HTC One X + video sample, edited on HTC Movie Editor

I have uploaded video shot at 720p and edited with HTC movie editor on HTC One X +, follow this link to my YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI3aCDXxmwE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

HTC One X + camera, image samples.

Please see photos taken with HTC One X +. Hope it will help you to make your choice.

Best of luck
SK

Why I have chosen HTC One X + over Sony Xperia T and Xperia Z

Sometimes in November I have upgraded my contract and got brand new Sony Xperia T phone, marketed as James Bond phone. I have really expected it to be a 007 phone, but within a time it started developing numerous bugs and every new update was even worse then previous. Finally phone stopped charging and died. After repair same thing happened again and  it was enough. I'm still in a middle of dispute with 3UK fighting for brand new replacement of my phone which was eventually savaged by their unprofessional repair 'specialists'.
I have followed Sony support forum for a while and saw how many issues people having with their Xperias T. Apparently many of the Xperia T produced on between week 39and week 45 2012 (12w39, 12w45) are having not charging/not turning on issue. Is it a problem of all Xperia T or only faulty batch produced during that period, no-one knows. Sony refusing to recognise it. Sony still trying to prove a point that phone is great ex- flagship, and trying to fix all their mistakes. It looks more like catch up game where Sony not anywhere near of winning position. It's good to hear Sony improving their camera. Hope it would produce nice results with ISO 1600. What other features they introduced? I had in my hands Xperia Z last week and found its too big for mobile phone, 5 inches is a bit too much and awkward to use because of the size. Feels too large and edgy in the pocket too. Other thing I was not impressed with is  contrast of display, viewing angles and bleak colors. It is not what you expecting from £500+ flagship phone.  Really hope that people purchased their Xperia Z will get reliable phone, not a bunch of software / hardware bugs and issues. 
   Today I have finished testing my new phone HTC One X Plus, very pleased with overall result.
 
This is it, I'm not coming back to my Xperia T with all it's bugs. Once I get replacement of it I flog it on Ebay for whatever, it was my first and last Sony phone. Good bye Sony.
 
What made me to choose HTC One X Plus and to sell my Xperia T for peanuts (just about what it's really worth)
 
All about HTC One X Plus
 
  Picture quality is good, with sharpening set too hash by default, but it has an option to adjust it and with -1,-2 it's just fine.Noise reduction on high ISO (max ISO is 800) is a bit too aggressive, hope they will add feature to control it in future. Haven't tested video recording properly yet. Process of taking photos is blazingly fast, thanks to dedicated image chip. Focusing locks dead on and overall accuracy is great. Low light focusing is fine too, thanks to f/2.0 lens. I haven't tested it on 3rd party apps, it would be nice to see output. Camera has good set of as you go (live) filters and its real fun to use them.
 
  Phone is fast, very fast! Even when I turned off two cores of CPU in order to be more power efficient I didn't spot any difference in speed change. It has movie editor on it which is fun to use and on quad core processor it renders and processes 1080i impressively fast.
 
I really liked Xperia T audio quality and One X Plus has it as strong point too. Beats power amp does its job well, producing  very powerful and clean output. Hence, there is no EQ, only on and off for Beats amp, so I had to download EQ app for that. Xperia T output wasn't really loud at all. I'm using PowerAmp app and it way outperforms Sony Walkman app in all means.
  
  Battery capacity is 2100mAh and I managed to pull 20 hrs out of it while was absolutely abusing it  (Photos, Videos, Video editing, music, browsing and downloading apps). I went to sleep at 3am and continued test at 10am. Well impressed with battery life. Xperia T has 1850 mAh battery and very power hungry screen.
   
  Display is 4.7 inches, same 720 resolution as Xperia T (4.55 inch @ 324ppi) with little bit lower pixel density 312 ppi. Human eye can define pixels only up to 300ppi . Color reprodustion is geat with close to reality saturation (not like Samsung's AMOLED) and accurate white balance. Viewing angles are best I ever saw on mobile screens and screen performs really well in direct sunlight.  Good thing is HTC have implemented hardware back/home/tasks buttons, so you getting 100% of 4.7 inch of your screen estate without wasting it for software buttons. One of my findings was that IPS LCD2 display doesn't drain battery as Xperia T or my Motorola's TFT displays and is not power hungry at all (well done HTC)!!!
Phone built quality is great too, very solid, made of one chunk of polycarbonate plastic without any squicky parts. Camera lens little bit off center of camera window, I found that is a design flow and doesn't get in a way while using camera. Phone is light for 4.7'' screen phone (135g) slim and fits in the pocket comfortably.
 
I still like Xperia T, design, features, hardware, software and etc. But I had too much problems with it: RAM management problems, camera crushes, ruined images on SD card, Walkman failure, USB connector failure, phone not starting up when discharged... This list is endless. It is too lousy to be James Bond's phone. Sony is not Sony Ericsson anymore and I don't believe they can make good reliable phones now. Research team is not listening to their customers anymore. If they carry on like that whole Sony Mobile division will end up in the ditch... It's sad to see it happening. They forgot main thing: Phone has to be reliable workhorse as many people like me do depend on being accessible and to be able to access outside world.

P.S. I purchased Otterbox Commuter case for my One X + and it's probably best and safest case to use without adding too much thickness to your phone.

Best wishes
Slav K

Hey, I'm back ... :) #Motorola #Photon

Here some photos taken by my Motorola Photon 4G

Street Photography

Lone drunken drummer - wearing Brazilian flag, singing silly song, smoking splif and uses plastic tab as a drum. What a multi-tasking! That probably not what you normally see on daily basis... and this all at 7am :)
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Thames barrier

After Environment Agency has left 26 flood warnings in place it was forced to close the Thames Barrier tree times over two days (28th of Feb and 1st of March 2010) in order to protect London from a combined high tide and tidal surge, which was expected to raise the water level 50-70cm. The last closure was the 117th in history of the Thames Barrier - the world's second largest movable flood barrier.
The Thames Barrier was officially opened in 1984.

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Beautiful Essex

It was moody and overcasted morning when I went for a walk along the seaside at Leigh-on-Sea. Tide was out and all I could see was sand mixed with mud. All this mix was laid in unusual patterns creating artistic and sophisticated patterns. It was looking like out of this world landscape, like an artwork of unknown master...

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Frosty Saturday morning

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Night time Photography with your Camera Cell Phone

Night shots with your mobile??? Are you mad??? - this is ordinary concept of ordinary mobile phone owner...
Is it true? I would say NO, as long as you understand how camera works.
Most of the people would say: "My photos come out blurish..." Of course, what did you expect? It takes camera longer to record information cause there is not much light out there. So what? Use it, you can easy create artistic masterpiece. Try to follow your moving subject with camera at the time of taking shot, as a result you can get your subject more or less in focus and background out of focus, nicely blurred in motion. In other case just make sure you are holding your mobile as steady as you can. I've taken couple pictures to demonstrate what I was on about.
Enjoy your mobile night time photography.
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Mobile fine art

As you probably know this blog is about mobile photography. How far you can get with your mobile phone camera? What about creating some beautiful fine art shots? It is all depends on the way you look at the subject and camera plays such minor role in it... So it is all about you - the greatest photographer of all times and not about your camera... Good luck
P.S. Here some pictures I've taken with my BB.
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