HTC Desire S Review: Advantages & Disadvantages

HTC Desire S is one of few handsets that come with pre-installed Android 2.3 gingerbread to properly use its 1 GHz Scorpion processor. This HTC mobile phone released in last month. This is the upgrade version of HTC Desire released last year. Today I am about to talk its advantages and disadvantages. Hope this will help you to decide whether it is for you or not.

HTC Desire S Advantages:

• Uses the best screen from HTC so far, a 3.7" 480 X 800 pixels 16M-color capacitive S-LCD touchscreen
• Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense
• Compact aluminum unibody design
• 1 GHz Scorpion CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 chipset
• 768 MB RAM and 1.1 GB ROM
• 14.4 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA
• Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA, supports portable HotSpot
• MicroUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
• Ultra-fast boot times compared with any other handsets in the market

HTC Desire S Disadvantages:

• Only 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording capability
• No dedicated camera key on side or lens cover on back
• Video quality is not up to the standard
• You need to turn off the phone and remove battery to change memory card
• Wi-Fi signal degrades when you cover the top part of the back panel
• Poor sun light visibility

You can buy unlocked international version of HTC Desire S from Amazon.com as low as $339.00.

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HTC Desire S is now in India, Price is Rs. 23,649

LetsBuy.com has announced HTC Desire S is now available on Letsbuy.com. This Android 2.3 smartphone has a 3.7-inch screen with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Desire S powered by 1GHz processor for storing apps while the 768MB RAM helps you to ensure that you seldom run out memory.

The new smartphone is priced at Rs. 23,999 in India. Letsbuy.com offers ‘Cash on delivery’ service, the phone is delivered anywhere in India and customers can pay only after receiving the product. It will take only 4-7 working days. You can also get 12 months of warranty with every HTC Desire S.

HTC Desire S features at a glance-

• Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread
  
• 1 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 Snapdragon
  
• 480 x 800 pixels 3.7 inches 16M LCD multi touch screen
  
• 1.1 GB ROM, 768 MB RAM
  
• Upto 32 GB microSD card
  
• 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
  
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot

HTC Desire S is also available on Amazon.com worldwide. Unlocked Desire S cheapest price is $480.

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HTC Desire S Pre-order Price in UK is £419.99, Comes in 18 April

HTC Desire S is still remains hot in the upcoming Android phones list. HTC just announced it week earlier in MWC 2011. Its coming with Android latest version 2.3 gingerbread and incredible 16M color S-LCD capacitive 480 X 800 pixels 3.7 inches touchscreen. Already Amazon UK and Expansys UK start the pre-order of HTC Desire S mobile phone on their site. They are hoping to release this HTC phone in April 2011.

But they offer slightly different price of HTC Desire S phone. Amazon UK set unlocked HTC Desire S Android price to £419.99($682) while Expansys UK decides to sell it £10 higher, £429.99. In the mean time may may already heard that Vodafone UK also sells HTC Desire S phone. If you are looking for cheap HTC Desire S smart phone on a contract price then you might wait for Vodafone Desire S price notice.

Beside these Amazon German site offers both black and silver version of HTC Desire S. And they will sell unlocked Desire S phone on €499(£420).

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Vodafone UK to Offer HTC Desire S, Wildfire S & ChaCha

HTC announced a number of exclusive Android phones in MWC 2011 this month. And after now UK Vodafone confirms that they offer 3 of these HTC mobile phones to their customers soon. Though the actual release date is still unknown.

Three HTC Android phones Vodafone will sells are HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC ChaCha. HTC ChaCha mobile phone is the 1st Android device comes with a facebook button and a restyled UI in a matching color.

But Vodafone doesn’t say any about the price of HTC Desire S phone, HTC Wildfire S and HTC ChaCha price. In the mean time we heard that other UK operators like Orange and Three will also sell HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S & HTC ChaCha.

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