HTC DESIRE 326G REVIEW



HTC launched its budget android smartphone namely Desire 326G (Dual-Sim) in India which is priced @ 9,590/-. It is available is Black and White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is very good. It has a scratch resistant glass on front and a matte finish back and feels pretty good in hands. It is slim at 9.7mm and weighs 146gms. It has 4.5 inch FWVGA LCD display of resolution 480 x 854 with 218ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Very good. It runs on HTC's Sense User Interface. The display supports 2 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is pretty good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 32GB. 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 speeds upto 21.1mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi hotsopt, as well as Bluetooth 4.0 but does not have USB OTG support.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Image stabilization, Touch focus, 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 and clarity is quite good. It does Full HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-17 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is very good overall. Daytime the video clarity is Pretty good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been better. It also has a 2MP front camera for selfe's which does 720p video and clarity is above average.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkat out of the box. It has a Spreadtrum (SC7731G) SOC (System On Chip) running a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.2GHZ (ARM Cortex A7 Architecture) with 1GB RAM and Mali400 MP2 (400MHZ Dual-Core) GPU. The performance is good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no major lag at most cases.
QUADRANT :5021.
ANTUTU : 19546.
NENAMARK 2 : 53.2fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Pro 2000 mah battery. The battery life is Pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7:45H.
TALKTIME : upto 17H(2G) / upto 14H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 470H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Good display and viewing angle.
*Pretty good Performance.
*Pretty good camera and great video recording clarity.
*Very good Loudspeaker.
*Pretty good battery life with removable battery.

CONS
*8GB storage might be limiting for heavy games.
*Performance could have been little better. 
*No USB OTG support.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.2/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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