HTC Incredible S

Issues upon issues! – Had issues with the charging port within a year of purchasing this phone. Got it fixed a couple of times and the same issue kept reoccurring to the point where the phone would not charge at all. It had nice features and slim design with a nice screen size and that's where the compliments end. Horrid phone, caused too many issues. I'd rather dish a few more dollars and buy something that will not cause issues every other day. Total headache!!  Show details

I feel a phone that cost me $400.00 should give me long problem free service – Well I've gone through 2 batteries and need another and it has slowed down to a frustrating snails pace. I feel that for $400.00 you should get more than 2 years out of a $400.00 phone. I have friends with the same phone 3 in all and some are having worse trouble then me I hope this helps someone else.

Stay away – Stay away from any HTC phones. My HTC stopped working after 5 months and has been in the repairers for the last 3 months. They keep sending it back not working. Even the repairers don't know how to fix it. I still haven't got it back and am being told that it will take another 6 weeks before it might be fixed it just stopped working or charging

Poor performance and battery life – My HTC Incredible S was fine until updates were installed and now every time I make a call a message comes up "Oops I crashed but message has been sent to the developer". It's been like that for many, many months and NOTHING has been done. Cuts out often. Also it phones numbers without me even touching it! Disgusted by HTCs poor service and support. nice camera Expensive, poor battery life, malfunctioning

ehh! – i was soo excited buying this phone but now 7months later having it totally not so great ay my keypad is stuffed my battery is even more stuffed and u cant use the front camera for video call whats the point of that i today regret buying it thats my reveiw on the phone oih and everyone is telling the truth when they say battery aint good! the back camera was pretty good and i liked its own htc games battery and dnt last very long phone condition

Great until last major update – Since last update it is slow at everything, plus phone only works on speaker.Battery won't last a day.All HTC keep saying is to do a hard reset but HTC Sync won't back everything up so of I so that I will loose most of my data. Browser won't open some pages properly. Very poor! Easy to use. was fast at first til last update. Last update ruined it. HTC were not helpful at all in addressing problems caused by update.

The first decent Android phone – Not a perfect phone. The lines are a but chunky, battery life is typically one day of medium-high intensity use, reception is pretty average. It does have one of the best camera phones, and is really good value, however. It can run almost everything thrown at it Cheap, Good camera, Android A bit clunky Show reply

HTC Incredible S – I agree, phone continually freezing. Drops out at inappropriate times - 1/2 way through conversations and not because I have been out of range. Would not buy another one. Shuts down or restarts for not apparent reason at all which is embarrasing when in a meeting. Good luck to anyone purchasing one. The cover. Unreliable; turns off and on when it chooses too.

HTC incredible – Always freezing and in the middle of the screen touch pad not working . I sent for repair twice nothing changed even after changing the PCB . Phone storage is very low and all the applications to be saved on SD card . I think this will be the first and last Htc mobile phone and will not recommend to anyone . Always freezes

Solid and packed with features! – I bought this phone when it first came out with a hefty price tag - and after 1.5 years can still compete with the dual quad and quint core models :) I love the rubberised back - I have hard hands and smooth phones just slide out and fall :( There have been some call drops - but suspect that is the network and not the phone. Occasionally it… Read more

will crash - but thankfully that happens once a month IF that.

As the price has dropped, would recommend it to anyone wanting a decent phone, with great crisp HD screen - and reasonable battery life. Battery life, thin, fits in jean pocket - and is not an iPhone!! Occasionally crashes - but no more than any other phone I ever had.

HTC INCREADIBLE S – The phone is less than 12 mths old and for no reason it just drops out while on a call .to have the phone looked at by optus they dont give you a substitute Phone . I.e. no h.t.c phone while yours is been repaired. Not good when you are on a plan it sucks. Thanks optus. Good size and weight. As above.

handy phone most the time – I have had trouble with poor reception (poor coverage may account for some of this) and my HTC cutting out, switching itself off and restarting again. Unfortunately this happens when I am either on the phone or someone has sent me a message or tried to call me. So then I have to put up with grumpy kids that want to know why I even have a mobile… Read more ·  1

if I'm not going to answer it. Other than that though I have enjoyed using my camera, facebook and other apps on my HTC. I have had many a laugh at the autospell and some of my friends have received some pretty strange texts. It can chew through a bit of power but I have adjusted the screen lights and standby time to save a bit on that. There are still things I am trying to work out after 6 months of ownership, like moving a number sent in a text message into my address book, but I assume that any phone that has more bells and whistles is going to be harder to navigate and there is more that can go wrong. Most of the time I do enjoy a happy working relationship with my phone though. good looking, scratch resistent, affordable. sometimes unreliable, complicated

Very fast, durable and lightweight phone – For the price its very good value at around $300 and there's no shortage of features either. The only thing its missing compared to more modern or expensive phones is video/mini hdmi out and its only a 1ghz single core. Even so its a very fast phone on 4.0.4 and the audio quality is exceptional if connected to a decent stereo/headphone system. Cheap, fast, reliable, light, powerful and easy to use

Phone is good up to 12 months – My HTC was a great phone for the first 12 months. After the 12 months mark it started to restart at the drop of a hat cutting calls mid way through them and sometimes restarting over and over again. Some days the battery life is great, other days the battery life is [censored word removed] and the phone is dead by the afternoon. The apps available… Read more

is a positive. Good variety of apps and camera takes great shots Phone restarts and cuts out after the 12 month period is up.

Happy but not perfect – This is the first'smart phone' I have owned and I would say I'm happy enough BUT it restarts itself at least twice a week and always in the middle of a phone call. Start up then takes about 5 minutes while you swear at it. Signal strength is iffy, i used to get better reception on my old Nokia. I have learnt to hold the phone quite gently at the… Read more ·  1

top only and this improves signals while on a call. Battery is good. Clarity of calls if good (and you get reception) Battery life Random restarts during calls, not great signal strength

HTC Incredible S - The iPhone Killer – Having had 2 HTC mobiles before (the Hero and the Desire Bravo) my natural inclination was to go with HTC once again when it was time for a new phone. I chose the Incredible S. Like the Hero and Desire, it's 7 home screens are totally customisable with widgets and applications galore from the massive Android Market. This means I can make my… Read more

phone visually dynamic with all my social media, rss feeds and internet sites at my fingertips.

A huge bonus is the 8 megapixel camera (compared to iPhone 4's 5 megapixel camera). Very impressive. Very clear and high quality photo's which can be uploaded to Facebook, Twitter, etc via HTC Sense - a brilliant user interface.

The touchscreen is fantastic. Has come a long way since the Hero which was a little glitchy. The Incredible S is very responsive and I love the subtle vibrating keys when typing. The large 4 inch screen is plenty big enough for web-browsing and watching You-Tube content. The web-browser will automatically shrink text to screen width so you don't have to scroll sideways to read. This is a great feature.

The specs say this phone has 370 hours of standby time which beats iPhone 4 by some 70 hours.

The only negative I have with the phone is that the internal memory storage is just 1.1G forcing a lot of media onto a mini SD card. Which I guess could be a bonus as you can easily transfer your media with the card into your next phone ;-)

This phone is currently selling for just $299 with optus prepaid so I find it hard to understand why people would shell out more than double the price for an iPhone. I guess iPhone has become a 'trend' and social 'must-have' gadget, but I am thrilled to bits with the Incredible S and would even go so far to say as serious tech lovers would choose a HTC over an iPhone any day. Features galore! Lack of internal memory.

Great phone with one problem – This was my first smart phone. Was, because I've had to return it. Haven't got my refund yet, so it may go on ebay (only 2 months old). In every thing this phone claims to do it really is incredible, except one. I have a tin roof house with tinted windows and foil wall insulation. I have 4 bars signal in my yard, 3 on my steps, 2 at my front door… Read more

and between 1 and none inside. I simply can't use the phone inside, and that makes it intolerable. Google "Incredible S signal strength" and you'll find this is a common problem. OPTUS said it is a mobile phone, not a home phone. Signal strength is only guaranteed to the street, not inside. That may be acceptable to some, but it didn't do what I bought it to do. I hated sending this OPTUS phone back, but now I have a $99 LG Telstra "blue tick" phone. Camera, GPS, user interface, internet, appearance, signal strength ALMOST everywhere Signal strength inside my building was from very weak to none. Constant dropouts and missed calls

Powerful, compact and feature packed smart phone – This is my first smart phone, and replaced a Nokia 6300 - only because our plan was not sufficient for our calls....i was happy with my basic handset and pretty ambivalent about smart phones. Initially it took a little getting used to, and i made numerous crank calls due to the touchines of the supplied 'phone' app, but once i started using the… Read more

'call buddy' app i started to appreciate the myriad features on this phone.

The key is customisation, there are 10s of thousands of free apps to personalise your phone, or improve apps that don't fit your needs (or have annoying foibles). This is not an option on a standard handset - and i love it.

So on to the specific strengths:

Build quality on the HTC Inc is good, the phone 'feels' like it is well put together and has a nice profiling at the rear which fits the hand well. Its not too heavy to be uncomfortable and not too light to feel flimsy.

The supplied gingerbread OS interfaced easily with my desktop PC, and hooked into my wifi router with WPA and passphrases seamlessly. There was plenty (16g) of storage supplied to allow me to dump a selection of a few hundred MP3s, then using the 'ringdoid' app customise ring tones and alarms. It was dead easy setting up ringtones for specific incoming numbers using this app.

On the OS, the HTC Android OS is upgradeable, and has already rolled forward from v2.3.3 to 2.3.5, which added a number of nifty features and also appears to have improved battery life significantly. ICS upgrade is also expected to be available in the near future, and is version of Android has many killer features.

On battery life - which is a common complaint - i am not finding it too bad at all, in normal use i am getting two days, light use 3. If it is an issue there are a number of upgrades available from the standard battery to 2400ma/h or even higher if you want, though that requires a new rear shell. I am very surprised that other owners do not look at these options if they are heavy phone users, for me the standard battery is fine at present.

The 1GHZ processor is sufficient for everything i have done with it, screens instantly respond to selections, and i am yet to have a lock up/freeze. Even using CPU intensive apps such as Sygic ,the excellent tomtom mapped GPS system, i have had no problem. Speaking of which, i used this app and cannot see the purpose of wasting money on a dedicated GPS, the level of accuracy was astonishing, warning me if i was exceeding speed limits etc.

The 8mp camera packs in plenty of pixels, though such a small lens is never going to compete with a decent compact or slr, still it is a great convenience having the facility to video or take snaps all in one unit. i liked the mirror (or self portrait) function with the secondary camera!

As an entry level smart phone this thing is brilliant value and full of features, highly recommended. Inexpensive, does just about everything - voice record, FM, video,snaps,music,gps - oh yeah.. and phone calls Camera is a little soft in focus, battery may need to be upgraded by some users

Good little phone – I have had my htc incredible s for around five or six months now and I am quiet happy with it. It is the first smart phone that I have owned so it is a new experience. I found the phone easy to navigate through and it seems to have all the features that I need. The specs say that the phone has 370 hours stand by power. However my phone has no… Read more

where near this amount of stand by power. For example I will switch my phone on at 5 am. I would make around ten to fifteen minutes of calls. Not touch the phone again until 4.30 in the afternoon and find it with no power.

In saying this I have not taken it back to the shop so I can not complain too much just yet. If I could have a better power supply I would be more than happy to keep this phone. It just does not work well for me if I make several calls during the day and a few emails as I have to charge it around midday to keep it alive. I like the compact size Battery life is horrible.

Better than iphone 4 – It was time to update my Nokia and I found this for $299. It's a lot of fun with the millions of apps available on the android market and handy for planning my work life. I'll be so busy downloading and testing all the apps I've been getting during meetings and bus trips. The screen is huge, i can put apps anywhere on the 7 screens, and the display is very clear. 8 mp camera, GPS, 4" screen On switch could be on the front.

Great! – I recently purchased the HTC incredible S and I love it! Its much faster than my old phone and so simple to navigate. With one simple touch you can go 'back' or to the 'home' menu. With the HTC incredible, you have the option to customise your home screen, with the apps you use most frequently (eg: calendar, contacts, calculator, Internet) and… Read more

can easily change your wallpaper. Also, the time is displayed in a large, digital format so you can quickly check the time.

With similar features to the iPhone, a small button at the top of the phone simply locks and unlocks the phone. Its battery life varies, depending on how much you use the phone, however its average life is 6hours.

The camera is fantastic, taking impressive, high quality photos which can easily be sent, uploaded to Facebook or set as wallpaper. Another great feature is that you can personalise your contacts, placing them into groups and also applying a photo to each of them. Speed and smart dial are also available, providing a quick and easy was to make calls.

Overall its a fabulous, convenient phone, and the apps are endless. Reliable, efficient, so many features and apps, Expensive

Ticks all the boxes – I picked the incredible s over an iPhone as they both have very similar features, but more of the android apps are free. A big plus for me too that it has a free "voice navigator with google maps" which the iPhone doesn't never need to buy a street map again or update maps as it does it automatically for free :-) Easy to use big display fast… Read more

processor and the navigator The phone has to be on to use the alarm which drains the battery a bit, whereas the "old phones" can be turned off, apart from that no faults at all. (as far as I know the iPhone also has to be kept on for the alarm to work)...

Best phone I've owned – I have had the HTC incredible S for just over 3 months and have really enjoyed every aspect of this phone it's easy to use great apps and easy on the eye Great apps