HTC Desire 500 Review

HTC Desire 500 is a good quality phone, featuring a great performance 1200 megahertz Quad-Core processing unit, a medium 4.3 inches display, and two cameras, an 8 megapixels back-facing camera and a 1.6 megapixels front-facing camera. But it's time to get into more details.

This phone is equipped with a fast Quad-Core processor speeding at 1.2 GHz, bundled in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8225Q system chip with 1 GB of RAM. This phone counts with a 4 GB internal memory, a reasonable quantity that should be enough for the average user having that this device also has an SD extension slot .

This cellphone is just 0.39" thick, making it one of the thinnest cellphones out there. HTC justmade this phone in color black. This cellphone feels much lighter than what you would expect from a phone like this.

The HTC Desire 500 features two cameras, an 8 megapixels back camera and a 1.6 mega-pixels front facing camera. It can also shoot videos in HD 1280x720. In addition, this cellphone's camera also has a few interesting characteristics: flash, fast burst mode and auto-focus.

This cellphone includes a very good 4.3 inches display with a 800 x 480 resolution, which makes it hard to see the pixels taking part of the display. Its display uses TFT capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

This device uses a 1800 mAh mid capacity Li-Polymer battery that provides this cellphone a quite short battery life comparing with other similar cellphones. HTC informs a stand by time of 401 hours and a talk time of 17.8 hs for this device.

This device includes wi-fi connection (but it can't be provided to other devices around, acting as a router) and 3G fast connection type, using HSDPA and EDGE technologies. This cellphone has dual SIM so it can to use 2 different phone numbers.

The HTC Desire 500 also comes with a handful of nice features as Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS (Global Positioning System), and multiple sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This phone costs around 249 dollars, a high price for comparing with other similar cellphones. It doesn't matter whether you want a device to play games or want a cellphone to mainly use social networks, you will probably be very pleased with this cellphone.