HTC Desire 500: entry-level smartphone with Sense 5 - WinFuture

The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC has announced the Desire 500 new middle-class smartphone, which has a similar equipment offers like the HTC One Mini, but in some areas makes concessions, including about the waiver on the integration of the boom sound speakers with their dedicated amplifier.

The HTC Desire has a 4.3-inch 500 Super LCD, which dissolves with 800×480 pixels. Under the hood, here lies a 200 dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor running at 1.2 GHz. The memory of Android smartphones is after all a gigabyte in size, the built-in flash memory saves HTC however, so that only four gigabytes are factory installed. Thanks to a MicroSD card slot, the internal memory can also be expanded.

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Other features include NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy and N-Fi. Move to the equipped with tri-band GSM Desire 500 s go when required by UMTS at up to 7.2 megabits / the Internet. Support for HSPA + or even LTE is therefore not given here. Booming sound, there is not, but at least Beats Audio is integrated.

HTC built here an 8-megapixel camera with BSI sensor and flash on the back, which has a F/2.0-Blende and an additional integrated HTC Image uses image processing chip. On the front sits a 1.6-megapixel camera, which also has a BSI sensor. Thanks to the new HTC interface and some of the photo features are included, so that for example appear preview animations.

With the 1800mAh battery is probably quite moderate sized compared to some devices the competition. It is up to 17.8 hours talk time via GSM and 3G 12.1 hours per suffice. The standby time is HTC with a maximum of 435 hours. The Desire 500 is in a plastic housing and bring at a height of 9.9 millimete rs fairly light 123 grams on the scale.

The operating system Android 4.2.2 running with the new HTC Sense 5.0 interface, so the interface features, which were introduced with the HTC one, are also available here. So there is the feed, and the flashing mentioned video highlights. First, the HTC Desire 500 appears only in Taiwan, where it is offered at a rather high price of over 350 Euros without a contract, because the mobile operator Taiwan Mobile takes over the exclusive sales under contract. According to a recently leaked roadmap of this O2 German network operators, however, is also planning an early introduction, and plus there are no details.