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The HTC Desire 500 is a cheaper -end phone than either the HTC One or the HTC One Mini. It charges around £230 SIM-free, that means you’ll be able to get one on a pretty low-end contract. It may possibly not make an impression on in really the similar way as the One brothers, but this particular cute phone is well worth keeping an eye on in case you don’t want to spend the earth on your next mobile. HTC Desire 500 - Design and style Wherever the HTC One-series phones possess an obsession with aluminium, the HTC Desire 500 is made of plastic-type material. It’s polished plastic as well, giving it a appearance similar with that of the Samsung Galaxy S4. It quickly feels like a well-made phone, although. Compared with the majority of of Samsung’s Android cell phones, the Desire 500 does not have removable battery cover, helping to make it a lot easier for HTC to keep the body feeling solid and hard even with being made of plastic. You can find some cute design touches too, such as the colour trim that runs around the side of the phone. We saw the white and blue edition, but there are also white/red and black editions ( which looks a lot like the Desire X. ) Although it seems strange to compare the desire 500 to the Note 2 it does give you an idea just how much bigger than Note 2 is to the 500. The Galaxy S2 is also being compared in terms of size, and you will clearly see how the Desire 500 is much closer to in terms of size, but the 500 does stand taller. It’s a good-looking phone, and is both slim (ish) and pretty light too - at 9. 9mm thick and 123g. The HTC Desire 500’s curves are also distinctive enough to stop it from the generic-looking fate of something like the Huawei Ascend Y300. Screen Perhaps the clearest spec cut in the HTC Desire 500 is the screen. In person it looked pretty good, with decent black levels and solid colour reproduction, but it’s a pretty low-end display, spec-wise. It is 4. 3 inches across and has a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It’s a clear step down from the 720p HTC One Mini. However, there wasn’t too clear pixellation in the parts of the OS we gave a spin, suggesting HTC’s interface uses some clever text smoothing to mitigate the low resolution. Software Software -wise, the HTC Desire 500 is a lot like the HTC One Mini. It has the latest version of the HTC Sense UI, which comes with the BlinkFeed home screen. This is a scrolling feed of updates from your favourite sources - be they social networks or websites. HTC Sense is perhaps the classiest of all the third-party Android interfaces, and it brings a level of sophistication that should help to give the Desire 500 something over its mid-range rivals. Performance from our brief play with the phone seemed good too. We had a look at a pre-production device, but did not notice any notable lag even in this early model. The HTC Desire 500 has a low mid-range CPU, a bit slower than the ones found in the HTC One Mini and HTC One. It’s a Qualcomm MSM8225Q Snapdragon 200 processor, a quad-core 1 . 5GHz model. That may sound very nippy, but its cores are the basic Cortex-A5 type, which are not powerhouses. Its GPU is the Adreno 203 - again a few rungs below HTC’s more famous One-series phones. However, it should provide enough grunt to play 3D games like Real Racing 3 fairly well thanks to the phone’s low screen resolution. Camera Using the HTC Desire 500 you also overlook on the UltraPixel camera tech HTC launched earlier this season - which gives you larger sensor pixels for significantly better low-light performance. This cell phone has a pretty standard 8-megapixel camera along with an LED flash. It ought to produce decent shots in very good lighting, but will not have the low-light performance of an HTC One-series phone. It also cannot shoot video at resolutions over 720p. The HTC Desire 500 really does have a specially good front-facing camera, a 1. 6-megapixel one. This is possibly down to HTC deciding that the Desire 500 will appeal to a younger audience obsessed with Facebook, selfies and incessant #YOLO’ing. We are not particularly bothered about the front-facing digital camera, but we are a bit of sad to see the Desire 500 lose the stereo Boomsound speakers of the HTC One Mini. As an alternative, the phone has a mono speaker that sits on the backside. It does have Beats processing, even though, which usually can significantly enhance the tonality of a teeny phone speaker. HTC Desire 500 - First Impressions There’s a lot of other mobile phone models being looked at against the Desire 500, and while this is not the most fascinating video showcasing the new HTC Desire 500, it does give you a better idea of its dimension and design. The HTC Desire 500 appears a strong mid-level phone. Its CPU isn’t super-powerful in spite of being quad-core and it doesn’t have a headline-grabbing camera. Even so, we like its software program, its hardware design and style, and its display screen seems to be quite decent in spite of some pretty low-end specs. We’ll be back again with the full verdict shortly. Shop Cell Phone Cases at SaleWill.com, we bring you the latest and greatest HTC Desire 500 Cases and HTC One mini Cases at cheap prices.
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