[HTC One X] jaspabt:
Quick review after 48 hours of use. I will update every couple of days

Phone Arrived Thursday - I was very excited :) As i have been using the original Desire for the past 2 years. I kept waiting and waiting for a phone that ticked all the buttons and this was it. I was tempted by the Nexus, unfortunately it just didn't WOW me when it came out.

Unboxing - Opened the packaging to be greeted by a nicely styled white box. From unboxing reviews I really thought it was plastic, but the box is in fact card. Everything is white which is a nice touch.

The Phone

The phone is big, and I am still getting used to it now. I have relatively small hands so its not really possible to use the phone fully one handed.

Build quality is top notch, I have the white HTC One X which is a beautiful looking device and feels light but expensive (unlike the SGSII which is big and cheap feeling).

The screen, as per all reviews, looks amazing. It is by far, the best looking screen I have seen on a mobile. It is considerably more responsive than my old Desire and is much more like the Ipoop, just bigger :)

As with absolutely everything on the planet, there are negative reviews and people with issues, I fortunately, have a good handset. There have been no issues at all apart from video recording. Screen works and looks perfect. Speed of the phone is great, no lag at all that I can see.

The sound quality from the speaker is brilliant, again compared to my Desire, it is at least 10 times better, both louder and clearer. I have it set at 60% volume and this is more than adequate for most needs. There is great depth (to my untrained ears) and isnt the normal tinny sounding affair of the Desire.

The camera is really nice, again a massive step up from the Desire. Video recording is not as great as I had hoped, seems to try and autofocus all the time, which results in blurry pictures when moving the camera around, assuming a software bug. Pictures are great and the flash is really really good, not once have I washed out a picture with light, very impressive.

Calls seem to be clear, although I haven't tried the speaker phone yet to see how clear it is for me and those I am speaking to.

Cant work out signal strength at the moment as I don't believe bars on the handset are a true reflection. I haven't seen any times when there has been no signal (I am with Orange-T-Mobile), but at home it shows 1 bar compared to the Desires 2.

Everything I have asked it to do so far it has done without hesitation. All applications and games I have tried have run lag free. Playing videos on the phone is a pleasure and music sound is also great.

As I have the White version, I have noticed the back gets a little grubby around the edges, simply wipes off, but something I am conscious of prior to showing it off. Hopefully the pouch I have ordered for it will sort that out.

Battery life seems really good, this is probably down to personal opinion as others feel it lacks, but again comparing to my Desire, it is significantly better. The 5th core definitely helps as when the phone is in standby the drain on the battery is negligible despite syncing multiple accounts including email, facebook etc and having Wi-fi permanently on. For example, this morning after being in standby for 7.5 hours it had used 3% of battery, my Desire used to chug 27% over a similar period.

Overall I think it is a fantastic device that does everything I want it to do. I am not a techie nor a technophobe, I was after a device that had an element of future proof (stupid 2 year contracts!), wasn't an I-Phone (I hate the way they dictate!), looked good, decent camera and HD screen.

Based on 2 days use, it is definitely a 4.5 star device. Once the Video Camera bug is sorted it will get 5 stars :)