Desire 500 is representative of the mid-range, which tries to reconcile quality with reasonable price. Here is a specification of the advantages and disadvantages oh this phone:
Advantages:
Visually attractive casing
Good quality display with good viewing angles
Appearance and features HTC Sense 5.0 overlay
Fairly good picture quality
System Browser supports Flash and animated GIFs (you have to enable in options)
Speed sufficient for most applications
Convenient phone application connected with the address book
Headset Included
Disadventages:
Very little built-in memory for user files
Android in a rather old version 4.1.2
No video playback capabilities 1080p
Cover is easy to draw and collect fingerprints
Not the best quality video recording
In addition to the phone box you will find: charger, cable, used both for charging with the charger and to connect the phone to a computer and headphones. The headphone cord is flat, which should at least partially impede its jumble up.
Desire housing 500 is made of plastic and comes in two main colors – black and silver, which also has various versions of the color strip around the casing.
Desire 500 has a display low by today’s standards a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, which translates into a density of 217 PPI level in the case of 4.3-inch. Built-in quad-core processor clocked Snapdragon 200 1.2 Ghz aided by 1 GB of RAM.
The smartphone has only 4 GB of built-in memory on the system, applications and user files. The latter is a little over 600 MB.
HTC uses the most popular mobile operating system Android. Sorry for Desire 500 is not the latest version. HTC has Android 4.1.2
HTC has a pretty decent camera with a resolution of 8 megapixels. Full resolution is only available in 4:3 aspect ratio. By default, the camera takes pictures of 16:9, and the pictures are a little over 6 megapixels.
The function menu is divided into categories, and has a number of useful features-among other things, HDR and panorama.
As for video, the resolution is arbitrarily limited to 720p. Recording Full HD is not available on this model.
The system has two browsers – system, supplied with Android, which has been adapted by the HTC Sense interface, and Google Chrome.
Video player according to the manufacturer copes with DivX/XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV files.