Test HTC 8s - WP8 for every budget - PC Format

Price 700 z?, original design, great performance, the current version of the system and the battery life of the HTC smartphone 8s is without flaws? MACIEK P?ochocki

Next 8s hard to come – phone attracts attention colored casing. Our test model was covered with tactile satin rubber in light gray, plus a broken loud bile button bar and a small flap covering the microSIM and microSD ports. With its rounded shapes, light weight and small thickness smartphone great in the hand. The housing has two drawbacks – the first is the lock button located on the top right. For right-handed this location is not the best solution. The second drawback is the location of the speaker on the back of the cabinet – the phone on a flat surface that is emitted from the speaker sound is heavily suppressed.

In case

8s display has a diagonal of 4 inches and a relatively low resolution of 800 by 480 pixels, but can be explained by the price of the smartphone. The average number of pixels the screen is masked by a specific – based on large icons and simple shapes – the interface of Windows Phone 8 The strongest point of 8s specification is dual core Krait. In conjunction with some system requirements WP8 provides smartfonowi HTC perfectly smooth operation. Small craft felt after checking the quality of pictures taken by the 5-megapixel camera. Photos taken with a modern smartphone should be much sharper.

WP8 4 inches

windows mobile interface works well on large screens – especially in the eighth version of the system, in which tiles (icons) can contain information such as the content of the messages, email, calendar events. To do this, you must enlarge tile to the largest (of 3 available) size. These icons on a 4-inch screen are three 8s. You can choose from so I resigned from the so-called. active tiles or frequent scrolling desktop to reach out to other application icons.

problem with the system is still not possible definitively close the application – there is just a list of recently used applications. During the test two times happened that previously used music application suddenly come alive and recreated music without user intervention.

8s at auction

price 8s online stores are more than 1000 z?. The Allegro new smartphone coming from the distribution of the mobile operator, buy now for 650 z? (for the most popular version of the blue). At that price it is difficult to identify a competitor for 8 seconds. Can it be entering the market the Nokia Lumia 620, which, unlike the HTC has preloaded GPS car navigation with maps off-line.

PROS:

• Great performance

Liquidity

• action

Cons: />

• No front camera
• poorly placed speakers