HTC Desire S is the successor to their award winning HTC Desire, one of 2010′s best selling smartphones. The Desire S has evolved to be slimmer and stronger, offering faster, smarter web browsing and the ability to record your memories in HD.
Sporting HTC’s signature unibody, built from a single piece of aluminium with plastic for the aerial and battery covers, it’s smooth, strong enough to handle some abuse and has a reassuringly high quality feel in your hands. Designed and built to be a market leader, this HTC phone is a classy, high powered addition to their range. The HTC Desire S phone benefits from an exceptional user experience, thanks to HTC’s intuitive Sense customisation of the Android operating system and the powerful 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor with 768MB of RAM under the hood that lets you do more, faster. This phone also packs in a 3.7 inch touchscreen with strong, vibrant colours and great definition, a 5 megapixel camera that’s boasts auto focus, an LED flash and 720p HD video recording and a front facing camera to make video calls.
HTC Desire S S510E review by Robert: Around April of last year, HTC launched the Desire smartphone, which featured a larger screen and higher end specs that its aluminum unibody sibling, the 3.2 inch Legend. The Desire must have been a success because HTC has continued the line with the recent release of the Desire S, paired with a new sibling: the Incredible S. Careful, though, this time the Desire S is the lower end phone, albeit with unibody construction, while the Incredible S is the larger, more powerful device. The second generation of the Desire seems to have swapped places with the Legend’s own successor!
The aluminum unibody is gorgeous. There’s no denying it. There are a couple plastic covered components on the back of the phone, camera, speaker, antenna etc, but otherwise, it’s all aluminum, baby. This phone definitely avoids the cheap plastic feel of some other phones. I’m looking at you, Nexus S. HTC definitely put a lot of thought into the design of this phone. I don’t know if it’s due to the aluminum, but the Desire S is just slightly lighter and thinner than the older generation Desire. In day to day use, it’s hardly noticeable.
The phone itself sports a 3.7 inch screen, which is definitely smaller than some higher end phones. Even the most delicate hands should have no trouble reaching all areas of the Desire S’s display. The screen doesn’t fare as well in direct sunlight as SAMOLED equipped phones, but it’s definitely still solid. I haven’t personally noticed any issue with the phones capitative buttons, but the guys at Engadget have reported sporadic issues with the backlight. If that is a widespread problem, hopefully it can be fixed in a software update.
Unlike the original Desire’s famous short battery life, the new generations battery is a champ, definitely capable of surviving a long day of moderate to heavy use. For non power users, I imagine you’ll be able to get three to four days between charges.
The Desire S has two cameras, a front facing camera and a more powerful camera on the rear. Like all the other front facing cameras I’ve tried, quality is definitely lacking. As long as you don’t mind youtube esque video conference quality, it should be more than adequate. The rear camera fares better, although not as nice as some other models I’ve looked at, notably the Evo 4g.
Software wise, everything seems snappy and the Desire S can handle anything I throw at it with ease. I imagine this will change as we start to see more dual-core phones on the market of which the Desire S is not, but for now things are great. I don’t know whether the phone’s Android Gingerbread of Snapdragon processor is responsible for the improved responsiveness when compared with the first generation Desire probably some of both, but I’m definitely liking it!
Of all the different Android skins, HTC’s Sense UI is probably the least annoying. Not exactly a glowing review, but most people I’ve spoken to still prefer the stock UI over the additional widgets and such offered by Sense UI.
All in all, while the Desire S seriously blows the original Desire out the water, it doesn’t look quite so nice when compared with higher end Android devices. However, it’s definitely still a solid contender in the crowded Android marketplace.
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