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HTC's budget-friendly Windows Phone 8S

Shipping in multiple eye-catching colors, the HTC Windows Phone 8S won't break the bank but will feature Microsoft's latest mobile OS.
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-Hi, guys. This is Brian Bennett for Cnet.com and we're taking a first look at the brand new Windows Phone 8S by HTC. This device is running Windows Phone 8 Microsoft's brand new operating system for mobile devices. And you can tell this device has a 4 inch screen and typical Windows controls on the bottom here and you can tell it's a very thin comes in multiple colors, it has beats audio just like the 8X on back is a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and we've got a headphone jack up here, power button, typical controls, volume on the side. This looks like a dedicated counter button as well. So powering the brand new HTC Windows Phone 8S is a 1 gigahertz snap dragon S4 processor, it's dual-core. It's not as fast as the 1.5 gigahertz as for chip that's gonna be in the 8X but should power the operating system really adequately at least that is the whole pricing hasn't been announced yet. So there you have it folks, this has been a first look at the brand new HTC Windows Phone 8S.

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