.

Idleater · 09-04-2012 2:52pm

partyatmygaff wrote: »

The S4-powered One X is on the left. My Tegra 3-powered One X is on the right.

For a laugh I ran the same program on my One S (which has the S4 chip):

Zascar · 10-04-2012 11:03am

Found some good articles on battery life:
http://comparebatterylife.com/htc-one-x-battery-life-review/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24653153
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/26703-new-one-x-ota-to-significantly-improve-battery

Seems promising! Just waiting on 02 to release the bloody thing!

Zascar · 10-04-2012 11:06am

Does anyone have any feedback of the loudness of the speaker and the loudspeaker? Some phones are hard to hear in a noisy bar etc - very annoying, and I use loudspeaker at home sometimes - how is the quality/loudness?

paul9mm · 10-04-2012 11:37am

Hi
About to end 18 month Vodafone contract on my HTC Desire HD and looking to see what is best plan/network/value. Like the Desire but battery life is breaking my heart, lucky to get 2 hours video playback before it starts screaming about low battery.
Switching off data/wifi/gps/screen brightness/2G only offer a little better battery life, but still same problem with "big screen + small battery = always have an AC & DC adapter close at hand.)

I like the HTC OneX, have handled the non-functioning store demo and read some of the online reviews (5 hours video playback, at full brightness? That's more like it!) but now problem is, which provider to use?

I'm currently with Vodafone, like their coverage and customer care (big "thanks" to Dwayne!) but before I jump into another 18 month contract (Hello 2014!), comparing what the competition offers.

Is anyone reading this on Meteor and has a smart phone? I ask as, at the moment, Meteor offer the best "bang for the buck" with voice, texts & data package. But having never used any network excpt from Vodafone for last 15 years, wary of coverage claims ,data policy and customer care.

Also, one of the complaints I hear from smartphone users I know, mainly aimed at 3, is the slow OS update for the handsets (know some people still waiting for Gingerbread!)

This is the specific Meteor Bill Pay for OneX URL which looks the best;
https://store.meteor.ie/phones/bill-pay-phones/htc-one-x

-Handset €199.99, monthly Bill Pay €40.66*/€50.83 in store, 18 months, 400 min, 400 texts,2 GB, Free Meteor calls & texts

Any comments, suggestions welcome.
Thanks,
Paul

flugel · 10-04-2012 1:09pm

People not considering 3? One X is free on a 24 month contract at €40 with all you can eat data? Seems best deal to me.

In looking at it today, sooooo tempted

Zascar · 10-04-2012 1:24pm

24 month contract? The way things change at the moment 24 months is an eternity. I hate tying myself in personally, 12 months max I'd say.

SteM · 10-04-2012 1:31pm

flugel wrote: »

In looking at it today, sooooo tempted

Me too. Took a look at it at lunchtime and the screen looks amazing. I'm sat here with my Desire now and it looks like a Fisher Price toy compared to the One X

I'll wait to see if battery life is improved by a S/W release in the next few weeks before I buy it though and then sign up to Three on an 18 month contract.

johnny_adidas · 10-04-2012 1:59pm

flugel wrote: »

People not considering 3? One X is free on a 24 month contract at €40 with all you can eat data? Seems best deal to me.

In looking at it today, sooooo tempted

Why would you pay €960 for a phone which will be outdated half way through the contract?

du Maurier · 10-04-2012 2:09pm

johnny_adidas wrote: »

Why would you pay €960 for a phone which will be outdated half way through the contract?

Perhaps. Soon enough you may be able to pick one up on Adverts etc for a good price.

But that said, what is it people are really looking for in phones these days? This phone is pretty much at the pinnacle of what phones can do. 18 months from now is deemed a long time in the tech world but there would want to be some earth shattering changes in the pipeline for someone to decide that another phone could top something like this range.

Most people upgrade for tenuous, superficial reasons, for eg Beats audio and such nonsense so 18 months might not be so bad if a handset like this fulfills all your needs.

Delboy5 · 10-04-2012 2:44pm

Is it possbile to get a 12 month contract anywhere now ?!?

WolfForager · 10-04-2012 2:48pm

Delboy5 wrote: »

Is it possbile to get a 12 month contract anywhere now ?!?

Yea, but you'd be lucky to get €150 off the price of the phone.

vibe666 · 10-04-2012 3:08pm

personally, i think you'd be much better off going sim free and sticking it on a credit card and paying it off over a couple of months than tying yourself into a 2 year (or even 18 month) contract at a steeply set (usually double) monthly price just to get the appearance of a cheaper phone in the short term.

it might sting a bit to start with, but long term you can then upgrade to whatever new phone you want to, whenever you want and sell on the old one whilst it's still worth something.

SteM · 10-04-2012 3:11pm

johnny_adidas wrote: »

Why would you pay €960 for a phone which will be outdated half way through the contract?

To be fair, it's not just for the phone. You're getting 24 months service for that price too. You're getting something every month for your money. The phone might be out of date but it should still be working perfectly well.

Zascar · 10-04-2012 3:16pm

You can definitely get a 12 month contract - but on the website etc they advertsie mainly 18-24 as they make more money with lock in. It's not that expensive I was quote €129 for the One S on a 12 month - the X may be a but more. In certain circumstances they will do a 6 month contract but then the phone is very expensive..

vibe666 · 10-04-2012 3:19pm

SteM wrote: »

To be fair, it's not just for the phone. You're getting 24 months service for that price too. You're getting something every month for your money. The phone might be out of date but it should still be working perfectly well.

yes, but if you look at the monthly price of an 18-24 month contract with any of the mobile providers, you'll find that you can get more or less the same services on a 30 day rolling SIM only contract for half the price.

over the course of those 18-24 months, you'll have paid hundreds of euro's more for the same services you could have on a SIM only contract with a full priced SIM free phone, AND you are stuck with it until the contract is up, whereas with with a SIM only contract and SIM free phone, you can get yourself the next newest greatest smartphone in 6-12 months and easily sell on whatever phone you have now whilst it's still got a good chunk of it's resale value left.

flugel · 10-04-2012 3:29pm

I know technology moves rapidly, but any phone I consider / do buy now (HTC X or if I wait to see what Samsung release) will be my phone for at least two years, knowing this I think 3's deal is the best for myself.

Gotta say I didn't realise as many people would be looking at buying a new phone with the idea to upgrade again in 12 months, and this when buying a new phone thats just new to the market itself.

Wouldn't be as fussed about constantly updating myself, heck I'm still using my Hero!

cdb · 10-04-2012 3:30pm

Amazon.co.uk have the HTC One X for £480 at the moment which works out at €580 or so. Link Has anyone found it any cheaper?

Nedved85 · 10-04-2012 3:41pm

Apparently meteor and 3 are shipping unlocked PAYG versions of the one x and they are cheaper (Meteor is 560 delivered, not sure about 3)

WolfForager · 10-04-2012 3:45pm

Nedved85 wrote: »

Apparently meteor and 3 are shipping unlocked PAYG versions of the one x and they are cheaper (Meteor is 560 delivered, not sure about 3)

Three are 519 euro delivered from what I can see, but they only have the grey version.

Nedved85 · 10-04-2012 3:50pm

Think Meteor and eMobile are the only ones selling the white one, the cheaper eMobile bill pay options seem like a good deal, wish i had noticed that before i bought it from meteor sim free.

vibe666 · 10-04-2012 3:54pm

flugel wrote: »

I know technology moves rapidly, but any phone I consider / do buy now (HTC X or if I wait to see what Samsung release) will be my phone for at least two years, knowing this I think 3's deal is the best for myself.

Gotta say I didn't realise as many people would be looking at buying a new phone with the idea to upgrade again in 12 months, and this when buying a new phone thats just new to the market itself.

Wouldn't be as fussed about constantly updating myself, heck I'm still using my Hero!

you're still missing the point. even if you didn't sell it on after a year and get something newer, you are still being fleeced by the mobile providers with the over-inflated price of the billpay contract that you pay to get the appearance of a cheap phone.

tok9 · 10-04-2012 4:13pm

I'm thinking of getting the phone off meteor and I'm not entirely sure of what over inflated price your talking about.

A contract of 18 months and 20 euro a month for 200 minutes and 200 texts plus 500Mbs of Data would cost me over 82 euro if I was on payg. I know you can get the bill pay sims but there isn't much difference (just an extra 500MBs of Data for the same price rolling contract)

Am I missing something?

Really not sure whether to get this phone, the nexus or wait to hear on the S3.

SteM · 10-04-2012 4:17pm

vibe666 wrote: »

SteM wrote: »

To be fair, it's not just for the phone. You're getting 24 months service for that price too. You're getting something every month for your money. The phone might be out of date but it should still be working perfectly well.

yes, but if you look at the monthly price of an 18-24 month contract with any of the mobile providers, you'll find that you can get more or less the same services on a 30 day rolling SIM only contract for half the price.

over the course of those 18-24 months, you'll have paid hundreds of euro's more for the same services you could have on a SIM only contract with a full priced SIM free phone, AND you are stuck with it until the contract is up, whereas with with a SIM only contract and SIM free phone, you can get yourself the next newest greatest smartphone in 6-12 months and easily sell on whatever phone you have now whilst it's still got a good chunk of it's resale value left.

Not half the price. With Three it's €30pm sim free versus €41pm on an 18 month contact. So

18 month contract
Phone: 189
Contract: 737
= 927

Or

SIM only
Phone: 519
Contract: 540
= 1059

So 132 cheaper to be tied to a contract for 18 months.

Totally depends on what you want but not MUCH cheaper to go SIM free. Just depends on whether someone wanted to upgrade within 18 months, I would hope you wouldn't *have* to upgrade within 18 months with this phone.

flugel · 10-04-2012 5:20pm

vibe666 wrote: »

you're still missing the point. even if you didn't sell it on after a year and get something newer, you are still being fleeced by the mobile providers with the over-inflated price of the billpay contract that you pay to get the appearance of a cheap phone.

Taking that I will keep phone for min 2 years

A: Free phone on bill pay, 24 months x €40.66 = €975.84

B: Phone €519 + €20 (absolute minimum, would possibly have to spend more to get enough data depending on network) x 24 months = €999

I'm not trying to start an arguement or anything, just wondering if I have thought this true correctly, I still think option A is better as cost is spread out over two years. I defo don't understand how I'm being fleeced here

*Edit Havent seen 3's €30 sim plan as mentioned above, will investigate!!

partyatmygaff · 10-04-2012 6:00pm

cdb wrote: »

Amazon.co.uk have the HTC One X for £480 at the moment which works out at €580 or so. Link Has anyone found it any cheaper?

EMobile on Select 100/12 Months works out at €509. The phone itself is sim free and you get 12 months of service too.

gpjordanf1 · 10-04-2012 7:34pm

flugel wrote: »

Taking that I will keep phone for min 2 years

A: Free phone on bill pay, 24 months x €40.66 = €975.84

B: Phone €519 + €20 (absolute minimum, would possibly have to spend more to get enough data depending on network) x 24 months = €999

I'm not trying to start an arguement or anything, just wondering if I have thought this true correctly, I still think option A is better as cost is spread out over two years. I defo don't understand how I'm being fleeced here

*Edit Havent seen 3's €30 sim plan as mentioned above, will investigate!!

Mine didn't work out too bad so

On 3

Got the Phone for €139 on 18 Month Contract

Sold my last phone for €100,

I'm on Classic Flex Max or €40 PM but -10% liftime customer discount = €36

So all in all thats 16 x €36 = €576 + €39 = €615

Reason for 16 is, I'll be able to upgrade again in 16 months..... Simples

SkySter · 10-04-2012 8:34pm

I got a HTC One X from Meteor yesterday as a replacement for my venerable HTC Desire. Firstly let me just say as far as the software, speed and screen quality is concerned its a fantastic upgrade and it has met all my expectations so far.

However the one thing that is really bugging me at the moment is the camera lens "bump" protruding from the back. There is no lip on the lens cover surround. So if you lay it flat on its back it will almost certainly get scratched in no time. Add to the fact that you can't replace the rear cover easily and I really think HTC have a major design flaw on their hands here. A case back is an absolute must. The problem is all of the cases I've seen so far seem to have just a cut out for the lens. If anyone has seen a cover that provides complete lens protection (i.e. sitting above the lens housing) while allowing full camera function please feel free to post here or PM me.

Im_No_Superman · 10-04-2012 9:07pm

SkySter wrote: »

I got a HTC One X from Meteor yesterday as a replacement for my venerable HTC Desire. Firstly let me just say as far as the software, speed and screen quality is concerned its a fantastic upgrade and it has met all my expectations so far.

However the one thing that is really bugging me at the moment is the camera lens "bump" protruding from the back. There is no lip on the lens cover surround. So if you lay it flat on its back it will almost certainly get scratched in no time. Add to the fact that you can't replace the rear cover easily and I really think HTC have a major design flaw on their hands here. A case back is an absolute must. The problem is all of the cases I've seen so far seem to have just a cut out for the lens. If anyone has seen a cover that provides complete lens protection (i.e. sitting above the lens housing) while allowing full camera function please feel free to post here or PM me.

I'm going to go for the HTC One X Clear Hard Shell Case Cover HC C700. Subtle case with a good lip protecting the camera.

http://www.prepaymania.co.uk/mobilephone/htc-one-x-clear-hard-shell-case-cover-hc-c700.html?source=aw&awc=2245_1334088097_16aa462319d7c9f871118fc816e81fe0

one man clappin · 10-04-2012 10:20pm

Hi folks
Received my One X today and trying to add music to it at the moment. I have come across a problem in that some of the music is in the protected AAC format. Is there any way of getting this music onto an android phone please?

Jhcx · 10-04-2012 10:24pm

Would love the One X . Picked it up today in the meteor store just so beautiful. just have to sell my Sensation first.

cooperguy · 10-04-2012 10:26pm

Delboy5 wrote: »

Is it possbile to get a 12 month contract anywhere now ?!?

I got the One X for 269 on emobile with a 12 month contract. Their tariff pricing seems to be some of the best on the market aswell

Paparazzo · 10-04-2012 10:51pm

What's the screen like on the S? Compared to someone coming from a normal Desire?
The X is just too big for me.

Star Lord · 10-04-2012 11:38pm

one man clappin wrote: »

Hi folks
Received my One X today and trying to add music to it at the moment. I have come across a problem in that some of the music is in the protected AAC format. Is there any way of getting this music onto an android phone please?

I don't know if there's any software that will re-encode the files without the protection. Worst comes to the worst, you could burn it to CD and re-rip it from the CD into MP3

vibe666 · 11-04-2012 1:17am

yep, looks like i can't add up.

altho there's definitely much better deals now on the HTC One's than when i got my DHD in Jan 2011.

Idleater · 11-04-2012 7:14am

Paparazzo wrote: »

What's the screen like on the S? Compared to someone coming from a normal Desire?
The X is just too big for me.

I got the s as an upgrade to the desired for the same reason. The screen is sharper as the dpi is higher. The overall experience is excellent with superb performance.
The size is easy to get used to as it is really thin.

ChopShop · 11-04-2012 7:22am

Jhcx wrote: »

Would love the One X . Picked it up today in the meteor store just so beautiful. just have to sell my Sensation first.

Money4urmobile were quick.to pay me if thats any help.

Anky2930 · 11-04-2012 8:02am

Look like a great phone and here's another news coming from htc's corner that Sprint announces HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone, This phone is reckoned as one of the stable device and will be compatible with high speed carrier networks like Sprint. HTC Evo 4G LTE is a superfast smartphone and is expected to set new standards in multimedia experience, which was said by one of the top officials from Sprint during the launch of this HTC device in New York. Sprint announced that around six cities in United States will be receiving HTC Evo 4G LTE by June 2012, and these cities would be Baltimore, Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, and San Antonio. It will take another year and half for United States to be fully equipped with 4G LTE network. Sprint already has 4G network built on Wi-Max mobile broadband technology. This new smart phone will be priced at $199.99 [Rs. 10, 200 approximately], with a two year contract and will be available by June 2012. Sprint would accept pre order of HTC Evo 4G LTE smartphone from 7th of May 2012.

MrsMcSteamy · 11-04-2012 10:48am

Anyone's phone shut itself off and reboot back on? Mines just did. Came back up with error report that the phone had just recovered from a serious crash !!! Really don't want to be sending my phone off for repair after only two days

madmoe · 11-04-2012 10:51am

Was VERY disappointed yesterday to discover that neither the One X or the One S worked correctly with my Beats Studio headphones!! The pause button worked and the play music button worked but when I double pressed the in-line remote it tried to call the last number and did not skip to the next song!?? Considering HTC have a 50% stake in Beats and they tout Beats audio as a function I think it's madness they don't work fully with official Beats headphones!!

Cheers,
M

ofcork · 11-04-2012 7:02pm

The radio on my s seems to be cutting in and out when the headphones are connected if i am walking,laid flat there is no problem.

Idleater · 11-04-2012 7:24pm

ofcork wrote: »

The radio on my s seems to be cutting in and out when the headphones are connected if i am walking,laid flat there is no problem.

That's the good aul HTC radio. :-) some things never change!

ofcork · 11-04-2012 8:21pm

Bit of a pita because other than that the phone is light years better than thye sensation in every aspect although i thought the sensation was fantastic when i got it and that went downhill.

lafors · 11-04-2012 10:14pm

Have it a day or so now. Very happy with it.
I had an original HTC desire then moved to the SGS2 and now onto this.
No problems with it so far. Keeping everything stock until a proper root comes out.

Ordered up a few NFC tags from tagage.net. Going to put them on my Philips Android Alarm Clock (charger/dock), then in the car and on my desk in work.

V9 · 11-04-2012 10:20pm

Is the phone still 300 quid when you upgrade from your current contract? I'm on the 30 quid contract with meteor and was gonna stay on that one.

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