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hey guys this is Austin and today I'm here with a review of the HTC One x+ for AT&T with a more powerful processor 64 gigabytes of storage and a bigger battery let's see how it stacks up first the bad news this is only a slightly tweaked upgrade from the standard One X the good news is that the original One X was and still is an excellent phone and this brings some nice improvements on top of that build quality is still very good as the phone is made out of a single piece of polycarbonate code and a soft touch finish up front you'll find the 1.6 megapixel front facing camera along with the speaker grille and hidden notification LED below or your capacitive back home and multitasking buttons and finally there's the 4.7 inch display this is unchanged from the One X and it's still among the best screens out there only passed up by the HTC Droid DNA viewing angles are excellent saturation is right on and it gets reasonably bright from the side you can see the phone is slightly tapered which gives it a nice look and feel in the hand I'm not a big fan of the placement of the microUSB port however as it's a bit awkward but not a big deal around back you'll see the 8 megapixel camera with LED flash along with Beats Audio branding and the speaker he's reasonably loud but it's very easy to cover up with a single misplace finger when you're using the phone overall besides a couple small nitpicks the hardware gets a thumbs-up for me it's still leather nicest Android phones out there to use the HTC One x+ is running Android 4.1 jelly bean with the HTC Sense 4 plus skin there are several improvements including the addition of Google now which continues to get better and better it's a step up from the One X and a general quite fast but it does tend to drop frames occasionally making it not quite as smooth as some of the latest Android phones since itself isn't bad but it still strikes me as being a lot heavier than it needs to be the UI tends to be a bit bigger and display a lot more chrome than as necessary and then some changes like the app switcher are just flat-out slower and less intuitive to use it in stock Android or even TouchWiz on the galaxy s3 or Note 2 it's certainly not all bad but I really do think senses in need of a redesign the camera is unchanged and remains a solid performer let me just often look like they're over sharp with jagged edges visible in areas of fine detail but it does pull in a very nicely saturated and contrast the image it's got a decent macro mode and it's also quite quick at taking a shot which I really appreciate as it allows me to get interesting shots I might miss otherwise powering the HTC One x+ is an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor clocked at seven gigahertz along with one gigabyte of RAM and 64 gigabytes of storage this is a moderate bump in speed from the 1x and it does deliver solid performance but it is starting to fall off compared to the latest crop of Android devices call quality is quite good on the AT&T network and it does have 4G LTE onboard although it hasn't rolled out in my area yet so I did all of my testing on this still relatively fast HSPA+ network unfortunately the slightly larger battery doesn't deliver great battery life like the original 1x it will be enough to get you through a day of moderate use but don't expect much more than that the HTC One x+ has a lot of things going for it it's got a fantastic screen good build quality Android 4.1 and a relatively powerful quad-core processor with solid options like the galaxy s3 and even the original 1x to compete with the 1x plus is definitely worth a look but it really isn't able to stand out if you enjoyed feel free to check out more reviews of great high-end smartphones here and don't forget a hit at that like button and subscribe anyway I will catch you guys in the next one with the screen approaching the size of 7 inch tablets this really feels as big as a phone can get while still being pocketable I never thought I would say this but after using the note 2 the galaxy s3 seems tiny