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My experiences with HTC One X

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I have owned this model for a couple of days now. I have had some good times with it but the problems are somehow negating the whole experience.

I have posted about the issues at multiple places trying to get a response from HTC. I have been largely unsuccessful. So, I decided to write a blog post about it.

Here are the two hardware related issues that are affecting my unit…

This one was scary. It has only happened once and I have been unable to replicate it.

This one started happening today and continues to remain like that. Some folks have told me that this is probably the proximity sensor that has started glowing for some unknown reason. In any case, I have no idea how to get it back to normal.

My experiences with HTC One X

Annoyance with Google Nexus One (and most HTC smartphones)

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They use a low quality button to turn off/on the device. And this button is pretty much necessary to wake up the phone. Especially in the case of a touchscreen device.

This button is unlikely to survive harsh usage and is probably going to die in a matter of months.

I remember a friend’s HTC phone (powered by Windows Mobile!) suffering a similar fate. The HTC guys took around 800 rupees to temporarily fix it. And they warned that the internals are damaged so much that care has to be taken while using the button. And if it goes bad again, a major hardware change would be required that would be pretty costly.

I guess I would probably end up having a similar problem with the Nexus One sometime next year. There are possible ways to fix it… The function to wake up the phone can be assigned to the joystick trackball (which I do not use anyways). But there are no official ways. No software configuration is available.

There are some third party apps which are very erratic in nature. I am not alone searching for a solution incidentally. It would be good if Google can incorporate such a configurable setting in the Android platform itself. Or HTC might launch an official app that does it for their devices.

HTC: Please bring the Google G1 to India UNLOCKED

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HTC is launching the Google G1 mobile phone in USA next month. Europe gets it in November. Asia? No clue.

I expect HTC to bring this phone to India sometime next year. But considering they have been sleeping with Airtel since some time now, they would bring it all locked up.

I wish they could bring this phone (and others to be powered by Google Android) to India unlocked and at decent prices.

Android would be proving to be cheaper for them compared to Windows Mobile. Of course, they need the numbers to justify cheaper pricing of Android powered phones compared to the phones powered by Windows Mobile.

But if the Google G1 was available in the Indian market for around Rs. 15,000 today… They would have had me as a customer.