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hey guys it's Branham and I'm in front pocket now calm the HTC One X has been HTC's flagship Android phone for much of 2012 but not to be outdone by Samsung and all the other OEMs coming out with faster and faster phones they introduced the One x+ which claims to be 67% faster than the 1x which is a good thing because in a lot of cases the One X can be laggy so does the One x+ fix everything that's wrong with the HTC One X in this video we're going to do a comparison okay so we're going to do a variety of speed tests to see if the One x+ is significantly faster than the One X HTC claims it's 67% faster thanks to the inclusion of a second-generation Tegra 3 chip is video clocking in at 1.7 gigahertz it's a quad-core chip versus the first-generation Tegra 3 it's a quad-core chip also clocking in at 1.5 gigahertz to make do with all that extra power the One x+ has a bigger battery 2100 milliamp hours compared to 1800 milliamp hours on the original One X and in terms of design they're very very similar we've got red buttons here on the bottom of the One x+ and we've got white buttons on the One X flipping over to the back we've got polycarbonate on the One X and soft touch plastic which actually feels a lot nicer on the One X +1 explose is actually a little bit heavier than the One X because of that bigger battery back here we've got a really cool looking red ring around the camera we've got no red ring here we've got Beats Audio logos down here and Flast aesthetic difference so the front-facing camera looks a little bit bigger here on the One x+ because it takes pictures at a higher resolution now the front-facing camera camera uses the dedicated image sense chip so that should provide better front-facing camera performance now I should mention that if you want a One x+ of your own you can stop by club coat UK right now they're selling these for about $600 unlocked you can bring it to the US using on AT&T use it on t-mobile or any other carrier that uses the GSM standard so the first test that you're going to run here is boot up test let's see which of these devices turns on first so tapping and holding the power buttons and release 1x plus is already a little bit faster which is good like to see the 1x plus being faster it should be faster 1x plus 1 by about 2 seconds here and we've got both of these devices set up very similarly and again they're running different versions of Android we've got a jelly bean here and Ice Cream Sandwich here which is good because that's how they come and a few things I want to point out right now both of these are on automatic screen brightness going into the settings screens they launch at the exact same time the color temperature is different between the One x+ and the One X as you can see let's zoom in on the screen and maybe you can see this the One x+ actually has a cooler screen temperature meaning as a bluish tint to it whereas the One X has sort of a warmer color temperature which gives it kind of an orangey glow it's very subtle but there's definitely a difference between the two screens which is something interesting so let's go back to the home screen here let's flip around see if we can perceive any difference here the 1 X was always a little bit laggy when opening folders when adding widgets to the home screen so actually let's tap and hold and see if we can sense any difference so we're going to drag this over here drag that over there okay one click select and not much of a difference that we can tell there let's look at opening a folder so here's a folder in a folder definitely faster on the One x+ let's do that again a little bit faster on the One x+ I haven't messed with screen animations they're both doing it the exact same time let's launch the camera one two three go interestingly faster on the One X we'll do that again okay a little bit faster on the One x+ let's switch to the front-facing camera and you're going to see a pretty big difference a little bit software differences here because of the slightly updated version of sense camera here is main forefront and it's going to be hard to tell on camera here but looking at it from my point of view I can definitely tell you that the camera the front-facing camera on the One x+ looks better so that's good if you do a lot of video chat okay so let's go into the web browser which is interestingly called browser on the 1x plus an Internet on the One X that's strange one two three go okay that was about the same time and here we are on pocket now and let's move around on the page and see see how if there's a difference we're both on the same Wi-Fi network here so in a click pocket now should be seeing the One x+ going faster and yes it's off to a faster start the One X isn't too far behind and watching for the progress bar here and the One x+ finished first we'll wait for the One X to finish we're just going to stop it here let's zoom in see which clears up text more quickly a little bit choppy on the 1x definitely and release a little clearer it actually cleared up faster on the 1x well look at that that's not good that that's one of the reasons we'd problem to the performance on the One X because it does it did stuff like this it had these white spots but here all the One x+ looks like they think maybe not I guess they didn't fix that so let's zoom into another story you know both of these devices I hate to say it are still have a little bit of lag to them alright let's see how they do with loading this next page and here they come and okay the One x+ finish first we're going to double tap the zoom in as soon as it's done on the One X and I don't want to wait for that long so it's stopping double tap okay faster on the One X plus text always looks really good on the screen it's just a matter of not having the lag now let's go to the verge which has a lot of images on the site you'll notice the keyboards are a little bit different we don't have this bottom row here on the One x+ which is good because that really took up a lot of space and that's just a software thing not a hardware thing so The Verge alright we're just going to go to right here the verge comm slash gaming when x+ is getting there a lot faster and well that was interesting the 1x just kind of came in at the last minute there so here we are let's check screen rotation speed faster on the 1x that was interesting faster on the 1x + kind of a back and forth here so let's zoom in and see how long it takes for text to clear up if I can get at the right time and release okay that was about even there again getting all this white space here on the 1x let's go into this story right here and the 1x plus finish first so generally speaking the 1x plus is definitely faster in web browsing but it still has a little bit of that lag issue which i think is attributed to the Tegra 3 which never was that amazing of a CPU especially when coupled with heavy software like sense it's another story if you're running CyanogenMod 10 but obviously we are running still sense here next test we're going to let's launch YouTube at the same time one two three go interestingly a little bit faster on the 1x ok we'll go back let's see which loads that looks interesting let's see which renders the video first faster save that for later much faster on the 1x plus let's go back to another video and see if the experience is the same ok let's check this out got some ads here ad loaded faster on the 1x plus okay so again it's faster another thing we want to check out here is the speed at which the multitask UI opens of course we have dedicated multitask button here one two three go exactly the same time there now we're in a load shadow gun which is a relatively big high FPS game so one two three go faster off the bat here with the one x+ let's put them into landscape faster a little nx+ live out a second press play at the same time good music right alright let's see which loads faster that's annoying ok one ex-boss is definitely loading the stuff faster here let's see if there's any difference in framerate loaded faster here on the 1x + spring one act X out we'll just move around a little bit and see if you notice any difference it's going to be subtle let's look at some bright spot in the sky that's a lens flare there alright some fire smoke looks pretty good bring out the 1 X 2 left here good exact same thing yeah there's really no difference here between these two games floating time is definitely faster but there's smoke looks about the same that's where the cinnamon table basis in so that was look at the differences between the One x+ and the One X as we've seen in test after test the One x+ is a little bit faster than the One X but really not by much if you have a 1 X you shouldn't feel compelled to update it wait for HTC's 2013 high-end phone or get a Galaxy s3 or something else but do not upgrade to the One x+ you have a 1 X it's pretty much a same phone just a little bit faster with better battery life of course if you're in the market for a phone the One x+ is a great place to start it's got the latest version of Android right out of the box if you like sense this phone will work well for you if you don't like sense then of course you could probably route it and put your own customer arm on it but again thanks to our friends at club coat UK for letting us take a look at the One x+ so we could compare it for you here on video and see how much faster it is than the One X if you liked this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you