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Add colour to life Vivid colours come alive in a super-sleek design.
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See more 5MP camera and a 4” display capture more detail and realism.
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Music re-mastered In-built Beats Audio™ performance for pulse-pounding bass, detail and studio quality sound.
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The new Windows® Phone 8S by HTC comes in vividly brilliant colours that just pop on the super-sleek minimalist design. A 5MP auto-flash camera captures stunning detail that just jumps off the crystal-clear 4” display. 720p video playback is a breeze with the 1GHz Dual Core processor that zips you through your media files with ease while your ears are treated to pulse-pounding bass, crisper vocals and dynamic high notes. Great studio quality sound delivered on the only Windows® Phone that has in-built Beats Audio™ technology.
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The new Windows® Phone 8S by HTC comes in vividly brilliant colours that just pop on the super-sleek minimalist design. A 5MP auto-flash camera captures stunning detail that just jumps off the crystal-clear 4” display. 720p video playback is a breeze with the 1GHz Dual Core processor that zips you through your media files with ease while your ears are treated to pulse-pounding bass, crisper vocals and dynamic high notes. Great studio quality sound delivered on the only Windows® Phone that has in-built Beats Audio™ technology.
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The new Windows® Phone 8S by HTC comes in vividly brilliant colours that just pop on the super-sleek minimalist design. A 5MP auto-flash camera captures stunning detail that just jumps off the crystal-clear 4” display. 720p video playback is a breeze with the 1GHz Dual Core processor that zips you through your media files with ease while your ears are treated to pulse-pounding bass, crisper vocals and dynamic high notes. Great studio quality sound delivered on the only Windows® Phone that has in-built Beats Audio™ technology.
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The new Windows® Phone 8S by HTC comes in vividly brilliant colours that just pop on the super-sleek minimalist design. A 5MP auto-flash camera captures stunning detail that just jumps off the crystal-clear 4” display. 720p video playback is a breeze with the 1GHz Dual Core processor that zips you through your media files with ease while your ears are treated to pulse-pounding bass, crisper vocals and dynamic high notes. Great studio quality sound delivered on the only Windows® Phone that has in-built Beats Audio™ technology.
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The new Windows® Phone 8S by HTC comes in vividly brilliant colours that just pop on the super-sleek minimalist design. A 5MP auto-flash camera captures stunning detail that just jumps off the crystal-clear 4” display. 720p video playback is a breeze with the 1GHz Dual Core processor that zips you through your media files with ease while your ears are treated to pulse-pounding bass, crisper vocals and dynamic high notes. Great studio quality sound delivered on the only Windows® Phone that has in-built Beats Audio™ technology.
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The new Windows® Phone 8S by HTC comes in vividly brilliant colours that just pop on the super-sleek minimalist design. A 5MP auto-flash camera captures stunning detail that just jumps off the crystal-clear 4” display. 720p video playback is a breeze with the 1GHz Dual Core processor that zips you through your media files with ease while your ears are treated to pulse-pounding bass, crisper vocals and dynamic high notes. Great studio quality sound delivered on the only Windows® Phone that has in-built Beats Audio™ technology.
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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
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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 3.4 out of 5 by 107
reviewers.
Rated 2 out of 5 by home2barry 4GB memory space is not enough
the 4GB memory on the Windows Phone 8S by HTC, is very disappointing and is clearly not enough for the users. You can expend your memory using a microSD card only to save photos, music and videos. But NOT apps. The Windows Phone 8 operating system takes up more than half the memory, leaving about 1.5GB for apps.
I would recommend not getting this phone.
December 21, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Rythf Love the sleek design, but.....
Had this phone for less than a week and it has hanged on me 4 times. I didn't install much apps, just the usual whatsapp and map apps. The only way out of getting out of the hanged format was to turn it off and on again, while it is being charged.
Its so frustrating. I love the windows features but, seriously, I didn;t have much memory space to play with.
Could that be why it hanged a lot?
Dang
February 17, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Muffinman Incredible device
The htc 8s is an amazing phone and is complemented well by the amazing windows 8 os.
Firstly the design, there is not a nice looking phone on the market FACT. The phone feels comfortable in your hand thanks to the curved back and it's screen size is perfect for you to be able to use the phone one handed. The phone itself is also very light.
By sticking with windows, HTC have really achieved their goal of making a phone personal to you. I love being able to access all my social feeds in one place by using the people app, and also being able to make groups for those that matter most to me. My only dissapointment here would be that the os is quite large and only leaves you with about 1.3gb internal storage.
The 8s display is rich and clear and although there are much better screens out there, the 8s still does a fantastic job.
The camera is a bit of a let down but in all honesty how many people can actually say they use their camera that often? For just catching the occasional hilarious moment or other memory you want to keep the 5mp camera will be fine.
Of course beats audio is a fantastic addition to the phone and in future if I decide to spend some money on a decent pair of headphones beats will be the only ones for me!! Regardless the music is still crisp and clear without them.
Overall I'm hugely impressed with HTC. For months I was debating whether or not to make the switch, but now I'm glad I did. I've got a phone that suits my lifestyle and you should too!
February 19, 2013
Rated 3 out of 5 by Weihonglim 4Gb memory is not enough
HTC WINDOWS PHONE 8s , htc only built in 4gb it's not enough for apps . The memory card can only store pictures , music only . It's so disappointing .
The things I like is the screen .. It's very nice , and the keyboard too. .
May 28, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by Linafaux Not a bad phone at all, but depend on you're needs.
Reactive, Windows os is the best. Informations on a look so great. Long efficient battery if you dont have to use 4 g all the time. Size and the back touch is perfect for me (like a rubber plastic).
I give a good quote for the price. Usage i do with it, is prepaid phone.
If you are looking on memory for apps(games and you need a lot) pass you're way. But most winows apps are low on memory because it is based on updates.
The worst i see? he dont have compass. To look on the stars is not perfect. I have to do it manualy.
For most apliance, if you use it as a phone for prepaid. You will have a great phone. Good fealings, light, fast to charge and a windows very nice os.
Dont forget to protect the beauty screen, It is a gorilla glass, but to keep it for a while better to keep it as a new when you prepaid for two years.
I like windows 8 os. Faster than iphone 4. More sight on what happen instantly.
April 1, 2013
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 2 out of 5 by panos79 Win phone 8 disappoints
This is the 3rd HTC and windows phone for me and even if the phone itself is very nice and has no problems, windows 8 make it very bad.. since it's my 3rd windows phone you understand that I used to be very happy with the previous versions (never had win 7.xx though)
Just to make you a list:
Can't sync with Outlook anymore, you HAVE to move everything contacts and calendar to Windows Live and sync from there.. by the way Task are not supported neither the contact pics from outlook transfer to windows live. And the very important "File As" field has now disappeared you have to choose how to short the all contacts and not individually like on older versions and like outlook. Some people I remember by last name some by first and some others by their Company/Profession and I used to sort them accordingly and it was supported and synced with outlook and Win Phone 6.xx and older versions. Now my contacts are a mess.
If you are planning on buying a large microSD to take advantage of it for extra space think again. You can only store pics videos and music on it.. You can't install there apps like on previous win phones neither documents. The core files are not visible there is no file browser and when you connect with usb to a PC you still can't see system files. So if you put files to the sd card you can't open them..
Alarm.. some people complained for the other windows 8 phones it's too loud and you can't adjust the alarm volume no matter what you do to the phone volume setting, this is true but for me the alarm sound is very low, very very low! There is no way someone can wake up with this alarm! And you can't have vibration and alarm sound at the same time you have to choose vibration or sound not both!
There is too much effort to make graphics and appearances but Microsoft missed the point first it maters how well it works and how easy it is to set up everything then how nice it looks to play with the touch screen.
I still haven't found a way to sync favorites from my PC internet explorer to the phone! There are some ways but you have to make a SkyDrive folder for your favorites and sync from there blah blah blah.. It's 2 windows machines both using internet explorer connected with usb! Just sync them!
My sister has win 7 and office 10 at her PC and can sync contacts (with their pics) calendars, favorites and more to an iPhone just by plugging the usb and ticking on some boxes with the respective group in iTunes why Microsoft can't support properly its own products and make them sync properly in a simple step?!
I wish I could return it I am very disappointed everything that was important for me and used to work perfectly on my previous 2 HTC/Win phones is not there anymore... and none of the above problems is due to HTC or the phone hardware! It's all Microsoft!
If you haven't had a windows phone before you won't see the problems neither you'll be disappointed by your experience because eby changing platform you expect some trouble! But if you had win phone before especially an older 6.xx you'll be very frustrated with win 8 phone. I think it's time to switch for me.. no more windows phones..
Some other general remarks up to 720p videos it's all good but 1080p will not play properly, expected due to the somewhat slow processor.
Camera led is nice and bright! But on low light sometimes even on bright light it's a bit slow to take the picture.
January 6, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 A good all round phone but far from perfect
Windows phone 8 is very nice to use and with Skydrive, I am able to sync all my computer documents with my phone and even edit them with the built in microsoft office.
My only problem with the phone is the apps; the store is not as well stocked as other operating systems stores and then when you do download them you can't store them, the phone only comes with 4gb internal memory and then when you do put in an external memory card you are unable to store apps on it which is a bit of a letdown really.
January 13, 2013
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