Back in February, HTC Desire S was first introduced at MWC 2011 in Barcelona, being the natural successor of the HTC Desire. Notable features of the Desire S were its better GPU, bigger amounts of RAM and ROM, and faster connectivity, but keeping all that aside, the upgrade itself wasn’t as dramatic as everyone was expecting it to be.
HTC Desire S was launched with an Android version of 2.3.3 Gingerbread and HTC Sense UI 2.1 out of the box. But it looks like HTC has decided an update for the Desire S is on the cards, after a period of being in dead zone, eventually started rolling it out without so much to whisper. It has been noticed in the UK that the users have been getting notifications about the update, since the lingering last few days of September.
Just like always with a ROM update, the user will get the notifications as a pop up and the update is for stock Desire S ROM users. So, which means it is also carrier specific and as usual will take a little longer.
This update should boost up the performance of your Desire S as the Gingerbread version will be updated from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5 along with the Sense UI 2.1 moving up to 3.0 which clearly means key updates like the interactive lock screen, new animations, an updated launcher as well as a host of new widgets, the latest version of the market will be updated along with the access to HTC’s Watch Service and as reported getter GPS performance.
Last May, certain manufacturers and carriers at the Google I/O made a statement about the Android devices that it would receive full support for 18 months after the launch of the devices. At par, it seems HTC has most certainly making good on that promise. But as we speak, we have no word on the carrier locked ROMs and the timelines of the update globally. In the meanwhile, check out our review of the HTC Desire S.
