Rather like the iPhone, recent HTCs have all had a very similar look to them, and at first glance the Desire X looks little different to HTC's current hero handset, the One X, or indeed the lower specced One V. Look a little closer though, and there have been a few changes. Size-wise, it's between the two, with a 4-inch screen compared to the One X's 4.7-inch and the One V's 3.7-inch.
The 4-inch LCD screen is nice and bright, and fairly sharp too with a resolution of 800x400 pixels. But the glass covering sits a little uncomfortably within the casing, and it nestles slightly below the surround, which feels a bit awkward. The screen isn't as sensitive as it could be either, and uncharacteristically for HTC, we found ourselves having to make more repeat presses than we'd like.
It's running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich -- still fairly rare for a fresh midrange handset. It also has the latest 4.1 version of HTC's Sense user interface, which is as slick and fulsome as we've come to expect.
There's a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon processor on board, backed by 768MB RAM, which isn't bad for this price range.
The 5-megapixel camera is standard at this price point, but this one has a few extras borrowed from its more expensive brother.
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