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hey guys it's four and a minimun front pocket now calm the HTC One X now has an early build of jelly bean thanks to a CyanogenMod 10 preview and boy is it fast in this video we're going to show you what it's like and compare it to the galaxy s3 with a CyanogenMod 10 preview let's get to it now when we first reviewed the HTC One X we had a few problems with it we actually loved the hardware and the screen in particular was amazing had great contrast great color saturation one of the best screens we've ever seen on a mobile device the bad things about it were that it was running Sense 4.0 which is still a little bit too heavy and number two and worst of all it was laggy opening a folder with stutter going into the app tray with stutter all around the operating system there was lack even with a quad-core chip now project butter Android 4.1 hopes to fix the lag situation by doing a lot of cool stuff under the hood and so we were really curious to see if jelly bean could fix the 1x and in this video and you heard me say a minute ago that it's extremely fast in this video we're gonna show you that jelly bean does fix the 1x and makes it an amazing phone let's take a closer look at jelly bean on the One X now whether you're running the AT&T version of the One X or the international version of the One X there's a run out there for you CyanogenMod 10 preview with jelly bean it just takes a couple extra steps which actually took me a little bit of a time to figure out but to your benefit I'll tell you how to do it in the post on pocket now calm it requires a quick fastboot command and once you do that the operating system boots and it becomes just like any third-party ROM that you install and through the clockworkmod recovery very easy very fast and jelly bean is amazing on the 1x another note about the 1x I kind of put it in the drawer for about a month because I was using the galaxy s3 and I took up the the 1x and I was just reminded of how amazing the screen is on this thing the color saturation is true-to-life the contrast is amazing and because because of the RGB sub pixel configuration this the screen is the smoothness to it gradients are perfectly smooth you can't see pixels no matter how hard you try so it's really cool to see really better software on the One X than what came with it when it shipped so let's look at jelly bean here on the HTC One X everything is working here the only thing that might not be perfect at this battery life I've been using this phone since about 8 a.m. and we're already down 20% I've been using it a lot and screen brightness is up a good bit so maybe it's not as as bad as I'm making it out to be but it seems to be good enough to get you through the day which is always what's important so things are super fast there's no more lag that you might have been experiencing with Sense 4.0 let's go into the browser first and then we're gonna bring out the galaxy s3 and actually compare little apples to apples here no pun intended no Apple devices here at the moment so we are gonna go into the browser well actually let's back out and just go straight to pocket now and here it's coming through and let's get the galaxy s3 over here so we're gonna hit up the browser let me get pocket now loaded as the 1x which actually is about the finish is is chugging through that load okay and just like with other jellybean installations it's fast like really really fast I mean it's super responsive there's there's there's no lag very seldom do you get that checkered border that white space same as on the galaxy s3 now we can zoom in and galaxy s3 cleared up faster there and that was actually at the same time let's click on to a link and see which device gets to a link faster so we're gonna move over there panning and scrolling is just buttery smooth and we will click on the same link at the same time and they're off and let's see which gets there first we're over the same Wi-Fi network here looks like the galaxy s3 is slightly ahead ok the galaxy s3 actually won which is surprising because my previous tests were showing that the HTC One X was winning so let's go back another thing I should mention in the CyanogenMod 10 and and 9 actually for the for the 1x you get a remapping of these buttons so that will go back home this button here usually assigned to multitask now opens menu that is so that you don't get that strip along the bottom that takes up precious screen space so you might be thinking where is multitask well that's a tap and a hold of the home button just as you're used to so let's test the speed of going back home slightly faster on the 1x but really we're talking you know negligible amounts of time let's try that again I kind of did a little delay there let's go back in one more time ok the 1x slightly faster they're opening folders it's really hard to tell but the 1x if you do it at the same time the 1 is and when X is actually slightly faster they're probably on par in in probably 50% of situations the 1x seems to be faster but it doesn't really matter because both of these devices with CyanogenMod 10 are crazy fast and of course with CyanogenMod 10 you get a lot of cool features that you can tweak so let's get the galaxy s3 out of the way we'll zoom in on the screen we don't have trebuchet here yet which is CyanogenMod tens homescreen or their launcher that allows you to customize how many rows and columns you have and behaviors and so on but you do have cool system settings like you can change what shows up up here in the clock we can change the battery percentage whether we want to have the battery hidden or percentage which is always nice and we've got other other options down here for performance we can change the the processor clocking and here's a really cool feature I actually just discovered of CyanogenMod 10 if you go to language and input and you go to the settings and down here to advanced you can actually change the vibration duration in milliseconds for the keyboard by default most keyboards have this little bit of tactile feedback some devices it's way too much it feels weird but with with this with with CyanogenMod 10 and previous versions of CyanogenMod you can change that to a very granular degree so I've got a perf 19 milliseconds set up so that typing on the 1x is a fantastic experience so anyhow we'll put full instructions on how to do this on pocketnow.com it's a few extra steps than the usual loading of a third party ROM but jelly bean on the One X has fixed the 1x it is fast very very fast and web browsing is unbelievably good like really good and you know we're just happy to to see better software on the 1x of course so if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and of course as always thank you for watching that's it for now