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There's fighting in the ranks as HTC's One X takes on its smaller comrade, the HTC One S.
FormHTC One X - 134.4x69.9x8.9mm, 130g
HTC One S - 130.9x65x7.8mm, 119.5g
HTC One S - 130.9x65x7.8mm, 119.5g
The HTC One S is a breath of fresh air as it's also the more radical of the two handsets in terms of a move away from HTC's conventional and frankly tired designs.
The smoothly rounded bodywork has an almost organic appearance and from the front there's only a narrow sliver of bodywork visible around the edge.
This is thanks to the addition of a slightly raised slab of black bodywork in which the screen sits and it's a very stylish feature. The One S has a slightly curved profile which lends it a modern look and it's very thin at only 7.8mm.
HTC's One X shares a number of design cues with its sibling, that multi-layered bodywork and screen arrangement is still present, though it's somewhat less pronounced. That said, it still works well here and gives the device a slick appearance, particularly with the white version.
Apart from this the rest of the design is a little more like HTC's other devices - rectangular with smoothed corners, but the proportions of the phone and some of the nifty design features make it much more appealing than any of its predecessors.
Although both handsets look great we do think the HTC One S has the edge here.
Winner - HTC One S
DisplayThe One S has the smaller display of the two at 4.3-inches, it's using Samsung's Super AMOLED technology and Corning's reinforced Gorilla Glass.
The screen sports multi-touch support along with a resolution of 540x960 pixels and a resulting pixel density of 256 pixels-per-inch (ppi). Needless to say this is pretty sharp, it might not topple the iPhone's 330ppi Retina display, but it's a competent offering nonetheless.
Comparatively, the HTC One X is better equipped, for one thing it has a larger display at 4.7-inches, which is more appealing for viewing multimedia content.
The other key point is the higher resolution of 720x1280 pixels and the use of Super IPS LCD2 technology means it gets a higher pixel density of 312ppi. Again it supports multi-touch and uses reinforced Gorilla Glass.
Both screens should offer excellent picture quality, however, the One X is a much better phone when it comes to display clarity.
Winner - HTC One X
StorageBoth phones feature 1GB of RAM and neither has a card slot for memory expansion. The One S has 16GB of internal storage while the One X has 32GB.
Obviously the HTC One X is holding all the cards here.
Winner - HTC One X
ProcessorHTC's flagship, the One X, uses a quad core 1.5GHz processor on Nvidia's Tegra 3 chipset, which features a Geforce ULP graphics processing unit (GPU).
This thing is fast, we've seen the Tegra 3 in action on Android devices before and it glides through the interface as well as easily handling intensive multi-tasking, apps and games.
However, while the One S is dual core powered, there is the big debate about whether four cores are better than two.
Qualcomm's S4 Snapdragon Krait architecture, which the One S uses, is, according to Qualcomm, faster than Nvidia's Tegra 3. Specifically, the One S is fitted with a MSM8260A chip clocked at 1.5GHz and an Adreno 225 GPU.
The logic behind Qualcomm's argument is that it uses 28 nanometre technology, which is at the bleeding edge of processor tech.
The kicker here is that Nvidia's chip doesn't, it's using an older solution.
Qualcomm also argues that it makes all its architecture from the ground up with its own proprietary components, where Nvidia buys in parts and assembles them to its own spec.
Another difference is that the S4 chip uses faster dual channel 500MHz memory where the Tegra 3 uses single-channel at 1600 MHz.
Until these handsets become more readily available (they're only just hitting UK pre-order) we won't have any clear cut answers, but in the meantime Qualcomm has us convinced, which means we think the One S may actually be the better phone here in terms of processing capability.
Winner - HTC One S
Operating SystemBoth phones run Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0, so there's nothing to compare here.
Winner - Draw
CameraHTC has gone to great lengths to ramp up the camera ability of its One range and this includes some extensive tweaking of its Sense interface software and the inclusion of a dedicated sensor chip to support the new functionality.
Both handsets use 8-megapixel backlight-illuminated sensor (BSI) primary cameras with a 3264x2448 pixel resolution, LED flash, autofocus and geo-tagging.
What they also both have is the ability to simultaneously capture video and still photographs in 1080p HD, stereo video recording, video stabilisation, face and smile detection and HDR mode.
Each supports video calling, the One S has a VGA secondary camera while the One X has a 1.3-megapixel front-facer with 720p video capture.
In the end the only real distinguishing difference is the secondary setup, and the One X has the advantage here with a much better front-mounted shooter.
Winner - HTC One X
Final ThoughtsLooking back through the ‘Winner' part of each section you would think we'd favour the One X, and there's certainly a lot to recommend. It has more storage, a sharper display and a better secondary camera.
However, the one area where it really counts is where we think the One S comes out on top, the processor.
Not only that but in the other categories where the One X appears to lose it still has an excellent spec.
Frankly we'd be prepared to take the hit on the secondary camera and storage space and display for a better looking handset with faster performance.
Besides, 16GB of storage is nothing to sneeze at, the display on the One S is still great and the primary camera is equally as good as the One X's.
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