HTC Desire HD

Overview HTC Desire HD

Important update: this model is updated to Android version 2.3 Gingerbread.
Check the availability of the update version in your region on the manufacturer’s website.

Android version and market relevance

HTC Desire HD was announced by the company HTC in September 2010 and in the same year official sales began in stores. The device was placed in the series of smartphones Desire. HTC Desire HD works on Android 2.2 Froyo and the manufacturer even took care of customers by releasing an update to the version 2.3. And before listing all the main characteristics of this model, it is important to note that it does not support the work of two SIM cards, there is a slot for only one SIM card.

And if you want to look at the competitors of this smartphone, then in our catalog on the page “Smartphones of the year 2010” all models of the same year are presented. And it will also be useful to look at the page with smartphones at a similar price, like HTC Desire HD — this is the price segment page “Affordable smartphones from $100 to $200”.

Screen, body and battery

LCD touchscreen with a diagonal 4.3″ mounted on the front panel HTC Desire HD, thickness 11.8 mm.

The battery in HTC Desire HD is installed on 1 230 mAh. It can be said that by today′s standards, such a volume is inadequate, and you will miss one charge per day of active work.

Main camera and selfie camera

The most important thing about cameras in smartphone HTC Desire HD: main camera on 8 MP, and there is no frontcamera. See examples of photos and videos from this smartphone to visually assess their quality.

Processor and Internal Memory

The smartphone performance is affected by a lot of factors, and even more so on the android-smartphone, where the developer of the Android operating system and the device manufacturer are absolutely different companies and each develops with its strategy in the market. As a result, in the smartphone you get a hodgepodge: it′s like a “clean” Android, but with a shell from the manufacturer; as though only the necessary applications, but also many unnecessary from the manufacturer. Very often Android-installed apps by default, which you do not even use, are still running and working, they occupy part of the RAM and processor time of your smartphone. This slows the work of other applications and the battery charge is wasted.

So, in HTC Desire HD is installed 1-core processor on the chipset Snapdragon S2. As for RAM, the memory module is used here 0.768 GB.

You can store your photos, videos, music and applications both on the built-in smartphone memory, and on memory cards microSD up to 32 GB. You are only available 1.5 GB built-in memory, so you need to be more careful about what you store on the device.

Price for HTC Desire HD: buy or not to buy?

The choice to make is not difficult — to buy or not to buy — we will help you to solve it right now. New smartphone HTC Desire HD we took and carried out segmentation for the quality of the camera, screen size, battery capacity and processor performance. So, if you want to buy a smartphone with a small screen, then this model perfectly suits you. If you want to receive the usual quality of photos, you can safely take this smartphone and do not overpay for top models. And, finally, on the performance of the processor, this model is not very powerful with a weak battery here.

Having dealt with the average characteristics, it remains to understand whether it is worth all the declared price of $150 (without taxes and fees). Here everyone makes a choice for himself and evaluates all the pros and cons.

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