Is there anyone on this thread who switched from an S2? I'm been running Task's AOKP ever since I opened my S2. I really want an S3 but don't have the cash right now and the One X is half the price. I've been looking at it a lot and am intrigued. I just want to get peoples' opinions overall about this phone.
The only reason I want to upgrade rather than wait is because my main mic is broken so I have to talk on speaker phone all the time... totally not worth it. It sucks. So can I get some honest opinions about this phone. What's good, what's bad? Should I get it or wait... why or why not.
THANKS!
Don't know about the GS3 and the One X, a couple other threads if you do a search.
In general, most seem to agree that the One X has a better screen and better physical design (casing/enclosure). S3 has 2 Gigs of RAM, which means better multitasking, and it also has more developer activity. Although the activity here is decent, and with some really great devs. Aside from that, they are similar devices in many ways (specs, screen size, camera). One X is an awesome phone. I can't give comparisons to the GS2 or GS3, but I can't think of any bad things about it.
...yes, I have used S2 also with Tasks AOKP, sold and went to One X. Played with S3, but HTCs screen is beauty and design is awesome...for me it all comes down to how much storage one will live with, maybe One X+ is option?
Sent from my HTC One XL using xda premium
I switched from an S2 i9100 about 6 weeks ago. This is my first HTC phone, and first non-Samsung phone.
Compared to the S2..
Pros:
-Faster CPU, smoother experience
-Much much better screen, brighter, better colours, sharper, less power hungry
-Overall better camera
-IMO, Sense is better designed and better looking than Touchwiz
-Better battery life on HSPA, while about the same on LTE (see my battery comparison)
-Battery life on wifi is great
Cons:
-Power button is in a god-awful position on the top of the phone, rather than the side
-Screen blacks are not as dark as AMOLED, but not a big deal
-Bezel is really wide, phone is wider
-A bit awkward to hold, and harder to use with one hand (if you have small hands)
-Bad low light camera shots
-Stock sense is really aggressive on memory management so less background apps can run
-S-ON, and bootloader is locked down (at least on AT&T). Unlockable with some effort
-Can takes a couple more steps to flash a rom on newer HBOOTs
As for CM10 support, it's a lot better than it was on S2 since there is zero Exynos support from Samsung. More things work properly. eg. auto screen brightness works properly. Less visual artifacts and oddities. Much better CM10 experience.
Overall, i don't miss the S2 at all. The screen is way better compared to all the AMOLEDs i've used in the past. It's a lot faster. Battery life is overall better. The Camera is a better. And i prefer CM10 over sense, so support is a lot better. About the only thing i really really miss from the S2 is the power button location on the side.
I don't own the S3 personally, but a friend has one and we've compared battery life with similar usage and i consistently get better battery life. We've come to the conclusion that the S3 AMOLED screen is power hungry.
Hope this helps.
I'm a former user of tasks AOKP as well. So far, I've had a great experience running rohan's aokp and king king ROMs. Sold my s2 because the low res, poor color rendering s2 couldn't match the screen of my iPhone 4. The one x screen, however, is the best screen I've used on any device, ever.
Sent from my One X using xda premium
I came from an S2 as well, only because my touch screen went bad in the center. Didn't start rooting until the One X, but it was an excellent decision. Best phone I've ever owned.
I went from S2>
to One X International, which broke and was replaced by HTC with>
One XL. I was pissed at first because the XL has half the cores, half the memory...but it has LTE which I didn't realize was active in my city until I got my new SIM card in the ATT store. After checking my data speeds I wasn't so pissed any more. I love the phone, my only gripe is the memory, doesn't take much music to fill it up. Other than that it's great.
Have you considered the One X+?
Thanks guys! Appreciate all the info. I've thought about the One X+ but don't really have the cash to drop $200 on a new phone atm. I was pushing it to get $100 for the One XL. I went ahead and pulled the trigger yesterday. I'm loving this phone so far, even just on stock. I'm about to start walking through the ridiculous rooting process and then I'll go to the official AOKP, King King or CM10.
andyondroid - Have you run anything besides CM10 on this phone? I'm wondering how it compares with AOKP and King King Roms.
phatalbert1000 - between the AOKP and King King which one do you prefer? Any specific reasons?
WeWearFedoras said:
Thanks guys! Appreciate all the info. I've thought about the One X+ but don't really have the cash to drop $200 on a new phone atm. I was pushing it to get $100 for the One XL. I went ahead and pulled the trigger yesterday. I'm loving this phone so far, even just on stock. I'm about to start walking through the ridiculous rooting process and then I'll go to the official AOKP, King King or CM10.
andyondroid - Have you run anything besides CM10 on this phone? I'm wondering how it compares with AOKP and King King Roms.
phatalbert1000 - between the AOKP and King King which one do you prefer? Any specific reasons?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I only used AOKP for a couple days, so i can't really comment, but i didn't notice any major issues.
AOKP is great as is CM10. No major issues when I used them.
WeWearFedoras said:
Thanks guys! Appreciate all the info. I've thought about the One X+ but don't really have the cash to drop $200 on a new phone atm. I was pushing it to get $100 for the One XL. I went ahead and pulled the trigger yesterday. I'm loving this phone so far, even just on stock. I'm about to start walking through the ridiculous rooting process and then I'll go to the official AOKP, King King or CM10.
andyondroid - Have you run anything besides CM10 on this phone? I'm wondering how it compares with AOKP and King King Roms.
phatalbert1000 - between the AOKP and King King which one do you prefer? Any specific reasons?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use rebelmod! its liquidsmooth aokp paranoidandroid and cm10 :laugh:
I came over from i9100 too. Rebel mod is the coolest ROM, but not stable yet, IMO. aokp works perfectly, and king Kang is pretty much identical to aokp for performance, if not better, and it also includes paranoid androids per app DPI settings. I run king Kang cause its the best stability vs options. Cm10 is the most stable from what I've found. By a pretty big margin.
Sent from my One XL
You made the right choice. I used an S3 for awhile and then switched to this just to try it out. I can't stay on an AMOLED screen. The colors are horrible. There is no white color on an S3. The 2GB of ram does make a bit of a difference, but the screen and build quality more than make up for it. And it's not like the HOX is slow. Once they get the kernel refined and some of the awesome enhancements out, this phone will really fly.
Sent from my One X using xda app-developers app
My wife has the s3, I have a rooted 1.85 one x... The s3 is a nice piece for sure, but really side by side, my screen blows hers away like a at4 used to assassinate a chipmunk, one x screen wins.. camera also wins, hands down, stock to stock the s3 is faster not much, rooted onex on tn se, beastmode kernal over clocked and under vltd smokes a stock s3 like cheech and chong sharin a spliff first thing in the am... I can't speak for a rooted and molested s3 as I've not been intriguied nuff by it to start fiddling, plua I hate how it feels in my hand and did I mention the screen? Nice piece again but not for me.. if you're go.na root and flash stuff is say go onex, if you're happy with a sticker go sg3.. jus my 2 pennies but I'm a complete lunatic.. XOXO..
posted from my Motorola startac...
I'm not just saying this because I have a Onex.. my buddy has a gs3 running task and ktoonsez rom and kernal at 2.1 ghz.. I'm running dirty rom and rohans build 5 kernel OC to 1.99 ghz... we get same benchmarks, but mine absolutely blows his away.. in and out of apps, browser speeds, etc.. CONSISTANTLY.
and I know someone will say "maybe his phone don't like running @2.1... we've tried all CPU speeds and governors, ROMs and launchers.. he's always behind, and actually starting asking his old lady to trade her for her OneX
Sent from my OneXL using Tapatalk 2 Codenamed: Dirty Girl
I'm fully rooted and running AOKP. I'm loving it. I might try king kang but not sure what I would actually use in terms of the DPI and other extras.
So far I'm LOVING this phone. I may flash build 5 of rohan's kernel tomorrow and see how it feels
Came from the GS II on Tasks AOKP.
I have a Note II in the mail.
I found the CM10 and AOKP too buggy for me. Check the OPs for the issues. Wake locks and screen bugs were too much for me. Its a dual edged sword, the sense based ROMs get great battery life, smooth and stable operation, great camera software, and decent customization. But, multi-tasking is awful, just terr-e-bull, compared to the S II. On the AOSP ROMs you get bugs and less battery life, but multi-tasking works. I keep trying them but come back to ViperXL.
At the end of the day I am going back to Samsung for TouchWiz. I want the kitschy stuff like pop up play, smart stay, side by side apps, S Beam, and all the S Pen stuff. I won't be running anything that isn't TouchWiz based on the Note. Plus I want a MicroSD slot and a screen that doesn't scratch so easy.
That's just my $0.02. If you ask in this forum which is best you will get an overwhelming response the One X is better. If you ask in the S III forum you will find plenty of people that came from the One X. Heck, even the Atrix HD has a devout following.
Or, there is door number three, the S II is like silly crazy easy to disassemble, and a new mic is only $20...
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=271041888939
Sent from my HOCKS
quarlow said:
I found the CM10 and AOKP too buggy for me. Check the OPs for the issues. Wake locks and screen bugs were too much for me. Its a dual edged sword, the sense based ROMs get great battery life, smooth and stable operation, great camera software, and decent customization. But, multi-tasking is awful, just terr-e-bull, compared to the S II. On the AOSP ROMs you get bugs and less battery life, but multi-tasking works. I keep trying them but come back to ViperXL.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have not found any major problems with battery drain or wakelocks on AOSP roms, so either it's different on different phones(not likely) or it's user error(very likely). Which apps you have on your phone and how they are coded has a huge effect on your phone's battery.
With the official FB app, with gps on, I got about 12 hrs.
With the official FB app and gps off, I got about 14.
With no official FB app and GPS on, I tend to get about 16-20 now.
not just the fb app is important, but for the sake of example that's one I've noticed a lot.
quarlow said:
Or, there is door number three, the S II is like silly crazy easy to disassemble, and a new mic is only $20...
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=271041888939
Sent from my HOCKS
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well I think my 12 year old either killed my usb port or my battery. He wanted to play some games on it but the battery was dead. I told him to charge it for a while but instead he just plugged it in while he played on it. At some point the batter drain was more than the battery was charging and it died. Now it won't charge. If I plug it in, the backlights flash and the battery charging animation flashes once and goes off. Meh. I still might fix the S2 just so I can turn around and sell it but meh.
So far I haven't noticed any terrible battery drain issues yet. I might end up trying some sense based ROMs but I'm not a big fan of all the sense stuff. I really love AOKP so we'll see if I get sucked into something different or not lol.
I really love AOKP, and gave it many tries (and CM10), I really wanted it to work. One time I tried with no FaceBook or Maps installed, and I still had about half the battery life I get on sense based ROMs. I just didn't have the patience to keep up with it. And everything about customizing that I was used to in AOKP is there in ViperXL in some form.
Not trying to get into which ROM is better or insulting the intelligence of others here by saying issues are their own fault. Just stating my observation for the same transition that I completed just last month.
I remember seeing people have luck charging a completely dead phone using USB on a computer at the smaller amperage. Give that a try. Don't discount a jig either.
Sent from my HOCKS
Related
Just received the htc one s today,I must say im impressed even coming from a galaxy nexus which i still have.The one s is so smooth and i must say i like sense 4, stock android got a little boring after awhile.Hate it if you want but sense brings some useful features to the table and it looks professional unlike touch wiz and the cartoon icons.Even tho its pentile amoled the screen looks much better than the galaxy nexus hd amoled screen reason mostly because of the blobs and lines on the nexus.Im huge on music and htc seems to always have better sound cards/drivers than sammy.Overall im happy with both phones i will occasionally switch back and forth when im bored now all i have to do is order a micro sim adapter =( and root but ill hold out till dev picks up
I too came from a Galaxy Nexus, and thus far, I'm happy I made the trade (equal swap, Galaxy Nexus with box and accessories new condition for a new condition One S with box and accessories).
The main reason I made the trade was because my Nexus had the worst case of the blues (and yellows). It had the worst blue-ish/yellow-ish tint/hue I've seen on any S-Amoled phone I've owned. The SGS2 I have is a lower res, but the S-Amoled Plus made a big difference in regards to generating accurate whites without a yellow layer looming over.
Ultimately I'm happy I made the swap and I actually realized that I prefer the 4.3 inch display with the soft capacitive buttons over the 4.65. I'm also one of the rare folks who prefers the pentile qHD display due to everything looking a bit sharper, which has been much easier on my eyes.
Glad you like the One S, I'm completely satisfied with mines so far and for the first time in 6 months of switching back and forth between phones, I've got a keeper, and have found the "One".
I havent really found the right one yet there seems to be flaws with all the phones in the past 6 months iv'e owned (iphone 4) lack of hspa+ speed on tmobile (sensation 4g)dust under screen over heating(amaze 4g)horrible battery life(galaxy s2)blobs and lines on screen,call echo with case on(galaxy nexus)i got lucky had minimal lines on screen only on extremely low lights.And now the one s.I love both the nexus and one s maybe i'll sell both and get the galaxy s3 when it comes out.But for now im enjoying it while my nexus gathers dust.
HigherSensation said:
I havent really found the right one yet there seems to be flaws with all the phones in the past 6 months iv'e owned (iphone 4) lack of hspa+ speed on tmobile (sensation 4g)dust under screen over heating(amaze 4g)horrible battery life(galaxy s2)blobs and lines on screen,call echo with case on(galaxy nexus)i got lucky had minimal lines on screen only on extremely low lights.And now the one s.I love both the nexus and one s maybe i'll sell both and get the galaxy s3 when it comes out.But for now im enjoying it while my nexus gathers dust.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha, we're all almost identical in the phone's we've owned in the past 6 months.
I had (still have) an iPhone 4 (I know, dirty right? The games are still great, despite the smaller screen), and I also couldn't use it due to lack of 3G and running on slow ass edge. Also had an HTC Amaze with HORRIBLE battery, SGS2 had blobs, but the colors were great and battery life wasn't as bad once I flashed a great ICS Rom on it (shout out to TDJ for Darkside Evolution ICS port), Galaxy Nexus, which I actually liked, but personally, thought it was a bit too big and the screen color issues killed it for me, and now the One S, which I have yet to put down to be honest. My wife has been berating me about the time I spend with this phone (or all phones for that matter) as opposed to you know, couple things, but I can't help it, there's just so many choices!
The galaxy S2 wasnt bad at all i only jumped ship when i seen the nexus for 400.I ended up selling my white t989 for 450 and getting the nexus for 442 tax and shipping included..The t989 forums has little dev activity but they do have great devs most notably Eugene373 for his cm7 and muiu kangs..Since you've had the One S a bit longer than I is there any issues?And also hows the battery life so far.Its on par with the t989 on my end but i've only received the phone today..
HigherSensation said:
The galaxy S2 wasnt bad at all i only jumped ship when i seen the nexus for 400.I ended up selling my white t989 for 450 and getting the nexus for 442 tax and shipping included..The t989 forums has little dev activity but they do have great devs most notably Eugene373 for his cm7 and muiu kangs..Since you've had the One S a bit longer than I is there any issues?And also hows the battery life so far.Its on par with the t989 on my end but i've only received the phone today..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So far battery imo has been better then the Nexus, and about on par with the SGS2, slightly better. I use Juice Defender to boost battery life, and it's helped. I've gotten up to 11 hours of very very heavy usage on the One S playing Temple Run for long periods of time, surfing the web, playing more temple run, texting, emailing, phone calls, navigation and gps, downloading apps, fiddling with the OS, etc, and this is all stock. I haven't rooted or installed a rom, I'm strictly stock as of right now. There's a few animation glitches here and there.
For example, when scrolling through the Gmail widget, the widget will think I'm trying to resize it, which gets annoying, but if you scroll slowly, you won't have that issue. I'm sure the carrier will send a fix for these minor mishaps.
Otherwise I've had a few data connectivity issues, and I live in a pretty good HSPA+ location where I get 15-22mb down and about 5-7 up. It sometimes goes into airplane mode on it's own only to turn back on, and I realize this because I'll get the notification for the same voicemail I haven't checked for 2 days. It doesn't happen very often and when it does, you probably won't even notice.
That's pretty much all I've spotted thus far, it's been great otherwise and I'm having fun playing with the stock build until I end up rooting it and flashing a rom (if I end up doing so, I'm enjoying stock enough to not feel it necessary to do so).
Plus, been getting great benchmarks, roughly 5000 on quadrant, which is much higher then stock ICS on the G-Nexus and the SGS2.
It's zippy, it's quick, it works well, Sense 4.0 isn't overbloated or cartoonish like TouchWiz, and it's thin enough to catch people's attention and ask me what it is.
So ultimately, I think you'll end up enjoying this device. It's really much cleaner and more fluid of an experience over the Amaze, and has just about the right battery life to get you through the day with moderate to high use.
Nice review ...How about cases,which do you have? I see they have the cruzer lite for the one s.
HigherSensation said:
Nice review ...How about cases,which do you have? I see they have the cruzer lite for the one s.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks
I haven't bought a case yet, I went to a kiosk in our local Galleria called "Gadget Guard", they went ahead and installed a complete body cover, great quality, perfect installation on the front and back, doesn't compromise the speaker grills, camera, or the flash. It also doesn't have the quasi-ridges that you see on Zagg protectors. So I'm content with this thus far until I see a nice case. Thing is, the phone is so elegant as is, so thin and feels great in the hand, that I feel somewhat bad casing it up. But on the other end, it's cash in my hand, so I have to protect my investment!
I hadn't seen those Cruzer cases, just googled it, those look sweet.
check this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622006
HigherSensation said:
check this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622006
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ah man the clear one is nice, but so is the black one. Think I'm gonna order one of both. Thanks, I've been searching for cases, and I think I'm done searching now.
---------- Post added at 05:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:12 AM ----------
HigherSensation said:
check this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1622006
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
http://store.androidandme.com/cruze...rlite-androidified-a2-tpu-case/4A54A11361.htm
They have buy 2 get one free!!!
HigherSensation said:
Just received the htc one s today,I must say im impressed even coming from a galaxy nexus which i still have.The one s is so smooth and i must say i like sense 4, stock android got a little boring after awhile.Hate it if you want but sense brings some useful features to the table and it looks professional unlike touch wiz and the cartoon icons.Even tho its pentile amoled the screen looks much better than the galaxy nexus hd amoled screen reason mostly because of the blobs and lines on the nexus.Im huge on music and htc seems to always have better sound cards/drivers than sammy.Overall im happy with both phones i will occasionally switch back and forth when im bored now all i have to do is order a micro sim adapter =( and root but ill hold out till dev picks up
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm in the EXACT same position as you. Love both and will be switching between the two. Hate touchwiz and Samsung and love HTC. Oh well.
Sent from my HTC One S using XDA
It came down to the One S or the Galaxy Nexus for me and I am glad that I went with the One S. The design of the phone is just too beautiful. I've had the AOSP experience on ICS and I'm okay with Sense being on top. A phone that is 5 months ahead of another phone really proves what it can improve on and the One S is proof of that.
I too came from the Nexus Prime, and I like the screen of the one S better than the nexus, especially considering that the nexus had an HD screen. I also had the international one X and that screen is just AMAZING but unfortunately would not get T-Mobile 3G or 4G so I got the one S instead & I'm loving it. Slim design, excellent battery life and great screen. Only thing I would like would be a 32GB version like the one X and on screen keys like the nexus but overall I like it. The battery last way longer than the nexus.
Sent from my HTC One S using xda premium
Wondering about experiences as well as difference in battery life.
Thanks,
G
I switched from the skyrocket. I loved my skyrocket at first but the plastic and the build quality just drove me nuts. Also my headphone jack was broken on my skyrocket also so I was indeed looking for a new phone. The HTC one x, may have a small battery, but the screen, updated processor, and the build quality, just pwn the skyrocket. Just hope an update launches soon to fix all the bugs in ICS, and maybe fix multitasking.
I have a skyrocket and LG nitro and the HOX. So far
Battery: One>Skyrocket>Nitro
Screen: One>Nitro>Skyrocket
Build quality: One>Nitro>Skyrocket
Loudspeaker: Skyrocket>Nitro>One
Expandability: Nitro=Skyrocket>One
Performance (Theoretical): One>Skyrocket=Nitro
Performance (Real World due to memory management): Skyrocket>One=Nitro
Hope this helps.
seandidk said:
I switched from the skyrocket. I loved my skyrocket at first but the plastic and the build quality just drove me nuts. Also my headphone jack was broken on my skyrocket also so I was indeed looking for a new phone. The HTC one x, may have a small battery, but the screen, updated processor, and the build quality, just pwn the skyrocket. Just hope an update launches soon to fix all the bugs in ICS, and maybe fix multitasking.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Since when is 1800 mah small?
I switched from skyrocket. Significant improvement and worth the 2 downsides (no battery access/switching; no external card). Battery life is very good and last a full day which is minimum I need.
Since I had the 3800 mAh extended battery on the skyrocket .
seandidk said:
Since I had the 3800 mAh extended battery on the skyrocket .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
In that case 1800 mAh is very small.
I switched from the skyrocket to the HoX. Both phones are great. I dont really have any issues with the skyrocket. HoX is better imo just because of ICS, 3 buttons, form factor, camera and screen. Its just an upgrade due to time.
NJGSII said:
In that case 1800 mAh is very small.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah. But the HOX has surprisingly been able to get me through a day of moderate to heavy usage which is great. Probably because school is spring semester is over and I hardly use my phone at home that much.
I liked my Skyrocket at beginning. Loved it when i started to run ICS on it. Then i went to ATT store and saw One x - got instantly into love. just like you are walking on beach or mall and see a chick got more curves then your GF - you feel like you missing so much into life!! feel like want to catch the chance!! which what i did..
Seriously though - i loved my skyrocket - but i always hated samsung's build quality and their crappy touchwiz - in opposite i always loved HTC's build quality but hated there chunky design, buggy sense and less than average battery life.
HTC One X get all my dreams fulfilled - the best android phone i ever had (i started android journey with my beloved DROID) that is better than iOS in everything including SCROLLING.
aspipatel said:
I liked my Skyrocket at beginning. Loved it when i started to run ICS on it. Then i went to ATT store and saw One x - got instantly into love. just like you are walking on beach or mall and see a chick got more curves then your GF - you feel like you missing so much into life!! feel like want to catch the chance!! which what i did..
Seriously though - i loved my skyrocket - but i always hated samsung's build quality and their crappy touchwiz - in opposite i always loved HTC's build quality but hated there chunky design, buggy sense and less than average battery life.
HTC One X get all my dreams fulfilled - the best android phone i ever had (i started android journey with my beloved DROID) that is better than iOS in everything including SCROLLING.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This x1000. Even if you substitute the Note for the SR.
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA Premium HD app
I also switched from the Skyrocket.
Even though One X has a larger screen than the skyrocket, it feels smaller in the hand and 1 handed use is tad easier.
It looks oh so much better than the Skyrocket. The sense UI is alot more pleasant than Touchwiz. Even though sense has it quirks, looks wise, it's great.
Battery life has been VERY good for me on the ONE X. Especially standby.
Screen is absolutely amazing on the ONE X.
It's a good step up from anything AT&T offers in my opinion, can't go wrong with it.
To top it all off, we can expect TONS of development for the ONE X line from our dev community. Skyrocket was never a popular choice, though it had a dev community, it was rather small.
i went from a skyrocket, to the note, and now the htc one x. the battery life is a lot better IMO. i was never really a fan of htc before, but ics + htc has been an awesome experience so far.
the s3 will have to be pretty awesome for me to go back to samsung.
I am about to buy a new phone in the next month or so. I have been following the new phone release and seems like HTC One X and S III are the ones I am considering. I have had galaxy S for 2 years and it is time to upgrade.
I really like the solid design of the One X, it looks better, feels sturdier, screen is better... And my question is, if I am going to put custom ROMs on my phone, why should I choose One X over the S III (international versions)? My only strong point for the S III is the bigger battery and better contrast. But some say it is faster..
I do not care about removable battery and extra storage.
azsamsancho said:
I am about to buy a new phone in the next month or so. I have been following the new phone release and seems like HTC One X and S III are the ones I am considering. I have had galaxy S for 2 years and it is time to upgrade.
I really like the solid design of the One X, it looks better, feels sturdier, screen is better... And my question is, if I am going to put custom ROMs on my phone, why should I choose One X over the S III (international versions)? My only strong point for the S III is the bigger battery and better contrast. But some say it is faster..
I do not care about removable battery and extra storage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Within two months, you will get bored of the touchwiz ui. But one x has sense and if you like it, with a little modifications, and with custom roms, you will never get bored of your phone
Sent from my HTC One X using XDA
I'm kind of in the same boat. I haven't held the S3 yet so I don't know how it looks/feels in the hand. The OneX feels solid and comfortable to me. I think the OneX with a Sense-less ICS ROM would be super fast and more enjoyable. I'm leaning that way with my decision.
My HTC Sensation with Virtuous Inquisition ROM has become a much better phone
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using xda premium
azsamsancho said:
I am about to buy a new phone in the next month or so. I have been following the new phone release and seems like HTC One X and S III are the ones I am considering. I have had galaxy S for 2 years and it is time to upgrade.
I really like the solid design of the One X, it looks better, feels sturdier, screen is better... And my question is, if I am going to put custom ROMs on my phone, why should I choose One X over the S III (international versions)? My only strong point for the S III is the bigger battery and better contrast. But some say it is faster..
I do not care about removable battery and extra storage.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go for the S3. Bigger development, cm9 from people who actually build from source themselves and i would trust my life in their hands so to speak. Codeworkx and Xplowild could not get any better and really wished they supported the One X but that is not going to happen, more AOSP and AOKP roms for the S3 and you probably get the best kernel developer i know and that Gokhanmoral as well...And the list goes on. One x might be better looking but you have so much more going for the S3 which is supercurio for one releasing his app for it specially with the better sound chip for it and well i can go on..
One X is a great phone with great potential..but with all the replacements i had and with their poor service and Quality Control have left a bad taste in my mouth and will never go for HTC again...Do not get me wrong development for this phone is only just getting started..But if you are a samsung boy and loved the development on the s2 then s3 is the place to be for you..just wished i waited a bit longer
But seriously my best advice to you..Wait a few more weeks. Watch videos and watch comparisons...And then make a judgement on yourself on what you need the phone for. Sense is ten times better than TW no doubt. But like i said take your time and do your research..And if you do go for the One X make sure you get a phone which is build like a gold phone..Make sure it is perfect and solid..Then you will not regret it
Real world speed is the same. Both have minor flaws and particular strengths. For me, the s3 is less aestheticaly pleasing (read:yuk) and the screen has a pink hue on greys, I can't stand touch wiz and I dislike the unrealistic colours on amoled screens.
farnsbarns said:
Real world speed is the same. Both have minor flaws and particular strengths. For me, the s3 is less aestheticaly pleasing (read:yuk) and the screen has a pink hue on greys, I can't stand touch wiz and I dislike the unrealistic colours on amoled screens.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree I had a go on the one x saw sense and the shell and was like I want it! Glad I did as I dislike the look of the s3 not that it is ugly or anything hox just appeals to me more.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
I say its better even with Stock Rom
The truth is i am bored with my samsung galaxy S... so if i get the S III will be the same feeling. I always though HTC phones look sexier and simply better.. but looking at some reviews a couple of things scare me. For example, when browsing the way it redraws while zooming; multitasking when switching programs also redraws.. the small battery also does not give me great confidence..
azsamsancho said:
The truth is i am bored with my samsung galaxy S... so if i get the S III will be the same feeling. I always though HTC phones look sexier and simply better.. but looking at some reviews a couple of things scare me. For example, when browsing the way it redraws while zooming; multitasking when switching programs also redraws.. the small battery also does not give me great confidence..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Then get the one x. I'm very happy with mine no problems.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
The HOX looks far better, the bluey coloured SIII looks very cheap, and to me the proportions look wrong on the front - weird angle curves, and too much bezel at top and bottom.
AMOLED provides less than realistic colours, if its anything like the SII and youre used to a properly calibrated TV/PC Monitor you'll laugh.
Having had a pentile display phone before the One X (Droid 3) no matter what the PPI youre going to notice the Pentile matrix on font and icon edges if you have the screen relatively close to your face, like when you're reading it in bed or something. Minor niggle but it annoyed me. Reading on the One X is like reading a magazine, it looks printed on.
The only positive for me is the bigger battery, but in real world usage i.e. Web Browsing itll only offer you about 40 mins more according to GSM Arena due to the high draw of the AMOLED display on white. Video life is about 4 hours longer, though. Saying that, if you have time to watch a video you'd be in a situation where you could use HTC's small battery bank to see you through it on the one x and have battery left to play with on a flight or long outing (should have a car charger so incar use wouldn't be an issue).
Regarding the above, GSMArena's battery life tests are very unscientific. The One X's display is among the brightest, and far brighter than the SII (double brightness nearly) so if the SIII is the same, the battery life at similar brightness to the One X's default levels would be negligable in texting/browsing/everyday use, again, bar video playback.
There is also the element of standing from the crowd a little - the One X is in my opinion (and many reviewers) the best looking phone to date - It matters to me to enjoy looking at something I use so often, so it helps.
Custom ROMS will come as well, its a major device with global variants so CM9 support will come I'd assume.
As far as build goes, I have sent one back but only because I'm very picky and the screen gap on the left was a tiny bit too much for my liking but I'm pretty sure 75% of the people on the replacement threads have got OCD with the number of replacements theyre having, or they use their phones punishingly. I didnt have flicker after the latest OTA either. The flex is the major issue regarding build, but my Dad's iPhone has the same thing if you press on the edges of the screens, every phone has it.
---------- Post added at 03:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:39 PM ----------
azsamsancho said:
The truth is i am bored with my samsung galaxy S... so if i get the S III will be the same feeling. I always though HTC phones look sexier and simply better.. but looking at some reviews a couple of things scare me. For example, when browsing the way it redraws while zooming; multitasking when switching programs also redraws.. the small battery also does not give me great confidence..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Im a fairly heavy user and the battery is great for me.
Streaming radio/and mp3 is all done with the companion core for example and with screen off the battery graph is basically flat even whilst streaming over HSPA for a good while.
I can get 4/4hr30 web browsing and if you think about it, you don't need any more than that - with any phone nowadays youre looking at an overnight charge really so it makes no odds whether that number is a bit less or a bit more.
The browser redraw is instantaneous, and looks good - the text fades and fades back as an effect rather than jerking all the text round like opera - you dont notice the time it takes.
Multitasking Fix This may be of great use - it was to me on my Droid 3 and I noticed weird settings posted on here in HTC's default Build.prop that explain IMO the memory Issues people are perceiving.
Multitasking can easily be fixed in build prop. Some of the default HTC settings baffle me. Or use RomToolbox by JRummy
Ive not rooted yet but on my D3 (512mb ram) I used dirty ratio 70% (HOX default is 0%....!) Dirty background 90% (Hox default is 30%) and vfs cache pressure 10. Hox default is 100. This makes android flush the cache less often, saving battery and eliminating stutter, keeps apps in background ram leaving you where you left off and doesn't negatively impact on battery life or degrade performance over time. I've no idea why the HOX's default settings are so aggressive - unless they thought users might get an errant app, leave it running and complain when they dont know why the battery is draining... kill OOM allocating task was also a yes.
On my Droid 3 with the above settings, I could infinitely multitask (VM Heap of 48mb - but on HOX you could easily double that for more tabs in browser etc) and my battery gained a perceived time of about an hour at least - maybe more, due to the apps always remaining open and CPU time not having to be used reopening them and redrawing the past state they were in because theyve been pushed out of RAM.
I researched the above for ages when I had my D3 (even with 512 ram Moto's settings were way less aggressive than HTC's are at default) and made sure they wouldn't cause lag over time, or loss of performance over time - as well as providing optimal battery life.
Finally!
If you're planning on keeping the phone for some time (I can't see much that can improve on this, heck I wouldnt have got rid of my D3 had i not bricked it!) HTC are very good with software updates, the best around on unbranded devices really. They've just listed devices to recieve ICS - and those included some devices that were 18 Months old with a single core processor. This would suggest to me the One X will not only get Jelly Bean, but probably the next iteration (Released end of summer/fall 2013 most likely), should the hardware requirements not change massively (although 1gb RAM and Quad Core looks pretty safe for 18 months IMO).
azsamsancho said:
The truth is i am bored with my samsung galaxy S... so if i get the S III will be the same feeling. I always though HTC phones look sexier and simply better.. but looking at some reviews a couple of things scare me. For example, when browsing the way it redraws while zooming; multitasking when switching programs also redraws.. the small battery also does not give me great confidence..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I myself am coming from a galaxy s. Not sure how much the amoled screen is worse than the s2 on the s1 in comparison. I do know,however, that this super LCD2 screen on my htc one x is a thing that's going to be difficult to leave should I ever have to decide between this phone or a super amoled phone in the future.
Browsing-wise: I think we are all going to end up using google chrome in the long run. With the updates it gets, i believe it's sooner or later going to be the browser everyone's going to replace their original browser with.
I personally use google chrome browser on my phone myself. It's much faster than other IMO. Especially loading time is amazing and super smooth.
Battery is debatable. Personally, I wish i could squeeze an hour more hour out of my phone. On a full use I easily hit the 3 hours mark screen on time(3h 10m~). Probably just like most One X owners. Depending on your phone usage though, it's safe to say that the battery life on the HTC One X on standy by is godlike Seen people go for 4 days.
The highest i have reached was 3 hours 31 minutes. I think i could have even exceeded that by now but i just don't bother anymore and plug the phone in before it depletes.
It gets me through a day with ease plus i don't know what htc is up to. As far as I know this phone still needs optimization(take what i say with a grain of salt on this part). As I have no idea if the battery is going to improve in future or not. Just my gut feeling tells me it is, but a gut feeling is just that, a gut feeling. I wish HTC would at least communicate with us users more. Really kind of disappointing on their part.
Oh well, this is the insight i'm capable of giving.
p.s: i'm not one of those users who had to send his phone in for multiple replacements. So yeah, i can understand the users who do suggest the S3 for alone that reason. Because we all just want a phone that functions and don't want to constantly have it replaced just to replace it again.
Good day!
Any possible enhancements from ROMs or Kernels for the HOX will also come out for the S3 so you're best looking at them stock vs stock and decide that way IMO.
mardon85 said:
Any possible enhancements from ROMs or Kernels for the HOX will also come out for the S3 so you're best looking at them stock vs stock and decide that way IMO.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah! This is actually true as well. Considering the fact that SG3 has got more support. Or at least that's what I always read and i don't doubt it. Probably a customized rom for the gs3 will be running better than the one x's.
Other negatives for the HOX include quality control with the screen flex and squeeky noises at least thats what I get!
With s-on am currently locked down so am having to wait for the network provider to bring about all the fixes in the updates unless I use custom roms but then I can't change the radio etc due to s-on..... Would be great if the phone was cracked in that sense.
Also the soundchip is not that great, could be better.
Battery is bad for me due to being on older firmware so screen on time is about 2hrs and the battery is dead.....
Currently sent mine back to htc due to hardware issues.....
I would wait to see the SIII however i cant't see samsung moving away from using inferior plastic for the shell. This spoils everything.
Also, the cool software will be ported shortly therefore I can't see a reason for choosing the SIII over the HOX. It's all about feeling in the hand........
Sense is very beautiful! And i like the style of htc phones look like
I think i need to wait till S III is available near me and check it out how it feels. reviewers say it feels better than the HOX due to the curved edges...
Its a matter of choice. Both HTC and samsung stock UIs are horrible in my eyes. The main differentiating factor is the more powerful CPU in the galaxy s3, expandable memory and removable/better battery. Its downsides are the pentile display and cheap look.
Both will come with many custom ROMS so flashing a custom rom holds no advantage for the one X
If your getting the HTC ONE X over the Galaxy S3 get ready for some poor battery life
Don't know what you guys expect with battery life on the one x to be honest, I love my HOX , I can run it with several phone calls and texts, bit of browsing on here, read books daily and usually get a couple days out of the battery, yes, if you hammer it with games like riptide, then be prepared for it to eat battery, but I imagine that will be no different on any quad core phone
Sent from my Flexreaper Powered BEAST !!!
Hey everyone, first off I want to apologize for creating a topic like this. I have been reading up on both phones through website, reviews and topics here on XDA. I just cant seem to make up my mind.
The one X has no removable battery when the battery is 1800Mah which is pathetic considering I am running a 1900Mah in my outdated HTC Sensation. This is a big downside to me; the S3 has a 2100Mah battery which is removable which is a big plus. I was looking at both battery life threads for the international versions and both seem good though. Could you guys possibly comment on this?
The cpu and gpu's of both phones are also interesting. The Exynos seems better then the Tegra 3 and coming from a S3 powered Sensation I do not want another laggy phone.. Please comment on this, possibly a link to another topic if it was made before.
Memory is not a big issue for me, 32gb is plenty.
I heard that the screen on the One X is better and easier on battery life, is this true?
Last thing is development; I love flashing new Roms and have been spoiled with the Sensations awesome developers. Does the international One X have the great support the Sensation has?
Thanks a ton guys!
Tegra is more than cape able
Sent from my HTC Desire using xda app-developers app
y will be the battery life be same. have you seen the battery stats thread. battery life is worse. thats the only thing that is holding me back to buy the 1x. tegra 3 consumes more battery than exynos. my friend is using 1x. he said that he can hardly use his phone because of this bad battery life. i am waiting for the OTA. hope it improves the battery life. if so then i will instantly buy the HOX
Come one One X board, Bump!
I just got the S III. I compared it to the One S (different than the One X I know) and was disappointed in the HTC. Not having a memoir card slot was a deal breaker.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2
Hi
muid02 said:
y will be the battery life be same. have you seen the battery stats thread. battery life is worse. thats the only thing that is holding me back to buy the 1x. tegra 3 consumes more battery than exynos. my friend is using 1x. he said that he can hardly use his phone because of this bad battery life. i am waiting for the OTA. hope it improves the battery life. if so then i will instantly buy the HOX
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
When using the phone the majority of power is used on the screen, so I can't see how any update can make the screen use less power unless it turns it down to such a low brightness it can hardly be seen, and you can do that yourself without waiting for new software. Waiting for an OTA that is suddenly going to make the battery last a lot longer is going to be a long wait. Yes it might get tweaked to give a few more minutes here or there, or contain fixed software bugs that was causing the phone to draw too much power in standby, but it can only do so much.
You can get attachable battery backs for the HTC One X now which will greatly extend the runtime, but it will make the phone physically larger.
If you can't live with the HTC One X battery runtime, stop contemplating it and get the S3. If there is something you don't like about the S3 which makes you favour the HTC One X, then sometimes you have to have accept one limitation over the over and just make a decision.
Regards
Phil
I have had the S3 for a week and love the phone. However I am switching back to my international one x. The biggest reason for me is connectivity and I miss the screen on the one x. The screen on the S3 is nice, but when you put it side by side with the one x the one x just pops. Samsung incorporated a lot of very nice software customization however the one x feels a bit more refined. Both are dynamite phones, I do find that the one x drops calls much less than my S3 which has become very frustrating to me.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Tapatalk 2
If you are looking for a phone that is completely lag free out of the box go for the s3.
IF YOU HANDLE PHONE ROUGHLY DON'T BUY S3 AT ALL IT BREAKS AT SLIGHTEST FALL
SCREEN HOX
BATTERY S3(20% MORE USAGE)
ROMS S3 BUT HOX IS NOT BEHIND BY MUCH
UPDATES TO LATEST ANDROID HOX LOVE HTC FOR FASTER UPGRADE
CAMERA BOTH ARE EQUAL IN IMAGE IN VIDEO S3 IS IMPRESSIVE
DISPLAY S3 IS NO WHERE NEAR ONE X DISPLAY.
NOW THATS A REVIEW FOR POWER USER FOR CAUSUAL USER BOTH PHONE STANDS EQUAL AT PERFORMANCE. S3 GETS TOO HOT WHILE HTC ONE X GETS HOT BUT IT COOLS DOWN QUICK. WITH NEW UPDATE HEATING WILL GET BETTER ON ONE X.
ONE X DESIGN OMG!!!!!!!!!! SIMPLY SUPERB. EVERYTHING IS TOO GOOD COMFORTABLE HOLD SLIM SEXY CURY BODY LIKE A HOT CURVY BABES. S3 BODY LOL 10 YEARS OLD GLOSSY SHINY SLIPPERY PLASTIC PRONE TO SCRATCHES. FLIMSY BACK PANEL. THE SPEAKER BESIDE CAMERA RUINS THE DESIGN ITS SO YUKKY FOR ME.
OVERALL BOTH PHONES WILL SATISFY YOU WITH PERFORMANCE WHAT YOU NEED IS UPTO YOU. IF DESIGN IS IMPORTANT GO FOR ONE X AND IF REMOVABLE BATTERY MICRO SD SLOT IS MORE IMP GO FOR S3(THOUGH U WILL GET A DAY USAGE ON ONE X TOO)
LAST POINT SENSE IS STILL THE KING OF ANDROID OS CUSTOMIZATION AND NOW I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT SENSE IF YOU LOVED SENSE ON SENSATION DONT BUY S3 U WILL BE UNABLE TO BEAR TOUCHWIZ UI
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Joshua3109 said:
Hey everyone, first off I want to apologize for creating a topic like this. I have been reading up on both phones through website, reviews and topics here on XDA. I just cant seem to make up my mind.
The one X has no removable battery when the battery is 1800Mah which is pathetic considering I am running a 1900Mah in my outdated HTC Sensation. This is a big downside to me; the S3 has a 2100Mah battery which is removable which is a big plus. I was looking at both battery life threads for the international versions and both seem good though. Could you guys possibly comment on this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Battery depends on how to use it. Since you're going to unlock the phone there are lot of stuff you can do to improve the battery life. I can easily get 3.5 to 4 hours of screen time and last more than a day. The standby time of One X is great.
The cpu and gpu's of both phones are also interesting. The Exynos seems better then the Tegra 3 and coming from a S3 powered Sensation I do not want another laggy phone.. Please comment on this, possibly a link to another topic if it was made before.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Now we have achieved GPU overclock so gaming performance will improve much more than before. I'm a minimalistic lover so lesser widgets and apps never had any lags. When comparing with the leaked firmware the UI is butter smooth and we have a lot of tweaks to make it even better.
Memory is not a big issue for me, 32gb is plenty.
I heard that the screen on the One X is better and easier on battery life, is this true?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It again depends on how you use it. We have tweaked the auto brightness values to even lesser to improve the battery so Yes it's better.
[/QUOTE]Last thing is development; I love flashing new Roms and have been spoiled with the Sensations awesome developers. Does the international One X have the great support the Sensation has?
Thanks a ton guys![/QUOTE]
We are atleast 7 to 8 custom ROM's, 3 different variants of CM9 and AOKP, then MIUI as already have a early port of JB. So I can proudly we have best set of developers here :good:
---------- Post added at 04:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:37 PM ----------
hapticc said:
IF YOU HANDLE PHONE ROUGHLY DON'T BUY S3 AT ALL IT BREAKS AT SLIGHTEST FALL
SCREEN HOX
BATTERY S3(20% MORE USAGE)
ROMS S3 BUT HOX IS NOT BEHIND BY MUCH
UPDATES TO LATEST ANDROID HOX LOVE HTC FOR FASTER UPGRADE
CAMERA BOTH ARE EQUAL IN IMAGE IN VIDEO S3 IS IMPRESSIVE
DISPLAY S3 IS NO WHERE NEAR ONE X DISPLAY.
NOW THATS A REVIEW FOR POWER USER FOR CAUSUAL USER BOTH PHONE STANDS EQUAL AT PERFORMANCE. S3 GETS TOO HOT WHILE HTC ONE X GETS HOT BUT IT COOLS DOWN QUICK. WITH NEW UPDATE HEATING WILL GET BETTER ON ONE X.
ONE X DESIGN OMG!!!!!!!!!! SIMPLY SUPERB. EVERYTHING IS TOO GOOD COMFORTABLE HOLD SLIM SEXY CURY BODY LIKE A HOT CURVY BABES. S3 BODY LOL 10 YEARS OLD GLOSSY SHINY SLIPPERY PLASTIC PRONE TO SCRATCHES. FLIMSY BACK PANEL. THE SPEAKER BESIDE CAMERA RUINS THE DESIGN ITS SO YUKKY FOR ME.
OVERALL BOTH PHONES WILL SATISFY YOU WITH PERFORMANCE WHAT YOU NEED IS UPTO YOU. IF DESIGN IS IMPORTANT GO FOR ONE X AND IF REMOVABLE BATTERY MICRO SD SLOT IS MORE IMP GO FOR S3(THOUGH U WILL GET A DAY USAGE ON ONE X TOO)
LAST POINT SENSE IS STILL THE KING OF ANDROID OS CUSTOMIZATION AND NOW I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT SENSE IF YOU LOVED SENSE ON SENSATION DONT BUY S3 U WILL BE UNABLE TO BEAR TOUCHWIZ UI
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Dude what's up with the caps ... Caps mean your yelling at the OP
Edit: multi quote didn't work out that well.
Good points made, I'd like to add that battery life of both phones is nearly the same, sIII has an edge by a margin. Danes goes for benchmarks.
I was chatting with this friend of mine who just got an SIII, he was whining about the battery life after having his brightness at lowest and sync off.
Developer support is great like ShyamSasi mentioned.
Choose after keeping in mind what's more important to you
1)Design
2)removable battery
3)expandable memory
4)sense vs touchwiz
5)tegra powered games
6)amoled vs slcd2?
hapticc said:
IF YOU HANDLE PHONE ROUGHLY DON'T BUY S3 AT ALL IT BREAKS AT SLIGHTEST FALL
SCREEN HOX
BATTERY S3(20% MORE USAGE)
ROMS S3 BUT HOX IS NOT BEHIND BY MUCH
UPDATES TO LATEST ANDROID HOX LOVE HTC FOR FASTER UPGRADE
CAMERA BOTH ARE EQUAL IN IMAGE IN VIDEO S3 IS IMPRESSIVE
DISPLAY S3 IS NO WHERE NEAR ONE X DISPLAY.
NOW THATS A REVIEW FOR POWER USER FOR CAUSUAL USER BOTH PHONE STANDS EQUAL AT PERFORMANCE. S3 GETS TOO HOT WHILE HTC ONE X GETS HOT BUT IT COOLS DOWN QUICK. WITH NEW UPDATE HEATING WILL GET BETTER ON ONE X.
ONE X DESIGN OMG!!!!!!!!!! SIMPLY SUPERB. EVERYTHING IS TOO GOOD COMFORTABLE HOLD SLIM SEXY CURY BODY LIKE A HOT CURVY BABES. S3 BODY LOL 10 YEARS OLD GLOSSY SHINY SLIPPERY PLASTIC PRONE TO SCRATCHES. FLIMSY BACK PANEL. THE SPEAKER BESIDE CAMERA RUINS THE DESIGN ITS SO YUKKY FOR ME.
OVERALL BOTH PHONES WILL SATISFY YOU WITH PERFORMANCE WHAT YOU NEED IS UPTO YOU. IF DESIGN IS IMPORTANT GO FOR ONE X AND IF REMOVABLE BATTERY MICRO SD SLOT IS MORE IMP GO FOR S3(THOUGH U WILL GET A DAY USAGE ON ONE X TOO)
LAST POINT SENSE IS STILL THE KING OF ANDROID OS CUSTOMIZATION AND NOW I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT SENSE IF YOU LOVED SENSE ON SENSATION DONT BUY S3 U WILL BE UNABLE TO BEAR TOUCHWIZ UI
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What's with the caps lock?
Body like hot curvy babes xD lol!
Sent from my HTC One X
Go into a store with both the S3 and the one x and try them. I prefer the one x personally because it looks nicer, the screen is far better and in my opinion htc sense > touchwiz. But you might think differently so id recommend trying them out.
Got to play with a white GSIII alongside a white HOX yesterday (mine is grey).
Here are my two cents:
Looks
Visually, there's just no comparison between the two. On comparing the two devices side by side, HOX smokes SIII. Even all my friends who were with me thought the same. HOX looks infinitely better than GSIII.
Performance and Processors
Performance wise, the Exynos on the GSIII is a tad faster than the Tegra3 on the HOX, but honestly with such a high processing power, the differences in performance will be negligible, if at all visible.
One thing worth considering here is that with Tegra3, you get the advantage of a lot of great games that are optimized for it and offer a much better visual experience than on other processors.
Display
Now the display. Both are very high resolution, but the one on the SIII is a pentile one and is AMOLED. Now I know that the ppi on both are extremely high, but to the eyes of a discerning user, the difference in sharpness is visible. The display on the HOX looks sharper.
Some people prefer amoled, others prefer LCD. Personally, I find the colors to be a little too "punchy" on AMOLEDs. But you may have a different preference. Try playing with it before making a decision.
Now to the most important part and the reason most of us are here:
Custom ROMs
S-OFF hasn't yet been achieved by the HOX community, and that makes flashing custom ROMs a tad more tedious. Flashing custom ROMs on SAMMY devices is generally more hassle free.
Quality wise, the HOX community has some truly amazing devs and the ROM scene is very exciting.
User Experience
In the end, both of these are amazing devices. Play with both of them and decide which one you like better. TouchWiz vs. Sense is another very subjective topic and you'll have to judge on your own. But if you're planning on running AOSP, they don't really make a difference.
Camera
Haven't tested the camera on the GSIII, but I'm sure it's amazing. But so is the one on HOX. I think you could pick either one of them without really looking into this. If you're looking for serious photography however, I'd suggest you look for a good DSLR instead.
Guys thanks so much for the awesome replies! No S-off, oh no I don't like that; the S3 has S-off I'm assuming?
I think I am leaning towards the S3 though; the removable battery is making the difference for me. Also, coming from a laggy Sensation I want all the processing power I can get to avoid any lag in the future; I hate lag!
Both phones have a quad core processors. Idk why anyone even says theres possible lag on quad core phones. The Samsung has an amoled screen which means any white pictures or anything white that pops up drains battery amazingly faster. Sense 4 is rock solid and just flows good. Touchwiz is all over the place with cool features that you'll probably forget you have eventually. I feel like the gs3 to the gs2 is like the iphone4s to the 4. Its just a better looking gs2 with more **** on there., but unorganized. The galaxy s 4 will definitely be amazing because Samsung vowed to work on their software more than anything.
Battery wise, the gs3 seems like it takes up more resources than the one x because the u.s version has an extra gig of ram. My friends gs3 from att has **** battery life compared to my one x variant.
HTC is also obviously the underdog in phone sales so it would make sense that they would put more effort in building a high quality phone, which they clearly did. Samsung knows there on top so they overly marketed their phone everywhere and now its really popular, still top notch, but it was released before it was perfected.
Sent from my EVO using xda app-developers app
I came from a i9100. I sold it before the i9300 came out so I could get more for it. I got a One X but planned on selling it once the SGS3 was released. I used a S4 SGS3 in Japan for two days and decided to keep the One X. There are 162 pages of debate on the SGS3 forum discussing both phones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652250
Here's why I kept the One X vs. getting a SGS3 as posted in that thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27663514&postcount=1525
Keep in mind that the first 2/3's of that comparison thread was written before the SGS3 came out when people were comparing a utopian vision vs. the One X which had been out for a few months. Things have changed because the SGS3 has its share of issues. Most center on the display (defects, dimness), available RAM (the S-Crap reserves a large amount of memory), battery drain (wakelock issues), fragility (the edge-to-edge glass panel breaks easily), and QC (bezels cracked, hyperglaze defects, and the physical home button being recessed instead of raised).
At least to me, the One X's most outstanding feature is its display. I wasn't impressed with the SGS3's; especailly side-by-side. Displaymate is a professional display testing and evaluation company. They wrote up a review of the SGS3's display. It's not too flattering.
http://www.displaymate.com/OLED_Galaxy_S123_ShootOut_1.htm
The One X was rushed to market by HTC, probably to get there ahead of Samsung and the SGS3. There were build issues, s/w and driver bugs, and some h/w problems. The launch didn't go exceptionally well. Some issues still exist but the chatter's died down considerably so you can assume things have improved as more phones have been built.
If you look at the way the One X is put together, the "phone" is a single unit and slides in to the single-piece polycarbonate body. Tolerances are pretty tight and probably difficult to achieve in mass assembly. The biggest issue is a Wi-Fi fault created when the connectors on the body aren't correctly aligned with the antennas on the shell during assembly. The connectors use dynamic tension so compressing the back of the phone can also affect Wi-Fi performance. Based on a rough tally, 200-400 owners on the forum are affected against a total of about 5K. The "fix" put in place by HTC are spacers to keep the back from being compressed. Where the connectors are isn't an area likely to be compressed (unless someone intentionally compresses it) and the fix is more of a safeguard. The design itself hasn't been changed and the majority of phones aren't affected. I'm sure HTC's adjusted the assembly process either through better training or new methods of getting the phone body in to the shell. HTC phones have their build month identified in their serial number. The "3" in XX23 means March and so on. I have a early-build HT23 and it's been pretty much flawless in every way so not all early-build phones had problems. A poll that was run with 1K people voting where the question was asked “is your One X perfect?”, 70% said yes. As in anything mass produced, later versions tend to have better tolerances through tuning of the build process over time.
There's been a leak of a pretty substantial update to the One X that's due out soon. It moves the phone to 4.0.4, improves battery life, performance and benchmarks, enhances the browser, and addresses a lot of little issues that bugged people. Read that thread and it'll give you an idea of what to expect.
Keep in mind that if you intend to root your phone you'll be completely giving up your warranty on the One X where Samsung's still pretty liberal. More people need to take that in to consideration before they buy the One X.
Overall, I'm happy and there's no phone out there right now I'd rather have. Friends I've recommended the phone to are happy also. Good luck with your decision.
@Op, did you duplicate the same thread in S III forum because that's not allowed neither by forum rules but
the most fair thing don't you think? Otherwise you should have used general section.
I'm a pain I know but reading the forum rules or use your common sense is probably a pain too.
Another 'SPOON FEED' thread, aargh !!!
Look how many threads about the same subject exist, '2 sec using the >>> SEARCH BUTTON'
@Moderators,
Thanks for moving thread. :good:
Sorry for caps guys i didnt knew it meant that way
Hi all,
I currently have a nexus one, and am debating on whether I should upgrade and if so, what to. I am limited to ATT but my contact is up so I can take advantage of discounts w/ new contract.
I have liked my nexus one because it is:
-well built, nice looking
-free of att crapware
-allows me to tether
-vanilla android OS (currently cm7 because ICS and JB are just too slow and buggy on it)
I dislike my nexus one because:
-the keyboard is garbage. I dont know whether it is the specific touchscreen, or the screensize, but sometimes I have a hard time typing on it
-still running GB, ICS and JB just feel slow on it.
I wonder if a bigger screen may help me see more (ie. since right now the keyboard takes up a majority of the screen when it is out) and make typing easier. But a bigger screen seems a little harder to wield with one hand...
I had been looking at both the samsung s3 and htc 1x, but want the stock android experience (no touchwiz or sense junk. I realize I may need to wait a little bit of time for roms to be developed, which is OK). I know that the xperia ion and atrix hd have similar specs, but for whatever reason I had not really considered them options. Basically, I see pros and cons to both the 1x and s3, some of which are my opinion:
1x Pros:
-great build
-great screen
1xCons:
-power button can be hard to reach
-not expandable memory
s3Pros:
-expandable
-maybe better power button placement
s3Cons:
-cheap plastic, cheap looks
-easy to press volume keys when pressing power
However, I suppose the biggest requirement I have is that I want the ability to run a clean, stable, vanilla ICS or JB rom (cyanogenmod, or ASOP would be great). Here are my questions(finally!):
1. which phone will (or does) have more hacker development?
2. I assume that given the correct stock software on the 1x, both will be just as easy to hack?
3. I am not against a phone with a smaller screen, but I do want one that has plenty of power...
4. Any other thoughts for me to consider?
THANKS!
For stock rom you're going to want the S3 for sure. HTC phones are known for being littered with issues on ship, most of which only being bearable/solvable through root and rom installation. Even flashaholics find themselves sticking to stock on the S3, TW5 just works wonders, and has got a ton of great features. The development on the S3 is no doubt much better than the One X, I'm not sure why it matters though if you're sticking to stock. The cameras on both I hear are fantastic, and they're both using Krait S4 chips. Again, on S3's side the battery life is unparalleled, 6 hours of screen time is the rumor going around It really doesn't look cheap, but that's just me. Get what you want, those are my opinions though. Good luck
MultiLockOn said:
For stock rom you're going to want the S3 for sure. HTC phones are known for being littered with issues on ship, most of which only being bearable/solvable through root and rom installation. Even flashaholics find themselves sticking to stock on the S3, TW5 just works wonders, and has got a ton of great features. The development on the S3 is no doubt much better than the One X, I'm not sure why it matters though if you're sticking to stock. The cameras on both I hear are fantastic, and they're both using Krait S4 chips. Again, on S3's side the battery life is unparalleled, 6 hours of screen time is the rumor going around It really doesn't look cheap, but that's just me. Get what you want, those are my opinions though. Good luck
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Just wanted to be clear you understood me when I said "stock". I am referring to vanilla android ICS or JB, NOT the Sense/Touchwiz-modified versions...does the s3 still present a better alternative here?
On a side note, is there a good, fast, alternative with all the above requirements in a slightly smaller form factor? maybe something between my n1 and the s3?
You might want to check out the Atrix HD. It got great reviews and is said to provide a "near" vanilla experience.
lowandbehold said:
You might want to check out the Atrix HD. It got great reviews and is said to provide a "near" vanilla experience.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well that phone is tempting, but it seems as though its battery life is not as good as the one x or s3.
I know that there are custom roms on the onex and s3 now, any way to judge which is "easier" to port/work with? this may give me an idea as to which will have more development for it in the future.