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One X+/Evitaire worth waiting for?

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So, my free upgrade from AT&T just came this month (currently have a Inspire 4g), and pretty much the only viable options to buy now are the HOX and the SGS3. Any other Android phone on the carrier is markedly inferior overall, and the iPhone 4S would be a stupid buy with the iPhone 5 on the way next month.

So I did my research for a while, read a hundred different SGS3 vs. HOX reviews, comparisons, forum threads, etc., and I was leaning towards the HOX heavily. Removable battery/storage wasn't a big issue for me, and that seemed to be SGS3's greatest advantage over the HOX. Now the only reason to go for the SGS3 is the slightly higher benchmark performance and 2GB of RAM, which for me isn't quite as good as the edge the HOX has in exterior design and, most importantly, screen/display.


I was getting all prepped to finalize buying the HOX, especially after the price drop to 100 (80 at places such as amazon and costco), then news of the HTC One X+, codenamed HTC Evitaire, coming to AT&T appears on the horizon. I don't know much about it other than it's supposed to have a quad core Tegra 3+ processor at 1.7ghz and still supports LTE (supposedly).


So is it worth waiting for? Or should I just splurge on the HOX now?


Also, as an added benefit of waiting for the HOX+, the iPhone 5 also comes out next month, so in the unlikely case that Apple releases a game-changing world beater....
 
Personally I don't think there's ever a right time to buy, other than waiting a few months for a new phone to have been out and any teething problems ironed out.

Whatever you do there's always going to be another new phone or new model just around the corner.

Although the One X hasn't been without some early issues, Any new phones rarely are.

If I was in your position and done my research and pretty much decided, then I would just go for it.
 
If I were in your shoes I'd wait for the One X+. There's still information that hasn't been announced (like removable battle/SD card) but I'm sure that'll be announced soon. I recieved my One X for free so I still have 2 updates this year. My wife will definitely stick with the new iPhone and I'm hoping at&t will get the next Nexus.
 
Dave L said:
Personally I don't think there's ever a right time to buy, other than waiting a few months for a new phone to have been out and any teething problems ironed out.
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I guess this is the way it is with all tech.

Buy too early and you risk unforeseen technical problems, which even if fixed for free, is just a hassle to deal with.

Buy late and then you'll double talk yourself to death for not waiting for the next big upcoming phone.



That said, I'm still in a pickle about what to do in this situation. I guess I'll wait a little bit for more news. If the One X+/Evitaire doesn't come to AT&T then 90% sure I'm going with the One X right now.
 
I would wait. If you have the Inspire now, then likely you are a fan of sense. The HOX is a nice phone but I don't think it's worthy of using an upgrade for. If it had and sd card slot then maybe.
 
I'm not a sense "fan" persay.... I probably would prefer base android, but Sense vs. Touchwiz seems like a wash to me.

I would consider the Galaxy Nexus too... except it costs 349.99 unlocked, and while that's a good deal (most phones I checked were like 500+ unlocked/no contract), it's simply cheaper for me to just wait for upgrades on AT&T since I don't see the need to switch smartphones on a very regular basis and I don't see myself switching to another service provider in the foreseeable future.


Just curious, what do people use their SD card storage for? Storing music and videos? Or just storing data between work and home or something like that? I'm purely curious because traditionally I just don't use my smartphone for storage purposes. I don't have much music on my phone, if there's wifi I usually just use pandora on my phone. For real data storage I use an external HDD, so... maybe the whole SD card thing isn't that necessary for me...
 
I bought the HOX because we just signed up for AT&T and had to get a phone, And I do like sense it just seems to make the phone more usable for me on a daily basis. I really didn't care about the SD card slot either because I use a phone as a phone. If I want to play music i have 4 ipods for that. But know that I went from Unlimited Data on VZW to 3GB on AT&T I worry about using Pandora/streaming/data usage and such so the sd card may be useful.
 
Yeah I needn't worry about data usage on AT&T. I have the cheapest data plan (like 200MB/month) only because they require me to have a contract with data for 2 years when I get a smartphone. However I'm on a college campus for 75% of the year, and we have wi-fi almost everywhere.

Any more market savvy droid/phone market folks (than me, I'll admit I only follow phones when my upgrades roll around) have any idea of the timeframe of arrival for the one X+/Evitaire?

I mean if it's September then I figure waiting couldn't hurt much, if much longer than September then I don't know if it's worth waiting. I'm probably just suffering from buyers syndrome of "something better is coming soon".

Also.... about the Tegra 3+, sure it's quad core (which.... if my research is telling me correctly, isn't well utilized by many apps yet), but the 1.5ghz version was handily outperformed by the 1.4ghz Exynos in the SGS3 in most benchmarks, hell, even the 1.5ghz dual-core snapdragon outperformed it, so I'm having some reservations about it.

On one hand quad core is definitely more future proof. Hard to deny that, many apps don't use it now, but in the future undoubtedly more and more will.

On the other hand, if the 1.5ghz Tegra 3 loses to the Snapdragon and Exynos in benchmarks, will an overclocked 1.7ghz Tegra 3+ do much better? Maybe it's just my background of building my own desktops, but buying the same CPU line with a slightly higher clock speed usually isn't a wise buying move. Also... battery life will be worrying if they keep it the same size as the normal One X. Mind you laptop enthusiasts are known to purposely underclock their own processors to squeeze out more battery life.

I'm probably just double talking myself to death with pre-mature remorse. This is why I stop paying attention to phones the moment I buy one, I don't ever want to hear about that phone that came out 2 months later that's a world beater!
 
TBH, I don't think you'd be disappointed with any variant of the One X, obviously some opinions differ, but there are some devs who say they prefer the S4 version.

Re the benchmarks, apparently, the new Sense 4.1 update for the Tegra 3 variant has given benchmark scores a massive kick in the behind: Sense 4.1 on international HTC One X said to blaze through Quadrant, scores nearly 6000

So couple that with an overclock to 1.7GHz and you'll be flying. :)
 
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