[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] imranh101:
Used an HTC Vivid for 2 monthes. Then a Galaxy note for... 4 or 5 months... Have now had my HOX for 2 days.

Things I'm liking already:

Battery life. Seems to be kicking my Note's ass (which may have been to to deprecation) ... I went in to work at 95% battery at 2:30 PM came out of work at 11:30 at 56% battery. My note would have probably been at 7-13%. This is a HUUUGE plus.

Notification light. I had it on my Vivid and missed it immensly on the Note. It is sooo useful.

Screen. It's a bit smaller than the note but SOOO much better looking. Like, holy crap, pixel density, color, brightness, visibility in light, i dunno, seems better in EVERY way.

Speed/reliability of network : Have yet to have any network drops, and the speeds are higher than I was getting with my Note. (Notice : I live in an area where T-Mobile which is my provider has flipped their network over to the new radios)

Overall phone smoothness : Just everything, and I mean everything is so much smoother. Used to have REPEAT keyboard lockups, app freezes, crashes, etc. on my Note, could barely use baconreader to type... Also when it was plugged in and charging the digitizer went screwy somehow. That can't be a "plus" to this phone, because that's simply a manufacturing defect on the note... but it's so god damn nice to not have that problem.

The Bad things

No expandable memory / replacable battery. The memory thing is not so much a problem, I hardly used more than maybe 3-4 gig on my Note when I had it. I just don't use that much storage.. I stream music and movies and don't keep a whole lot of games on my phone. But I really dislike the battery part. Right now like I said I'm getting great battery life but fear that within even a year the life will be bad and I won't be able to replace it.

Placement of USB port/buttons. This is a preference of course. But having been an iPod user for years then the Galaxy Note recently, I really prefer having the USB at the bottom and the power button on the side. I find it much easier to pull my phone out of my pocket in the "ready to use" grip (thumb on right side, 4 fingers on left side, hand behind phone) then just hit the power button with my thumb. Instead now I grip it with one thumb and 3 fingers, and the pointer finger reachs up to hit the power button. It works, but not ideal (for me). Then the USB port just seems more natural to be in the bottom of the phone. I don't know, makes it dockable? Something about having it at the bottom feels "right".

The one biggest complaint I have is how weak the speaker is. At work (I work retail) after store close a lot of us play music on our phones and put them in our pockets. We have to be able to hear our walkies so we can't use headphones, so it's the phone speaker. With my note it was nice and loud, to the point where sometimes I turned it down to avoid annoying coworkers. However with the One X it seems not even half as loud, at max volume. I can half the time only hardly make out what song it is because it's so tinny and quiet. I don't believe my speaker is broken, by the way, rather just that I'm quite used to the one on the Note.

Hmmmm... That's about it. I'm loving my HOX. A LOT. It also IMO looks a lot sexier and feels nicer (ergonomically) in my hand than either my Note or Vivid did.

Whenever I need a new phone down the line, I will probably be looking away from Samsung and towards HTC, because this thing has REALLY impressed me.

I also kind of wish that it had more RAM, but you know, I've yet to have any slowdowns, so I guess 1gb is enough!

P.S. Native jellybean HOX > Galaxy Note ICS / Galaxy Note Custom rom Jellybean

SO MUCH BETTER.,