HTC Upgrades Popular Smartphones With an 'S'
HTC goes all S for 2011.
It's Mobile World Congress, and HTC had a big day as it unveiled three new versions of its most popular smartphones and tagged an "S" at the end to make the HTC Desire S, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Incredible S.
From the company's sell:
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.
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.
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The progression of phone names:
First an S, then a more different S, a V, adding a top mark on the long V, then adding some beefy legs, then a couple of arms, and... wait a minute.
That doesn't sound natural.
Maybe... the S is for sucks? I sure hope not, but the me-too naming scheme (Samsung did it first) needs to go.
In the wake of excellent and impressive dual core devices being announced, and devices with HDMI out, and higher resolution screens, like the coming Motorola phones with QHD resolution, and some of LG's phones coming out with 3D screens and phenomenal graphics powerhouses, these updates seem very anemic.
I don't think this is a great way to differentiate your products, especially considering that those names may give the impression of being an older device.
Oooooo, can't wait for the T model! Lol. Poor HTC...
Should have used SS, license it from Chevy
"Hey, babe, you have an incredible S"
S for similar to Samsung ?
Mmm I think S is appropriate considering that there was no major upgrades to these phones. Im sure there will be a version 2 of these phones once the upgrades justify a v2 name.
they must be starting to run out of names. HTC comes out with a new model almost every second lol
can someone point me to the NEW phones, please?
Can someone point me to the new phones, please?
at least they could have put a camera button on the devices and sell that off as a "new feature", for god's sake.
the only added feature I see on these phones is a front facing camera on two of them, maybe the s stands for s__ty video calling?
enough with HTC propaganda already