The
HTC Desire S is the updated version of the HTC Desire and contains a 1GHz Scorpion CPU with an Adreno 205 GPU. The
phone has a metal unibody and a 3.7-inch S-LCD display with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and Gorilla Glass protection.
There is 768MB of RAM in the phone and it runs on Android v2.3 (Gingerbread) with an update pending for v4.0 (Ice Cream
Sandwich). The camera takes 5MP still photographs and 720p videos. There is also a front facing VGA camera on the device
for video calls. The phone is not very different from the original Desire in terms of specs but runs Gingerbread natively
and will also get updated to ICS, unlike the original Desire.
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The design of the phone, mostly due to the metal unibody construction, is excellent. When held in hand, the phone does feel like a premium device and the weight of 130g is also excellently balanced and feels perfect for a phone of its size. The 3.7-inch S-LCD display produces very good colours although the contrast is not on par with phones containing AMOLED screens. The pixel density of 252ppi is also very good but sunlight legibility could have been a bit better. The 1GHz Scorpion CPU and Adreno 205 GPU are now starting to feel a bit outdated, mostly due to dual-core processors with better performance getting more and more common. When the Desire S was initially released, a main advantage it had over its competitors as well as its predecessor was that it came with Gingerbread preloaded and other devices were going to be updated later. However, the Desire and other phones have since successfully gotten this update and this advantage has eroded. However, the Desire S will eventually be updated to ICS, while the original Desire would not. A nagging problem we encountered was that Wi-Fi reception degraded if the top part of the back panel was covered and the phone was in an area with weak Wi-Fi signals. The user interface utilizes HTC’s Sense skin and is very fluid; and the browser performance was also excellent. The camera took average pictures but the 720p video it took wasn’t that great with several dropped frames. The battery life of the phone however, was extremely good. Under normal usage, the phone easily lasted 2-3 days. Hence, upgrading from the original Desire to the Desire S would make sense mostly for the promise of ICS, as the device internals have only received slight updates. Choosing the Desire S over the competition mostly boils down to the price. As the phone is cheaper than the alternative dual-core handsets, the phone has a decent footing in the market. If you can pay the extra premium for a device like the Samsung Galaxy S II, it is well worth it. Otherwise, mostly due to the excellent design, the device still feels premium for its price.
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