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What's so hard about making smaller high-end phones, OEMs?

Android Back in July, I asked readers what their idea of the perfect smartphone size is. With just shy of 250 responses, the answers varied from 3.5-inches to phablet extremes beyond 5-inches. Just skimming through the horde of comments, it's not...

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Featured user review HTC One X 10-10-12

Featured User Reviews Up for grabs in the One-Paw Bandit game right now, the HTC One X has been a dominant device on the Official Smartphone Rankings this year.

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Featured user review HTC One X 10-3-12

Featured User Reviews Falling a spot down the Official Smartphone Rankings this week, the HTC One X ended in the third place position.

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Why do we need the One X+, HTC?

Android Earlier this year, HTC delivered on its unlikely promise of refocusing its devices and software on what matters most: quality over quantity in hardware and de-cluttering and simplifying in Sense UI. It unveiled its new branding at Mobile...

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There are still a few quirks in Sense 4 that irk me

Android Back when I first got the HTC One X, I was surprised to discover, firsthand, that HTC had dramatically improved its customized Android interface, Sense UI. Previous versions were notorious for being overbearing, clunky and cluttered. At...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 17

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Featured user review HTC One X 9-25-12

Featured User Reviews The One series by HTC impressed a lot of consumers. When the X and S joined the U.S. Market, consumers loved them. And after a summer of 1 or 2 on the OSR, the One X maintained it's #2 position for another week.

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Featured user review HTC One X 9-18-12

Featured User Reviews Still in second place, the HTC One X has maintained this position since the start of the summer.

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Featured user review HTC One X 9-11-12

Featured User Reviews By still being able to hold second position, the HTC One X remains our featured user review for Tuesday. Using some great descriptions, PhoneDog fan ALBERTYEN provides us with some insight into the HTC One X in his user review below.

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Do you prefer on-screen, capacitive or physical buttons?

Android With more than a couple hundred Android phones having been released, there is no shortage of one thing: choice. You can find smartphones in just about any price range shy of $800 (sans contract, of course), with great cameras, extra small...

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The never-ending stream of application updates

Android With a quick preface, I want to clarify that application updates are usually a good thing. Software updates of any type can and will fix bugs, make the software more stable, add new features and, most importantly, improve overall user...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 17

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Featured user review HTC One X 9-4-12

Featured User Reviews The distance between first place and second place votes has gotten larger, but the one constant has been the devices and the HTC One X continues to hold down the number two spot.

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Featured user review HTC One X 8-28-12

Featured User Reviews After a landslide win this week by the Samsung Galaxy S III, the HTC One X still gave it the most competion by finishing second in the Official Smartphone Rankings.

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Winner of a new HTC One X

No-Homepage Congratulations to K. Gilleland of GA who won a brand new AT&T HTC One X on Wednesday August 22, 2012.

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What are the outstanding problems with smartphone battery life?

Android I've touched on the topic of battery life a lot lately. The consensus is that, in general, smartphone batteries suck these days and, like many others, my phones rarely last an entire day without some form of supplementary charge after...

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Featured user review HTC One X 8-21-12

Featured User Reviews The HTC One X continues it's impressive run on the Official Smartphone Rankings with another second place finish.

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I can't get into modding Android devices anymore

Android Back when I first started using Android, I didn't hesitate to dive into rooting a phone if it lacked some sort of functionality I needed or desired. In fact, I didn't hesitate to root an Android phone for no reason at all. I would unpack a...

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Featured user review HTC One X 8-14-12

Featured User Reviews After a week of being tied for first with the Samsung Galaxy S III on the mobile tech experts side of the Official Smartphone rankings, it is back to second again on both charts.

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I can't help but miss Google Now on the HTC One X

Android If you've been following my weekly Official Smartphone Rankings™ each week, you've likely discovered that I absolutely love the HTC One X. It has been my #1 choice since it launched back in May, and not even the Samsung Galaxy S III has...

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How fast can you type on your smartphone?

Android Yesterday, I wrote a post-challenge follow-up for my Voice Input Challenge series that, frankly, I'm sure some of you are tired of hearing about already. Don't worry, I'll let the topic go soon enough. But in the piece, I noted that even...

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Four days later, I'm still using dictation fairly regularly

Android On the last Sunday in July, on a tiresome, hour-long drive home, what I thought was a brilliant idea crossed my mind. I had spent the better part of five months devising a plan for a similar (but different) challenge to what Aaron and...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 7

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Redux: How thin is too thin when it comes to smartphones?

Android Just shy of a year ago, I asked a question that had been pressing my conscience for a while: When it comes to phones and tablets, how thin is too thin? With slimmer than ever devices on the horizon, it's not hard to question where the line...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 36

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Featured user review HTC One X 8-7-12

Featured User Reviews Finishing second again in the People's Choice side of the Official Smartphone Rankings this week, the HTC One X tied for first this week on the expert side of things.

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Are button and port placement at all important to you?

Android When it comes to preferences for smartphones, there are a million little idiosyncrasies with each device that you will never learn until your get your hands on them. After a few days, you may learn how much you hate how stiff the volume...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 38

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Up-trading mobile devices for newer ones is becoming increasingly expensive

Android Much like many of us enveloped in the tech world, I have cell phone A.D.D. Generally, I get bored with a phone or tablet after just a few weeks with it. I use it religiously for a month or so. After that, it begins collecting more and more...

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Voice Input Challenge: Closing thoughts

Android Ever since last Monday, I have been using only voice input – or dictation – to enter text on my phones. That means no keyboards, no typing, no word prediction. Just speaking and going all-in on dictation, putting all of my text entry in...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 8

All HTC One X, One S models to receive update with menu button tweak

Android The HTC One X on AT&T was recently on the receiving end of a new update that, among other things, gave users the option to use the device's multitasking key as a way to manually bring up the menu button. This option also eliminates the...

from 2012 by Alex Wagner 7

HTC One X update rolling out, contains menu button bar option [UPDATED]

Android Own an HTC One X on AT&T? Then you may want to fire up ye olde software update, because it appears that the One X is now receiving a new update. While an official changelog for the update isn't yet available, it's said that it packs in...

from 2012 by Alex Wagner 10

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Voice Input Challenge: Life with dictation is getting easier

Android I'm on day four of the Voice Input Challenge, but it has felt like an eternity since I woke up on Monday morning and realized it would be another seven days before I could grace my thumbs with the predictive power of SwiftKey to text...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 5

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Featured user review HTC One X 7-31-12

Featured User Reviews Wow, I am not sure about you, but here at PhoneDog we are shocked that it's already July 31, 2012. The summer has been hot and fast paced and with daily feature user reviews, we find ourselves on this Tuesday featuring a review for the...

from 2012 by The PhoneDog 2

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What is your idea of the perfect smartphone screen size?

Android There is constantly a ton of hubbub about the size of smartphones, how easy (or difficult) they are to use and hold, and how much pocket space they take up. Just this morning, a couple of colleagues and I had a mini debate over this. And,...

from 2012 by Taylor Martin 339 248 Reactions

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HTC One X Black

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"Amazing display tops off this great phone."

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4.6

The One X is a fantastic device. While I'm certainly partial to the stock ICS experience, Sense isn't terrible here. It's only mildly invasive, and in a few cases I actually really like its functionality. I do find myself missing stock Ice Cream Sandwich from time to time, but Sense 4 hasn't been the terrible experience I was led to believe it would be. The screen is unbelievable. It blows every other phone screen I've encountered out of the water. This Super LCD2 display is vibrant, the... more...

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HTC One X Written Review by Taylor

After a week and a half of using the HTC One X as my primary device, I am confident in saying it is the most refined Android phone we here at PhoneDog have come across to date. HTC promised to bring quality over quantity in 2012 and they have delivered on nearly every aspect with One. Being the flagship of the line, the One X comes with some of the best specifications of any Android phone on the market and features one of the most significant designs and top quality builds. The HTC... more...