[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] salada2k:
Hi guys, well coming over from the iphone 4s has left me impressed. I've still got my iphone 4s on standby at home, just in case, but so far it looks like its headed off too ebay. And that's saying something considering my last HTC was a Diamond, and I've been over in the iphone camp since the 3G.

Initial impressions are as follows:

- Screen is absolutely amazing, has colours that really pop, but they arent artificial like the SAMOLED screens. In my mind it beats the pants of anything I've ever seen. Guess we'll see what the Galaxy 3 brings to the table, but I'm not really a fan of pentile anyway.

- Sense 4 is actually quite good, I like it. You know, I was was bored ****less of iOS. It bored me so much I was prepared to take a chance on my first Android device, and ICS has been nothing but impressive to me so far. Sense 4 on top is cool. Perhaps Im still in the honeymoon period but I like it. It crashes every now and then, usually after I've lost signal while travelling through the subway on the train. No biggy.

- I'm impressed that I could replace almost every iOS app I had with Android variants from play. The animations aren't as nice, but we all know Google needs to give devs better tools so they can make Android apps smooth like iphone apps. Certainly not a dealbreaker for me, although I do love the eye candy.

- Eye candy, ICS and Sense 4.0 is full of eye pleasing awesomeness. It's enough to make me not notice about the shortfall within some of the apps when compared to their iOS clones. Once again its only a minor annoyance, and certainly something that Google is doing something about, and ICS is a tribute to their efforts in that space.

- Battery. Subpar. What were HTC thinking? The jury is still out on this one for me, but I took my phone off charge at 6:30am this morning, and its now 10:54am and batt is at 61%. I've been using it a lot though. I dont make battery judgements until honeymoon period is over and I settle into a more 'normal' usage pattern. But I will say the battery on the 4s is better, well, perhaps I should say the 4s' battery consumption is much lower by comparison even during heavy use.

- Design. Love it. Not missing the glass on the 4s. I really like the look and feel of the polycarbonate back. Design is really very good and pleasing.

- Form factor. For me, as big as I would want a phone, but having said that not too big. Probably perfect. Based on what I've read the Galaxy 3 being that little bit bigger would be too big (for me). YMMV.

Overall, very impressed. I took a punt on this phone and I'm happy. My ONLY and I mean ONLY gripe at this point would be battery life. Here's hoping that some custom ROM's from XDA and the killing of all these damn ads will help that, since recent research suggests that android apps drain the battery twice as much as necessary due to behind the scenes advertisement related activities. I know there's apps out there to remedy this and I plan on rooting my phone today so I can install them. Therefore as I mentioned earlier I will withhold judgement on battery life. Although I suspect the screen is largely responsible and there's not much we can do about that. Its kinda hard not to stare at it since it is so so beautiful.

Well done HTC, it's a 9/10 in my books and my 4s was only an 8/10. You've won be back.