Samsung Announces World’s First Windows Phone 8 Smartphone, the ATIV S

This is shocking. Despite the exclusive Nokia-Microsoft deal, Samsung has become the first company to officially unveil a Windows Phone 8 smartphone. To start-off, this is a decent smartphone with specs easily better than any Windows Phone smartphone right now.
Considering the smoothness that Windows platform offers, these specs of 1.5 Ghz dual-core processor with 1 GM of internal RAM will boost the the performance needs of ATIV S users.

See for yourself:

• Microsoft’s latest Windows Phone 8 OS installed
• 4.8 inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels and 16 million colors
• Multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen with Corning Gorilla Glass 2
• Thickness: 8.7mm
• Weight: 137 grams
• 1.5 Ghz dual-core Krait processor with Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon S4
• 1 GB RAM with 16/32 GB expandable storage
• 8 megapixel rear-facing camera with LED Flash and 1080p Full HD video recording
• 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera
• Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Proximity, Compass sensors
• Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB v2.0, NFC, Wifi-Hotspot

Nokia is expected to release its Windows Phone 8 smartphones on September 5 where it might launch a ‘Pureview Lumia’. Still, you can’t deny the fact that the ATIV S is easily among the best smartphones right now.
No words on pricing of Samsung ATIV S revealed so far. Meanwhile, check below screens of the Windows 8 Phone:

HTC Announces Mid-Range Smartphone, the Desire X

HTC has been giving time to the idea of mid-range smartphones for quite a time now and the result is clearly shown in the form of phones like HTC One V, Desire C and Desire V and now they’ve come up with the Desire X.
Desire X’s most notable specs are its dual-core processor, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and a 5 megapixel camera. Here are the rest ones:

• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with Sense UI 4.0 upgradable to Android 4.1
• 4 inch Super LCD display with a resolution of 800 x 480
• Multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen
• Thickness: 9.3mm
• Weight: 120grams
• 1 Ghz Dual-core processor with Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon chipset
• Adreno 203 GPU
• 768 MB RAM with 4 GB internal expandable storage
• 5 megapixel camera with LED Flash and 480p video recording
• Beats audio enhancement
• Bluetooth 4.0, microUSB v2.0, Wifi-Hotspot
• Black, White colors available

The phone will be launched in the September-October time period and its priced too would be revealed then.