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this is the HTC Windows Phone 8x have what it takes to put HTC and Windows Phone back on the map I'm Jessica Dahl chord Francini and I say yes now this is definitely a flagship phone for HTC it's got a lot of high-end specs and it's gonna be on a lot of carriers specifically a Verizon AT&T and t-mobile it's gonna cost $1.99 it also comes in a variety of colors I've got the California blue color here which is my personal favorite but it also comes in red a bright yellow and black now what's interesting about this phone couple things so it's got this really beautiful design that even though it's really simple it looks very sleek it's got this really ultra black rim on the display and the color really shines through here on the speaker grille and also around the sides on the back it's much more simple looking has a soft touch finish kind of rubbery so it doesn't look altra premium here but it is very comfortable to hold and it does kind of bow out so HTC is calling that sort of their pillow look like somebody took a flat live tile and they puff some air in it be that as it may it is comfortable to hold and looks really nice on the front it's got Windows Phone 8 operating system that's the one that Microsoft just announced there is a 4.3 inch Super LCD 2 screen on here it's got HD resolution so it's very bright and sharp that means it's really nice to look at all of these live tiles here and to deal with them open up read web sites and of course scroll around and navigate there are a lot of theme colors you can choose from and HTC adds its own signature blue theme now there are many core features on here one of them is going to be actually resizing the widgets on the home screen so you can choose small medium and large sizes for those widgets there another feature is tap and Sun which uses NFC to be able to send things like documents contacts URLs and photos from one compatible phone to another Microsoft Office 2013 is also on board Nokia Maps runs the mapping portion and although it does have turn-by-turn directions there's no voice navigation however you should be able to integrate third-party apps and get your voice now that way there's also being search on here as usual there are a couple new features with being searched to give you more headlines and more information upfront you can also use voice search as well back to the hardware there is support for 4G LTE and HSPA+ for t-mobile specifically there's also a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 plus processor which just means that it's really fast there's a 2 megapixel front-facing camera that will allow you to do video chats and on the back there's an 8 megapixel camera with LED flash overall this phone is a really nice package it's easy to slip in your pocket and carry around it's pretty to look at people want to grab it up when they see it and I think this is an excellent effort by HTC and by Microsoft with Windows Phone 8 I'm Jessica's all-court in the system the HTC Windows Phone 8 X you can read the full review on cnn.com