HTC DESIRE 816 REVIEW

I review the phone to find out if the Desire 816 can actually live up to our expectations.


LOOK AND FEEL
HTC has adapted the design it developed for the One (M7), which means thinner bezels on the left and right, and more space on the top and bottom to accommodate dual front-firing speakers. The Desire 816 is more or less consistent with this tall, elongated design, but differentiates itself with a large 5.5-inch display. This makes it wider and taller than the rest of the new crop of HTC smartphones. Coupled with a thickness of 8mm and weight of 165g, the HTC Desire 816 is solid to hold. On the whole, this is a sturdily constructed smartphone.
One problem with the polycarbonate body is that it involves both glossy and matte textures. As a result, you'll have to deal with issues inherent to both types of finish. In our white variant, we noticed that the glossy back attracted loads of smudges while the matte edges and front were dust magnets.

FEATURES AND SPECIFICATION

 HTC Desire 816 is not aiming for top-of-the-line specifications.I wish HTC had chosen at least the Snapdragon 600 but unfortunately it having a Qualcomm snapdragon MSM8928 processor clocked at 1.6 GHz .

Graphics are handled by an integrated Adreno 305 GPU. The phone has 1.5GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage, of which only around 4GB is available for use. This is disappointing, but thankfully HTC allows expansion up to 128GB using a microSD card.

The HTC Desire 816 has a 13-megapixel rear camera with a flash, and can record 1080p videos. It also has a 5-megapixel front camera that can be used to capture even the pimples on your face with great clarity in the Selfie mode. The phone accepts two Nano-SIM cards, both of which can connect to 3G networks.

The 5.5-inch screen has a resolution of 720x1280, which means a pixel density of 267ppi. Many of the current crop of 5.5-inch smartphones have the same specifications. The screen is crisp enough, but is dull even at maximum brightness. This in turn amplifies reflections and affects sunlight legibility and viewing angles.

SOFTWARE

I  glad that HTC has decided to ship the Desire 816 with the latest version of Android - version 4.4.2 (Kitkat)  and the new HTC Sense 6 skin. 

CAMERA
Unlike the Ultrapixel camera on the HTC One series, the Desire 816 has a standard 13-megapixel camera and it is surprisingly good.

In terms of picture quality clicked by htc desire 816 camera  the results are definitely much better than what's possible with all the other phones in this price range. 

Verdict

After going through it I feel thats its best smartphone in terms of specs and overall perfomance .It feels premium, and has a far superior camera, battery life, higher internal memory capacity and better performance.

This phone price at Rs. 23,990

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RAHUL ARORA