Engadget's HTC One X Review

There's absolutely no doubt that the One X is a masterpiece of an Android device: it obliterates pretty much all of its competitors by giving even the mighty Galaxy Nexus a run for its money.

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[jsarets]

03:44 PM on 04/02/2012

The dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (Krait) is faster than the NVIDIA Tegra 3 (quad-core plus one companion core) and consumes less power. Tegra 3 is not as well-suited to phones as it was to tablets, and even then it's arguably outmoded. Android ICS has difficulty loading up more than two ARM cores, especially because the old software rasterizer from Honeycomb has been re-written for the GPU. The "Krait" cores of the Snapdragon S4 (as well as the Cortex-A15 cores of the upcoming TI OMAP5 and the next-gen Tegra "Wayne") can execute three instructions per clock rather than two, they have twice the memory bandwidth, and they are manufactured on a more energy-efficient semiconductor process. In short, they get better performance per thread and better performance per watt, which are both more important than thread-level parallelism for running modern Android or iOS. So stay away from Tegra 3. The "megahertz myth" has given way to the "multicore myth", so what we have here is the mobile equivalent of the ill-conceived Pentium 4.

[Krek]

11:19 AM on 04/02/2012

Absolutely beautiful. Over to Samsung to see what they come up with.

[Barbarian At The Gate]

10:50 AM on 04/02/2012

The Quad core phones are here. Does HTC phones work with Google Play or only with HTC's app store?

[Hardy Blacklord]

12:30 PM on 04/02/2012

Of course they work with Google Play store, like all Android phones.

[Barbarian At The Gate]

01:11 PM on 04/02/2012

Not all Android devices are made to access Google Play Store out of the Box. For some devices the user may have to root the device or sideload apps:

Kindle Fire:
SideLoading Google Play apps
http://matthewturland.com/2012/03/15/sideloading-google-play-apps-onto-a-kindle-fire/

Barnes and Noble Nook:
Root the Nook Tablet:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/install-google-apps-nook-tablet/

RIM Playbook:
Root the Playbook:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57351987-93/blackberry-playbook-can-run-android-apps-via-rooting/