HTC Windows Phone 8S
The HTC 8S was announced long back and we almost forgot that such a phone existed. In November, HTC announced that the mid-range Windows Phone HTC 8S will be priced at Rs19,350. At that time, there was no information about launch date of the HTC 8S. During the third week of December, the HTC Windows Phone 8S was finally available in India for the same price that was mentioned earlier.
HTC Windows Phone 8S – Features and Specification
The HTC Windows Phone 8S was announced as the cheaper of the two WP 8 devices that HTC had announced. The features and specification of the HTC Windows Phone 8S are as follows
- Windows Phone 8
- 4inch S-LCD display of 800×480 pixels ( 233ppi )
- Corning Gorilla Glass for protection
- Beats Audio
- Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus chipset
- Dual Core 1GHz Krait processor
- Adreno 305 GPU
- 512MB RAM
- 4GB internal storage
- microSD Card slot (upto 32GB)
- 5MP camera with Auto-focus and LED flash with 720p HD video recording
- Rich color options
- Excellent connectivity – WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, microUSB, GPS with A-GPS
The HTC Windows Phone 8S is set back by
- No FM Radio
- No Front camera
Other than these two drawbacks, the HTC 8S is easily a very good choice. The excellent design and build quality make it the best looking WP8 device currently out there.
HTC Windows Phone 8S - Availability and Pricing
The HTC Windows Phone 8S is available for Rs19,350 from online retailers like Flipkart(currently out of stock) and Saholic(available).