T-Mobile announced the release of the HTC Wildfire S Android smartphone on 3 August. The budget-priced compact device will be available in white for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in-rebate with a 2-year contract. It is the successor to the Wildfire and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

After the big success of the HTC Desire, we now have the opportunity to see how well the next installment from the Taiwanese company fares as they have unveiled the HTC Wildfire. In a basic sense, the Wildfire does not depart significantly from the design of the Desire and is fully touch screen based. It does have a much faster response rate than mobiles such as the Nexus One which will be good news [...]