MWC 2011 Live: HTC Incredible S Hands-on Preview

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The Incredible S launched today by HTC is the best of the five Android handsets made by the Taiwanese giant, which we handled today at MWC. And I say 5 despite the fact the ChaCha and the Salsa were under closed glass doors and hance unavailable to our hands.

The Incredible S is the European version of that 2010 popular Android device that hit Verizon. The Droid Incredible is the phone in question, a handset that missed a huge opportunity to become a top handset as HTC was never able to meet demand due to that OLED display shortage.

And by the time the problem was fixed other handsets grew popular with the crowds. So does the Incredible S have what it takes to become a must-have Android device? Just like the Desire S the Incredible S is a 2010 phone wrapped around in 2011 clothes. It looks great and it’s a pleasure to play with it but at the end of the day it’s a Froyo (at least for now) device that only brings little upgrades when compared to its predecessor: new 1GHz processor and a bigger 4-inch SLCD display.

On the other hand the phone will be launched in Europe at some point in the near future, and Europeans didn’t really have a Droid Incredible to play with in the first place as the device was a CDMA handset restricted to CDMA-network use. We have no pricing details for you yet but we can only assume the Incredible S will be slightly more expensive than the Desire S but still quite affordable. Anyone interested in this Android baby?