Is the HTC Ville C a cheaper One S?

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The [Desire C][3] has barely revealed itself as HTC's latest pocket-friendly Android phone, but another device following the same naming convention might also be on the cards. According to _BriefMobile_, a lower-priced [One S][4] variant, currently under the Ville C moniker, will shed the dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 and use a (presumably cheaper) dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S3 (MSM8260). That's the same processor found in last year's [Sensation][5], although we're skeptical of that clock speed. Otherwise, the leaked specs match the One S on the important stuff, including a 4.3-inch AMOLED display (with the same qHD resolution), an 8-megapixel auto-focus camera alongside HTC's [ImageSense][6] chip and 16GB of storage. Yep, like the One S, there's no option to expand storage, but if the price is right (and it _does_ exist), we might be more willing to forgive that particular shortcoming.

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