Best Mobile HTC ONE X OR SONY XPERIA S

macho84

Ambassador of Buzz
Hi Guys i am planning to buy a smartest phone and wondering which is best of these 2 models.

SONY XPERIA S
Pro's
12 MP CAMERA( fast shooting from Standby)
High pixel 342 ppi( Good for Brower usage and Ebook reading)
Neat Look and feel
Dual core 1.5 ( Sufficient for this year not sure for next year )
HDMI PORT
Lack of gorilla glass

Con's
Medium Screen
v2.1 ( very old technology as not even v3.0HS as opposed to v4.0 available)
Fixed Battery
Micro Sim
Very weak gpu 220( Not sufficient for future games or HD games)
NO SD CARD SLOT
Disappointing old 2.3 OS as opposed to Current V4.03 ICS


HTC ONE X

Pro's

Quad core( sufficient for HD gaming and HD video's plus muti task apps)
Good Sized Screen 4.7( Hope can be easily handled by one hand and good for movies , games and browsing as well remote desk app)
Bluetooth v4.0 support( equal to wifi capable file transfer but not usefull currently)
HD media link( excellent accessories which overrides lack of HDMI PORT for screen sharing and video sharing)
gorilla glass for long life scratch proof

Cons
Lack of battery capacity as provisioned is 1800MAH( Could be atleast 2000 Mah)
LCD 2 screen being recent upgradetechnology not good enough as opposed to current SUPER AMOLED PLUS HD SCREENS
lack of SD card support.
Lack of OS optimization


With so much of research now i am confused which is good enough to go.

As the price difference is 2k max
Sony Xperia - 32k
HtC ONE X -34K

Please guide me through this touch choice i had to make from.
 

AndroidFan

Peak Oil is real!
HTC One X is superior in overall build quality, camera quality and performance as compared to Sony Xperia S...

Even though Xperia S has a 12 MP camera, but still HTC One X camera quality is better. Megapixel count isn't everything...

HTC and Sony's screens are comparable. Very good quality.

If you are confused, please check out latest Engadget Mobile Podcast where they talked about HTC One X... After listening to that podcast, I have become an HTC One X fan...

Download the podcast from Engadget Mobile Podcast 133 - 04.04.2012 - Engadget

Cheers!
 
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macho84

Ambassador of Buzz
I Agree your point after all Camera is not only the plus as supposed 8 is sufficient to get most photos in good quality.

I was wondering does 5k extra worth investing i know price will come down the line. But not sure if dual core is right now a fact. but quad core is an overkill for the battery backup.

Why they had a fixed battery is that changeble. What if i run out of backup time over the period of time. Do they replace it or it not at all required for Li Po type of battery.

I dont understand that fact of fixed battery and low battery backup.

I love to have big screen but not sure if it fits in one hand for regular usage.
 

ico

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Staff member
Wrong time to buy a flagship. Wait for 28nm Cortex A15 and Snapdragon Krait based smartphones. Buy in the second half of this year.

Plus, for some weird reason - MicroSIM pisses me off.
 
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macho84

Ambassador of Buzz
True i also agree not sure if micro sim is really bad. But apple users already using so wont be a big deal unless 5k difference worth investing.

I love to have big screen but .5 inch is that hard to handle in one hand as i have seen samsung galaxy s2 which is good enough for most of the operations.

I believe the .5 is extended breath wise to give us some more room to work out.
 

AndroidFan

Peak Oil is real!
I Agree your point after all Camera is not only the plus as supposed 8 is sufficient to get most photos in good quality.

I was wondering does 5k extra worth investing i know price will come down the line. But not sure if dual core is right now a fact. but quad core is an overkill for the battery backup.

Why they had a fixed battery is that changeble. What if i run out of backup time over the period of time. Do they replace it or it not at all required for Li Po type of battery.

I dont understand that fact of fixed battery and low battery backup.

I love to have big screen but not sure if it fits in one hand for regular usage.

Apple iPhones have had non-user-replacable batteries since 2007... Also, the last two generations of iPhones use micro-sim, which is just a regular sim card with extra plastic cut out...

I agree with ico, it is better to wait a while. Samsung Galaxy SIII might be released in May... Price of this handset will drop to atleast 30k or less... Wait for it.

Or look for HTC One S, which has a 4.3" screen, same camera and dual core Snapdragon S4 Krait-based processors. Not exactly A15-based ARM, but better than Tegra 3 Quad core...

I am keeping an eye out for that phone... It has pentile qHD screen, but is really thin 7.9mm with Aluminium unibody design... A tradeoff most people would accept...
 

sky770

Journeyman
..i am planning to buy a smartest phone and wondering..

:D

not to divert from discussion but if you want to buy a smartphone in that case you should get the Xperia S (just tried a dummy model of it at a shop today; build is of plastic but of high quality should be able to stand moderate-high strain on body).. rest of the specs you know it pretty well :)

But....... :mrgreen:

if you really want to buy the smartest phone (in terms of specs/build quality/durability/camera/price ;) ) then get yourself an LG O2X :p :D

happy hunting:cool:
 

Empirial

Youngling
Decent Still Image+Top Notch Video Rec+Excellent Sound Qlty via 3.5 mm Jack+Awesome Display = Sony Xperia S

Camera Still Image Qlty+Quad Core Power+Gaming+Metal Body = HTC One X
 

aroraanant

Explorer
Get HTC One X, its much better than Xperia S and also the price of Xperia S will decrease within just a couple of weeks
 

Sujeet

Undead!!!
HTC One -X is big battery hog mainly due to its quad core processor and most of current gen apps and game wont be making any(none actually!) good use of those xtra two cores so it would be unjust to get hands on HTC One x even when standard features such as media playback, web browsing,etc cant make us of extra core power and rather user will be sacrificing heavily on battery backup.

Dual core Xperia S is much more justified buy for normal mobile usage even can handle best HD games on Google pLay decently plus Screen is arguably bit better than One-X.
 

AndroidFan

Peak Oil is real!
HTC One -X is big battery hog mainly due to its quad core processor and most of current gen apps and game wont be making any(none actually!) good use of those xtra two cores so it would be unjust to get hands on HTC One x even when standard features such as media playback, web browsing,etc cant make us of extra core power and rather user will be sacrificing heavily on battery backup.

Dual core Xperia S is much more justified buy for normal mobile usage even can handle best HD games on Google pLay decently plus Screen is arguably bit better than One-X.

Once you design a multi-threaded multi-core app for Android, it does not matter if your phone has 2 cores or 4 cores or 16 cores... A Multicore app will use all necessary cores...
 

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
remember one thing though, Krait based X One will only be available in US (AT&T). The International one will pack tegra3.

Though One S packs dual core Krait.
 

Sujeet

Undead!!!
Once you design a multi-threaded multi-core app for Android, it does not matter if your phone has 2 cores or 4 cores or 16 cores... A Multicore app will use all necessary cores...
Lol.
Its not like that.
It will eat up pages if i would start something over multi core optimisation and multi threading systems.
In short You have a slight misconception about Multi-Core App.
There is none.
Apps or in general any piece of code(which constitutes to a whole program/software later) are optimized/designed to be scaled(work on) over fixed range of Processing cores(apparently a multi-core CPU) and are not just capable of scaling over any indefinite number of CPU core you can throw over it.

In nutshell not any multi core optimized app(dual.tri quad etc) can just automatically start crunching up any undefined number of cores.Mind It.
 
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macho84

Ambassador of Buzz
I believe 1.5ghz should be suffice for any decent app for down the line 2 years.Also this time frame is for the apps could run smoothly over the period of time. I also agree that quad core makes it faster. But we are moving with the device not a fixed one which runs on continous power so that we can compromise on power as it most important to consider.

HTC made a big mistake with sealing the battery. if they had given a chance to change any custom battery like they did over previous gen models. Atleast we would have had second thought.

Let see how the other manufactures comes with battery backup.
 
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