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HTC Desire S will come out April 18 and cost £420
THE HTC Desire S smartphone, which which we first saw at last week's Mobile World Congress, has already got a price and release date.
Amazon UK has the HTC Desire S priced at £420 SIM-free with an 18 April release date. The successor to the HTC Desire HD, it has a number of design changes, such as a smaller 3.7-inch display, unibody design, and 5MP camera. But it keeps a 1GHz Snapdragon processor.
It will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread out of the box, unlike the HTC Incredible S, which was also shown off in Barcelona. The Wildfire S is also to come, also running the new version of Google's mobile operating system.
Compared with rival devices revealed at MWC, like the LG Optimus 3D, Samsung Galaxy S2 and Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, the Desire S is slightly underwhelming.
It's comparable to the original Desire rather than the huge and flashy Desire HD. We're used to HTC releasing headline making phones, but not this time. The Desire was a breakthrough smartphone at MWC 2010, but in 2011 there were others that took the eye.
However, the Desire phones are very popular and the Desire S should do good business, with Orange, Vodafone and 3 reported to be stocking it. µ
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+1 for the above. The Desire S is clearly a revised Desire rather than a revised Desire HD. Being as it's, you know, got lower specs than the HD in every department other than the OS revision.
Good job I don't come to the Inq looking for actual tech news (keep up the iSheep baiting though).
Firstly you say "The successor to the HT Desire HD, it has a number of design changes, such as a smaller 3.7-inch display, unibody design, and 5MP camera. But it keeps a 1GHz Snapdragon processor."
This is NOT the successor to the Desire HD, it may have come after that phone but it is the successor to the HTC Desire.
Therefore it IS an upgrade.
Strangely you allude to this later on by saying "It's comparable to the original Desire rather than the huge and flashy Desire HD."
Honestly if you don't know your subject get another job!