Microsoft’s partnership with HTC stretches way back to the Windows Mobile days. Back then, the Taiwanese manufacturer shipped a variety of chunky WinMo handsets topped with its Sense user interface. Since the Windows Phone 7 launch, Microsoft’s mobile OS has presented a unified UI across all handsets, and so HTC has instead sought to differentiate its Windows offerings through build quality and hardware features.
Last year’s Radar and Titan were sturdy, aluminum-clad beasts that echoed the design language of the company’s early 2011 phones. But this year HTC’s scored an enviable position as the manufacturer of two signature devices for Windows Phone 8. And as such, this calls for some fresh new designs, starting with the high-end offering, the “Windows Phone 8X by HTC.”
Far from being a recycled Android model, HTC says every aspect of the 8X’s design is based around the look and feel of Windows Phone 8. And at a glance the differences are clear to see -- the 8X is quite unlike any other HTC creation.
WPCentral editor-in-chief Daniel Rubino has taken a thorough look at Windows Phone 8 itself, as it runs on the 8X, in his extensive OS review. So in this article we’re going to focus on the hardware of the 8X -- in this case, the international HSPA+ version.
And as it happens there’s a lot to say about that, too.
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