HTC One S

After procuring this phone a couple of weeks ago I figured it's probably about time to write up a review, so here goes!

The HTC One S is the Goldilocks of the three phones from HTC this year. Not as powerful or large as the One X but significantly better than the One V. A quick rundown of the spec gives:

• 4.3inch 720p screen
• 119.5 grams 
• 1.5ghz dual core processor
• Android ICS
• 1650 mAh battery

The phone comes with Sense 4.0 which is HTCs overlay on the stock Android experience. I think it adds a bit more with some nice screen animations, very fast response, ease-of-use and as one reviewer from CNET stated in a Jeremy Clarkson voice, 'it goes like stink'. 

Couple of features are being able to film a video and take pictures at the same time, a card-type effect view for recent apps, swiping to close any you don't need anymore and the ability to preview widgets before adding them to a homescreen. In tests it was actually found that the phone was faster than it's older brother (the One X) at day-to-day tasks, only when some heavy usage over and above the average user does the quad core behemoth kick in to improve performance. The size of the thing is sexy too, at only 7.8mm thick it slides into the skinniest of jeans.  

The battery is very impressive considering it's not the largest I've seen in a phone by a long shot. Using the phone on it's lowest brightness (although this is still easily legible) with push email and a couple of syncing widgets under moderate use for a day and I'm still left with circa 65-70% at the end of a day! Must be the latest version of Android along with a dual-core processor handling multiple tasks that keeps it chugging along nicely! Always a big factor when considering a phone. 

Although it may not be the biggest (suits me fine as it fits in my pocket!) or best screen (Sony seem to be trumping there along with the iPhone) this phone is certainly fighting it out with the big boys even though it's meant to be a mid-range phone, kudos. I'm certainly happy with it until my upgrade early next year.

Huzzah.