HTC DESIRE 816 REVIEW


HTC launched upper midrange android smartphone namely Desire 816 in India which is priced @ 25,500/-. It is available is Black, White, Grey, Green and Red shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is very good. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a polycarbonate unibody back and feels very very good in hands. It is slim at 7.9mm and weighs 165gms. It has 5.5 inch HD super LCD 2 display of resolution 720 x 1280 with 267 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is pretty good. It runs on HTC's Sense 6.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as Zoe camera app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 But lacks NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the images are very good and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images. It does HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 16-17 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the video clarity is very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is pretty descent could have been better. It also has a 5MP front camera for selfe's which does 1080p video and clarity is pretty nice.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8226) processor running a quad core at 1.6 GHZ with 1.5 GB RAM and Adreno 305 (450MHZ Single Core) GPU. The performance is Great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 8360.
ANTUTU : 16946.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.9 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Pro 2600 mah battery. The battery life is Excellent which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 9:45H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 10H.
TALKTIME : upto 16H(2G) / upto 14H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 450 H(2G) / upto 430 H(3G).

PROS
*Great build quality.
*Very Good display and viewing angle.
*Great Performance.
*Very good camera and video recording clarity
*Excellent battery life.
*Boom sound speakers with excellent audio output.

CONS
*Non-Removable Battery.
*Power key on top makes it difficult for accessing.
*No NFC.
*No dedicated camera key.
*Bit Pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.3/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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