We've talked a few times before about HTC's One X+, which has been sounding like a relatively minor hardware refresh of the original One X, getting a slightly faster processor and supposedly improving battery life. Some newly-leaked specs give us a better understanding of what to expect, but raise some new questions about those power improvements. Supposedly, the One X+ will run a quad-core Tegra 3+ AP37 SoC at 1.6GHz, with a speed bump up to 1.7GHz when using just a single core. Like the first One X, it would arrive with 32GB flash memory and a gigabyte of RAM. What's interesting are the ...

Anyone concerned that Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC might soon evaporate in a puff of quietly brilliant smoke can rest easy; the company isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Persistent comparisons to Nokia and RIM aside, the former king of Android smartphones has a ways to go before it truly earns the overused title "beleaguered." That said, the fight does not go well for HTC. The company recently announced a revenue drop of 45% and a 23% falloff in sales guidance for the third quarter, after posting similarly dire performance numbers the quarter before. The value of its stock has also ...

If you look at the image above and you see an HTC One X we won't blame you! However, if you look carefully or at the side-shot below you will see that this phone is a big fat bastard! Of course it has the HTC and Beats Audio logos on the back, still, this is very much a knock off! Not only it comes with a removable backplate but included there in that gross box are two battery packs of 1,980mAh. You will also notice that this monster can accept two SIM cards. How many differences can you spot between this and the real deal? We told you about the thickness, the huge Beats logo, extra large ...

HTC seems to be preparing a hardware refresh for this year's One X Android, giving the phone a slight processor bump. We've been hearing about this model as the One X+, which will apparently go with a new Tegra 3+ chip and raise the phone's clock speed to 1.7GHz. Now some newly-leaked information has surfaced, supposedly right out of HTC itself, providing a little more data on the handset. This info confirms what we've heard about a 1.7GHz quad-core SoC, though doesn't go into any further detail on the silicon. It mentions that the phone will feature battery improvements over the first One ...

A 1.7GHz quad-core Android made by HTC surfaced in form of a rumor back mid last month and more recently there is talk about a certain HTC One X+ allegedly coming to T-Mobile with the same processor speed. The image above represents benchmark results on NenaMark for a certain HTC PM63100. Except for the details in the result, there's nothing to go by but these specs listed here might hint towards the One X refresh already rumored. We're looking at a 1.7GHz Tegra 3 SoC, Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean and an HD display with 1280x720 resolution. These all scream high-end (and even flagship, ...

A leaked T-Mobile roadmap from a little earlier this month mentioned an unknown HTC handset, the Era 42. That codename seemed to hint at a new G-series phone, with earlier models also taking the Era name, but a new rumor now suggests that this Era 42 will instead be a newly-refreshed HTC One X with an upgraded processor. Supposedly, the Era 42 will arrive at T-Mobile as the One X+, joining the One S already offered by the carrier. We've seen signs of this kind of One X upgrade before; a few weeks back we talked about a similar model that had appeared in some benchmark data, apparently ...

With Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out, everyone with a rather recent smartphone is wondering when will their OEM of choice release Google's latest and greatest to grace us with Project Butter for our phones. Telstra in Australia confirmed that HTC is working on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updates. While there is no ETA on when HTC will release the refresh to Telstra for testing, the carrier confirmed that the HTC One S and the HTC One XL (which is basically the American HTC One X, with the dual-core processor) should be getting it soon. How soon is anyone's guess but according to the carrier "HTC is ...

Not often we have the chance of comparing phones with excellent imaging capabilities. The Apple iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X are all known to deliver great capturing functionality (and we know we're a couple of devices short on the list, but these are the hottest at the moment). We've took the above three, plus the Nokia 808 PureView, for a spin. Pictures and videos captured in real life, side-by-side, just to make sure every tech and marketing talk on paper has a solid basis in reality. First off, let's talk pictures! In the comparisons below we have set all phones to ...