The HTC Desire S (codenamed Saga) is a

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designed and manufactured by

HTC Corporation HTC Corporation ( zh, t=宏達國際電子股份有限公司, s=宏达国际电子股份有限公司, p=Hóngdá Guójì Diànzǐ Gǔfèn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī, first=t) or High Tech Computer Corporation, (literally ''Hongda International Electron ...

that runs the Android operating system. First announced at Mobile World Congress on February 15, 2011 as a successor to the

HTC Desire The HTC Desire (codenamed Bravo) is the first smartphone of the Desire series developed by HTC. It was announced on 16 February 2010 and released in Europe and Australia in the second quarter of the same year. The HTC Desire was HTC's third fl ...

, it was released on March 8, 2011. The unit shipped with

Android (operating system) Android is a mobile operating system based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software, designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Android is developed by a consortium of ...

2.3.3 ( Gingerbread) with HTC Sense 2.1; upgrades were released to Android 2.3.5 with HTC Sense 3.0, and to Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) with HTC Sense 3.6.

Hardware

The HTC Desire S bears similar internal hardware to its predecessor (

). One of the most prominent hardware improvement in the HTC Desire S is the 33% increase in RAM and 100% increase in internal storage capacity. Connectivity in the phone has also seen a noticeable upgrade featuring 14.4 Mbit/s

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and wireless 802.11 b/g/n. The Desire S features an aluminium

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case and touch-sensitive keys replace the HTC Desire's navigational buttons. The

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has also been removed. The display is much the same as the HTC Desire: a diagonal 480×800px (252 ppi) Super LCD overlaid with

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. A front-facing

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camera is included on the phone in addition to the 5-

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rear camera that was also included on the original HTC Desire. A hardware design flaw or defective eMMC chip in some devices can render the phone unusable (bricked) and require SAT if the battery is removed if the device is on. Updating several applications from market at once can cause the device to not respond, forcing the user to remove the battery to reboot; this is the most usual cause of this problem to appear. The phone's maximum

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speed is 72 Mbit/s when using

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Software

The device originally shipped with Android 2.3 and included

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2.1. It was later upgraded to Android 2.3.5 with HTC Sense 3.0. The new update added HTC Watch to the list of applications, amongst other features, as well as a new design of the lock screen, and the ability to add icons and widgets onto the lock screen. HTC released an update to Android 4.0 and HTC Sense 3.6 in August 2012 through their developer website.

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* {{HTC Android devices, phones=yes, tablets=yes, smart=yes Android (operating system) devices HTC smartphones Mobile phones introduced in 2011 Discontinued smartphones Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery de:HTC Desire#Desire S

Hardware

Software

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