Not quite. I can still (just about) do those things, but the transfer protocol the device uses to do them is different. With my previous phone (a trusty HTC Desire HD I have had for over two years now), plugging it into my PC causes the device to present me with a choice of "Charge Only" or "Disk Drive", and selecting the latter allowed me to mount the DHD as a USB mass storage device - just like my two external HDDs and my Cowon .mp3 player. I can open these devices in Windows Explorer and interact with them as easily as if the were my PC's own C: drive. This is what I consider normal and desirable behaviour.
With the HTC One X+, when I plug it into my PC, I am not offered the choice above and although I can (just about) get into the files and folders stored on it (eeeevvveeennntttuuuaaalllyyy), it takes ages, is much less flexible, and fails frequently - it is running MTP rather than USB protocols. My aforementioned Cowon .mp3 player was made in 2008, and even that offers me the option to toggle between the two!
Here is the easiest way to check whether your device is mounting as USB mass storage or as an MTP device: Fire up Windows Explorer, open up the HOX+, and then go Internal Storage > DCIM > DCIM 1541 (or whichever folder you have all your images stored in). Then, in Explorer, go View > Thumbnails. If the device is mounted as USB mass storage, you will see a proper thumbnail image - a smaller version of the photo itself. If it's using MTP, you will only see a generic thumbnail icon.
This is the crux of my problem: Being unable to easily check which image file is which before selecting which ones to transfer over to my PC is a serious usability issue with the device which is my principle camera! Moving them all over to the computer and then doing it there is ssslllooowww and an inefficient use of my time. Finally, MTP transfers fail much more regularly than USB ones do (this very issue on my Cowon .mp3 player back in 2008 was how I learned the difference the hard way), and even simply plugging the HOX+ in has caused my PC to crash and hard reboot on two separate occasions!
MTP didn't work properly over four years ago and it doesn't work properly now. The fact that expensive flagship devices like the HTC One X+ and the Samsung Galaxy SIII (which has exactly the same problem - I had one of those for a week before I got rid of it and switched to the HOX+) are crippled with technology half a decade out-of-date is shocking and embarrassing. Whoever at Google decided to drop USB mass storage support from Android 4.1.1 must have have been mad, and whoever at HTC decided not to re-enable it on the HOX+ is just as daft.
It has the option to select charge only, disk drive... etc! The HOX+ doesn't have the same option, which is a little annoying, so plugging the HOX+ into my PS3 there is no option to use as a disk drive, which means I can't view pics, movies, music etc. The way round this is to buy the HTC HD Media Link, which costs around
