HTC Desire 526G+ 16GB Mobile Price List in India

The HTC is among those smartphone brand names which always makes a cutting edge technology blended with premium designing. They always tend to introduce high-performance smartphones that can go far beyond the creativity. Starting from HTC ONE the company started a craze among teenagers specially by producing a masterpiece in display, hardware and camera calibrations that actually gave them a head start in the industry.

High-end HTC phones are always out of the league for most of the people of India, but this device is going to make a change in this ongoing convention.

An innovation from bits to bytes is what we are expecting, while discussing about the HTC DESIRE 526+ phone.

Features and Specifications

DESIRE 526 Plus is a starting range phone which costs around 10K which is pretty cheap owing to the brand name. It was released in the head start January, 2015. The smartphone offers an Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.7 Ghz coupled with 1 GB of RAM.

The storage of the device is excellent, providing 8GB of internal memory and 32 GB of external memory. The smartphone features a display of 4.7 inches with a poor resolution of 540 x 960 at 234 ppi. The smartphone is powered by 2000 mAH, Li-ion battery.

Supports both 2G AND 3G (GPRS and EDGE are also included), but sadly no LTE connections are available.

Sensors like Accelerometer and proximity is pre-installed, but it seems that compass is missed.

HTML browser along with altogether of various other specs like JAVA support, SMS, MMS, Push Email, MP3 MP4 players, Photo editors and Document viewers are common as seen in all other Android devices.

Design and Quality

The phone features a small yet classy design. Comparing to other phones of its size, with the rear camera with intense blue shading and dual front loudspeakers it looks quite a premium. The smartphone is available in two colors, black and white.

Dimensions are about 5.50*2.75*0.39 inches. The phone weighs only 154 grams.

Though being small this phone feels quite smooth and actually gets fit in hands. Gives the user a firm grip on the device. In one word, it’s compelling.

OS and Tech

HTC DESIRE 526+ is directly manufactured with Android version 4.4.2 KitKat.  Features a powerful true octa-core processor clocked at 1.7 GHz. Customized HTC user interface over the Stock android looks very promising! The popular Blink Feed menu comes preloaded with this device.

The screen size of this phone is 4.7 which is just the perfect size to make the users feel premium about their device, somewhat similar to the legendary iPhones which are also designed in the same methods. Capacitive touch screen with 16 million color calibrations and a very rich multi touch display is presented. Supports a Quad-HD resolution, i.e. 540*960 pixels and with a pixel density of 234 per inch.

Common features like FM radio, Wi-Fi, hotspot, micro USB 2.0 and GPS also available in this device.

Camera and Multimedia

HTC has been already famous for their intuitive camera designing, which is also reflected in this device.

An 8MP camera featuring a massive 3264*2448 pixel resolution, sharp and definitely true HD.

The camera comes with extra added technologies like auto focus, tap-to-focus, face detection and LED flash. Geo-tagging is also among the features worth mentioning about. Secondary camera features a 2MP camera or rather an HD selfie camera which captures pictures at 720p resolution.

Video on this device runs on a Full-HD mode, which is 1080 pixels running at the rate of 30 frames per second. Front placed loudspeaker gives off quite decent sound quality. Especially for the speaker positioning, users can enjoy watching videos and stereo sounds simultaneously.

Battery and Memory

The inbuilt battery comes with 2000 mAh powered by Li-ion. Stand by timings are up to 622 hours in 3G and talk time is 15 hours also in 3G.

One more interesting feature is this device supports 1GB of ram and internal memory of 8 or 16 GB. While there is a scope of increasing the memory by inserting an external MicroSD limited up to 32 GB only.

PROS

• Built in powerful processors, 1.7 octa-core.
• Brilliant camera quality.
• Selfie camera at 720p.

CONS

• Below average battery backup.
• Poor display resolution compared to the pixel density.
• Only 1 GB RAM

Verdict

HTC always makes quality products compared to other competitive companies.  While most of the times we are habituated seeing high end premium phones, starting range phones from HTC do delights us much more. This device looks promising and hopefully is about to hit the market pretty well.

In a small package, but a powerful configuration, HTC Desire 526+ phone is ready to destroy everything on its way.

A good alternative to the HTC Desire 526+ would be Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G and Micromax Canvas Nitro A1310.