Posted by tranced
BARCELONA, SPAIN – Mobile World Congress – February 15, 2011 – HTC Corporation, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today unveiled three new versions of its most popular and advanced smartphones – HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S. The new smartphones continue HTC’s commitment to expanding the market for advanced smartphones while providing distinct choices in design, power and value. Each phone also includes HTC Sense, HTC’s unique customer-focused user experience that puts people at the center by making phones work in a more simple and natural way.
“HTC developed the HTC Sense experience to bring cutting-edge innovation to our customers in simple and natural ways that just make sense - this is what HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S represent best,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC Corporation. “These new phones offer an exhilarating mix of style, innovation and features that extend people’s mobile experience in ways that feel personal and completely original.”
HTC Desire S
As a successor to the popular and award-winning HTC Desire, the new HTC Desire S blends stunning design with power and speed. Inspired by the HTC Legend™ smartphone’s aluminium design, the HTC Desire S is sculpted out of a single block of aluminum making it feel solid and natural in your hand. With Qualcomm’s new 1GHz Snapdragon™ MSM8255 processor, the HTC Desire S offers snappy performance and power. It offers dual front and back cameras, High-Definition video recording and the 3.7-inch WVGA display presents multimedia content brilliantly.
HTC Wildfire S
Building on the popularity of the HTC Wildfire™ smartphone, the HTC Wildfire S smartphone is an affordable, compact and playful device that packs a powerful smartphone experience. It enables people to maintain and build connections and friendships through popular sites like Facebook®, as well as through voice and text messaging. You can instantly tag your friends in photos before posting them on Facebook, or share your latest discoveries from the Android™ Market at the touch of a button.
HTC Wildfire S is one of HTC’s smallest phones ever – measuring just 10.13cm long and 5.94cm wide – and boasts a distinctive 3.2 inch, HVGA display.
Celebrate your individuality and choose from a wide variety of colors including black, purple and white. The phone’s home screen is fully customizable with your favorite apps, widgets and content, while a 5-megapixel color camera with auto focus, expandable microSD™ memory and support for a variety of audio and video formats make a great all-around multimedia device that slips easily into any pocket.
HTC Incredible S
The alluring HTC Incredible S smartphone combines cutting-edge design with a premium mobile experience for those who dare to be different. Showing what can be achieved when engineers and designers work together to raise the bar for mobile phone design, the HTC Incredible S smartphone features a stunning, contoured body that highlights the internal hardware components of the device. Capturing and viewing video in crystal clear High-Definition has never been so easy and a bright 4-inch WVGA Super LCD display and stereo surround sound bring a vibrant cinematic experience to the palm of your hand.
HTC Incredible S also takes high quality pictures with its 8-megapixel camera with dual flash, and it easily enables videos, photos and music to be shared from the handset direct to a TV using DLNA® technology. Thanks to the HTC Incredible S’s front facing camera and video call functionality, users will constantly be able to chat with their friends face-to-face.
Availability
The HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S smartphones, will be broadly available to customers across major European and Asian markets during Q2 2011.
HTC Desire S
HTC Incredible S
HTC Wildfire S
[ This Message was edited by: tranced on 2011-02-15 12:14 ]
Posted by NightBlade
Anyone else feel HTC's phones are starting to look too much alike?
Granted, the same could be said about the Xperia lineup.
Posted by QVGA
I am truly disappointed at the garbage HTC has released this MWC. A tablet running 2.4 and a high end cellphone with Froyo. All I can say is WTF??
Posted by NightBlade
True.
Posted by goldenface
Looks like they are resting on their laurels. They had a fantastic year last year with very heavy promtotion of the Desire range which has done extremely well, grabbing both mind and market share.
I think they can afford to sit back for a while.
Posted by QVGA
On 2011-02-15 15:42:56, NightBlade wrote:
True.
hey i used to fight with u all the time :
Posted by NightBlade
I know, right?
I remembered as soon as I saw your name.
Posted by rickster2kuk
Isn't is strange, HTC seem to be doing an SE of 2010 and SE are doing an HTC of 2010.
Very disappointed with HTCs line up for 2011, no real innovation or massive improvement. HTC will truly get left behind this year by SE, Motorola and Samsung.
Posted by rikken
I like the Desire S with it`s aluminum unibody and second generation Snapdragon chipset. Seems to be a nice upgrade over the original Desire
Posted by Tsepz_GP
I dont think this is totaly HTC's fault, i remember reading somewhere that Qualcomm's dual-core CPUs have been delayed, that could explaing why both SE and HTC didnt have any dual-core phones or dual-core tablets to unveil as they both use Qualcomm's for SoCs, so they are now stuck with the next best thing, the MSM8255. Wouldn't be suprised if both companies launched some realy powerful smartphones sometime in Q3.
EDIT: Yep, delayed http://www.thinkpads.com/2010[....]apdragon-delayed-to-late-2011/
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2011-02-15 20:26 ]
Posted by QVGA
On 2011-02-15 21:13:36, Tsepz_GP wrote:
I dont think this is totaly HTC's fault, i remember reading somewhere that Qualcomm's dual-core CPUs have been delayed, that could explaing why both SE and HTC didnt have any dual-core phones or dual-core tablets to unveil as they both use Qualcomm's for SoCs, so they are now stuck with the next best thing, the MSM8255. Wouldn't be suprised if both companies launched some realy powerful smartphones sometime in Q3.
EDIT: Yep, delayed http://www.thinkpads.com/2010[....]apdragon-delayed-to-late-2011/
[ This Message was edited by: Tsepz_GP on 2011-02-15 20:26 ]
If LG samsung and moto can have dual core phones, then so can HTC
Posted by volvoman
there is no real need for dual core phones as many manufactures have already stated, maybe in the tablets that will be running honeycomb but not for froyo or gingerbread, or for that matter in I ice cream that will combine some of gingerbread and some of honeycomb. samsung are talking about it in their phones with 3d and for more game orientated phones, but as everyone knows the current line up of phones running froyo and gingerbread run perfectly well without dual core. As for htc's line up, I find nothing wrong with it at all, something for everyone in their line up, rather than bringing out a range of high end phones like other have.
The flyer may well be launched with 2.4 but will be updated more or less straight away, the scribe idea is brilliant, no other manufacture has come up with anything like it, as for SE taking over from htc, well only if they manage to release updates regularly, and these phones that they are showing off prove to be all they are hyped up to be, which by some first reviews does not seem to be the case.
Posted by JJ!
Desire s looks nice. Not much of an upgrade from the original, but still nice all the same!