HTC Desire 820G Plus (Dual Sim): Low budget with good design and build

INTRODUCTION:

High Tech Computer Corporation, abbreviated as HTC is a Taiwanese Telecommunications company. This company is well known for its high end and good quality smartphones with trustable features. One of its recent and successful launches is the HTC Desire 820G Plus, which comes with dual sim option. This smartphone was first announced in May 2015. Then it went to the first release in Taiwan and then after it's good reception it was released in other countries too. This smartphone is generally brought to the middle class and to a certain extent the lower middle class too. The best part of this smartphone is that it is quite profitable. This smartphone is just a slight upgrade from its previous model, the HTC Desire 820. The major USP’s in this phone are its low cost, incredible touch sensitivity, good camera and high quality processor. Now let us look at the various technical specifications of this smart phone and find out the various pros and cons of this phone.

DESIGN & DISPLAY:

HTC Desire 820G Plus looks so much similar to the previously released HTC smartphones. This smart phone too has a very classy look, and matte finished surfaces. This smart phone has curved corners and slender edges which give this smartphone the extra goodness. The matte finish ensures this smartphone is not very slippery. The length of this smartphone is around 157.7 mm, and the breadth is around 78.7 mm. The smartphone is very sleek and sharp looking with a thickness of just 7.7 mm. These dimensions give this smartphone a premium look. The weight of this phone is a moderate 154.5 g and is decently portable. This smartphone comes with an IPS LCD, which has capacitive touch sensitivity. The size of the screen is 5.5 inches and the resolution provided by it is a max of 720 x 1280 pixels. It comes with good multi touch feature and the Interface for touch used here is HTC Sense UI 6.0. This smartphone comes in two unique colors. The colors are Dovetail Gray and Marble White.

PERFORMANCE & CONFIGURATION:

Desire 820G Plus comes with Android OS v 4.4 ( Kitkat ). The chip set used here is the Mediatek MT 6592 hardware module. The central processing is taken care by the Octa – Core, Cortex – A7 CPU, which runs at a processing clock speed of 1.7 GHz. The graphics interface in this smartphone is taken care by the Mali – 450 MP4 GUI. The internal storage capacity available in this smartphone is 16GB. This is not enough for heavy users. Hence, to cater to the needs of such customers, HTC provides with the option of externally expanding the memory using a microSD card. The phone comes with a dedicated slot for the SD card. This SD can reach up to a maximum of 32 GB. The RAM memory in this smartphone manages to bring about lag free and smooth flow of the processes. For this, the memory used is just 1 GB.

CAMERA & MULTIMEDIA:

This HTC model has dual camera feature. The main camera comes with 13MP and an aperture a focal length of f/2.2. The wide angle width is around 27 mm. This smart phone’s main camera comes with a LED flash to provide ample light in cases of need. Hence, better pictures can be captured. The additional supportive features which come along are Auto focus, geo – tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR and Panorama. The secondary camera is a good 8 MP and hence comes with the advantage of clicking good selfies. The focal length of the aperture is around f/2.1 mm. The audio in HTC Desire 820G Plus is pretty decent with alert types like Vibrations, MP3 and WAV ringtones. The speakers have good boom quality. It has good functional FM Radio feature too. The video recording in this phone can be done both by the primary as well as the front camera. The main camera can capture videos with a resolution of 1080p at 30fps. The front camera can record with a resolution of 720p at 30fps.

BATTERY & CONNECTIVITY:

Non – removable Li – Po battery with a maximum capacity of 2600 mAh is used to provide the required power to this smart phone. It comes with an average standby time of up to 560 h and a talk time of 12 h on 3G. It comes with dual sim option where the sim type is of nano. GSM is the compatible network which can be used. It is compatible with both 3G and 4G. It also comes with the basic connectivity features like Wi–Fi and Bluetooth.

PROS & CONS:

The advantages of HTC Desire 820G Plus are its premium design, good front camera, battery, and audio. The disadvantages are its low RAM and an average processor.