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The HTC line of phones have not been doing very well on the market in the last few years due to a lack of compelling devices. This may change however with the release of the brand new HTC One X. The device is a great example of where smart phones are headed. It is big, thin, light and is jam packed with features.
The device has an eight megapixel camera with very little shutter lag.
The HTC One X has 32GB of on board storage and also 25GB of Dropbox integration which has 25GB of data included.
It has a 1.5GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and comes loaded with the latest version of Android which is Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The device has been fitted with a decent battery and with the amount of usage smartphones get these days, that is an important feature.

The screen is 720P and is 4.7 inches in size. The panel is made from Gorilla glass and is clear and bright.

In Australia HTC One X plans are very affordable and should make a dent in Samsung’s dominance.

If you are a smart phone user watching the smart phone market and landscape, you will be happy with what you have seen this year.

There have been so much choices presented to us late in the year and a number of devices are expected to take the market by storm.

The first device is the Motorola Droid Razr. Motorola has not really made much of an impact in the smart phone market and this is there first legitimate attempt at taking some market share. The device has a spectacular design because it is impossibly thin and is made of some interesting materials such as Kevlar and stainless steel.

The next device is Nokia’s new range of Windows Phone 7 powered devices called the Lumia series of phones. The first devices it he Lumia 800 which is a Windows version of the Nokia N9.

The last device is the Galaxy Nexus which is Google’s sexy Android 4.0 powered device. In Australia Galaxy Nexus Plans are very affordable

The iPhone 4S was announced last week with little fanfare, however there has been an unimaginable rush for the new iPhone. The iPhone 4S prices are relatively cheap compared to previous versions with man carriers offering the phone for free on medium priced plans.

The queus outside the Apple stores around Australia have started to form. Australia is seen as valuable in the eyes of Apple as it has been bumped up to a tier one country meaning it is one of the first countries to be able to get the iPhone. The other countries classified as tier one are obviously the USA, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Germany.

The phone will go on sale in Australia from 8am on the 14th of October. It has been a fierce battle between the carriers to win over the huge customer base that the iPhone attracts and many carriers have been offering the best iPhone plans that are extremely competitive.

A spokesperson for the company Telstra has said that there has been so much demand that they will not be allowing staff to purchase the phone for at least two weeks to ensure that as many customers as possible will receive the phone.

Another carrier, Optus, switched on their pre-ordering website on Monday and had so much traffic that they had to bring it down temporarily.

Vodafone has gone in all guns blazing with the lowest priced plans of the four major carriers. This is partly due to the bad year that they have had with their network issues and poor publicity which has seen them shed a huge amount of their customer base.

The iPhone 4S is very similar in appearance to it’s predecessor however it has been upgraded to include a faster processor, 8 megapixel camera and the new operating system called iOS 5.

The market has not reacted all the positively to the new iPhone 4S. The phone has a better camera, is a lot faster and allows you to synchronise your content without a computer. It also includes Siri, a voice activated ‘personal assistant’ which allows you to speak commands to it. The iPhone 4S plans are reasonably priced, starting at $199.

Unfortunately one of the main reasons the market was generally disappointed was because Apple really did not do a good job of managing consumer expectations. Given it has been almost one and a half years since the last iteration, expectations were running high that there was something completely cool and new on the horizon.

The iPhone 4S has been appropriately named as it does not have the design overhaul required for it to be touted as the iPhone 5. The new iPhone has major improvements and will be generally well received by consumers.