The HTC Desire C Specs Overview

The HTC Company continues to create the very compact Android device namely the HTC Desire C. This device can be considered as the close brother of HTC Explorer or Wildfire S because they come with rather identical sizing and design. So now, let us take particular notice at the following specs overview of this handset to determine its positive and negative factors.

Design
When it comes to general style, the HTC Desire C has the regular slate touchscreen style with the very compact design. The phone has dimension of 107.2 millimeters in height, 60.6 mm wide and 12.3 millimeters thick and you will recognize that this device appears to be shorter as compared with others in the market. With a weight of approximately 98 gr (with battery), this gadget is clearly lighter as compared to the HTC Explorer. The screen has dimension of 3.5-inch HVGA capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors, 320x480 pixels and the lower pixel density of just 165 ppi. With this screen specification, the display may not give the good viewing angle and outdoor visibility too.

Overall Performance
People will be really disappointed when noticing that this phone only sports the 600 Mhz processor along with 512 MB of RAM. However, this device has been pre-installed with the latest Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) combined with the current HTC Sense UI 4.0. Towards the internal storage, you will get the 4 GB of memory together with the 25 GB Dropbox space for two years and microSD card slot support (up to 32 G and SD 2.0 compatible). As being the power supplier, the standard battery pack of Lithium-ion 1230 mAh has been packaged with this handset.

Camera
Towards the photo taking needs, customers are able to make use of the 5 MP camera with auto-focus, geo tagging and Easy to Shoot and Share feature. This camera can also record video and capture image with the maximum quality of 2592 x 1944 pixels. Sadly, there won't be any secondary camera for video chats.

Connectivity Features
The device runs on the quad-band GSM to access the 2G network and also dual-band HSDPA to gain access to the 3G network with the data speed of up to 7.2 Mbps. You will find also the full connectivity tools including Bluetooth 4.0 (A2DP), Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n (hotspot), micro USB 2.0 and optional NFC feature. The built-in browser supports for HTML and Adobe Flash so that you can have the full web surfing experience. Moreover, there are the full Google services including Google Search, Maps, GMail, YouTube, Calendar and Google Talk.

Cost, Benefits and Drawbacks
The price of HTC Desire C is about $256 without contract. The key benefits of possessing this smartphone are the pocket-friendly style, current Android OS, spacious internal memory space with 25 GB free Dropbox storage, current Bluetooth version, NFC support and PC-like web exploring feature. On the downsides, this handset comes with a really slow processor so that it may be sluggish from time to time to carry out even the most basic tasks or lightest applications and games. Furthermore, this phone only boasts the mediocre camera and customers will not be able to perform video calling through 3G network because the handset doesn't have secondary camera.

Author: Imam Sulaeman