Htc new Desire 500 review - Thumbs up for the new entry in middle level segment.

Htc too decided to target the youth by launching its android phones with a risk of being crowded out of blazing mid level segments and Htc Desire new 500 is a good sign of it its strategy.

The new Desire 500 is HTC‘s latest attempt to balance features and price. The other way to look at it is an alternative of Desire 600 with dual sim facility. The handset gives a youthful, catchy design with good features at affordable price.

Will the Desire 500 succeed in its market-expansion mission the way it is built? Read on to find out.

The new Desire 500 may not be a Royal Enfield bike, but the quad-core 1.2Ghz processor would mean it should be a nice cruiser like Pulsar and most people are after that in mid level segments. Camera capabilities are other impressive feature with slow motion videos. As an added bonus the front facing camera shoots in 720p as well. The smartphone is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 quad-core SoC and supports the common wireless standards WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS and even NFC. Contrary to many HTC devices you can. The HTC Desire 500 has a 4.3-inch LCD screen of acceptable quality. Its resolution is 480 by 800 pixels, which is okay given the smartphone’s class. Fuzzy edges in graphics are easy to spot with a naked eye, regardless of whether you’re surfing the internet, reading an article, or just looking at the icons on your home screen. The stock web browser on the HTC Desire 500 is okay, but we have definitely seen better than that. In terms of speed, it loads web pages in a timely manner and then we cannot complain about lack of responsiveness while interacting with them. However, the zooming gesture behaves weirdly, causing the page to shift to the side when you zoom in. Having the text reflow feature turned off eliminates the issue.

Key features

• Quad-band 2G and dual-band 3G support
• 4.3" 480 x 800 pixel TFT capacitive touchscreen with 217ppi
• Android OS v4.2.2 Jelly Bean with Sense UI 5.0
• 8 MP autofocus camera with 1/3.2" sensor size, 1.4µm pixel size; LED flash
• 720p video recording @ 24fps with stereo audio, slow-motion video
• 1.6MP front-facing camera, 720p video recording
• Wi-Fi b/g/n, DLNA
• GPS with A-GPS
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor

Main disadvantages

• WVGA screen resolution
• Not the most powerful of chipsets
• Disappointing stills and video, no Full HD video recording
• No active noise cancellation for voicecalls
• Poor video codec support out of the box
• Limited inbuilt storage, only 1GB available to the user