HTC Desire 816 Review

HTC Desire 816 is a very solid Android phone launched in February 2014, which counts with a 1600 MHz Quad-Core CPU, a 5.5 inches multi-touch display, and two cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back-facing camera and a 5 MP front camera.

HTC has made an amazing optimization job making this phone weight just 5.82 ounces. HTC is offering the HTC Desire 816 in lots of color variations like black, gray, pink, yellow, green, blue, red and white. This cellphone is only 6.17" long, but it still manages to hold a 5.5 inches display. This phone is very thin and good-looking, being just 0.31 inches thick.

HTC decided to sell this cellphone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 MSM8928 chip, holding a very fast Quad-Core processing unit speeding at 1600 megahertz and a big 1,5 GB of RAM memory. Graphic rendering generally eats lots of CPU time, so it has an extra 450 megahertz Adreno 305 GPU to help with that calculations. This device counts with a good 8 GB internal storage and a slot for SD memory cards, which allows you to store a couple hundred apps without running out of space.

This cellphone is equipped with a interesting 5.5-inches display with a 1280 x 720 (HD) resolution, making everything look vivid. Its display uses S-LCD 2 capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch for gestures like pinch and zoom.

The HTC Desire 816 features two cameras, a 13 mega-pixels back camera and a 5 MP front facing camera. This cellphone can also capture videos in Full HD 1920x1080. In addition, the camera includes a lot of useful characteristics like auto-focus, flash, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting, geo tagging and HDR mode.

This device includes wifi connection (but it can't share it with other devices around, as a mobile mobile hotspot), LTE (4G) fast connectivity and also HSPA+ connectivity, which is a slower 4G technology and 3G fast internet connection, supported by HSDPA, HSUPA, UMTS and EDGE technologies. This phone comes with 2 Nano SIM cards so it is able to work with two different phone lines or carriers at the same time.

This phone counts with amassive 2600 mAh Li-Polymer non-removable battery providing this cellphone an extremely long battery duration. An issue to take into account is that this phone's battery is not replaceable so you can't change it when it begins to have trouble holding its charge, even though with such a huge battery size you will probably replace this cellphone before that becomes an issue.

The HTC Desire 816 also features many interesting characteristics like Near Field Communication (NFC), Bluetooth (for communication with other cellphones, computers and accessories), GPS (Global Positioning System) and Radio, and plenty of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

The HTC Desire 816 is not a good choice considering it is priced $ 259, and some similar cellphones are a lot cheaper than that. This phone is the right one for you no matter whether you will use it for gaming, need this device for work, are an amateur photographer or are looking for a device majorly for internet broswing and social networks.