While HTC desire 501 isnot targeting to compete other high end devices in terms of functionality, it still works quite well in daily life. Accommodates the heavy sense 4+ user interfaces with excellence which is quite outstanding for a mid-range smartphone.
To illustrate the magnificent and cutting edge technology of this phone let’s look at it features below.
Display: The HTC Desire 510 has aTFT capacitive Multi-touchscreen of 16M colors, with a screen size of 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inchesand ppi pixel density of 217. The screen also has accelerometer and proximity and compass sensors.
Design: The smartphone runs Jelly bean android OS v4.1 with a body dimension of 128.50 x 66.90 x 9.80mm, weighs 130g and comes in black, pink and white colors.
Hardwere: HTC Desire 501 is averagely comparing well in speed to other smartphonesfrom this Asian manufacturer as it runs on a 1.15GHz dual-core, 1 GB RAM, an inbuilt storage capacity of 8GB and microSD slot for memory expansion of up to 32 GB.
Camera: The camera exhibit what most midrange smartphones in this league have in common i.e. 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, face and smile detection, simultaneous HD video and image recording.
Connectivity and Technology: HTC Desire 501 connects to telecommunication network via 2G and 3G technologies. Functionally it supports GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 in 2G and HSDPA 900 / 2100 / 850 / 2100 on 3G.It also supports data transmission using technologies such as GPRS and EDGE with speeds of up to HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps. Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot and NFC support. Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, and microUSB v3.0.
Battery: Comes with a removable Li-Ion 2100 mAh battery with talk time and stand-by time are not known yet.
Multimedia: HTC Desire 501 has a Music play, YouTube player, Google Search, Maps, Gmail,YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk application. It also can play music and video formats in the range of MP4, MP3. For messaging, it has threaded view SMS, MMS, Email, Push Email. It comes with pre-installed HTML5 browser and Stereo FM radio.
Other Features: Some extra exiting features that come installed in the phone include but not limited to; SNS applications, Photo viewer/editor, Document viewer, Organizer, Voice memo/dial/commands and Predictive text input.
Pros: This smartphone has a front camera of 2.1 megapixel and rear camera of 8 mega pixel making it quite unique compared to its manufacturer’s counterparts in the same series.
Cons: It has low processing and computational power due to low version of OS and Processor and the manufacturer doesn’t state the life length of its battery for talk time, stand-by or even music play time.
Verdict: HTC Desire 501 is a great device for mid-range smartphone users who are not concerned with some much need for complex computational and processing power. For the Asian Taiwanese manufacturer, this will be a great test to see if they can survive the massive competition from rival players in the industry.