HTC One X or Samsung Galaxy S3?

If we keep the speculations for “iPhone 5” aside, the biggest fight for “The Best Smartphone till now” is between HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S3.Both these giants are in the market right now and you can compare the rivalry to what it was between “iPhone 4” and “Samsung Galaxy s2”once.

Both these giants have astonishing configuration with some additional benefits from their makers as well. Let us have a comparison.

Camera:  Both have 8 MP cameras with the ability to record and capture images at the same time. Front camera is 1.3 MP in HTC and 1.9 MP in S3.

Result:  Galaxy S3 Winner (Output images are clearer and videos are recorded with lesser noise and at 29 fps compared to 24fps of One X).

RAM: RAM is 1 GB in both the phones.

                Result: A Tie.

Display: The Galaxy S 3 is having an HD Super AMOLED screen. In contrast, the HTC One X LCD, but in the significantly refined form of S-LCD 2. It has been concluded that the One X has the best phone display at this time, sporting very high levels of brightness, as well as saturated colors, with natural temperature.

Screen size is 4.7inch in HTC and 4.8 in S3. Resolution is 1280 X 720 pixels in both the phones.

                Result: One X winner (slight upper hand but can be ignored).

Processor: S3 comes with a 1.4 GHz Quad Core processor while One X comes with 1.5 GHz Quad core processor. But S3 runs more smoothly than One X.

                Result: Galaxy S3 Winner.

Interface:  Both these phones run on Android 4.0 Ice cream Sandwich. In addition to this, S3 employs Touchwiz Nature UX which makes the UI polished and smarter. On the other hand One X employs HTC One X employs HTC Sense 4. Sense works well but doesn’t go that well with the hardware like UX does for S3. This is the reason S3 runs smoother.

                Result: Galaxy S3 Winner.

Battery Life:  S3 is a clear winner in this department. It has a whooping 2100mAh while One X has 1800mAh battery.

                Result: Galaxy S3 Winner

Storage: HTC One X has 32GB of built-in memory and no microSD card slot while S3 comes in three variants – 16GB,32GB,64Gb with microSD card slot.

                Result: Galaxy S3 Winner

Price: One X is available in Indian market for Rs.33499 approx.
          Galaxy S3 is available in Indian market for Rs.38900 approx.

Verdict   :   HTC’s best, once again, will have to play second to the Samsung’s phone of the year.