Remember the HTC Desire C leaked yesterday? It's just been made official, and it'll put Ice Cream Sandwich in your pocket for £170.
The 3.5-inch Desire C runs the latest Android 4.0 software, known as Ice Cream Sandwich -- which is kind of a big deal, especially at this price.
It also packs Beats Audio, boosting the quality of sound from your music, movies and games, and coming with a pair of signature Beats headphones.
Inside the Desire C's metal frame there's a 5-megapixel camera. Your photos, and movies and music, can be stored online in cloud storage service Dropbox, as you get 25GB of free online space when you buy the phone.
For more on Ice Cream Sandwich, check out our ten reasons why Ice Cream Sandwich beats Gingerbread.
Despite being an affordable phone, there's a version with NFC available too, looking forward to when NFC will let you pay for stuff by waving your phone at a special till in shops, bars and restaurants. Paying for things isn't the only use of NFC though -- here's how to use NFC tags with your Android mobile phone.
The Desire C is available around the world in red, white and black, but we'll only get the white and black versions.
T-Mobile was quickest off the mark to give us the £170 price, and is offering the phone for free on a two-year contract at £15.50 per month. It'll also hit the shelves at Vodafone, Orange, Virgin Media, Three, O2, Phones4U, The Carphone Warehouse, and Tesco Mobile.
Do you like the look of the Desire C? Does it have the chops to run Ice Cream Sandwich? Tell me your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page.
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anonymous 15 May, 2012 13:56
Holy mother of god on earth, and in heaven at the exact same time. This phone is too small, thats all i have to say...
anonymous 15 May, 2012 15:13
Comes with Beats headphones but some 1X/S's did not? I bet there will be some pretty peeved 1X/S owners if this is true.
Still can't argue with the specs for the layout.
A Non Mouse.
Arby Bryce 15 May, 2012 15:38
I cant afford top of the range phones...So might buy this instead..
anonymous 15 May, 2012 20:03
What's the screen resolution?
billfred 16 May, 2012 13:56
I own a One S and I don't give a poo about not getting Beats with it.
Dean Shepherd 16 May, 2012 22:44
Well I for one am more than a little saddened by this...picked up from Techradar is what they believe the specs may be:
"According to the catalogue listing the Desire C will sport a 3.5-inch (320x480) display, 600MHz processor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, 4GB internal storage, 5MP rear facing camera and Beats Audio technology."
if so...thats well....really bad...thats a mix of original wildfire and the wildfire S....but now with a Desire name plate? I thought the Desire badge was for PREMIUM models...the original Desire, HD and S were all stonking good phones WELL above this....thing now..
besides, that is a shoddy as hell resolution AND processor...I was under the believe that older generation phones like the Desire/Nexus One were not getting an official upgrade to ICS because of their low specs...this is even lower!
For shame HTC and Android..bet my old Desire with its screen burn and cracked case STILL beats this lol