If you are looking for a mid-sized phone, aren't wed to stock Android and doing things like taking casual snaps and playing fun games on the way to work, then you won't be disappointed with the Desire X.

...you don't step away from the Desire X with a big sense of wow factor. It's safe, it's competent, but it never really steps beyond that. Some might say that it doesn't quite have the X factor, but it is reasonably affordable.

The HTC Desire X lops off some features to squeeze its slim body into a lower-mid range pigeonhole. Most of these aren't too critical. It uses a cut-down version of HTC Sense, has no user-facing camera and the main camera isn't too hot. But it gets the basics down well.