8 Tech | HTC Desire S | : HTC has a wide range of smartphones over the years with his more recent Android models picking up our recommended awards as if they were free memory sticks at a tech fair. The latest offering is the Desire S that is not packaged in a headline grabbing dual-core processor, fancy camera or Ginormous screen, but it is a beautifully made, stylish smartphone that should be high on your wish list.
As always with HTC devices, the Desire S is a modest entrance into the plain white box, but once you clap eyes on the device you know you are in for a treat. Largely packed in an aluminum frame, with a big plate of glass adorn the front, it just exudes class. Not that this is something new for HTC, with his Desire, Desire HD, Desire Z, Legend and 7 Mozart, to name but a few, have proven the Taiwanese company knows how to beautifully crafted handset. Like the Desire HD, there are a few holes here and there, where you can see through to the channels down which is a bit unnerving, but we doubt this should cause problems in normal use.
Said aluminum is finished in anodized black, while two soft-touch black plastic parts on the back, the internal antennas to their work. Set in the upper part of the plastic camera, its flash, and the speaker, while the lower part slides out to access the battery, SIM slot and microSD card.
Because of the way this house works, you can not hot swap SIM or microSD cards, so you must power down the device every time - a minor complaint, but a complaint yet. The phone comes with a decent chunk of 1.1GB of internal memory for storing programs, while the 768 MB of RAM will help to ensure you rarely run out of memory.
It's just not the overall design, that is the Desire S, it's the little details too. The beveled edges that surround receiver and the front camera has a touch of class, while the silver strip that the power and volume buttons still feel firmly planted a lovely light, but some action. On the left you will also find a microUSB jack for connecting the phone to a computer or charging through an adapter, while the top is the headphone jack is now mandatory.
Just below the earpiece cut out, and set the glass surface, a small LED that lights red when charging and flashes green when a new message from a given species. Below the screen, and also included in the same sheet of glass as the display are the four standard buttons Android. Unfortunately they do not have the funky rotating feature of the HTC Incredible S, where they flip-round phone which side the game, but they are nice and responsive. A small inconvenience is that, because they are not physical buttons, not one of them you can press to activate the screen, so you always have to stretch the power button to unlock the phone.
There are a couple of further slip ups too.
The lack of a dedicated button for the camera, the big disappointment if it means going to the left away prod at the screen when taking pictures, which is not always the easiest operation to perform while maintaining a firm grip on the device . Also missing is a connection miniHDMI piping video directly to your TV. Frankly, the latter is not something we would miss if we do not really use it, but it is something that competitors like the Motorola Milestone XT720, do offer.
Because of the way this house works, you can not hot swap SIM or microSD cards, so you must power down the device every time - a minor complaint, but a complaint yet. The phone comes with a decent chunk of 1.1GB of internal memory for storing programs, while the 768 MB of RAM will help to ensure you rarely run out of memory.
It's just not the overall design, that is the Desire S, it's the little details too. The beveled edges that surround receiver and the front camera has a touch of class, while the silver strip that the power and volume buttons still feel firmly planted a lovely light, but some action. On the left you will also find a microUSB jack for connecting the phone to a computer or charging through an adapter, while the top is the headphone jack is now mandatory.
Just below the earpiece cut out, and set the glass surface, a small LED that lights red when charging and flashes green when a new message from a given species. Below the screen, and also included in the same sheet of glass as the display are the four standard buttons Android. Unfortunately they do not have the funky rotating feature of the HTC Incredible S, where they flip-round phone which side the game, but they are nice and responsive. A small inconvenience is that, because they are not physical buttons, not one of them you can press to activate the screen, so you always have to stretch the power button to unlock the phone.
There are a couple of further slip ups too.
The lack of a dedicated button for the camera, the big disappointment if it means going to the left away prod at the screen when taking pictures, which is not always the easiest operation to perform while maintaining a firm grip on the device . Also missing is a connection miniHDMI piping video directly to your TV. Frankly, the latter is not something we would miss if we do not really use it, but it is something that competitors like the Motorola Milestone XT720, do offer.
