Htc Desire X Smartphone
NEW DELHI: There is a dearth of good Android phones with a price of less than Rs 20
,000. We keep hearing how wonderful Samsung Galaxy S III or HTC One X are. But these are expensive phones, costing upwards of Rs 30,000, a price few Indian buyers pay for a smartphone.
HTC tried to address the sub-Rs 20,000 market with One V. We found the phone to be good. Design was fantastic, camera decent and the software capable. But its performance left much to be desired due to its single-core processors. Now HTC is back with Desire X. Once again the target is sub-Rs 20,000 market. On paper, at least, Desire X ticks all the right boxes. It has a 4-inch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It is powered by a dual-core processor and has 768MB RAM. It has 4GB internal storage with support for up to a 32GB SD card. It packs in a 5 mega-pixel camera. Desire X has the chops to become our favorite mid-range smartphone. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Can the (seemingly) good hardware enable the smartphone experience that we expect from Desire X? Superbly designed The phone's design, just like most other HTC devices, is almost impeccable. Desire X has inherited lots of style from One X, a flagship Android phone by HTC. It has the same rounded edges and sides curve down gracefully. The phone fits very well in the hand. Just like One X, Desire X too uses plastic. But, given the price point HTC is trying to achieve, the quality of plastic is inferior on Desire X. Though, it is not as bad as the glossy plastic that phones made by Samsung or Sony use. At 114 grams, the phone is quite light. But we said the design is almost impeccable. So, where does HTC get it wrong? Desire X has three physical buttons - power, volume up and volume down. While power button is all right, we found volume buttons to be very stiff and fiddly. Half of the time pressing it doesn't do anything. It is a minor annoyance but worth noting. Desire X is powered by Android Ice Cream Sandwich and not Jelly Bean, which is the latest version of the mobile operating software. But in terms of user interface, it doesn't matter because HTC has customized the look and feel of Android with Sense 4.0. Ideally, we will like to see all Android phones to have the default user interface but phone manufacturer find it hard to let go of their customized software. Fortunately, Sense 4 is a polished user interface. Visually, it is very good looking and goes well with the design aesthetics of Desire X. But it lacks major Android features like Google Now, an intelligent virtual assistant because that is part of Jelly Bean.
Mixed performance
In our daily use, we found Desire X to be a very capable phone for most of the tasks. The screen lacks the retina-busting pixels-per-inch (PPI) number found on high-end phones bit it is very bright, shows pleasant colours and has good touch response. Desire X performs well in general use. Web browsing is smooth, apps like Mail and Twitter work very well, GPS connectivity is instantaneous in apps like Google Navigation and call quality is fantastic. The same is true for the 5 mega-pixel camera, which shoots good pictures in daylight. However, in closed rooms or in lowlight, the pictures shot with Desire X have lot of grain. Though, we should make it clear that the situation is more or less same with almost all mid-range cameras. If clicking pictures with a phone is your primary goal, Nokia N8 is unbeatable at its current price-point. So, where is the problem? There has to be one. Desire X sells for less than Rs 20,000 and we are yet to find a mid-range phone that doesn't ask its users to make major compromises. Yes, Desire X too is not without its compromises. The problem is its processor - or rather the chipset, of which processor is one component. Let me explain it in little more detail. This is important. When companies like HTC or Samsung say their phones come with a dual-core processor, they rarely talk about the graphics side of the chip or reveal detail about the processor. Instead, they tell you that the number of cores is all that matters. Not true. Desire X is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon MSM8225 chipset. This chipset has a dual-core processor and Adreno 203 graphics chip. But unlike the higher-end android phones that use dual-core or quad-core processors based on ARM's Cortex A9 cores, MSM8225 uses Cortex A5 cores, which are not as powerful as the higher-end cores. In our use, we found the two Cortex A5 cores in Desire X were more than capable of handling most of the general-purpose tasks a user is likely to perform on his smartphone. But Adreno 203 graphics chip was the weak link. Though it allowed us to play games like Angry Birds, the experience was not smooth. Games like Subway Surfers and Temple Run, which require flawless performance, run even more poorly. More demanding 3D games like hadowgun or even Beach Buggy Blitz simply crash when they are launched..
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by: Fedrick Patrick
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