Tuesday, February 15, 2011

HTC Announces The Desire S, Wildfire S, and Incredible S

We’re camped outside of HTC’s event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where a handful of broken embargoes have just spoiled the mood a bit.

Fortunately, the leaked news is probably good enough to make up for it. HTC’s taken just about each one of their greatest phones — the Desire, the Wildfire, the Incredible — and given’em a refresh. The new names? The Desire S, the Wildfire S, and the — wait for it! — Incredible S!

Desire S: Pictured above. Built using the same machining techniques as the unibody HTC Legend, the Desire S is sculpted out of a block of aluminum. It’s got a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU (MSM8255), 5 megapixel camera, 1.1 GB of RAM, GPS, and Bluetooth 2.1 radio tucked behind a 3.7″ WVGA (480×800) Display.

Wildfire S: At just 10.13cm long and 5.94cm wide, the Wildfire S is one of HTC’s smallest phones yet. It’s got a 3.2″ HVGA Display, and a 5 megapixel camera around the back.

Incredible S: The beast of this batch. It’s got a 4″ WVGA Super LCD, 8 megapixel rear camera with dual flash, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera with built-in video calling functionality (though we’re not sure which video chat tech they’re using), 1Ghz CPU, Bluetooth 2.1, and 768 MB of RAM. Oddly it’s only got 1.1 GB of internal storage — but, of course, there’s always the microSD slot.