HTC Desire S - Specs
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HTC Desire S details
- Design
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8/10
- Features
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7/10
- Performance
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8/10
- Value
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8/10
- Overall
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8/10
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Elegant design
- Brilliant screen
- Well built
- Easy to use
Cons
- No camera shutter button
- Not dual core
- Camera fairly poor
Price as reviewed
£381.98
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18th July 2011, By philehidiot
As far as I can tell, the only flaws in the build of this phone are the battery life and the lack of a macro mode on the camera - why??
The rest of it is software with the occasional very odd bugs which keep cropping up, the occasional resets and Android's lack of a decent multitasking system.
I've put the battery as a con - it will last a day with pretty heavy use and will easily get there with quite a few widgets and so on. Put simply you can use this phone with all the fancy stuff on (i.e. as it was meant to be used) and still get through a day. If you want more out of it, you can put a battery saving program on it and turn stuff off.
For those debating about the move from physical keyboard to touch screen - this is my first touchscreen keyboard and whilst I never, ever type the word I intend to, the HTC keyboard is fantastic at guessing the word and as a result I can type faster than with a good physical keyboard.
This phone is also built very solidly although dispite this I bought a case as my phones live a very hard life and to cover the holes when using in the rain. I would still be confident that it would survive without the case however and this does feel like a device you could lob at a wall without significant injury given the Gorilla Glass.
The screen resolution is about average but given the size it's nice and sharp.
Coming from a much less powerful android phone, the amount of programs this can run without any slow down is fantastic. There's a lot of RAM there and you'll rarely find yourself wondering why it's lagging.
I still lament the lack of a macro mode as I often use a phone camera to take a picture of text (menu, phone number, etc) and it came as a real surprise that this was lacking from an autofocus camera. The camera is adequate with some neat real time effects and is pretty responsive. A physical shutter button would be nice
Personally, I think this is the best compromise between the performance of the dual core monsters with their large screens and battery life. It's an evolution of a damn good phone, not a new model, so the flaws have been ironed out. The bugs will be dealt with in time and I can only hope a palm pre-esque multitasking system makes itself known as this would complete the Android OS.
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