But the non-PenTile screen is laminated, reducing glare and making colors really bright and vivid. With a rather average 800 x 480 resolution, you might not be expecting much. It's that 4-inch super LCD display that is probably one of the more surprising elements of the phone. These edges are actually sharp enough to become uncomfortable with prolonged, firm gripping. As you work upwards around the edges, that brushed finish carries on up the sides, and flanks the gloss black of the frame around the display with sharply cut edges. There's the familiar two-tone bezel at the bottom, where the brushed-finish fascia presses itself next to the matte detail cover reaching around from the back, meeting on the phone's distinctive family chin.
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Aside from the tiny drilled speaker holes up top, and the Android 4.X-flavored capacitive buttons along the bottom, the resemblance to the Desire S is strong. It's when you find your way back to the front of the device that its family lineage is most apparent.
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Once you've found your way in, though, you'll find a 1,650mAh battery, plus full-size SIM and microSD slots. The downside is that getting under the hood is a clumsy undertaking. The bonus here is that it makes the phone look like one solid unit. There isn't, however, an ingress for you to slip a fingernail under if you wish to remove it instead you'll have to work something into the gap where there's a touch more leverage (mainly around the top). This rear shell also contains holes for the headphone jack, micro-USB port and mic, as well as the power / stand-by button and volume rocker. To the left of this branding are some tiny drilled holes that cover the speaker. Beneath this is an HTC logo embossed at 90 degrees, and a Beats audio badge along the base.
The perimeter of the camera is made from ridged plastic that almost feels like a cut-out from a vinyl record. Starting at the back, the removable battery cover has a matte, almost soft-touch finish, save for a plastic section surrounding the camera lens and LED flash.
The phone's overall design takes some cues from the One line, which gives it a modern look and feel. The perimeter to the camera is made from ridged plastic that almost feels like a cut-out from a vinyl record. Not everything is looking back to the past, though. The clock speed hasn't changed either, but you're getting an extra core this time with the Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon chipset. If you examine the spec sheets of the original Desire and the Desire X, you'll see that in the two years or so that separate them, the screen has grown from 3.7 to 4 inches (capacitive buttons are still present on the X) there's 768, rather than 512MB of RAM and the 5-megapixel camera resolution has remained the same.
So, stripped of any "One" branding, but bearing a name that many will remember fondly, is the Desire X a good phone that's been reinvented, or just a throwback from HTC of old? We spent some time in its company to find out for ourselves.%Gallery-170927% With a 1GHz dual-core processor, a WVGA (800 x 480) display and a 5-megapixel camera, the specs are from the same era as the OG Desire, but with a slightly more current price: €299 in Europe. HTC already had an affordable phone, the One V, but seemingly deemed it not affordable enough - and the Desire C already fills the most entry-level position. So, it was a little confusing when we first heard about the Desire X. Likewise, you may also remember a certain amount of company talk about its plans to simplify its Android offerings, and turn out phones at a slower, more considered pace. You may remember names such as Wildfire, Sensation, Rhyme and, of course, Desire. Before we go into more detail on HTC's Desire X, cast your memory back to a time before the outfit announced the "One" line of Android phones.