HTC has announced a new mid-range smartphone with Android operating system for the German market. The Desire 500 will hit shelves in a few weeks with its quad-core processor and 4.3-inch display. It will cost 279 euros, unsubsidized.
According to the manufacturer, the HTC Desire 500 does not support LTE 500. The quad-core processor is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 200. This SoC integrates four ARM Coretex-A7 cores clocked at up to 1.2 GHz, and an Adreno 302 GPU. The RAM is mere 1 gigabyte and the 4.3-inch touchscreen smartphone packs just 800 x 480 pixel resolution. The internal flash memory is just a 4-gigabyte module, but thanks to microSD card slot, you can expand it up to 64 GB. The battery capacity is HTC 1,800 mAh, so you get up to 12 hours of talk time on 3G networks easily. The 8-megapixel main camera with BSI sensor and autofocus takes excellent pictures.
The video camera located on the back of Desire 500 records in HD quality and the front camera has a resolution of 1.6 megapixels and is therefore suitable for video chats in decent quality. In addition, the cell phone supports Beats Audio, Bluetooth 4.0, DLNA and Wi-Fi b / g / n as well as data transfers in mobile networks with up to 7.2 megabits per second (HSDPA). Android version on this phone is 4.1.2 "Jelly Bean" with modified HTC Sense user interface. It will be on sale from September to the aforementioned suggested retail price of 279 euros in Germany. The smart phone is expected to be available in the colors black and blue.
The Desire 500 also went on sale in Italy this week.