HTC Desire S Smartphone (9.4 cm (3.7 inch) display, touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, Android OS) muted blackDas schnuckelige and solid Desire S is an aesthetic delight and feels good. I use it now for about two months. The leather bag, the price of a pack of cigarettes, has an ingeniously simple and precise plastic tape for pulling out and burying the camera, without Velcro, which ruined the textiles. The Desire to synchronize the Agenda (Google Calendar) automatically to the computers. When traveling, it offers a reliable alarm clock and even a flashlight with 3 lighting levels. The Desire clicks during the day via Bluetooth to the car radio, so you can go hands-free calls via onboard microphone and onboard speaker. For the record to the unit just puts on his stomach and then hear the caller through the built-in speakers. When cooking, playing chess or with limited speaking time you can do from the comfort of a timer use. Symbols for each key 'devices', as the flashlight, you can lie down on the screen and then on with only 1 click. The camera is amazing, considering how tiny is the lens. She has a one-finger operated push of widescreen optional 5: 3 or 4: 3 to medium telephoto, precise autofocus, face detection, Gagschaltungen, white balance, sensitivity levels of 100-800 ISO (21-30 DIN) and car, built-stoppable flash, resolution max. 2592x1552 and an excellent sharp and huge display. The photos have good contrast and saturated colors, from red tint in the center I have not even found a trail. Even the small video takes for gadgets on, close-up coming excellent with minimal adjustment costs out and handled easily with my Canons and Nikons with. The only drawback: The usual for digital cameras shutter delay in snapshots. Very nice, however, is the transformer plug in the form of very small dimensions, which, for example, a 12,5 cm mumbi Nokia-micro USB cable divided by car charger plugs so that you do not constantly cable snares has around the legs. In addition, the Desire has other gifts such as radio, voice recorder, etc. To control the many options is the manual that you do I have to print it yourself, not helpful. Rainer Hattenhauer 'The Android smartphone: 10 lessons for beginners' (Addison-Wesley 2011) there is far preferable. Dr. Hattenhauer is a physicist and teacher and obviously explains a good educationalist with overview, the gradual, very practical, well-organized and the unit also funny, with lots of stupid sayings for Clever. The book is already on the design produces a real eye-catcher. Supplement April 2013: The much-discussed case need not, the device is insensible. However, it is scary to me slowly as it takes uncontrollable own initiatives. Eg appears on the screen suddenly a message "Loading" and no man and even the Internet can not tell me what is loaded because since. In addition, the unit's now almost scrap, because there is so every 14 days a new model. I particularly like remains that many ring tones that inspire my granddaughters. But I have indeed on a Seniorentelephon for 50 and can deal with this yet without a manual. Today I would not buy a Android smartphone more because it appears that they are all victims intensive obsolescence management. Updates are consistently pushed on the back burner or totally refrain, vg. Barczok and Wölbert in c't 9/213
