Review: HTC Desire X

Review: HTC Desire X 

Design
Relying on unique design full bar, family bring back the latest HTC Desire series, namely the Desire X. This Android smartphone has the design and look similar to previous HTC series, a glimpse of a little hard to distinguish between the series with other series, the article HTC retain earpiece design, touchpad, and the thickness of the body are relatively similar. In general, Desire X has dimensions of 118.5 x 62.3 x 9.3 mm and weighs 114 grams. Obviously from the dimensions, Desire X fairly ergonomic, especially designs each corner made somewhat curved, following the contours of the human body.

For business display, Desire X adopting super LCD capacitive 16 million colors. Resolution of 480x800 pixels on the screen with a 4-inch landscape display. To view the visual quality of the screen, can dilihar of the density of pixels, where Desire X has up to 233 ppi. Desire Screen X has a taste similar to other HTC, has adopted a version of the HTC Sense UI 4.0. In total there are 5 pages on the homescreen that you can fill with your favorite widgets.

Looking to the other side view, the top of the screen there is a proximity sensor and the earpiece, while the touchpad below the screen there are three typical HTC to function back, menu, and a recent app. On the back side, there is a camera lens, the back side of the material using an abrasive plastic dof. His name is also HTC, minimalist impression on the instrument is very highlighted, on the right side there is only a role MicroUSB port for data and charging koneski. Then on the left side of the volume button pinned. At the top there is a 3.5 mm audio port and on / off button that also acts as a screen lock.

Note
There are unique in the HTC Desire X, the article not only applies to hotswap MicroSD port, but the placement of the SIM card slot is also hotswap, where the console is located under the camera lens.



Features
As the latest series HTC Desire runs on OS X has Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich), but ICS has adopted the new series, which is 4.0.4. HTC Desire in the product segment in the middle class, but this smartphone is equipped with a 1GHz dual core processor, making the speed of business 'thinking' is superior to other Desire series.

Imaging capability is still the standard, which is located at a resolution of 5 MP camera (2592x1944 pixels) without the presence of a secondary camera on the front. The camera is equipped with a flash light, auto focus, white balance, contrast, effect, zoom, macro, ISO, night shot, face / smile detection, geo tagging, panorama, HDR (high dymanic range) and photo editor. Regarding the video recording, the resolution is pretty sharp with 800x480 pixels at 30 frames per second. Amazingly the video recording has a menu that is relatively similar to the camera. Do not forget, HTC complete with video editor.

Support is also quite promising broadband connection with HSDPA and HSUPA technology availability. WiFi standard has embraced the platform b / g / n with DLNA and WiFi tethering capabilities. Bluetooth standard also wear the latest, which is version 4.0. There's a pretty interesting application support scrutiny, ie, transfer, make it easy for you to transfer your contacts and other important data from your old phone to HTC directly. This application supports collaboration with Symbian OS and BlackBerry.

As a smartphone with a touch of Beats Audio technology, Desire X has advantages in the quality of the music player. Indeed there is no default equalizer, but no sound enhancer feature that you can enjoy quality through the headset streo, in general, the new Beats Audio can be felt through the headset connection. Desire X is also equipped with an FM radio with the ability to dynamically store channel. Not only that, the radio is also supplemented with a radio streaming app, which is TuneIn Radio.

That never left out is the presence of office applications, Desire X has been embedded applications office full version, Polaris Office. Office applications have been able to create and edit documents with Microsoft extensions. HTC is also about providing cloud storage facilities, in the case of Dropbox and Skydrive in time. Special Dropbox, given bonus free 25GB for 2 years.

Note
There is a security application, Rescue +, use a remote base with an internet connection.

Performance
As described above, the kitchen runway Desire X uses a dual core 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon. For the standard quality of the display using GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) Adreno 203. From the test results, the performance of this smartphone is very satisfying, all the features and facilities to work optimally. Compared to other fellow Desire smartphone class, this smartphone is superior to the HDR feature. For daily necessities no provision Social network applications, Rescue + and Friend Stream.

HTC Desire X is powered by a Lithium Ion battery capacity of 1650 mAh. Of this capacity, can be achieved up to 833 hours of standby time on 2G networks and 750 hours on 3G networks. For speaking time to 20 hours on 2G network and 10 hours on 3G networks.