HTC presented a line of smartphones with Windows Phone 8

HTC has become the third company after Samsung and Nokia, introduced a smartphone operating system Windows Phone 8. Conquer consumers Taiwanese manufacturer intends the two models with concise name - 8X and 8S. Curiously, Microsoft dictates stringent requirements for the hardware component smartphones WP8, and HTC had to try to give both apparatuses uniqueness. However, the untrained layman after meeting with the products HTC long leaves light "flavor" of new smartphones Nokia.

Model 8X is the undisputed flagship. The model is equipped with a 4.3-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels. The basis of the smartphone has become a single-chip system Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor with a frequency equal to 1.5 GHz. RAM is 1 GB, 16 GB is available for user data.

Communications presented adapter Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, module NFC, and will not get lost receiver with GPS and GLONASS signals. There are two cameras, 8 megapixel on the back of the smartphone, and the 2.1-megapixel on the front. Full-time battery capacity of 1800 mA ∙ h impossible to extract because housing 8X, made of polycarbonate molded.

His elder brother 8S inferior in everything: the smartphone screen is smaller on the diagonal (4 inches) and resolution (800 by 480 pixels), computational core SoC clocked at 1GHz, and RAM halved. A small number of built-in flash memory offset slot for memory cards microSD (surprisingly, this luxury not found a place in 8X).

Of port serial module disappeared NFC. Also, there was no place for the front camera and the resolution back designers to reduce to 5 megapixels. 8S housing is also made of polycarbonate, and the capacity of non-removable battery is 1700 mA ∙ h

Both smartphones are deprived of the support of cellular network standard LTE. In Europe, the 8X model will be presented in the case of red, yellow, blue and black, its cost will be approximately $ 650. All simplifications that survived 8S, made it much cheaper to ask for the device about $ 360.