HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S3 are the two most awaited phones of 2012 and the most desirable smartphones on the market at present. Both of them feature quad-core processors, large screens and running Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system (OS) which place them at the highest position among smartphones in term of functions and technology.
Are you wondering how do they excel themselves in the smartphones battle? Let’s see how do they differ!
| Samsung S3 | HTC One X | ||
| Design and build | Display | 4.8in Super AMOLED display | 4.7in capacitive touch screen display. |
| Measure | 137x71x8.6mm | 134x70x8.9mm | |
| Weight | 133g | 130g | |
| Visual | Softer look | Curved corners, features significantly harder edges and lines | |
| Design | Features a removable back plate which is useful to access to the device’s battery | Unibody design | |
| Performance | Processor | 1.4 GHz quad-core chip based on ARM Cortex A9 | 1.5GHz Nvidia Tegra3 quad-core chip |
| Operating System | Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) | Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) | |
| User interface | TouchWiz | HTC Sense | |
| Custom apps and widgets | Packed full of small features such as Voice Service, S Beam and Pop up Play which are pretty useful | Custom widgets are less cluttered and much easier to navigate | |
| Camera | Rear Camera | 8 Megapixels | 8 Megapixels |
| Front Camera | 1.9 Megapixels | 1.3Megapixels | |
| Battery | Removable 2,100mAh battery | Non-removable 1,800 mAh battery. | |
| Memory | Internal storage | 16GB |
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| Removable storage | Up to 64 GB microSDXC |
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So? HTC One X or Samsung Galaxy S3?
Well, it’s up to you because you know your need the most!




