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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
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Resolution: 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 varies
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 MHz
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 battery
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.
Note: specifications are subject to change without prior notice.
Rated 3.6 out of 5 by 116
reviewers.
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
Rated 4 out of 5 by aBoy Good Windows phone on a budget
Beautifully designed, fantastic screen size and good graphics. Perhaps not as incredible as higher-end handsets but great for teenagers, etc. Windows 8 has a way to go, but its already far better in design than Android and in my opinion, sleeker than iOS.
Bummers: screen has tendency to scratch- get a protector!; can get a little slow due to smallish RAM; not amazing app selection, but is improving every day.
February 3, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by chaz6749 Awesome Device!
Got this device for Christmas and had no problems what so ever! Love the device, would recommend this to anyone switching to windows phone, bearing in mind i've used iOS and Android before. Many lovely features, good performance, great camera, easy to use, light, easy to hold, if you are looking for a great smartphone, look no further!
February 15, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by Mcel Terrible phone - avoid!
Low storage, very very difficult to use micro SD card. Coming from a HTC with android this is a very frustrating and disappointing phone.
February 15, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by Meh500 Good htc bad software.
Htc's effort on the hardware of this phone is great. However the 'other' section under the phones storage constantly grows an grows for no apparent reason. Without installing any extra apps etc it grows until it fills your phone. People are upset their having to reset their phone often.
February 18, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by WEZ3000 512mb ram and no memory
No memory for apps cant store apps on memory card and if you have less than 1gb ram the good apps dont work this as 512mb ram waste of money. wish i knew this before buying this product.
February 27, 2013
Rated 1 out of 5 by DutchX2 If only
If only you hadn't introduced the very flawed idea of just including 4GB or memory. I assumed that the expansion slot would resolve this but the software doesn't allow apps to run from the SD card nor can you move the cache folder (also known as "other) to the SD card.
The only way to clear the cache is by doing a hard reset with all associated work such as backing up and restoring from back up only to find that start screen doesn't get backed up and so have to start organising that again... I just had to do that as the 1.15GB "other" took up meant couldn't do the OS upgrade :-(
All-in-all, a simple upgrade took me hours to complete!!!!!
This makes the phone unworkable for any normal smart-phone use that is not very technical! If I was I would have bought an Android...
Unless using solely for calls and texting - DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!!!!!!
March 26, 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
