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HTC announces the One X+: offers marginally better specs

The HTC One X is what awesome looks like on a phone. It has the best display on the market, offers fantastic performance, a top of the line camera, a superb design, and great battery life (on the Snapdragon S4 versions). Earlier this week, HTC announced the successor to the One X, the HTC One X+. Is this handset a true update to the One X? Is the One X+ the new flagship phone? Read on to find out the answers to these questions and more.

The HTC One X+ is extremely similar to the One X. It has basically the same design, the same polycarbonate, and the same protruding camera pod. The differences between the One X+ and the One X are that the One X+ has a black polycarbonate design with red accents, and the One X+ is only available in this color. The majestic white version is sadly not available anymore as the black version takes over. This design is somewhat reminiscent of the HTC Rezound with the black and red combo. The design is just as beautiful and fantastic as the original One X, but with the few changes mentioned above. We think that the new design looks nice, but we still would have wanted a white version. On the One X, the white design looked incredibly majestic and beautiful, while the new black and red design looks more dark and ominous.

The display has not changed, but it was fantastic to begin with. It is still the same 4.7 inch 1,280 x 720 Super LCD 2 display as before. This display is the absolute best display on the market with its great representation of colors, deep, rich blacks, and surreal viewing angles. This display is just gorgeous and is second to none. The camera has also been unchanged and is the same 8 megapixel, f/2.0, 1080p sensor that we saw on the One X. This camera is also amazing and is only beat by image-centric devices like Nokia's N8 and PureView 808. The camera is overall amazing, fantastic, and quite simply one of the best cameras on a smartphone ever.

The biggest change from the One X to the One X+ is the brand new 1.7GHZ quad-core Tegra 3 processor. This is not much of a improvement over the original's 1.5GHZ processor, but this could offer some impressive results. The only problem with this marginal processor upgrade is that Qualcomm is going to release their quad-core Snapdragon S4 pro soon. Their dual-core S4 already beat the 1.5GHZ Tegra 3 models, so the 1.7GHZ Tegra 3 will be eating the S4 pro's dust. However, the American versions and the LTE versions might receive the S4 pros to be able to accommodate the LTE radios. One problem experienced on the original One X is that the Tegra 3 processor ate up the 1,800 MAH battery faster than most other flagships. In hopes of fixing this issue, HTC put a larger 2,100 MAH battery in it. This will hopefully offer much better battery life and maybe good battery life. The One X+ also has 64GB of storage to satisfy those of you with large music libraries and many videos.

Another big change with the One X+ is that it will be released with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with the HTC Sense 4+ skin laid over it. This makes the One X+ one of the first OEM devices to be released with Jelly Bean and with a proprietary skin laid over it. Jelly Bean is a great (and possibly the best) operating system and we can not wait to see how the One X+ handles it.

The One X+ is just as fantastic as the One X was. It offers the same specs with some improvements on top of those fantastic specs. The only problem with the One X+ is that there are only few improvements over the One X. The successor to the One X should have a big leap in specs and be better by huge margins. Since the One X+ offers minimal improvement over the original, we will still have to wait for the One X's successor. Not to say that the new One X+ is bad, but it is just not what a true successor should be. Want more information on HTC's latest flagship? Check out the source links below for more information.


Sources:  Engadget HTC One X+ announcement, Engadget Hands-On with the HTC One X+

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