HTC 8XT

usability, price, portability, sound, performance

reliability

81% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Great build and design ; Excellent battery life ; LTE connectivity ; Good price

Windows Phone 8 ecosystem ; Camera is lackluster ; Only comes in one color

The HTC 8XT is a solid Windows Phone 8 smartphone for a great price

The HTC 8XT is going to get a lot of attention for the design, just as the Windows Phone 8X did. Unfortunately, once customers get past the pretty exterior they’re not going to be as impressed with what’s under the hood. Almost everything about the 8XT...

Well-designed body. Windows Phone 8 is easy to use. Supports LTE.

Low-res screen. Too little built-in storage. Too similar (and in some ways inferior) to a year-old phone.

HTC also ditched the Verizon 8X's cordless-charging support, but you're far less likely to miss that. The 10 hours, 32 minutes of talk time was good but well short of the advertised "up to 14 hours," while 24 hours spent sitting inert on a desk left...

Well designed, good looking device ; Combination of BoomSound speakers and Beats Audio make for great audio ; Good call quality

WVGA display is a step down from the 8X ; Color mismatches and an unnecessarily large camera bezel are visual stumbles

In the end we found ourselves enjoying the HTC 8XT, and are glad to see Windows Phone 8 finally make its way to all four major carriers. We once again are impressed with HTC’s ability to design a phone, but the device is not without compromises such as...

Attractive hardware design ; BoomSound lives up to its name ; Third-party ecosystem improving ; Camera viewfinder more useful than stock ; Micro SD expansion

Stuttery, unreliable UI ; Unremarkable screen, camera hardware ; Battery life sub-par

We want to like the 8XT as much as any other midrange Windows Phone – we really do. Its hardware is beautiful, its camera software is fun, and its BoomSound implementation is even better than the One’s. But its software just doesn’t measure up. Now, is...

Comfortable to hold, attractive and distinctive, BoomSound stereo speakers are above the fray, pleasing albeit low resolution display, expandable storage

Low resolution display, only 8 gigs internal storage (mitigated by a microSD card slot)

Let's face it; if you're a Sprint customer, the HTC 8XT is your only choice among Windows 8 smartphones, though the Samsung ATIV S Neo should be coming by summer's end with largely comparable specs (except a bigger display) and a $150 on contract price...