Smartphone Reviews

The HTC One Collection members are quickly becoming the most popular mobile phones from HTC, with a total of 4 in the group at the moment the selection covers something for everyone. The most impressive has to the HTC One X, featuring some of the most advanced features for a mobile.

To start this phone looks elegant and beautiful, with a tiny frame at only 8.9mm thin it looks fragile and delicate but is far from. At just over 134mm tall and 69.9mm wide this phone houses its large touch screen perfectly and weighing in a tiny 130 grams with the battery this mobile fits in any situation. Offering a very comfortable hold you can use this phone for longer periods without it becoming a task. With a simple design this phone offers very little on the outside with just the screen, camera, HTC Logo and touch buttons but makes up for it on the inside with power and performance.

The screen, a very large 4.7 Inch HD Touch screen shows off every feature with colour and life. Bringing multimedia files, images, videos and even text to life right in front of your face you can interact with your data on whole new levels. Feel part of Games and Movies, playing the main part and getting involved in all of the action and really feel everything you do. Navigating around this phone is easier than ever with the high responsive screen, a slight touch to select features, a glide of your finger to move from screen to screen and a pinch to zoom getting you right into the best details. Movements are fluid and seamless bringing even more excitement to this user experience.

Pin sharp text, bold colours and crisp images together bring an incredible viewing experience. Watch everything with quality and with a larger screen you can see more and really feel the experience. WIth a scratch resistant screen too you can worry about the more important things in life instead of worrying about damaging your phone.

Every beautiful phone needs power and the ability to perform to the very best standards, so HTC have packed into this mobile its main feature, its most impressive feature yet to be seen on a mobile, an incredible 1.5GHz Quad Core Processor. Bringing everything to life this processor ensures that you experience everything to the very best quality. With lifelike gaming graphics, really become part of games as they come to life right in front of your eyes and realistic movie quality, play the main part in your favourite movies with every film coming to life and drawing you in.

Downloads are on your mobile in an instant so you can use them almost immediately and without the hassle of waiting around, high responsive screen and mobile means you can get things done when you want them doing, not when your phone decides to catch up and general features work at amazing speeds so waiting to use your mobile and its features is out of the question. Never miss a great photo opportunity because your camera took too long to open, make calls straight away with your contacts listed in no time and browsing the internet is now a breeze with webpages loading immediately and general usage more responsive and more enhanced than ever.

Take incredible photos and always keep your favourite memories with you with this amazing 8MP camera, with HTC Image Sense. Re-live and share your favourite memories and moments with this amazing camera that is always with you, no need to carry around a bulky digital camera anymore. Auto focus makes sure all of your photos are of crisp quality, Smart LED flash brings light to even the dullest of photos so every photo you take is full of colour and life and finally BSI Sensor makes sure that even in the dimmest of lights all of your photos are bright and bold. With not just the one camera for photo taking you can capture shots from every angle with a front facing 1.3MP camera too. Get in on all of the action and group photos or just get those profile photos for your favourite Social Networking sites. Also, for keeping in touch with friends and family you can use video chat with quality of 720p so seeing people far away is easy and only a call away.

If you are more of a video person there is something for you too, with a 1080p Full HD Video Recorder, perfect for really capturing the moments and re-living every favourite memory. Video stabilization keeps your videos clear and crisp without shaky motion and you can video your videos back with quality slow motion video capture and playback. Maybe you are in the middle of recording a video and the perfect photo opportunity comes up, well no need to worry because with the ability to capture photos even whilst in the midst of recording you will never miss a photo opportunity again.

Like the whole of the HTC One Collection this mobile is operated by the incredible Android OS, the latest version 4.0. Bringing entertainment to life and the very best to this phone you have it all. Google Play brings entertainment of all kinds to your fingertips, with the biggest selection of mobile entertainment you can imagine. Movies of every type, with Romantic Comedies, Romance, Adventure, Comedy, Action, Children, Horror, Investigative, you name it you can find it on here, from your favourite old films to the newest blockbusters. Books of every genre, fact or fiction, your favourite interests, general knowledge, your childhood favourites or the newest releases, there is something for the kids and the adults. Games or all types, something for everyone of every age you can find the best games right on your mobile and finally Apps, with an App for almost everything you can think of you can add fun or ease to your life with something simple.

Google Mobile Services are available without the need for a computer, right in the palm of your hand and even on the go. Keep in touch with Google Talk, check your mail with Gmail, look up a location with Google Maps, watch your favourite videos on You Tube and even search up important information with Google Search.

Android promises a more advanced and easier than ever to use mobile internet experience, with multiple web page browsing simultaneously, quicker than ever page loading, saving of articles for future reading when you are no longer online and syncing with your Google Chrome Bookmarks so you can have all of your favourite webpages with your even on the go.

Also featuring one of the newest, most wanted features on a mobile, Android offers Android Beam. With the help of NFC Technology you can now share data, videos, multimedia, photos, contacts, webpages and whatever else you might want to share wirelessly from device to device with just a tap of the backs.  Making sharing even easier than ever and less hassle than you can imagine, sharing is now the newest in thing. Near Field Communication technology lets you share data and files from devices wirelessly and is now featured in the biggest and best phones, with it huge success it seems sharing with no fuss is something everyone loves to do.

Not just packed with Android but this mobile, like the other HTC One phones, also features HTC Sense.   A one of a kind feature made by HTC featuring some impressive extra special features to add some variety and ease to your life. With HCT Watch you have even more choice of TV SHows and films to watch right on your mobile. Making sharing, watching and playing even easier you can now stream your phone to big screen devices via DLNA technology.

HTC Music lets you find your favourite songs, new and old, to listen to right on your mobile, and with Beats Audio Sound Enhancement you can be sure everything will sound the best it possibly can. Also from HTC Sense is HTC Image Sense, making photo taking even more exciting. Multiple shooting modes make for perfect shooting and Zero Shutter Lag means when you press the capture button your photos will be taken immediately. No waiting around and no missing those perfect photo moments.

Finally from HTC Sense is some of the most impressive features that add ease to your life. When you miss a phone call because your phone was ringing in the bottom of your bag but you could not hear it, one of life’s most annoying moments, so HTC Sense have it fixed. With HTC Sense your phone recognises when this is happening and automatically rings loud for you, so you never miss any calls, important or not.

This mobile wants you to experience the very best mobile experience you can, so with an impressive processor the performance is incredible, a great screen makes viewing amazing, so what about sound? Well with Beats Audio Sound Enhancement you can really hear everything on this phone. Music is crisp and clear with every beat clear, movie watching is complete with life like sound and gaming is even more exciting with clear sounds. Enhancing every feature on this mobile to its very peak you can really experience everything it has to offer to the very best quality.

With so much to download and save on this mobile there is going to have to be some saving space, and a lot of it. So HTC have crammed a mammoth 32GB internal memory into this mobile, just so you never run out. Download everything you could want without worrying you are running out of space, Movies, Games, Books and save everything you want to keep with you all of the time, music, messages, contacts, photos and videos. Have all of it right in your pocket for whenever you need it without worrying that space is running low.

All in all this mobile has been designed to the very best of standards, bringing everything to life with the best experiences you could expect from a mobile it seems HTC have thought of it all, and with competition on the market that is there HTC sure have gone the right way about creating a mobile.

Written by:

Laura Pyle

laura@smartphonenewsandreviews.co.uk