0 HTC One X

HTC One X. The HTC One X is the flagship device from a company that clearly wants to regain its momentum as the premier provider of Android phones. It's doing this in a big way—literally. The phone's design revolves around a huge 4.7-inch, 1280-by-720-pixel Super LCD 2 screen. It is almost entirely non-reflective and should look great, even outdoors. The phone's white plastic body is solid and made from high quality materials.

The One X runs Android 4.0 with HTC's Sense UI overlay, which is implemented lighter than it has been on previous versions of Android. HTC's attractive widgets, including its clock widget, are still available, and some UI elements are improved—for instance, multitasking now involves flipping through a Cover Flow-like set of screenshots.

The One X has a new image-processing chip which HTC claims can autofocus in 0.2 seconds and go shot-to-shot in 0.7. And with HDR mode, you can take a photo with a bright background, have it balance out the foreground and background, and not need to wait several seconds for it to assemble. Another neat trick: you can shoot pictures in the middle of capturing a 1080p HD video without missing a beat. The phone has a 1.3-megapixel front camera, too.

There's also a proprietary Wi-Fi display system called "Media Link HD," which works with a dongle HTC will sell for an as-yet-unknown price. Plug the dongle into your TV, swipe three fingers up on your One X screen, and the TV will mirror your phone wirelessly, including games and videos.

The One X Comes with Beats Audio inside and Beats headphones too. While the global version of the One X will be a quad-core phone with Nvidia's Tegra 3 processor running at 1.5GHz, AT&T's LTE version uses a Qualcomm S4 instead. The phone also has 32GB of storage on board and an 1800mAh battery, both sealed in and non-expandable. The HTC One X is definitely a phone to watch.