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Design
HTC Desire V has two black and white color options. This phone does not use aluminum unibody like HTC One S and HTC One V that almost the entire structure of the machine is made of plastic, even the frame around the screen looks as well as robust metal from plastic materials.
Generally, the Desire V does not get the feeling of luxury as the HTC One series phones (HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V). The design advantages of significantly in this phone is the slim (9.3 mm), lightweight (114g) and has the size of 4 inches. In addition, its design with a beveled edge and rounded corners.
Above the front of the Desire V has speaker slot, proximity sensor, light sensor and an LED to notify you of messages, missed calls or updates from Facebook.
Below the screen there are three touch keys familiar HTC (Back, Home, and open applications). The keys are quite sensitive to this operation.
Back cover plate of Desire V made from plastic rubber phase should be feeling good hand grip. This cover sheet sealed tangent edges machine, do not leave a slot open the back cover so originally I freaked not know how to open the SIM and microSD card inserted. But after a while to find out, I saw the back cover easy to remove if you pry from the top of the machine.
The layout of the ports and buttons is nothing to complain except the power button located on the top of the camera along with the headphone jack. Only the power button protrudes slightly from the top surface of the machine should be slightly hard to press but also quickly get used after a short time of use. The port and the remaining buttons including volume control buttons are located on the right side, microUSB charging port on the left edge and bottom edge only hole microphone.
Inside the back cover plate, you’ll find the SIM tray and microSD card slot for storage expansion. Two SIM Desire V has only one SIM can operate on 3G network, while the other SIM only supports GSM 2G. This means you only get 3G service with a SIM card, while the other SIM card is only used for making calls and messaging. In standby mode, the 2 SIM are active. When a call comes in, the SIM will answer the call, the remaining SIM in offline mode.
Internal memory of the machine only 4 GB storage, most during use will have to rely on external memory card. Besides, HTC continues to cooperate with the company DropBox cloud storage so buyers Desire V will be free 25GB Dropbox storage for two years on. Thus, you can up the images to the account on Dropbox to free up storage space.
Screen
The dual SIM smartphone available on the market are low-level smartphone, the small screen from 3 inches to 3.5 inches. Therefore, 4-inch screen is clearly the absolute advantage of the Desire V to those wishing to purchase dual SIM smartphone.
Desire V screen with WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels) with a pixel density of 233 ppi. Considering purely on statistics, the resolution of this phone is higher than high-end smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S II, HTC Sensation … and comparable to the 4-inch screen smartphone from Samsung (Galaxy S Advance and Galaxy S).
In actual use, I found the screen of the Desire V above average in the two most important criteria is the contrast and outdoor visibility.
In contrast criterion, this phone appears in the black-looking though not as deep as the HTC One V and the Sony Xperia Sola, two smartphones with 3.7-inch screen. However, this difference is not much, and that’s why I rated average scores Desire V is quite the contrast.
Regarding outdoor visibility, the screen of the Desire V can also perform well. Display text and images easier to view when used outdoor, especially when pushing up the screen brightness high. In addition, the viewing angle of the screen is also quite wide. Color change only slightly when looking at the screen in the corner of turn about 60-70 degrees.
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Android 4.0 software and HTC Sense 4.0
Desire V preinstalled operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 4.0 is similar to the One series phones (X, S and V) and the HTC Desire C, but it does not fully support the features of Ice Cream Sandwich. For example, you will not be able to use the Face Unlock feature to unlock the screen using facial recognition because the machine has no front-facing camera.
The experience HTC Sense 4.0 and Android 4.0 on this phone, there are similarities with the HTC phones like HTC One X, HTC One S and HTC One V as the ability to resize widgets, open the app directly some application from the lock screen, customizable applications and widgets on the 5 home screen default …
HTC Sense 4.0 on the Desire V also some changes to fit the dual SIM feature. Above the screen icon bar display two mobile networks. The messaging application and more options call from SIM 1 or implement SIM 2. With a 4-inch screen, the Desire V virtual keyboard is quite spacious and easy to press even when used vertically.
Desire V uses Android 4.0 you can download the Chrome browser on your computer to use alternative to the default browser.
Camera
HTC Desire V has a 5 megapixel camera on the back with autofocus capabilities and a LED flash. The advantage of this camera is the control interface is simple and easy to use just like the HTC One series phones. However, its drawback is a bit slow shooting speed, the processing time between each shot more than 1 second, pretty much slower compared to the HTC One V (only approximately 1 second) and no imaging features while spinning like HTC One line.
The possibility of filming, Desire V does not support 720p recording like the HTC One V only film shoot WVGA resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.
Watching movies and listening to music
Desire V with 4-inch screen, but this is not a product for those who like to watch movies on your phone. Integrated video playback software in your phone can open the popular video formats including 3GP, MP4, WMV or AVI, but only supports a maximum resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, the resolution is not HD like a dual SIM Android phone price range, such as the HTC one V, Sony Xepria Sola or LG Optimus L7. I tried some HD video resolution 720 but not open.
In the music player function, Desire V built-software Beats Audio equalizer similar to other HTC phones. Beats Audio software is the advantage of HTC phones, which sound becomes more vibrant, especially when used in conjunction with the Beats Audio headphones. However, if you want quality music experience on the Desire V, you must invest in a pair of Beats Audio headphones.
Operating performance
Desire V is not a strong configuration device aimed at people who need entertaining as watching movies or playing games on your phone. The machine uses a single-core processor Cortex-A5 1 GHz clock speed, chip Adreno 200 graphics processor and 512 MB RAM. This configuration is not strong enough to handle smoothly the normal activity during use of the machine. Switch between the Home screen, open and switch between applications, application load sometimes a little slow but not to the extent of concern or discomfort.
Web surfing speed and open the Facebook application a little slower than the same price range as rival HTC One V, Sony Xperia Sola, Nokia Lumia 710.
Powerful processing performance of Desire V is not evident in the results of tests by the performance evaluation software. Machine reached 1932 points in the overall performance test software Quadrant, lower HTC One V (2064 points) and reached 649 points in test performance web surfing software Vellamo, also lower HTC One V (1,157 points) LG Optimus L7 (916 points) and Sony Xperia Sola (853 points).
About battery time, the HTC Desire V battery with a capacity of 1,650 mAh. During the evaluation process, I found the Desire V batteries used in 1.5 days on moderate demand (sometimes surf the web, on Facebook, calling, texting and listening to a few tracks) with Wi-Fi or 3G on continuously to automatically update information from Gmail, Facebook and set the screen brightness automatically.