Excellent comparison! What about the audio quality on the camera on the HTC One X? Is the audio quality similar to that of the Galaxy S III? For me, at least, there were some strange noises on the audio of the Galaxy S III sometimes. Was the audio like that before this video was uploaded, or did it arise from the actual uploading of the video?
Thank you very much, spent a long time looking at both devices and searching for V's reviews. Yours stands out as being the best I found very detailed and fair throughout ... Again Thank you
Thanks Anton-- that was thorough and "relevant" to my shiz, as always; you and Brandon are why i'm a Pocketnow believer. You did not convince me, however.. i'm getting the OneX today, yo! (there's nothing you could have done, i've did my research and i'm pretty much decided). I look forward to HTCs update* today, and then Jelly Bean (CM10) to smooth out a lot of things; i'll have to take a hit in the camera dept. though, i guess. (can software help the cam's focus & stability probs?) Cheers!
got to say having my htc one x for a while now i think you had that setting for the video on 720p it comes on 720p as default so did you change it? and if you did i don't know what you did becuase i've never had video that bad on mine. re the screnn of the gs3 i prefer my skin colours skin coloured. just a personal preference though
sorry about that :) but like when u turn on ure phone, when u see the homescreen,the menus and games,does the very high pixel density on the xperia s makes a really big difference?i never seen it infront of me but i hear alot about it ...
i want to know what the mobile from samsung that can make video call from yahoo and voice call and its not expensive can you help me pls something in cost 200$ or 250$ in that price can you help me and what is the nice phone that have nice thing thanks for helping
Awesome comparison! More detailed and the video gives a better perspective in comparing the two EXCELLENT phones. Keep it up! And I totally agree, I would pick a combination of the two: the performance of the S III, and the design and Sense of the HTC One X. Alas, both phones have their ups and downs and I think it will all come to personally preference and what really matters to you - performance compromising a little on design and appeal, and vice versa. Again, both phones are REALLY GOOD!!
Got a One X and personally I never use the stock browser I use ICS Browser + much faster, on the interface they have already ported the new touchwiz over to the One X already used it, its very smooth and reminds me of Nova launcher a bit. Camera wise the One X takes great pictures and if you use Camera ICS+ it takes far better video and ups the bit rate nicely, roms side there are so many out on the One X already and all are much better than the stock one.
hi mind telling me honestly how the battery is? i heard it is really bad. mind clarifying.? how many hrs do u get from it a day? any probe? i just can't imagine having to charge my cell 2 to 3 times a day. thx!
Full disclosure: I own an international One X and plan to get the US S3 soon. Not biased either way. By the way, three successive rounds of Quadrant on my One X were: 4847, 4906, 4530. Quadrant is all over the place.
You can't give the gaming aspect away to the S3... the ONE X has a Nvidia Tegra 3 Chip and can play nvidia optimized games which the S3 cannot display, (or with less good graphics). But both phones are just head to head. Biggest difference in personal preferences and taste.
In the camera test, the One X provides better color quality (more natural), but when it comes to details, items (e.g. the flowers and leaves) in the One X video look much blurrier than on the GS3.
They did release a Deluxe Edition of the One X that comes with Beats earphones. Beats audio may be nothing but an equalizer setting but no one can deny that it sounds fantastic
Am si eu o intrebare pentru cei de la poketnow. Chiar intentionez sa imi cumpar un telefon now si nu m-am putut decide intre HTC One X sau Ssamsung Galaxy S III si as vrea parerea ta in raport cu touch screen-ul calitatea audio ,video ,fps ,baterie ...etc.
One thing I notice on the s3 is if you create a past for exemple games is extremely fast to open but when you leave the game and close the past and lock the phone when you receive say por exemple a msg you unlock the device it go straight to the msg but when you close the msg app and come to the main menu it always appears the past open.anyone else as the same isue mine is Europe open
man vad ca esti din Oradea ai fi putut sa pui la ultima parte(video comparison) care telefon ii in dreapta si care in stanga si sunetu nu cred ca are bug-urile alea da in fine
where you getting all this 32GB storage? here in UK its 25GB SD storage and 2GB internal storage with a extra 25GB on dropbox free for two years that comes to 52GB total
Hi excellent review ty so much! I've been looking for a head to head comparison between the two as I'm going to get a smartphone (my first ever smartphone yay!). Think I'm going with the S3... I don't like the dimmed screen much but I'm rather impressed with the video recording color quality and as I (think) I'd want a good camera/cam with the phone I decide to go with samsung one, so ty :)
if you root your phone (warranty void), you can disable the 3-dot-menu and "add" the menu button to another softkey (f.e. long-press home button). Basicly it's just a problem of the developpers of the apps, because google "banned" the menu button in ICS and the apps now should enable a button in their apps...
Oh, one thing that worried me about HTC is that camera sticks out of its back. You cant see it in many videos. If You plan on buying OneX take that into consideration - looks like it's more damage susceptible (and requires some cover with makes phone bigger after all)
So basically, you just saw that at the beginning and had to comment. If you had watched the video, you'd see that the only mention of the iPhone was to mention that it's screen would come in second if the HOX and SGS3 screens were in first. CLEAR BIAS!
Go for Madglr rooting, and change the interface of the phone, still go for Android 4.0 ICS, but through MADGLR rooting, you can put multiple OS on your phone and you can change and edit your phone's interface and stuff however you like. I'm using HTC HD2 (HTC Leo) a very old phone running Windows 6.5 professional, and through MADGLR rooting I changed it to ICS 4.0 :D
Regarding the Quadrant benchmark, you cannot simply base processor performance after one round of Quandrant. Quadrant scores vary from one round to the next, so your scores could potentially mislead viewers into thinking the Galaxy S III has a substantial lead of the One X.
although speed itself is important to me as a heavy user, i also find it very important to be able to do multiple tasks such as playing music, switching to fb, switching to mail, switching gps, and then opening a web page. If a phone can handle that then id rather that then that extra speed.
No worries! Yeah Sense is just more elegantly and professionally laid out. TouchWiz looks more cluttered and less ordered. Of course that's just opinion and you really should try them both out in a shop if you can. Also, the lockscreen in Sense is more informative and functional. And during web browsing HTCs resize the text when you zoom in as you saw in the video. btw that was the reason for the flash when zooming in which wasn't mentioned in the review.
I like the fact that you tried to make it as far as possible but you missed out one major factor, batter charge, the One X didn't have as much battery as the S3 which can change benchmark results and general phone usage
Most important comparison needed by many people is the battery life. Please give that and also you didn't wait for the gps signals to lock before telling your results, the gps icons in the status bar were still blinking
Also I'd love to see someone test One X and SGSIII glass strength side by side, that way we can be certain which is stronger. but the one x was used to drive a nail through wood, not saying it's stronger than Lumia 900 (especially due to the larger screen) but I doubt the SGS III would survive it. True, the iPhone shattered more badly. but realistically, even if a phone is shattered as much as the SGSIII you'd still have to replace the screen.
I don't understand why people say plastic is so bad. It doesn't shatter when drop, doesn't heat up like metal, and keeps the phone very light. That seems like it would make it superier rather than cheap. I just think we take it foe granted
Yeah when you zoom in it makes the text bigger on both phones but on the HTC it wraps the text to the screen. And yeah you need internet to access any of the files in the dropbox folder.
good comparison but to do a fair game test maybe you should have tested games optimised with a tegra 3 chip for the one x. I think loading time frame rate and details will be miles ahead on the one x
Thats the brightness adjustment from the video camera. Because both screens are at maximum brightness, the colors are changed. 3:23 when the screens are flashing
Calm down dude :p. Once more I didn't say GG2 is weaker, I said that the way it was implemented in the SGSIII made it weaker. Therefore if they wanted the GGII to have the same strength as for example the GG 1 in the SGS II or the Lumia 900, they needed to use a thicker glass to make up for the weakness due to the large size of the screen, smaller bezel etc.
The video says "in terms of screen quality" (not resolution as you implied). Check it out once more!
Excellent comparison! What about the audio quality on the camera on the HTC One X? Is the audio quality similar to that of the Galaxy S III? For me, at least, there were some strange noises on the audio of the Galaxy S III sometimes. Was the audio like that before this video was uploaded, or did it arise from the actual uploading of the video?
Why does white on S3 look pink?
Or is it just the camera, messing up the exposure??
Been looking at reviews all freaking day. This one is the best comparison so far. Thank you very much!
We get it that you didn't bother to watch games and browser and just jumped quickly to rant in the comments.
i can only afford 1 of them so can u plz tell me which 1 is the best ?
Thank you very much, spent a long time looking at both devices and searching for V's reviews. Yours stands out as being the best I found very detailed and fair throughout ...
Again Thank you
With the soft keys on the gs3 is there a setting to keep them lit for longer?
Why does the white look pink on the galaxy s3, i want to get this phone but im not sure about the pentile display :(
Frumos clip din Oradea:)) Idk if it's a romanian channel or u were just passing, but good job.
O zi buna
Thanks Anton-- that was thorough and "relevant" to my shiz, as always; you and Brandon are why i'm a Pocketnow believer.
You did not convince me, however.. i'm getting the OneX today, yo! (there's nothing you could have done, i've did my research and i'm pretty much decided). I look forward to HTCs update* today, and then Jelly Bean (CM10) to smooth out a lot of things; i'll have to take a hit in the camera dept. though, i guess. (can software help the cam's focus & stability probs?)
Cheers!
got to say having my htc one x for a while now i think you had that setting for the video on 720p it comes on 720p as default so did you change it? and if you did i don't know what you did becuase i've never had video that bad on mine. re the screnn of the gs3 i prefer my skin colours skin coloured. just a personal preference though
Was the one x running off of wifi and the s3 running on cellular connect throughout the process?
HTC One X design and interface+ galaxy s3 camera and processor = Best smartphone for me))
Did you turn on Dynamic display mode? That kinda fixes the blue tinge a bit
sorry about that :) but like when u turn on ure phone, when u see the homescreen,the menus and games,does the very high pixel density on the xperia s makes a really big difference?i never seen it infront of me but i hear alot about it ...
Why are you in Oradea?The headquarters are there?Thanks for reply
Which one is the HTC One X to last video performance???Left side or Rigth side????
i want to know what the mobile from samsung that can make video call from yahoo and voice call and its not expensive can you help me pls something in cost 200$ or 250$ in that price can you help me and what is the nice phone that have nice thing thanks for helping
Does the HTC One X camera have image-stabilization? The video from the One X seems to be very jerky...
Awesome comparison! More detailed and the video gives a better perspective in comparing the two EXCELLENT phones. Keep it up!
And I totally agree, I would pick a combination of the two: the performance of the S III, and the design and Sense of the HTC One X.
Alas, both phones have their ups and downs and I think it will all come to personally preference and what really matters to you - performance compromising a little on design and appeal, and vice versa.
Again, both phones are REALLY GOOD!!
Same here, that menu button on the One X looks horrible. Anyone knows if it's possible to remove that?
Does the s3 still has a shutter sound when on silent mode??
Why does the screen on the S3 have a slight tint of color to it?
at 16:40 was there the HTC One X on the left, and S3 on the right? Bcuz s3 looks way better, smoother an everything if its on the right.
Is it just the recording camera vs screen type that makes the Gal's screen look pinkish?
what camera are you using to film this ?
Got a One X and personally I never use the stock browser I use ICS Browser + much faster, on the interface they have already ported the new touchwiz over to the One X already used it, its very smooth and reminds me of Nova launcher a bit.
Camera wise the One X takes great pictures and if you use Camera ICS+ it takes far better video and ups the bit rate nicely, roms side there are so many out on the One X already and all are much better than the stock one.
hi mind telling me honestly how the battery is? i heard it is really bad. mind clarifying.? how many hrs do u get from it a day? any probe? i just can't imagine having to charge my cell 2 to 3 times a day. thx!
Full disclosure: I own an international One X and plan to get the US S3 soon. Not biased either way. By the way, three successive rounds of Quadrant on my One X were: 4847, 4906, 4530. Quadrant is all over the place.
You can't give the gaming aspect away to the S3... the ONE X has a Nvidia Tegra 3 Chip and can play nvidia optimized games which the S3 cannot display, (or with less good graphics).
But both phones are just head to head. Biggest difference in personal preferences and taste.
In the camera test, the One X provides better color quality (more natural), but when it comes to details, items (e.g. the flowers and leaves) in the One X video look much blurrier than on the GS3.
They did release a Deluxe Edition of the One X that comes with Beats earphones. Beats audio may be nothing but an equalizer setting but no one can deny that it sounds fantastic
I think there's some audio problem with the s3 when recording a video as shown in the video
This is the Versus what i was searching for!!! Thanks for That it makes my choice which one i will buy much easier
Am si eu o intrebare pentru cei de la poketnow. Chiar intentionez sa imi cumpar un telefon now si nu m-am putut decide intre HTC One X sau Ssamsung Galaxy S III si as vrea parerea ta in raport cu touch screen-ul calitatea audio ,video ,fps ,baterie ...etc.
One thing I notice on the s3 is if you create a past for exemple games is extremely fast to open but when you leave the game and close the past and lock the phone when you receive say por exemple a msg you unlock the device it go straight to the msg but when you close the msg app and come to the main menu it always appears the past open.anyone else as the same isue mine is Europe open
whats with the GS3 screen? it shows the white color as pink :(
man vad ca esti din Oradea ai fi putut sa pui la ultima parte(video comparison) care telefon ii in dreapta si care in stanga si sunetu nu cred ca are bug-urile alea da in fine
@1arunay it's not about the speed they both open apps, it's about how significantly flies the S3 is compared to the One X.
Why were you in Oradea ?
anyone noticed that the recording form S3 was glitching ??
Which one is which for the video comparison?
which video is which phone. my guess was the left - OneX and the right- S3.
In camera comparison, which one was on the right !?
where you getting all this 32GB storage? here in UK its 25GB SD storage and 2GB internal storage with a extra 25GB on dropbox free for two years that comes to 52GB total
Why the mic of the S3 making some noises?
What's up with the purple whites on S3??
WoW !! that was the best phone comparison i've ever seen on youtube... Great !!!
Hi excellent review ty so much! I've been looking for a head to head comparison between the two as I'm going to get a smartphone (my first ever smartphone yay!). Think I'm going with the S3... I don't like the dimmed screen much but I'm rather impressed with the video recording color quality and as I (think) I'd want a good camera/cam with the phone I decide to go with samsung one, so ty :)
did you saw 03:52 the one x still loading the picture ( like iphone buffering type in that icon part)
At the end, which video is which?
I noticed from the video that the S3 screen is somewhat pinkish is this normal or there is something wrong ?
can i ask which is the better phone for music and i mean headphones not speakers
Htc one x or.sgs3 or lg 4x hd help me????
if you root your phone (warranty void), you can disable the 3-dot-menu and "add" the menu button to another softkey (f.e. long-press home button).
Basicly it's just a problem of the developpers of the apps, because google "banned" the menu button in ICS and the apps now should enable a button in their apps...
Oh, one thing that worried me about HTC is that camera sticks out of its back. You cant see it in many videos. If You plan on buying OneX take that into consideration - looks like it's more damage susceptible (and requires some cover with makes phone bigger after all)
How about the battery life?? Which one better
how can you get a weak retina display?
So basically, you just saw that at the beginning and had to comment. If you had watched the video, you'd see that the only mention of the iPhone was to mention that it's screen would come in second if the HOX and SGS3 screens were in first. CLEAR BIAS!
Go for Madglr rooting, and change the interface of the phone, still go for Android 4.0 ICS, but through MADGLR rooting, you can put multiple OS on your phone and you can change and edit your phone's interface and stuff however you like. I'm using HTC HD2 (HTC Leo) a very old phone running Windows 6.5 professional, and through MADGLR rooting I changed it to ICS 4.0 :D
I have been waiting for this =D
are you sure about witch one is filming 17:26 (you sad the collor on the HTC one X are warm I the clips give the oposit)
the screen resolution of 0ne x and s3 are the best on the market? what about the xperia s?and its 342 ppi O_o
i dont get it, i have both, i put lots of widgets on my s3 and one x, and the s3 has more significant lag... i hope it gets sorted on JB update....
Hey buddy, I just did smartbench test on my SGS3 and it got 4543, 1695. What would you call that.
I really like the side by side camera test... really shows which one is better!! Great Job!!
Gonna have to go with the S3. Thanks for helping me make up my mind.
Regarding the Quadrant benchmark, you cannot simply base processor performance after one round of Quandrant. Quadrant scores vary from one round to the next, so your scores could potentially mislead viewers into thinking the Galaxy S III has a substantial lead of the One X.
although speed itself is important to me as a heavy user, i also find it very important to be able to do multiple tasks such as playing music, switching to fb, switching to mail, switching gps, and then opening a web page. If a phone can handle that then id rather that then that extra speed.
what should i get s3 or htc
No worries! Yeah Sense is just more elegantly and professionally laid out. TouchWiz looks more cluttered and less ordered. Of course that's just opinion and you really should try them both out in a shop if you can.
Also, the lockscreen in Sense is more informative and functional. And during web browsing HTCs resize the text when you zoom in as you saw in the video. btw that was the reason for the flash when zooming in which wasn't mentioned in the review.
does the HTC One x run 1080p games? Please, I need to know
is it not touchwiz 4.0 nature ux
I like the fact that you tried to make it as far as possible but you missed out one major factor, batter charge, the One X didn't have as much battery as the S3 which can change benchmark results and general phone usage
Should I get HTC One X or Galaxy S III for mostly using the internet, music, texting, and apps?
Amazing comparison :) keep do that best comparison ever.
Can anyone tell me which phone is for which video recording at the end? Thx guys. :)
Most important comparison needed by many people is the battery life. Please give that and also you didn't wait for the gps signals to lock before telling your results, the gps icons in the status bar were still blinking
On the camera tests, which one was One X and which one was S3 ?
Wow Wt a comparison!!!
Very nicely done... Thanks ...
Also I'd love to see someone test One X and SGSIII glass strength side by side, that way we can be certain which is stronger. but the one x was used to drive a nail through wood, not saying it's stronger than Lumia 900 (especially due to the larger screen) but I doubt the SGS III would survive it. True, the iPhone shattered more badly. but realistically, even if a phone is shattered as much as the SGSIII you'd still have to replace the screen.
Why the Galaxy S3 screen have a red tint?
they're both on wi-fi.. and you opened those pages yesterday... the cookies and caches are allready saved on the GS3...
I don't understand why people say plastic is so bad. It doesn't shatter when drop, doesn't heat up like metal, and keeps the phone very light. That seems like it would make it superier rather than cheap. I just think we take it foe granted
True, he is biased to the bone, which is the main reason he said the clear winner of this face-off was the iPhone. Get a life!
Yeah when you zoom in it makes the text bigger on both phones but on the HTC it wraps the text to the screen. And yeah you need internet to access any of the files in the dropbox folder.
i like the side by side video comparison, very useful, good work
Why can't I find this samsung vs the htc evo 4g lte
You should be able to flow text on SG3 when on a website you can on the SG2
Ps. love pocketnow reviews. keep up the good work
"Now it seems to have recovered... I can't say the same about my driving"
haha
Which video is for which phone? -_-
its actually clocked to 1.4ghz as well, its just that the other cores are put on a more kindof stand-by state than the gs3
which phone is better ?? i think it comes down to the personal preference
good comparison but to do a fair game test maybe you should have tested games optimised with a tegra 3 chip for the one x. I think loading time frame rate and details will be miles ahead on the one x
Hey could you do a Note vs SIII? Im an owner of a Note and Id like to see how it compares to the S3
Thats the brightness adjustment from the video camera. Because both screens are at maximum brightness, the colors are changed. 3:23 when the screens are flashing
I find your reviews to be the best... I'm coming from a WITE S2 to One X, my friend has the Galaxy S3 but I do prefer my One X.
Calm down dude :p. Once more I didn't say GG2 is weaker, I said that the way it was implemented in the SGSIII made it weaker. Therefore if they wanted the GGII to have the same strength as for example the GG 1 in the SGS II or the Lumia 900, they needed to use a thicker glass to make up for the weakness due to the large size of the screen, smaller bezel etc.