I would upgrade to the One X tomorrow if it weren't for the fact that AT&T would charge me $250 if I elect to get the next iPhone this fall.
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I would upgrade to the One X tomorrow if it weren't for the fact that AT&T would charge me $250 if I elect to get the next iPhone this fall.
Well I gave it two days. I will be returning it mon. The screen is amazing. It is like the 4S screen but blown up in size. I feel it is just as good quality but better since the digitizer and screen are one piece and it makes the icons look like they are floating on top of the screen. The iphone 5 will have the same type of screen. The phone is fast. But not usable fast is that makes any sense. The one X specs is like what the iphone 5 specs will be similar too, but without iOS.
One thing that is nice is that the coating on the gorilla glass 2 for the one x takes care of finger prints better than the iphone 4S.
iOS is more fluid and just as fast with a slower processor. The screen of the One X, processor, is better than the iphone 4S. Camera about the same quality.
Cons for me:
Browsers for Android are lacking in my opinion. There isn't a good one out there as good on iOS for my needs. Atomic browsers full screen buttons that you can make transparent takes advantage of all the screen real estate on the small 4S screen and it's easy to use. Imagine that on a 4+ iphone 5.
Chrome for Android doesn't have full screen yet, and Dolphin HD browser has this funky black menu bar on the side which you cannot get rid of. As well as most browsers on Android market have this same black menu bar.
Tap to zoom works some of the time. Not as fluid or accurate as iOS.
The calendar app doesn't have the day in the icon on the screen like iOS. You can download a widget that has this but that takes up a quarter of the screen. E'mail client is not as good as iOS. You cannot use your contacts in
the gmail app. But you can on the default HTC e'mail app and sync to gmail.
The phone isn't bad. But after you use iOS which just "works'. It is hard to go over to anything else. The expiriment lasted two days. You will not see me doing that again. I don't blame anyone who does, as its a nice phone, but not for my needs. Nothing wrong with android ICS, but for me it doesn't work with the Apple ecosystem i have in place. Nor do i feel it is as good.
Bring on the iphone 5.
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I thought the same thing until I used the phone. Then I wanted my 4S back.
Two days? If you have been using iOS for years and giving Android two days is isnt really trying it at all. It takes a good week at least to appreciate all it does and get used to another system. Some of your reasons are really petty.
You cant get the Day on the calender icon? Seriously...that is an issue for you? Dude, there are many ways to get the date, day or whatever than having it on your icon. Get the App Fancy Widget(for one) and you can customize your clock skins, have the date right above it and your battery % left next to that if you want. I got over the day on the calender icon the very same day i got my Vibrant.
I see somebody else seemed to have fixed the black bar problem you are talking about. See what i mean, you need to spend more time with it.
To each their own i guess. After a week i was thrilled to find more and more things Android did compared to the iPhone and i was only on Eclair at the time.
IMO you didnt really give it a chance and decided you wouldnt try it very long from the get go. The only bad thing about the One X imo is you cant unlock it because they locked down the bootloaders. Oh and no micro card slot. Thats a biggy for me.
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5/5/2012: 11:17 pm
5/6/2012: 10:12 am
Lol....that 4.7" retina like display sucked you in huh? What a difference just 12 hours makes...
5/6/2012: 10:12 am
Lol....that 4.7" retina like display sucked you in huh? What a difference just 12 hours makes...
I know I've posted this recently already in this thread, but it bears repeating as more people demo the One X at AT&T now that it's officially available.
The spotty wi-fi reception seems to be a legit issue. It will probably be fixed with an OTA update soon, but you should keep it in mind and look out for it in case you get the One X this week.
The spotty wi-fi reception seems to be a legit issue. It will probably be fixed with an OTA update soon, but you should keep it in mind and look out for it in case you get the One X this week.
I decided to go eat the one x a try. We'll see how it goes. I've been a die head ios user and gave android a try way back with the nexus one. I hated it then but the one x hardware and ics improvements were hard to ignore. In the first couple of hours I'm already missing the ios app quality. Outside of that I'm enjoying the customization and hardware. I figure I'll give it at least a couple of weeks before I make up my mind.
There has yet to be an Android phone released that beats the iPhone 4S in any CPU or GPU benchmarks, HTC One X included.
Picked up my HTC one x today. So far I really like it. I love the ICS keyboard I got from the market.
When I bought the phone the battery was at 62%. This was at 10 am Hawaii time when the att store opened. The phone lasted all the way till 11 pm when it reached 9 percent. I'm pretty impressed. I was messing with it all day.
I really like sense and ICS combined. It really adds to the UI in a very subtle way.
Plus this screen is amazing. Reading books (which is actually easy now with this big screen) is just as clear as my iPhone/ipad 3.
That's all for now.
When I bought the phone the battery was at 62%. This was at 10 am Hawaii time when the att store opened. The phone lasted all the way till 11 pm when it reached 9 percent. I'm pretty impressed. I was messing with it all day.
I really like sense and ICS combined. It really adds to the UI in a very subtle way.
Plus this screen is amazing. Reading books (which is actually easy now with this big screen) is just as clear as my iPhone/ipad 3.
That's all for now.
Do you repeat this every page in every thread with an Android phone? be gone
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Hasn't been released.... Yet!
Doesn't matter, Look at all the phones faster and better than the 4s on there...
So people keep posting factual inaccuracies, and you're upset I keep correcting them?
Browser benchmarks are not CPU benchmarks. There's only one phone there that beats the iPhone 4S in a GPU benchmark, and its not released yet.
As many have stated before me, what matters most is real world performance, and the most technically advanced software is on the iPhone 4S. Until Android has software more technically advanced than what's currently available on iOS (typically games are what push hardware the hardest), they will always be behind.
How is apple more technically advanced? Don't get me wrong, I like ios and my apple products but i wouldn't say IOS5 is vastly superior than ICS. My one x is super smooth. The way it handles some things i prefer over ios and vice versa.
I'm not taking about the OS, I'm talking about the software. If you spent $2000 on a new laptop and wanted to show it off, you wouldn't show them Windows 7, you'd show them a 3D game like Oblivion or Battlefield 3, or you'd show how fast you can edit photos on Photoshop, or edit a multi-track 1080p video...etc.
I pose my question again:
Comparing the current technology offered by Google/Android Devices and the iPhone (we obviously cant compare computers to computers here), how is any one device vastly superior than the other?
For a computer, it is a lot easier to recognize differences due to hardware. However, with the current technology in phones, its hard to notice the same level of improvement as technology is coming out. The One X with its new S4 Krait processor is amazing. I have yet to use a device (all iPhones included) that didn't have some type of lag here and there.
Did you own the original iPhone? Remember WebApps? Edge only? At the time it wasn't even arguably the best phone out. Many people judge Android on what it used to be, not what it is now (I was guilty of this also).
If you are talking about Apps, then yes the Apple has a bigger pool of apps. However one of my main reasons for picking up the One X is the screen; I want a bigger screen. I read a lot of things on my phones and the iPhone's screen is way to small. THe text on the One X is very crisp and sharp, and reading documents from my dropbox/kindle is a lot better than on my iPhone. I need a device that works best when I can't use my iPad. The iPhone USED to be that phone, but right now there is no better combo out there right now than the One X + WiFi iPad.
Furthermore, one observation I have noticed is I get WAY better signal with the One X than with my iPhone. My Speeds are also way better. At home on my iPhone I would always get <1.0 down. With the One X, I am able to consistently pull 2-3 down. For the first time yesterday I was able to pull 10.0 down through ATT's HSPA+ when I was off the small mountain (For Hawaii its a small mountain, for you mainland people probably a little Hill at best). I have never seen anything greater than 4.5 down on my iPhone EVER here on island.
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I agree with ya. It took me a good few weeks to learn the Android OS on my Note, and now I absolutely love it. I think that for many here, the IOS is second nature to them because they have used it for some time now, and any other OS doesn't seem to work as well. Yes there is a learning curve folks.
I agree with the above statement. ICS is a whole different story when comparing to iOS and with Sense 4, its even better.
True about GPU (until Samsung Galaxy SIII is released).
False about CPU. Top of the line Android phones from all manufacturers beat iPhone's CPU.
I stand corrected, after additional research on Anandtech, it seems my previous source was wrong. I watched a video of the HTC One X running Linpack and my iPhone 4S beat it...but maybe he had some processes running in the background?
You finally got me to agree with you lilo777
Replace "technically advanced" with "best optimized for a given hardware set" and I will be more than happy to give you that without a word of argument.
I stand corrected, after additional research on Anandtech, it seems my previous source was wrong. I watched a video of the HTC One X running Linpack and my iPhone 4S beat it...but maybe he had some processes running in the background?
You finally got me to agree with you lilo777
I do not know about Linkpack. All I know is that Anandtech never compares Linpack results between Android phones and iPhone. In fact, they never publish Linpack results for iPhone - only for Android. I suspect this is because Linpack is very sensitive to software. It would still make sense to compare the results for different Android phones because they run the same software. For iPhone, it's useless because we all know that iPhone(N+1) is always faster than iPhone(N).
