HTC sends currently several devices into the race. Here is the One series, the premium line is: One Mini One and One Max cover all size ranges – the cheapest option is priced at just under 350 euros but above the budget of many buyers. That is why we looked at a unit of the Desire series, more specifically the Desire 500 that you can buy already from good 210 euros. It is a smart phone of the middle class, including there are still about 50 euros cheaper Desire 300 The special feature of the device are the color combinations in which you can purchase the smartphone: Black, white / red and white / blue are available. But agree the inner values? We have tested it.
look, feel, Hardware
tried with the Desire series the budget-minded buyer to address and saves it in different places. So the case is different from the One series only made of plastic, the screen resolution has been significantly reduced and the overall computing power of the devices is limited. That should be for the average user, however, pose less of a problem, because Angry Birds and Co. run on these devices just as well as on the high-end smartphone for 600 Euros. But what does the Desire 500, which costs only about one-third of the current flagships, really have to offer?
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A unibody design – you might say. But it is not so. As with the HTC Sensation at the time is set to an enclosing sleeve into which the smartphone is inserted. This creates a very nice, upscale feel with the use of the device. This one has quite hinbekommen despite the choice of plastic as main material and the Desire 500. The “little black dress” can convince with very good workmanship, (but never boring) is in the design, however, very cautious. The versions in white / red and white / blue speak quite well as young people (or young at heart) to the black variant shines through classic understatement.
haveWe especially liked the little details on the device: The minimum elevation around the camera module in the black version almost invisible speaker on the back of the device or the volume keys that emerge from a revolving belt. However, the great attention to detail also means that the volume buttons allow sensing not very good and the speaker is mostly obscured by the hand.
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something “naked” already sees the device around the bottom, so without third capacitive button. The Menu button is missing. Likewise, you have to the boom sound, so forgo the HTC designation for stereo front speakers. Thus was created on the display according to court for the HTC logo, which still sat between the two capacitive buttons at the One-derivatives. Leaves over a long press on the menu button at apps that have not been equipped with an on-screen menu button, the Settings menu.
What else is missing? Computing power and high-end hardware. Although the Desire 500 comes with a quad-core, this overclocked but “only” with 4 x 1.2 GHz (Qualcomm Snapdragon 200) to HSPA + you have to just do without as on an HD display. The latter triggers only with 800 x 480 px to (4.3 inches) and is therefore not necessarily up to date. We are pleased with the 8 MP camera with LED flash and Bluetooth 4.0, NFC support, and the built-in 1.6 MP front camera also. Further available: the so awaited by many microSD slot for cards up to 64 GB in size. However, this is also urgently needed in the limited internal memory of only 4 GB. The hardware is in an approximately 13.2 x 6.7 x 1 cm casing space and weighs – including the removable 1800 mAh battery – 123 g
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The device is very good in the hand and can also convince in terms of feel. No sharp edges or unclean crafted transitions spoil the impression. The unit is well integrated with one-hand operation due to its size – despite the rather poor utilization of the front of just under 60%. The low weight is quite a positive aspect and the competitors may be – in the ratio – 1.41 g / cm ³ significantly undercut. Through the good processing it feels it but to not come cheap. Unfortunately – and this is probably more of an issue of Glossy-Black-variant – but the device is an extreme fingerprint magnet, so that the back is just actually getting unsightly
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Overall, the Desire 500 can convince but quite. Good workmanship, modern look, neat, although not extremely fast hardware and easy one-handed operation speak for the device. In the following, however, some aspects are further examined more closely, such as the display, the battery life, the camera or even the installed software. How does the Desire 500 proposes in this case, we have held on the following pages.
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