Sadly, those features were the few bright spots in Sense. The overlay feels dated compared to the plain Ice Cream Sandwich interface, and certain things (like changing the phone's wallpaper) now require you to dig through extra menus to find them.

The phone comes with a handful of preinstalled software, including AT&T's suite of mobile apps and the MOG Music app. Some of these applications could be useful to people, but it's a shame that you are not given the option to be able to uninstall them. Ice Cream Sandwich does provide a way to disable these apps and prevent them from showing up in your app drawer, but they're not completely deleted from your phone and thus still take up precious memory.

Entertainment

When it comes to entertainment, the One X is more than capable of holding its own against other phones with strong multimedia capabilities. The HTC phone's beefy processor will allow you to play pretty much any game you find on Google's Play Store, and the high-definition display makes the One X ideal for watching movies. If music is more of your thing, you'll greatly enjoy the improved music hub and having all of your audio apps in one central location.

Liike HTC's other One phones, such as the One S, the One X comes with Beats Audio built in for an "improved" listening experience. In my hands-on testing, I didn't notice much difference between when Beats Audio was on or off. My colleague Ginny Mies, however, did notice improved audio in her review of the HTC One S for T-Mobile. Beats Audio will automatically turn itself on if you plug in any pair of headphones, but the software is supposed to work best if you use headphones that are Beats-compatible. However, I didn't have a pair of Beats headphones handy, which may account for my not being able to hear much of a difference in my test track.