[Closed] HTC One X - phone upgrade content.

In a similar position myself, only I have a very tired, slow and annoying Wildfire.

Had a quick play on a One-X in store and the interface seemed very slick, would also be interested to hear any real world opinions...

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HTC One X is a very large phone. This makes it great for browsing, apps etc. but could be a pain to use for calls if you have small hands. Other potential issues are no micro-SD slot and it uses a mini-SIM - these may not be important to you. Can I ask where you can get one for £22/month.

I have got one.

Its a great phone, no complaints here, fast, slick, great screen etc. Battery lasts me 2 days.

There are a couple of downsides from my point of view :-

It doesn't have an SD card slot, so you can't expand the storage.
The camera lens on the rear is easily scratched, but this is solved by using one of those clear lens protectors

Excuse my ignorance but what issue would a mini SIM be? I guess if the handset broke you oculdn't just slot the SIM into another handset? is that what you mean? DO you need a micro-SD slot? It has 16GB memory or was it 32gb? see I'm a thickie adder.

Talk mobile have it for £25 a month, 500 min, 1500 text and 1GB data, but as a new customer if you buy that plan via topcashback you get £60.60 back which if you then split that cost over the 24 month period works out at £22 ish a month.

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It comes with 32gb storage built in which is more than enough for most people, but some will find it limiting and will want to expand it via an SD card.

Micro SIM card slot is only a problem if you want to put a SIM card from another non micro SIM card device in the phone, or the other way round.

Had one for last four weeks. It's bigger, but slimmer and lighter than the HTC Hero it replaced. It fits in trouser pocket OK.

The screen clarity and resolution is excellent as is the battery life. The 1.5ghz processor means that apps open quickly and the large screen size means that it is a viable replacement for browsing the web and emails instead of carting a laptop about on short trips. Love it.

had mine about 2 months.

its awesome. some think it is too big bit it is only a little longer and no wider than the HTC Desire HD it replaced.

everything is fast and smooth, games, video all play smooth and look great on the screen.

easy to navigate and if you are used to HTC very intuative location of setting and apps.

if your worried about memory it has dropbox which is like the i phone's cloud.

For me it is awesome. i refuse to get an I phone and be a sheep just because everyone elce has one and its (apparently) the ''best'' phone. the HTC is better in nearly all departments. the thing that would make it perfect would be app store insted of google ply but that is just a personal thing.

HTC ONE X FTW!

Sounds good micro SIm and additional memory won't effect me only worry is size but I suppose as a girl I always carry a handbag anyway so not really a problem. Having had a Desire for last 2yrs and loving it I guess I can't see myself hating it!!

I looked at the One X (also coming from a Desire) and decided it was just too big. I opted for the One S instead. It has no SD card slot, but the 16GB on-board storage is going to be big enough for anything I need.

Is the One S still a decent upgrade? As I was originally offered One V but not a huge step up and hence would rather go SIM only but I keep getting that stupid "low memory" thing!! Mmmmm dilemma it was that or a Samsung S2... but One X seems to be significantly better. Thoughts??

S2 was also an option (as they're trying to shift them now that the S3 is available) - but I think it's also a bit lardy. Like you, I was happy with the Desire and considered a Sim-only deal, but the lack of space for installing Apps (and a scratched camera lens) persuaded me otherwise.

Why not go for the One-S instead?
Its pretty much everything the One-x is but slightly smaller, lovely and thin. Its what I got when I upgraded from an HTC Desire HD, which it is slightly smaller than and about half the weight.

Storage-wise, you also get 25gb of Dropbox storage so you can sync stuff to that too, keeping your phone free of too much stuff.

Its a nice phone.

I've had the One S for the last 4 weeks & its great. Having come from an iphone I was wary of it not being as intuitive or good but its quick, slick & does the job very well.

My daughter got a One X a couple of weeks ago and loves it. One other thing to bear in mind though is the battery isn't user changable (only the same as a jesus-phone though I suppose).

At this rate it may well be the One X for the simple reason I can get a better deal, can't find any decent deals on the One S...anyone got any? I want 300 mins and at least 500MB of data.

I have a one X as an upgrade from a HTC Legend

Ok it is a big phone but it is very slim yet solid and feels smaller in the pocket than my old phone

Camera quality is superb I get amazing quality shots with it tis as good as a proper camera

Battery life is ok as good/bad as the old phone about 2 days but I always have an external psu battery pack with me

Ok so it does not have a SD card but for me that is not an issue ( well not as yet)

The download speed on the net is bloody fast

No complaints here

Ok so the S3 is out now would I swap er no the S3 feels a bit fragile to me

Looking like it might be the One X just becuase I can't find any good deals on the One S, guessing that's because it's so popular maybe?

I've just got the One X on a free upgrade. Had the original desire before and its a better phone all round, battery life is way better. Yes its big but i thought that about my desire when i first got it so no doubt i'll get used to it.

Not impressed with the gps on it at the moment though. I used the sat nav on it for the first time yesterday and it was all over the place and went out for a quick ride on the Quantocks this evening and according to the sportstracker app on a ride i do regularly i managed 4500 ft of climbing in around 8.5 miles 😯

Thats way off, on my original desire with the same app i've tracked the same ride loads of times and its only around 1500 ft of climbing. Anyone else had this problem?

would also be interested to hear any real world opinions...

I too will be keeping an eye on this thread, for me It's a move from a Desire to either the HTC One X or an i-phone.

I just get the feeling the i-phone won't be much on an upgrade

I'm resisting the iphone due to the price of it, crazy money!
MarkBrewer, Mr MC got the HTC Desire S about 1 year ago and his sat nav never seems to work and occasionally I think he's had some manic stuff going on with GPS tracker. I ran with a mate last weekend with an iphone there was 0.3 of a mile difference between our two trackers!

MarkBrewer so are you saying you prefer your Desire to the newer One X?

The one x is a better phone all round if you don't mind the size of it, and the battery life is way better than the desire. But it looks like the GPS on it is a load of crap!

I went out this afternoon for a few miles down the canal as I couldn't be bothered to go up the Quantocks and get dirty again, when I got back and checked sportstracker I'd apparently done nearly 4000 feet of climbing and hit 76 mph somewhere 😯 Looking at it on a dog walk just now the satellite signal is constantly coming and going & the elevation keeps changing by hundreds of feet whilst standing still.

Lucky I kept my old desire as it looks like I'll be needing to use it for sportstracking duties 🙁

I've had no problems with the GPS on my One X, I use it with Strava a lot, it seems pretty accurate, and very sensitive, it even picked up a signal when I was on board an airbus flying into manchester airport. It certainly doesnt jump around much when I use it on the bike or running.

As usual, there are software updates which may have fixed early teething issues, so make sure you're on the latest version - note - this isnt always possible if you're on a carrier branded phone.

Mark

I use Endomondo and that seems to work ok on the X

Give it a go tis a free app so nothing to loose

Interesting thread - I can upgrade my Desire in 3 weeks time and was wondering what would be comparably good and still cheap (currently only pay £20 a month with Voda, unlimited texts, 500mb data and the phone was originally free). The only thing I haven't loved about the Desire is the almost constant low memory warnings.

Redwoods exactly that it gets on my nerves and to think forthe last 18 months I thought it was my incomptence and lack of knowledge of use of the phone!

Mark I use Endomondo and that seems to work ok on the X Give it a go tis a free app so nothing to loose

I think its the actual phone GPS signal that is the problem and not the app as I've had problems with sportstracker and the phones sat nav but I'll give endomondo a try.

Googling "one x GPS problems" brought up loads of the same thing too which doesn't fill me with confidence. Unless my phone is just a dodgy one as everything seems upto date.

If you google for 'desire gps problems' or 'iphone gps problems', you also get loads of results.

I dont think that particularly indicative of a common fault.

But you're clearly not making it up, and if you've tried other gps apps and they give the same problem, I'd say you must have a faulty phone.

On an old note, interesting to hear the Galaxy S 2 felt lardy compared to a Desire, when it's both lighter and a good 30% thinner.

Galaxy S 3 is about level pegging with the One X, both a similar size/weight though.

My main concern with an iPhone would be the weak crystal glass they always seem to use, I've exploded a Touch, and curiously so has a bloke sat a few desks from me. All the Samsung phones use very tough gorilla glass. My old SGS1 has been passed onto the missus now and the screen still looks brand new, after weeks of being shoved in my saddle bag.

It looks too small to me - you should get a Samsung Note...

Got a One S, love it.
£20 pm from Orange, 200 min, shed-loads of texts and 500mb

APF

I was looking at the One S (as I'm not really sure I want anything as humungous as the One X or Galaxy III) but given the low memory issues I've had with the Desire, the small amount of GB that comes with the S makes me very wary.

But I'm not sure what that leaves me with, options wise?!

I'm interested too, but am very wary of getting another HTC. My Desire has given me no end of problems and Virgin will only send it back to be looked at by HTC and seeing as it's my business' only phone I've just had to put up with frequent (a number of times a day) touch screen freezing / notification bar random movement etc (all apparently known faults with no known cure) since about 3 months of ownership. Once the full 24 months is up (4 months to go) I think it will be hard to choose HTC again.

I've got a One-S, great phone.

Very smooth, GPS superb, nice size screen without making the phone too big like the One-X and Galaxy S3, thin build, metal body, great camera with burst mode and ability to shoot stills while filming video etc etc....whats not to like?

Storage is a non issue for most people, the 500 tracks on my ipod only take up 4Gb of space so tranferring them to a phone with 16Gb of storage was no problem, apps dont take up much room either....if you carry around thousands of tracks and have films saved to your phone then you'll want more obviously.

I have two contracts (one for me and one for the other half) and unless the iphone-5 is unbelievably good later this year i'll be replacing her Nexus with another One-S....quad core phones have proved to be a damp squib, there arent the apps yet to take advantage of the power and the quad core chips are using old tech on new phones....the dual core phones on the market are currently better real world propositions and are showing much better battery life.

In terms of reliability, in the last few years my other half and i have owned an HTC Hero, an HTC Desire, a Desire-HD, a Nexus-S and an HTC One-S and experienced not a single problem....you need to remember that Samsung have shifted 50 million phones this year so there will obviously be reports of some owners having issues but given how many of these devices are out there the reliability is actually quite incredible....googling any phone and asking for problems (even the iphone) will turn up loads of results, people tend not to shout about their phone when it just keeps on performing normally but are very quick to post on forums slagging off a manufacturer when things go wrong.

Baldysquirt, sounsd like you have been unlucky. I've had my HTC Desire for 24 months and the only problem is that silly "low memory" message I get, haven't had any other problems with it. Mr MC has a HTC Desire and loves it and again no problems. I did look at the One S but haven't been able to find any deals within my price range and the offer ont he One X is so good. I keep thinking will the size annoy me but I just keep telling myself I always have a handbag (or rucksack) therefore why would it bother me?? mmmm still a dilemma I can't decide, as I can get an S2 but it's a little bit more expensive for an older phone.

I'm interested too, but am very wary of getting another HTC. My Desire has given me no end of problems and Virgin will only send it back to be looked at by HTC and seeing as it's my business' only phone I've just had to put up with frequent (a number of times a day) touch screen freezing / notification bar random movement etc (all apparently known faults with no known cure) since about 3 months of ownership. Once the full 24 months is up (4 months to go) I think it will be hard to choose HTC again.

After three months, it should be treated as an inherent fault unless Virgin can prove otherwise. They have to make good and if a repair is necessary it has to be done without significant inconvenience to yourself. To wit, they'd have to lend you a phone.

The "known faults" with locking up on the Desire are a motherboard fault, perfectly fixable with a motherboard replacement. I had mine done, didn't take long at all. Dunno where you get "no known cure" from, that's nonsense.

Have you really lived with a faulty handset for eighteen months when it's readily resolvable? Can't immediately see how that's HTC's fault if so.

the only problem is that silly "low memory" message I get

That's readily fixable too, root and A2SD+ ROM.

Cougar, you are talking a foreign language I have no clue what that is!!!!! Oh well upgrade in 2 weekend when contract finished...well not upgrade as going to another company.

Point is, there's a way around it with a bit of work, though academic if you're getting rid in a couple of weeks.

Yup thanks for the advice though too much of a Thickie adder 😉 so dilemma now Samsung S2, One S or One X? Poll time.....

one x all the way.

It will probably be the One-X for me.

The S looks like it'll be more than capable but I won't stop thinking I'm missing out on something...

Cougar, yes I have lived with a faulty handset for about 18 months now as Virgin refused to do anything but send it back to their central tech. As it's sporadic I've never been able to recreate it in the shop, but it always happens within about an hour later. Admittedly, I did manage about 6 months in the middle with no issues what so ever. Having been on various forums it seems I'm not the only one (by a very long way) and people who have gone down the send back route have had the same problem within hours of getting the phone back. I didn't see the point of losing my business phone for an unknown period of time just to have it returned with the same fault. I deal with it - it's frustrating at times, but others I hardly notice it.

I suppose you have your reasons, but if you've made the decision not to allow a repair to be carried out, that's hardly the fault of either Virgin or HTC.

I don't really follow your "being without a business phone" argument, I'm afraid. Aside from the fact that most people have a drawer full of post-upgrade phones these days, Virgin are obliged to provide you with a replacement whilst it's away. If it was business critical that I had a phone and there were no other alternative, I'd take the hit on buying a cheap handset to tide me over whilst it was away; surely that that's a better option than having an unreliable work phone?

I take your point about actually getting it fixed. HTC will most likely need to replicate the fault and, speaking as a techie, intermittent faults are a bloody nightmare. After three months ownership of a device costing several hundred pounds though, I'd be expecting a replacement handset. It's an inherent fault.

Of those three (one X, One S, or S2) I'd go for the One X without a doubt.

Go for S2 (or preferably S3) if you need a micro SD slot, go for One S if you value its smaller size and better battery life.

My OH has a One S, she loves it. IMO the One X is more phone than most people need, it is nice though.

My Desire is due upgrade soon, but for the first time in my mobile phone life I'm not looking to upgrade, it serves me well! Might look into getting rooted though, I'd have a crack myself but I think it's over my head!

Anyone having signal problems with their One S? I have one on Talkmobile and it has trouble getting a signal in places where coverage should be fine. Phone & sim have both been replaced but the problem is still there.

That's interesting Breadcrumb. My HTC Desire was up for upgrade back in March and, like you, I haven't done it. The Desire is a great phone and does everything I want it to do. The low memory warning is annoying and I might have a look at a ROM if I decide not to upgrade.

Looking at the One X though, it's tempting. I'd need to find a decent deal though. I pay £18 for mine: 500 mins, unlimited SMS (WTF for?? I only send about 145 a month!) and 500Mb data.

More data would be good - I'd gladly trade fewer mins/SMS for that.

Have you been into a shop and physically held a One-X in your hand Munqe-chick? There's seemingly a lot of bright and shiny nice bells and whistles attached to the One-X but ultimately I still want my phone to be phone-sized and not some almost-a-tablet-sized monstrosity. Mostly it'll be in a handbag but there's also many times (walking the dog over muddy fields on a daily basis) when I'll just want to stick it in my pocket.

So although I initially dismissed it (hey I'm a girl, we change our minds) I'm kind of coming back to the idea of a One S.
The 16GB SD card I've currently got on my Desire still has just over 7GB free on it, so shouldn't find the 16GB memory with the S too problematic, even after taking into consideration its probably only nearer about 9GB, once you've accounted for all the on-board software and apps etc pinching some of that.

So in answer to your poll - out of those three, personally I think I'd be leaning towards the S. Whether I can negotiate a reasonable deal with Vodafone for it remains to be seen though - I think it has a lot to do with how long you hold out...

But if size weren't an issue then I guess the X would be the forerunner.

Freddyg where is that deal?? Mmmmm may have to take another trip into a phone shop just to make sure I am happy with size but I always have a bag/rucksack. Oh the dilemma of it 😉

baldy, have you been able to update the software on your desire? Only asking as I have a Desire S which crashed pretty much every day from new. All the web searching suggested it was a hardware fault and very common. I had planned to send it back whilst we were on an exotic trip (where I wouldnt be taking it). Just before the trip I checked for updates and the phone updated to android 2.3.5. That was in January. Its been completely stable since.

And MC I think Freddy means he pays £18 for his current Desire...

Thickie adder 😉

Hi MC - yup as CTM said, the £18 is for my current deal. If I could stay on the same deal but with a cash contribution to the handset (like when I got my current Desire), I'd be happy.

I'll be interested to know what results people get from haggling - the very cheapest I can find with roughly the same tariff is £26pcm for a free One S with Orange (400mins, unlimited texts, 250mb data) with £35 cashback (woopdydoo) which is about a fiver more than I pay a month now but with only half the data allowance I've currently got.

To keep my current 500MB data allowance and have either a One-X or a One-S I seem to be looking at nearer £31pcm.

Like you Freddy I'd rather pay a bit for the phone than be looking at paying an extra couple hundred quid in line rental over two years.

Urgh. I hate phone renewal time almost as much as car insurance renewal. I think if contracts were still only 12 months in duration (ah, the good old days) then I wouldn't be so fussed but being stuck with the thing for 2 years, I really don't want to end up with a dud.

My one x will be going back tomorrow as the GPS issue I've been having is definitely a fault with the phone. I tried endomondo and it was no different, it'll even do its own little journey at varying speeds if you start recording a track with it left out on the patio table without even moving it 😯

My old Desire was accurate at any distance to all my mates iPhones and bike computers so I took both phones out on the Quantocks the other night and recorded the ride using sportstracker on both phone's. It ended up being about 13 miles with 1900 ft of climbing and a top speed of 27 mph. According to the one x it was 14 miles, 8500 ft of climbing, and a top speed of 76 mph!

mark I would keep the X as it is if that was me just to make me feel good 😉

The stats did look quite impressive!

Took it back to the carphone warehouse yesterday. The guy in the shop went outside with it, saw the problem with the GPS jumping around all over the place whilst stationary and swapped it for a brand new phone there and then. The new one works fine so must have just been unlucky with the first one. That was the first one the shop had back with GPS problems and they'd only had a couple others back with screen problems so they can't be that bad.

Can't complin with that, nice service! The One X deal I was looking at has now gone, probably going to be an S3 now instead as can get that cheaper.

I was an iphone man since the original and getting bored of the 4s i went into a phone shop to look at the s2 which seems to win all the awards (a few months back). Guy in shop showed me the one x and i was sold.

Lived with it for a couple of weeks and hated it. Battery was woeful if you used the screen at anything above 33% brightness. Suffered loads of drain from the os which didn't appear until the 3rd update in the 2 weeks.

Build quality was woeful, they cannot build them properly. Dead pixels, dust under screens, yellow glue patches, inconsistent gaps around the display, battery problems, screen bleeding under pressure, faults go on and on. There is a huge thread on xda forum titled the returns and repairs thread and there are a number of people who've had to have 8 replacements to get a perfect phone.

I sold mine and went back to the 4S scared off android by the whole experience. Luckily I had the opportunity to buy a brand new s2 for a cheap price and I have to say I absolutely adore it. Much better battery, the amoled screen is an absolute joy, 4.3" for me is the perfect screen size, 3.5 too small and 4.7 too large. I'm running a 64gb micro sd card in it so have almost 80gb of storage, you can buy and extended battery pack and its a much nicer looking phone than the one x and the s3 IMO.

I sold the 4s within 2 days of getting the s2 btw I was so sold on it and after another month or so of use I'd be surprised if the iPhone 5 has me opening my wallet.

PS download swift key 3 and the typing is as good as the iPhone. Pretty woeful until i found that fix

Does anyone know if there are any issues with Samsung S3? I think that's whta I'm edging towards now. Also anyone have any experience of Dialaphone? That's who the best deal is with, I see they got bought out by Phones for U, when I do some googling for reviews as a company it's completely hit and miss either brilliant or appalling, one site gave them 6.6 out of 10. I guess I'm just dubious as I've never bought a phone contract via the internet, but their deal is WAY better than the usual O2, carphone warehouse or what my current company will do.

Ive had a One x for about 6 months now, got it on a short contract post several iPhones.

Hardware is OK volume buttons too discrete when you want to press them but too easy to press when you don't. Screen is very good, get mx player and load up some movies, presently have series one and two of boardwalk empire, a few westerns and the godfather trilogy all play really well.

Problem is though the software for the day to day stuff, because you end up choosing the best notes software and browser etc its all separate and doesn't since together as well as IOS.

Summary- Nice screen but I would rather have iPhone software.

Incidentally... they do encourage you to use a lot of power so I bought one of these..

[url= https://powertraveller.com/iwantsome/primatepower/powermonkeydiscovery/ ]Batteries[/url]

which has the same inputs/outputs as exposure lights so works as back up for both my lights, GPS and phone.

i m on my 4th htc one x this has to be the most horrid phone i have had to live with when it comes to gps not one of them has been acurate, i would not recommend this phone if you want gps , i use the gps every day from apps like strava, back country nav, maverick, endomundo, do not trust this phone as a gps for navigation off road i was out 8 hours and gps just gave up with 70% battery left and then decided it was nt going to work again, but i have to say all other features are fantastic screen size is awesome , shocking hardware gps chip tho shame would of been a great phone,

All phone models have problems, google problems with iphone, HTC One series, Galaxy etc etc and you will get pages of results....more often than not the first issue of a new line is the batch with problems which are usually fixed with either software updates or hardware replacement, this is not an Android vs Apple thing....both parties have shipped duff products in the past.
With millions of these devices selling there will be some problems and its the problems people tend to post about.

For balance i've had an HTC Hero, HTC Desire HD, Nexus-S and an HTC One-S with no problems....and yet a mate returned his Desire HD almost immediately as not being fit for purpose and went back to his Blackberry!....now there's a phone i cant get along with, had one as a work phone and could never get it to do anything, ended up using my own phone instead.

For a bit of balance to counter the chap above with gps issues.

My one x has been fine for gps, locks on in seconds and is as accurate as any other gps ive used. Iuse it with strava, google maps, navionics, cardiotrainer, google earth. Ive no complaints, its an awesome phone