Hands-on first impressions of the HTC Windows Phone 8X (gallery)

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• to make it usefull

  you need to root it and install Android on it.
  Otherwise good hardware will go to waste.

  

  LlNUX Geek

  29 October, 2012 19:23

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  • Why not the other way, with Android devices getting turned into WP9 devices

    which will make them a lot more useful, and more modern, and better capable of interacting with the much more useful Windows ecosystem?
    
    In time, if it can be done, most Android devices will become a lot more useful with Windows 8, and Android will slowly disappear into the same abyss as Linux for netbooks did.

    

    adornoe

    29 October, 2012 20:13

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    • should be...

      getting turned into WP8 devices...

      

      adornoe

      29 October, 2012 20:15

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    • Re: Why not the other way, with Android devices getting turned into WP9 dev

      Sure, why not? Just have your equivalent of CyanogenMod take the Windows sources and...
      
      ...oh, wait.

      

      ldo17

      31 October, 2012 08:47

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  • Hardly

    But then again such a response is what I would expect from a sheep.

    

    athynz

    29 October, 2012 21:12

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  • Not to defend WP8 ....

    But you have to be a complete idiot to replace an OS that works right on the hardware with a crapware OS that uses vanilla drivers that are NEVER optimize for the hardware.

    

    wackoae

    30 October, 2012 03:06

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  • Yikes

    That would be like ruining a perfectly good piece of hardware. WP8 looks great and I'm leaning towards the 8x due to its design. Sure the 920 beats it hardware wise but I really like the subtle curves on the 8x. In my opinion when you look at the slide with 5 phones the 8x clearly stands out as the best design. I'm not into in the round corners you see on a lot of phones. It's as if a kid went crazy in wood shop and dug in with a router.

    

    Rob.sharp

    30 October, 2012 15:45

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• Nice First look

  Looks pretty. I wish Apple stuck with the curved back design like the original iPhones. Glad to see someone picked up on the comfort of that design!
  
  Minor Semantic issue though: The Holes are Molded into the case, not drilled. (I work in Injection Molding!)
  
  Thank you!

  

  Turboware

  29 October, 2012 20:11

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  • While I like the design on the iPhone 4/4S/5

    I do miss the curves of the 2G/3G/3S...

    

    athynz

    29 October, 2012 21:13

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• I'm glad to see that

  VZW is getting this one...
  
  http://www.zdnet.com/where-and-when-can-users-get-microsofts-windows-phone-8-devices-7000006550/

  

  athynz

  29 October, 2012 21:14

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