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Boldly colored design. This smartphone stands out in the crowd. Starting with its “color-dipped” accents for an eye-catching, playful look, followed by the sleek form from the cool, clean Live Tiles.
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High-performing battery. An optimized battery that lasts as long as you, coupled with powerful performance from a 1GHz dual-core processor. Plus, you get 7GB on SkyDrive—for free!
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Studio-quality sound and entertainment. Truly feel your music with Beats Audio™ built-in. You get deeper base, crisper vocals and detailed high notes on music, games, movies and videos.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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Rollover for a closer look!
The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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The smartphone to match your life at work and play. Our unique design immediately sets you apart in a sea of smartphones with playful, brightly colored devices that look as if they’ve been dipped in a bucket of paint. Even better…enjoy a strong, long-lasting battery via the powerful dual-core performance.
Exclusive Beats Audio™ built-in serves up immersive, studio-quality sound for all your entertainment. Plus, a physical camera button lets you instantly point, shoot and share while a free SkyDrive account means that wherever you go, so does your content. And don’t forget about the cool, clean look of Live Tiles that put personalization readily at your fingertips.
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Windows Phone 8S by HTC
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- "HTC’s Windows Phone 8X and 8S take the Windows Phone lead."— BGR
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Boldly colored design.
Boldly colored design.This smartphone stands apart with its eye-catching, bright, playful original look and its bold color accent that looks as if it’s been dipped in a paint pot. Pair that with the cool, clean coordinated design of Live Tiles and you have a device that rivals (dare we say leads?) the other guys
Boldly colored design.
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High-performing battery.
High-performing battery.Stay connected while charging your phone less than other phones—thanks to the 1GHz dual-core processor for powerful performance and an optimized battery. Plus, never be without your content again—photos, documents and more are easily accessible on your free 7GB SkyDrive account.
High-performing battery.
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Studio-quality sound and entertainment.
Studio-quality sound and entertainment.Don’t just listen to your music, feel it with Beats Audio™ built-in. You get deeper base, crisper vocals and detailed high notes for music, games, movies and videos. Then, lose yourself in the music and games you love with Xbox Gaming and Xbox Music, where you have access to more than 17 million tracks.
Studio-quality sound and entertainment.
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For the photographer in you.
For the photographer in you.A physical camera button, accessible even from the lock screen, lets you instantly point, shoot and share images from the 5mp, 720p autoflash camera. Create inspiring, original photos with the built-in lenses and show those images on the big, vibrant display. And never again be without your photos and videos. They’re now quickly accessible, easy-to-manage, secure and automatically backed up on your free 7GB SkyDrive account.
For the photographer in you.
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Size:120.5 x 63 x 10.28 mm
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Weight:113 grams with battery
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Display:4 inch super LCD touch screen
Gorilla® Glass -
Screen:WVGA resolution
All Specs
CPU speed
Qualcomm® S4 1 GHz, Dual-core
Platform Windows
Windows® Phone 8
SIM card type
MicroSIM
Memory
Total storage: 4 GB, available capacity varies1
Expansion SD card slot supports micro™ SD memory card for additional storage (card not included)
RAM 512 MB
Network
GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz2
HSPA/WCDMA: Europe/Asia: 900/2100 MHz
GPS
Internal GPS antenna with GLONASS
Sensors
G-Sensor
Proximity sensor
Ambient light sensor
Connectivity
3.5 mm stereo audio jack
Bluetooth® 3.1
Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Sound enhancement
Studio-quality sound with Beats Audio™ built in
Camera
5 megapixel camera with auto focus LED flash
F2.8 aperture and 35mm lens
720p video recording
Multimedia
Audio supported formats:
Playback: Playback: .aac, .amr, .m4a, .mp3, .wav, .asf, .wma (verison 9 and 10)
Recording: .wav(w/OneNote)
Video supported formats:
Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, m4v, asf, .wmv (version 9 and 10)
Recording: .mp4
Battery
Embeded & rechargeable Li-ion Polymer battery3
Capacity: 1700 mAh
AC Adapter
Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz
DC output: 5 V and 1 A
- Available storage is less due to phone software.
- Network bands in regions other than Europe and Asia Pacific may be different, depending on the mobile operator and your location. Upload and download speeds also depend on the mobile operator.
Battery times (talk time, standby time, and more) are subject to network and phone usage.
A Standby time specification ("specification") is an industry standard that is only intended to allow comparison of different mobile devices under the same circumstances. Power consumption in a standby state is strongly dependent on factors including but not limited to network, settings, location, movement, signal strength and cell traffic . Comparisons of different mobile devices using such a specification can therefore only be done in a controlled laboratory environment . When using any mobile device in real life circumstances for which the mobile device is intended, the standby time could be considerably lower and will be strongly dependent on the factors as mentioned above.
Note: Specifications are subject to change without prior notice
Rated 3.5 out of 5 by 109
reviewers.
Rated 3 out of 5 by Xmackdab An OK phone
The main reason I bought this phone because it was the cheapest windows 8 phone when it came out. After almost 3 months of use; the rubberized skin on the upper corner started to peel-off; internal memory was all used up. And when I'm browsing pages or watching videos online, it would occasionally go back to the home screen and erase the session completely. So, did I regret buying this phone? Not really. It is still a windows 8 which I oh so dearly like. Should HTC PH allow me to trade this in for a 8x then that would be great.
March 4, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by lucianog HTC Windows Phone 8S Review
Certainly the best phone I ever had, but internal memory is too small even if you have a memory card.
March 2, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Reshirandrew Windows Phone 8S By HTC
A great all round phone. Fast, easy to use and stylish.
And on contract for £11 per month, great quality comes cheap.
March 4, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Phoneuser FANTASTIC phone BUT be warned!
Having never really got on that well with Android and I would rather have two paper cups and some string than an I phone! Windows 8 seemed a logical step.
I am not disappointed the phone has a great interface which is easily customable to my choice of tiles. The movement of contacts was simplicity itself easiest I have ever moved contacts to a new phone. Adding photos or music is just like using a memory device you can create new folders delete old ones - just so easy! Or you can just use the camera. Best of all it makes and receives calls and texts which is really what a phone is for. It looks a million dollars it’s nice and light if I had to sum this phone up in one sound bite “It just works”
BE WARNED a lot said about the memory on this phone I have over a gigabyte of memory left but I do not do lots of apps and toys so if this is your thing this could be filled pretty quickly so this phone may not be the best choice for you. I have added a 16gig memory card which is plenty for my pictures and movies it would appear you cannot tell the phone where to put the apps so I imagine everyone is correct and you cannot add apps to the memory card.
March 4, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by narked Perfect all-rounder phone
The phone is not the best out there, but for the price you get an excellent package.
The design of the phone is phenomenal, build quality is fantastic and the size is just right. I like a lot of things in this phone and only have some minor issues with it. I'd appreciate a slightly sharper Camera, and currently there is a small WinPhone8 bug related to storage (this however should be fixed).
March 13, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Viktor2510 Great phone.
For me it is a very good phone. it's quite cheap so it was obvious to me that some things on this phone will be a little worse than those on very expencive ones. The only problem to me is that there is not enough apps and games, but I'm sure that some of them will come out soon. :)
March 17, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by DesireXAwesome Good phone
It's a good phone but it has no NFC. But it's still a good mid-range phone if you are looking for a Windows Phone 8 device with tons of features that is 4inches.
December 21, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by Soleiman Nice but
Nice phone needs lot of improvements.
I considered it like any other phone nothing interesting
January 5, 2013