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amazon HTC Desire 500 reviews
Design
In this respect, HTC is known as the most beautiful and smartest smartphone design company. Desire is no exception when the HTC “favors” bring the most outstanding thing ever appeared, but appeared on the mid-range but also the high-end segment.
With dimensions of 131.8 x 66.9 x 9.9 mm and weighing just 123g, users will always feel the thin, lightweight, fits in the palm of their hands when they first hold the Desire 500.
Looking at the front, users can refer to the HTC One S, HTC One X or HTC One V typical when the top of the speaker is heard with tiny holes, the bottom of the speaker is the HTC logo to the right logo. Is a front camera. In the middle of the device is a 4.3-inch screen with a thin black border around it. The bottom two only touch navigation keys similar to the super-product HTC One. The multitasking management key has been reduced by the fact that the user can tap twice on the home key to browse for running applications, giving it the ability to move quickly.
Meanwhile, the edge of the device is always highlighted with blue (the review version, with a red border) around but cut by two volume keys on the right. At the top of the machine is a 3.5 mm headphone jack and power button lock / unlock the machine while the tail is a microUSB port for charging and connecting physically to the computer or other devices. The left side of the device has no keys.
On the back side, the handset is designed to be slightly “flush” in the middle to create a grip feel when held, with the clamshell attached to the machine, made of plastic ball but not leave fingerprints or dust.
The upper part of the camera body and the flash are surrounded by blue / red / black accents (this color is black, white with red or white border), in the middle is the HTC logo. Below is a speakerphone with Beats Audio logo and loudspeaker speakers with tiny holes.
When opening the back cover, the interior is also quite simple to design with removable battery, a SIM card tray and a microSD card slot to expand the memory.
In general, the Desire 500 has a pretty rounded design, good looks with a variety of colors and youthful for customers to choose.
Display screen
Equipped with a 4.3 “WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) Super LCD2 display, the pixel density of 216 ppi comes with a Sense 5.0 interface with BlinkFeed features, the Desire 500 makes for a user-friendly feel. And beautiful. Through the experience, the HTC Desire 500 displays beautiful images, wide viewing angles, fairly accurate color, brightness enough for outdoor use.
HTC BlinkFeed
HTC Desire 500 is HTC’s best in the BlinkFeed screen is available on the super-product HTC One. With BlinkFeed, the main screen becomes more alive, streams live, instantaneously all sources of information from Facebook, Instagram, foreign news sites, and popular news sites.
Running on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, HTC’s latest Sense 5.0 interface is streamlined with many useful applications such as Chrome browser (not default), Search, Maps, Navigation, Facebook, Twitter, Polaris Office, Dropbox …
Performance
As a mid-range smartphone, the Desire 500 still has a pretty strong configuration with Quadro Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 quad-core processor with 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of internal memory. The operation of the machine is perfectly processed, avoiding the jar, lag when listening to music, surfing the web, MXH, even playing games … The jerk, lag only appear when the game is too “heavy” . (Experiment with Temprun 2 game very well, no jerk, lag).
With the 4 GB of internal memory for the machine and the Android operating system “waste” 3 GB for pre-installed applications, so the actual capacity is only about 1 GB for users, but fortunately HTC has allowed expansion. Via microSD card slot up to 64 GB.
Web browsing on the Desire was also rated as good. The highlight is that the default browser available in the machine has added support for Adobe Flash and tabs can be converted quickly through the icon in the browser.
In addition, with integrated connections such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and DLNA, 7.2 Mbps download support is also a noteworthy point.
The quality of the call, the call on the machine is very good, loud speakers, clear even in noisy environment
With a capacity of 1800 mAh, Desire 500 battery capacity can meet a full working day, if normal use and can talk to 3G continuously 12 hours.
Camera
This is said to be the most added features of the Desire 500. Although in the mid-range segment, the machine still has the side of the 8 Mpx camera, which is only in high-end smartphones. Besides, with the support of hardware with BSI sensor, ImageChip image processor, f / 2.0 aperture, 28mm wide angle … with the presence of HDR (High Dynamic Range) help Bright balance (very useful for shooting and backlit movies), and a variety of filter modes and features such as self-timer, color modes, lighting, etc. The Desire 500 also supports continuous shooting of up to 60 shots and the VideoPic function – capturing high-quality stills and movies. In addition, with the presence of smart flash with 5 levels of automatic flash, night shots and in low light conditions is not too difficult with the Desire 500. Users can also take the pictures themselves. High quality portrait with 1.6MP front camera is supported BSI sensor for poor photos.
The most notable feature is the HTC Video Highlights feature on the Desire 500. This is a feature that allows you to automatically select the event’s typical image to make an impressive 30-second short film without any effort. Power or software complex. Users can select a variety of themes (can be inserted in the audio) to add effects, change the scene if you want the image to become a video. Then, users can instantly share to HTC Share or other sharing services with just one touch.
The filming of the device also received many compliments when it came to video quality 720p 30 fps HD which is rare in a mid-range phone.
The initial experience shows that the images taken by the Desire 500 are quite beautiful, the color is good, the video quality is also very good.
where can you get a HTC Desire 500 online
HTC Desire 500 Factory Unlocked – Android – White/Blue: Buy it now
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Multimedia entertainment
The Desire 500 supports a variety of music and video formats. Besides, it also recognizes album, artist information, even lyrics (if any). The SoundHound feature allows you to instantly display your music application’s interface.
The sound quality of the Desire is pretty good when used with the headset because it supports Beats Audio technology, but the speakerphone is only “acceptable” because it is only usable in the environment. Quiet but can not hear in noisy environment because of not supported dual front speakers BoomSound .
General comment
Advantage:
Beautiful design, youthful.
The camera is high resolution and takes good pictures and video.
VXL quad core, overall performance pretty.
Defect:
There are only two touch keys underneath that make it feel empty.
Overview:
As the “camera phone” is a trend, high resolution camera phones are the top choice. However, most of them are in the premium segment. And if users still want to “follow the trend” on, HTC Desire 500 is a worthwhile choice. Users will have a smartphone with a range of advantages such as beautiful design, VXL quadruple and especially the ability to shoot no less than other high-end names.