HTC Desire 500. In search of the golden mean.

Mark the launch of HTC One in early 2013 , developers quickly realized that the whole model is successful , and many of the ideas contained in a constructive and in the soft stuffing very favorably accepted by users . But no matter how successful was the One - for many people it is too big and too expensive , and on one smartphone HTC is well zarabotyvat the whole year is not so simple. As a result, in the summer we saw a different clones of One - in particular announcements and mini max versions , and even dvuhsimochny One Dual Sim. However , all these models can not solve the main problem of high - value products HTC in 2013 and the company has thought of , regarding the budget line Desire.

And then summer came to light middling Desire 600 and his younger brother Desire 500 . Both models have inherited the main chips in 2013 HTC -Sense 5.0 with active screen blinkfeed, not a bad camera with simultaneous photo and video capture , support, technology HTC Zoe and headphones from Beats Audio. Today we talk about the younger - the 500th model , and see how successful was this modelc and what HTC was able to save . I will begin immediately with the price. At the end of the summer of 2013 is about 12,000 rubles, which is of course more than two times less than asking for a flagship solutions , but not too small, the competition. In the end device with similar characteristics to other , less scrupulous brands can be bought within the 10's ...

This is the very first impression that emerges from a cursory acquaintance with the characteristics and price on Desire 500 , but if you dig a little deeper things become not so simple. First, both here and in all of its devices HTC is using the program shell Sense, which is built on top of its own Android, combing their hair quite austere simplicity of Google.

By the very Sense can be treated in different ways. Some people like it some do not , but one thing is certain - this is one of the most coherent and stylistic power interfaces of modern technology , which can be put on a par with the iOS from Apple. There's no stylistic distortions and lyapovatosti as most competitors , and each running application traced and out. Forgive me, fans of other brands, but no matter what the device was not in my pocket, only to HTC does not pull me to experiment with decorations, try different alternative launcher .

Here we have the Sense of the 5th generation , the same as on the One - a strict and very stylish . Honestly , at first he was not accepted me and understood, especially after a fun-filled from the last version of 3D rotation screens , weather effects and other bells and whistles .

Now we can say that the interface has matured, dressed in contrasting black and white palette and getting rid of the cartoonish , even though many of the old Sense widgets are available in the new version. The main feature of the new skin is the active desktop BlinkFeed.

In fact, this blend of live tiles from WP8 and feed using RSS feeds from news sites. Plenty enough to BlinkFeed on One, I can say that he has strengths and weaknesses. The main drawback I find it impossible to add interest to your source to news.

That is, Available Sites certainly there , only it some miserable . For example in the technology has only two projects - hitech.mail.ru and nomobile, and for example about cars and all invited to read only auto.mail.ru, with which I of course colleagues and I congratulate you, but to manually add such mobileimho or any other source even knowing the address of its RSS feeds no longer work.

On the other hand , if a source of news sorted out , the information supplied is very nice and fast. Tiles are updated automatically, but downloading content does not take much time. In fact, to every news read the title picture and a few paragraphs of text. If, however, you seem this is not enough, at the bottom you can go to the website of the news provider . It is really convenient .

Another chip HTC Desire 500 , oddly enough is a very decent camera . To the credit of the developers in respect of the budget version of the smartphone , they did not skimp on the photos module , equipping the main unit 8 - megapixel camera with BSI sensor, Backlight , aperture F2.0, and a 28mm wide angle lens . Maybe I 'm wrong , but it seems that here we have brought to mind the camera from last year's flagship One X, supplemented by a new graphics processor HTC ImageChip and intelligent flash with 5 degrees of brightness is automatically adjusted depending on the brightness of the subject . Interestingly, the developers at junior models do not have to experiment with ultrapikselnym sensor, as One, selecting a proven solution . What is this? Banal savings or soft refusal ultrapikseley not yet clear ...

We go further , and the transition towards sim cards. The fact that they are 2 and site HTC written they both active and in my understanding is the presence of more than one but two radio modules in the machine. However, it is only the two active sim cards to standby . If one of them is currently busy network connection - the second is simply resting.

Next, let's talk about the hardware . For a start screen . It is not bad and is consistent with the unit. At 4.3 inches diagonally , he has a resolution of 800x480 pixels , ie essentially a sanitary minimum below which has be obvious tradeoffs . With all that angles its maximum, and the range of brightness allows you to comfortably use the device during the day and at night. And Desire Desire 500 and 600 share the same processor Qualcomm S200 has 4 cores and clocked at 1.2 GHz .

This is the budget chip from Qualcomm in the lineup in 2013 , but by far not the brake when compared with competitors. For example in the test Antutu he scored almost 10286 parrots , and 3D mark it passed in all not bad . In addition the machine has 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of internal memory. Of course not without slot microSD, which is located under the hood next to the removable battery with 1800 Mah.

In general, all in their places and done as they should, at some point a little surprised . For example is not the most recent version of Andoid 4.1.2, and the receiver does not see any available updates. Also, I personally do not like the material of the body . If Desire 600 has a rear cover , coated soft touch, then a 500 -ke applied stupid glossy plastic a la Samsung, which immediately covered with misspellings fingers.

Certainly looks glamorous , but the torment scour . It is possible that in the white version the problem will not be so noticeable ... Well, Well , we summarize . Before us strong middling , and on some points able to give a head start and more expensive gadgets. I like that in the pursuit of lower costs , HTC did not change the overall style , and deprive the unit of that for which many love them. Even the price of 12,000 , essentially offset by a very decent camera and a comfortable desktop environment . If it were not for stupid plastic ( and 2 is not sim card ), I would even call 500- a very sensible choice for those who know how to count money.