HTC 8S not coming to US, Verizon's 8X ships unlocked

01 December, 2012
HTC announced it has no plans to distribute the Windows Phone 8S in the United States.

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  • Raghul
  • XNs
  • 03 Dec 2012

Any Idea when it is coming to stores in INDIA?
I cant wait to get one

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    • AnonD-77351
    • p@B
    • 03 Dec 2012

    That's too bad because 8S is sooo much better than 8X

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      • AnonD-58527
      • uBS
      • 03 Dec 2012

      AnonD-32581, 03 Dec 2012than why is the nokia lumia 920 doing so well? am finding i... moreIf they only make 2,000, then it's hard to get one and sold out easy.

      HTC OneX series will outsell it.
      And when Nvidia realease the unlock code for the 5th core of terga3 to HTC engineers, you'll see smoother sense as well powered by the Geforce technology Bus.\
      People call this a quadcore but has a secret 5th.


      Android sense 4.1 skin versus sense WP8 sense skin.
      then see why HTC is not bringing this out.
      WP HTC skin sucks that's why

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        • AnonD-58527
        • uBS
        • 03 Dec 2012

        AnonD-79514, 02 Dec 2012this is why it cannot run at all on single core and is very... moreI've down loaded Windows Phone 8 Launcher and Windows Phone launcher 7 to see how laggy windows phones are.

        They aren't that smooth.

        I agree.

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          • WP8
          • fqF
          • 03 Dec 2012

          AnonD-32581, 03 Dec 2012than why is the nokia lumia 920 doing so well? am finding i... moreIf u want a windowsphone get Nokia not HTC

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            • AnonD-32581
            • 2CE
            • 03 Dec 2012

            Droid, 02 Dec 2012HTC know Android is what ppl want. Better to pull out befo... morethan why is the nokia lumia 920 doing so well? am finding it hard to get my hands on one

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              • qweed
              • t7u
              • 03 Dec 2012

              what's the use of 8 core phone? 4 core is so much for a smartphone so why 8 core? its better to add more features in phone than creating a much faster 8 core phone, if you have an 8 core phone would you open all the games and apps and use it all at the same time?? crazy!!

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                • Anonymous
                • YcF
                • 03 Dec 2012

                thanks to apple that other phone company dont sell phone in usa any more.

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                  • WP8
                  • fqF
                  • 02 Dec 2012

                  I think HTC made a right decision because it could not compete with Nokia which offers a variety of wphones

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                    • AnonD-58186
                    • 9FM
                    • 02 Dec 2012

                    Droid, 02 Dec 2012HTC know Android is what ppl want. Better to pull out befo... moreyoure totally wrong, and your reason is not acceptable,.hehe htc from the start knew that wp8 cant beat android by this time,so they should not make phones running wp8? But they did,you dont know why? Because they thought they can compete nokia in this move, but they didnt and they failed,..in US if youre going to buy wp8,what will you choose,htc 8s or nokia lumia 920? And again,even if wp8 cant beat android,theres people wil buy wp8 not for the os,but for the quality build and innovation of the phone(youre smart and you know what i mean)

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                      • AnonD-79514
                      • MDV
                      • 02 Dec 2012

                      Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Windows Phone runs smooth even on single core.this is why it cannot run at all on single core and is very buggy on apps only smooth on tiles! download launcher 7 from play store to an armv6 galaxy ace with its low ram vs lumia 610 with armv7 and 256mb of low ram: ace is very much smoother than your buggy lumia 610 , ace can run a lot of apps and games while lumia 610 cannot even run any angry birds and so on..

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 4bF
                        • 02 Dec 2012

                        Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Windows Phone runs smooth even on single core.Thats because windows 8 phone doesnt have as many features as jelly bean.

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                          • AnonD-71308
                          • uNV
                          • 02 Dec 2012

                          Aww, htc 8s is one of the best looking and sexiest phones on market. And it's also the most affordable windows phone so far. Sad for americans that they aren't getting it.

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                            • Noel Carson
                            • XNt
                            • 02 Dec 2012

                            AnonD-29831, 01 Dec 2012As usul I read lots of nonsense regarding multicores... WP... moreAs long as you are using your phone only for calling/ texting or internet you can use any phone depending on the interface or OS you like with minimum specs. If you try to use your phone to do more than just that (Play Games, Customize your phone, productive stuff etc.) you will need a phone with more processing power to deal with it. Android has the most vast resources that a user can make use of. iOS has the same same capabilities but is closed source and so Windows Phone OS because they are closed source. If iOS would have been open source I would have been an iPhone user, unfortunately it isnt and as a result even if you jailbreak your phone you wont have a huge variety of apps (compared to Android) that would make use of it. Windows phone is too new for me (haven't used it too much)so I can't really comment on it.

                            I was imagining that someday Windows will come with an OS that is same as the ones we use on our Desktops, enabling us to run the same *.exe files on computer from our phone. Hopefully that day is too close with Quad core phones era. Until then 'for me' Android is best.

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                              • cN9
                              • 02 Dec 2012

                              AnonD-58835, 01 Dec 2012Nobody wants a locked phone. Moreover this windowsphone is ... moreFor example, in Canada, we cannot get unlocked phones.... Except iPhone. And contracts are not for 2 years, for best phones, but 3 years.

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                                • iSamsung Fan
                                • gFA
                                • 02 Dec 2012

                                because they dont want to give $6 to $8 per device to Crapple

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                                  • Droid
                                  • uBS
                                  • 02 Dec 2012

                                  TDMaster, 02 Dec 2012what reason not to bring unlocked version to US which is o... moreHTC know Android is what ppl want.
                                  Better to pull out before they start.


                                  HOX+ uk users group. Custom ROMs

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                                    • TDMaster
                                    • muG
                                    • 02 Dec 2012

                                    what reason not to bring unlocked version to US
                                    which is one of the biggest markets out there...
                                    not understood...

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                                      • Droid
                                      • uBS
                                      • 02 Dec 2012

                                      Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Windows Phone runs smooth even on single core.Tiles hide the lag, it's only single core as well.

                                      My HOX+ Terga 3 is Quadcores @ 1.7Ghz.
                                      Benmark will prove quad is faster.
                                      I can even hit 1.92GHz mostly stable as well.

                                      Android can use MultiCore, WP can't handle the power

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • uBS
                                        • 02 Dec 2012

                                        Anonymous, 01 Dec 2012Windows Phone runs smooth even on single core.Android runs smooth with 4.3 Custom ROM with factory resets and auto dalviks cache cleans anyway you guys.
                                        8 cores of power to crush WP down
                                        next year.

                                        HOX+ users uk club.


                                        HTC is proving WP is no good by not releasing it into the us market. HTC is and better with android.
                                        When Sense is fixed to be less laggy be the best GUI in history