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HTC Windows Phone 8S review: Icebreaker

18 December 2012 | Read the review | Post your comment
HTC Windows Phone 8S review: Icebreaker - read the full textNo one's had any reason to question HTC's commitment to Windows Phone. The Taiwanese have been on board since the heyday of PocketPCs, helping Redmond quickly man a nascent WP7 army. Now they're back in the thick of action for the next...

 

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> In reply to Anonymous @ 2012-12-19 13:45 from t7S9 - click to readYes the Note 2 has very good build quality. Check out yourself in the gsmarena blog, the teardown of the Note Ii. It has a magnesium bracket. And that's not just a small part. After you read it you come ball here and tell us who are mekling plastic phones. The note 2 is an engineering marvel, having opened and repaired countless high end Nokias i can safely say that none of them comes close to what i saw in the note 2 teardown. And not only the note 2, i have personally taken apart a galaxy S2 and found it to be very well built.

Example of bad build quality anyone? Search lumia 920 vibrating defect. Makes a horrible bad sound that disappears when you press on one corner of the display. Reminds me of all the Nokia phones when you had to put a piece of paper behind the battery to make them work. Never seen that on a Samsung.

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  • 2012-12-19 15:34
  • vaNH

> In reply to Bunyip22 @ 2012-12-18 20:57 from vuA4 - click to readSamsung have awesome build quality? Since when?

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  • 2012-12-19 13:45
  • t7S9

Fail. No front Camera and dual-core 1GHz only !!

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  • 2012-12-19 12:31
  • 0ZJN

Another colourful plastic toys by HTC. The people simply don't want it.

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  • 2012-12-19 09:09
  • YPb1

"Thanks to its Jelly Bean platform the S III mini is every bit as smooth as its WP competitor"

And that is with a weaker cpu and gpu. Hope the wp fans read it this time. So many is using smoothness as their main argument to attack Android. There's really no point in changing to wp if smoothness is all you want.

ANY WAY. WP8 requires 1gb ram to use all features. Some apps will not work on 8S. Get a 1gb phone if you really want wp8, and if you really want 512mb then get an android phone =)

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  • 2012-12-19 08:54
  • Kg}t

You know, this could be my next phone. I need a normal size phone. I don't need ridiculously oversized thing like 920 ir SGS3. The only downside owning HTC is rubbish ancient LCD screen.

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  • 2012-12-19 07:54
  • 0xys

dat color...aargh.. my eyeees..!!!

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  • 2012-12-19 07:20
  • uCHb

how much is user available internal memory? (for user apps)

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  • 2012-12-19 06:11
  • Hkqp

How would this compare with Nokia 620? Most likely Nokia will be cheaper, specs are almost the same...

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  • 2012-12-19 06:10
  • p60V

I have a question for GSMArena. Why has lock-screen shortcuts grown to be such a big deal?? So big, in fact, that it makes an appearance in the main drawbacks of a device?

The phones which emphasize on more and more shortcuts on the lock-screen itself are as good as doing the same purpose as the home screen (which in itself used to fulfill the purpose of quickly accessing application grid apps :P)

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  • 2012-12-19 05:54
  • KStV

No phone is perfect, much less in thisprice range, but we can't see anything we can't live with on the list of cons. this statement is the best part of the review

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  • 2012-12-19 05:36
  • XuTx

one word: finaaaaaaally!!!!!!! :)))))

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  • 2012-12-19 04:52
  • 2AtF

A month ago I was in struggle to choose between this HTC 8S and HTC Desire X, both are close in price.

In the end I choose Desire X (android). For WP8 I choose to wait Lumia 620 instead, seems more worthy than 8S.

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  • 2012-12-19 04:25
  • XMiw

Wew. . Good quality build on Note2?? That phone has no grip at all. . I would rather hold this thick phone with a matte finish than that thin, plasticy and slippery Note2. :)

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  • 2012-12-19 03:10
  • P@1G

Im an Android user but I think windows mobile os is great. I would say that windows is smoother than android which also runs well on just about any specs.

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  • 2012-12-19 01:40
  • t7Xi

very very very beautifull phone..i love it very much..

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  • 2012-12-18 21:54
  • 60}T

> In reply to Bunyip22 @ 2012-12-18 20:57 from vuA4 - click to readI don't understand this obsession with the thickness of phones and other gadgets, many smartphones are thin enough, some of them are hard to hold, 1mm to 3mm does not matter really, it is still a thin phone, you don't judge it by looking at specs sheet, hold it in your hand first.

I hate it when companies brag about how thin their phones are, like all we care about is thickness of the phone, i'm sure many if not most people can't care less about thickness.

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  • 2012-12-18 21:53
  • Tr4K

> In reply to Bunyip22 @ 2012-12-18 20:57 from vuA4 - click to readYa, you must be a genius to compare a phone which cost almost twice as much to it.

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  • 2012-12-18 21:47
  • IV@T

Nokia seems to have the edge on htc

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  • 2012-12-18 21:15
  • m5fC

> In reply to Bunyip22 @ 2012-12-18 20:57 from vuA4 - click to read"awsome build quality" at samsung is only in your twisted mind and in your tasteless touch

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  • 2012-12-18 21:01
  • 0Cb2
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