HTC pushes the HTC Desire 500 is a mid- smartphone on the market that its categorization makes all the glory: it is mediocre in almost all respects. This may sound like an insult from the lines of a tech blogger, but it is not necessarily. Actually could be the HTC Desire 500 mainly thanks to its low price, find some buyers.
What makes a really good smartphone ? Many would now say it is the combination of chipset, display, camera, battery power, connectivity, processing, form factor and price. Which we would agree. But this is only half the truth. Because whether a smartphone is perceived as good, is entirely subjective to the user’s eye. So the HTC Desire 500 stands for any of the above mentioned factors compared to the competition performs outstandingly, but the phone could be a very useful everyday companion for most users. But not for technology geeks and early adopters who do not even need more.
HTC Desire 500 – processing
you think of current HTC models today, who immediately the highly acclaimed HTC One look and feel in his mind. HTC is trying to have it also consistently incorporated into their new products, see HTC One Mini One and HTC Max (our first impression). However, this does not apply to the new HTC Desire 500, which completely eliminates the use of metal. The HTC Desire measures 500 131 times 66.9 times 9.9 millimeters and comes in a white plastic jacket (also available in black) with clear rounded corners. The display is glass on the front show about a millimeter, the HTC Desire 500 gives a peculiar appearance. It weighs 123 grams
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Outlines the smartphone from a blue-turquoise plastic strips in aluminum look in the sent, the volume rocker was installed. The white plastic back shines and is therefore prone to fingerprints. To camera and LED light the blue design elements find. Overall, the look of the HTC 500 is fresh and sporty. The smartphone has a high recognition value. Also, the perceived build quality is impressive. However, it is not on top models like the HTC one, or even a iPhone 5S approach.
microSD card requirement
Right
strange it feels when you removed the plastic back. Almost naked is the unprotected HTC Desire 500 before us, the just been acting so chic plastic back now remembers a cheap cover. So undressed reveals the Desire its 500 slot for the SIM card and microSD card slot. This is for HTC devices far from self-evident in the HTC Desire 500 but mandatory, because the smartphone knows only 4 GB of internal memory. However, this should not be a problem. microSD cards with 32 GB of memory already thrown the customer on Amazon for under 20 euros afterwards.
display
The 4.3-inch dispaly initially looks really good. So it comes with a faithful color reproduction and a sufficiently bright backlight to still be readable even in direct sunlight. However, to the trained eye drops very quickly but on the rather low resolution of 800 by 480 pixels. Thus, the HTC Desire is only 500 to 217 ppi. Competitive devices in the 4.3-inch format here create 256 ppi (Samsung Galaxy mini S4) or even 341 ppi (HTC One mini). This seems to be especially when reading small fonts. 500 on the HTC Desire this often seem washed out and muddy.
performance
main processor is in the HTC Desire Qualcomm Snapdragon 500 of 200 8225Q used. Each of the four cores clocked at 1.2 GHz and uses a total of 1 GB of RAM to. Again values ??that speak for the mediocrity of the HTC Desire 500th Unfortunately, does it manifest itself also in the use of smartphones. We tested two weeks as our productive Phone and felt in almost every significant action reaction delays. Although these were not very serious, and with less than one second even bearable, but partially reduced the duration of the use of fun but belonging. Especially when you compare it to products in which a peak Snapdragon like the 600 or even 800 was installed.
After all, it creates the HTC Desire 500 720p content largely through smoothly. Full HD content to make the 800 by 480 pixel display little sense anyway. Even in demanding games, the smartphone has minor issues to maintain a high framerate. However, the games are not unplayable.
Speaker
speakers? Middle class! Although prang on the back of a promising “beat audio” on the wide audio Grill – hear little of it unfortunately. This may also be because the speaker is much smaller than the width grill to fake the user. In fact, the HTC Desire 500 sounds quite shrill and dispensed almost entirely on bass. No comparison with the HTC one. Something better is if you remove the plastic cover. After all, the volume is high enough.
voice quality
expected
in a middle class device, we always had to fight the telephony test with a noise. The noise reduction of background noise such as traffic noise did not work as good as other models. Nevertheless, it is never uncomfortable with the HTC Desire phone to 500th
connectivity
The HTC Desire
500 controls on dual-band UMTS with 7.2 Mbps per second and Wi-Fi 802.11 bgn, Bluetooth 4.0, and DLNA. Customers to LTE and NFC have to do without. Even with a wireless dual-band function has the smartphone.
camera
The 8 megapixel camera on the back comes with a 0.312 inch sensor and an f2.0 aperture. She is almost identical to the HTC X and also provides similar results. With good illumination turned on the HTC Desire 500 very good results which even in adverse lighting conditions can still be seen. Only the video recording at 720p disappoint. You stutter and also the digital zoom can be described as unreasonable. Probably because of the weak Snapdragon 200 a decent quality of a spanner in the works.
battery power
The battery capacity is 1800 mAh. This is perfectly okay for a 4.3 inch device, but also breaks no new ground in battery life. Prevents the smartphone probably not the most energy-efficient Snapdragon 200 During our test, the HTC Desire after all 500 also held a full day with medium to heavy use by, however, had the evening to power.
software
user interface HTC has slipped over the Android 4.1 his scythe in version 5.0. Who already knows this from the HTC one, feels right at home here. The best-known feature is probably flashing Feed aggregator of information on the home screen and HTC Zoe. Sense looks very tidy in contrast to its predecessors. HTC also generously waived the pre-installation excessively many apps.
Conclusion
The HTC Desire
500 can be described as average in all relevant points. The processor is not very fast, which is perhaps the biggest criticism of the HTC Desire 500th Display, processing, battery life and connectivity are in mediocrity. Slightly better than average, however, is the camera.
The MSRP of the HTC Desire is 500 279 euros. However, we have also seen the device on the Internet for less than 210 euros. The street price is the smartphone without question appropriate for its buyers get a very solid device. Not any more. But also no less.
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