HTC Windows Phone 8S Review

HTC Windows Phone 8S is a mid-end phone released in 2012, equipped with a great performance 1 GHz Dual-Core CPU, a 4 inches multi-touch screen and a 5 MP back-facing camera. We will get a better idea about this device's pros when we get into specific details.

Though this cellphone is slim it's not as slim as many other phones in the market, with a thickness of 0.4". The HTC Windows Phone 8S is much lighter than what one would think about a device of this size. The HTC Windows Phone 8S is sold in a nice range of color variations like black, blue, red and gray.

HTC designed this cellphone with a very good 4-inches screen, and a 800 x 480 resolution, providing this cellphone with a very good graphical experience. This screen uses S-LCD capacitive technology, and is multi-touch enabled.

HTC decided to build this cellphone using a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8627 system chip, including a great performance 1 gigahertz Dual-Core CPU and 512 MB of RAM memory. Graphic intensive tasks generally eats a lot of processor cycles, so it also counts with an Adreno 305 GPU clocking at 450 MHz to unload the processor. This cellphone counts with a 4 GB internal storage, a moderate quantity that should be adequate for the average user having that this cellphone also has an SD memory slot to store pictures and videos.

This phone is only equipped with a 5 megapixels back side camera. this cellphone's back side camera has an aperture of F2.8 so it struggles to take nice pictures in low light situations. It is capable of shooting videos in HD 1280x720 at 30 fps. In addition, the camera has a few good characteristics: flash, geo tagging and auto-focus.

This cellphone includes WiFi connectivity (but it can't be shared with other devices around, acting as a modem or router), 4G (HSPA+) data connection, which is not as fast as LTE-A or LTE networks and 3G fast connection type, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS, EV-DO A and EDGE technologies. This cellphone works with a Micro SIM card for GSM networks and it can connect to both CDMA and GSM.

The HTC Windows Phone 8S also features a handful of interesting features as Bluetooth (allows communication with other devices, computers, and accessories) and GPS Navigation, and some sensors likeLight Sensor, Proximity Sensor and Accelerometer.

This cellphone packs a 1700 mAh medium Li-Polymer removable battery providing the HTC Windows Phone 8S with a quite short battery duration.

This cellphone is not cheap at all considering it is offerred for $ 199, and other similar cellphones are a lot cheaper than that. If you are looking for a phone to majorly use social networks and internet browsing, you will probably be very happy with this phone.