HTC Incredible S - Android™ Smartphone

HTC Incredible S

(rehashed since April 2011)

HTC Incredible S is actually the 11th incarnation of HTC Android phones. Incredible S is actually built for Gingerbread (Android 2.3). However, the release version is Froyo, and schedule for FOTA update to Gingerbread. Since Google decided to choose Nexus One's original planned manufacturer, Samsung, to manufacture the 2nd Google phone,Nexus S. Sounds familiar? That is because Samsung is trying very hard recreate what their success of the Galaxy S onto the Nexus S. It is apparant that this wave of Androids decided to tag an "S" to the name. As a matter of fact, Incredible S is not the first of its kind, the Incredible S is an incarnation of the U.S. only version, Droid Incredible, which looks almost exactly like the Incredible S.

So what is the difference between HTC Desire S and Incredible S?

HTC Desire HD - Android™ Smartphone

HTC Desire HD

(rehashed since Dec 2010)

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The latest Android™ smartphones from HTC are "spin-offs" from the original HTC Desire. They are HTC Desire Z and HTC Desire HD. Then there was the small form Androids, HTC Aria and Wildfire which came before HTC Desire along with HTC Legend earlier this year in 2010, which added to the earliest line-up of Dream, Magic, Hero and Tattoo. Both Desire and Legend are operating on Android™ 2.1 Eclair which is a newer operating system, compared to the earlier models. HTC Desire was actually the Google Nexus One in a HTC outfit. Just look at their similarities in form. If you didn't know, the hyped Google phone or Nexus One is actually manufactured by HTC. Apparantly, Google decided to choose Nexus One's original planned manufacturer, Samsung, to manufacture the 2nd Google phone, Nexus S. Sounds familiar? That is because Samsung is trying very hard recreate what their success of the Galaxy S onto the Nexus S.

So why the same name again? Is HTC trying to take us for a ride by improving on the internals of Desire and market it as a new phone?