The HTC Windows Phone 8X features a 4.3 inch touch display, 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded through microSD, an 8 megapixel camera capable of 1080p HD video capture, the HTC ImageSense technology, a secondary HD camera for video calls, Beats audio and is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor.
The device is available in the U.S. through AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile and costs $99 with a two-year contract.
The HTC 8X runs Windows Phone 8 but also includes exclusive HTC software which improves the experience in this ‘Signature’ Windows Phone device.
The first app you will notice is HTC app which offers the full-width HTC clock on the homescreen, which is somewhat similar to what we see on the Sense UI on Android devices. You can scale the tile down to three sizes if you wish, where the middle size resembles what we have seen on Windows Phone 7 and a smaller tile with just the HTC logo (which doesn’t really offer much). The full size title also offers the weather and textual location of where you are.Clicking the tile opens the HTC app which has three views. Firs you have the weather screen, which gives you weather in your current location along with other cities you have selected. The second screen shows the stocks which allows you to pin stock tickers on your homescreen and the News feed which ahs predefined news stories.
Another great feature HTC offers through their app is the ability to customize your device lockscreen. The app does this by presenting location specific weather information directly on your lockscreen along with the current temperature and estimated highs and lows.
The second app that HTC offers is the HTC Connection Setup which helps you set up all your Internet APNs, proxies and login details from an online database of pre defined network providers and their various configurations. It uses your SIM ID to automatically identify your network and settings.
Its not likely that this app will be used much, but if you are a user who travels a lot and needs to switch your SIM often on your device, we are sure that you will use this app quite often.
The third app is the HTC Flashlight for Windows Phone, which allows you to use your device LED flash as a flashlight. You can switch between three levels of brightness and you have options to flash the light automatically or blink SOS if you are in an emergency situation.
The fourth app is the HTC Converter. This app unfortunately hasn’t been updated to match Windows Phone Design language and doesn’t feel at home on the Windows Phone platform. In fact it looks more like an iOS application with its dials which you use to swap between the measures you want to convert. The app works like it should, but its disappointing that HTC chose not to make a Windows Phone esuq app here.
Finally we have the HTC Photo Enhancer which allow your to tweak the photos you have captured on your device before you share it online. The app has several filters which can be used to achieve this. The app can be opened directly form the Windows Phone ‘Photos’ app and you can select or scroll through the existing filters. Once you find a filter you like, the newly edited image will be saved separately, preserving the original.
Unfortunately that’s all the app has to offer. There are no tools to crop, resize or edit your images, nor can you rework any part of the image. HTC has also left out any direct method to share the edited photos on your social networks from within the app.
If you want to learn more about the HTC apps and read a detailed review on the app experience on the HTC Windows Phone 8X head over to the source link.
source – AAWP
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