HTC Desire 500

Specifications

Price comparison

Reviews for the HTC Desire 500

80% HTC Desire 500
Source: Gadgetspeak Archive.org version
The recently launched Moto G has created a new pricing structure with quality and full featured handsets available for around a third the price of the competition. In the past I have often asked to review HTC devices as they looked smart and had little extra bits of quality. My name never seemed to come to the top of the list, with this unit however I was offered it I did not even have to ask.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/12/2014
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 60% performance: 80%

80% HTC Desire 500 review: a great mid-range smartphone with impressive specs and performance
Source: Tech Advisor Archive.org version
The HTC Desire 500 is a great-looking device, with tons of unique software and solid mid-range smartphone specs on board. It's hard to find any real weaknesses with the phone, including its reasonable £199 price tag. To sum up, it's simply a very good mid-range Android smartphone.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 12/06/2013
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 90% performance: 70% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

60% HTC Desire 500 review
Source: V3.co.uk Archive.org version
The HTC Desire 500 is a solid, affordable phone. It offers businesses a £199 quad-core Android experience and boasts a reasonably decent rear camera. But being released just weeks before the cheaper and higher-specced Motorola Moto G – which runs using a more recent version of Android, has a better screen and even more powerful Snapdragon 600 processor – the Desire 500's long-term appeal is questionable.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/03/2013
Rating: Total score: 60%

60% HTC Desire 500 review
Source: T3 Archive.org version
Who's going to buy the HTC Desire 500? Well, we're not entirely sure. If you love the software on the HTC One, but don't have wide enough pockets then it could be for you. But, if you're solely focused on price, the Motorola Moto G is a clean Android and cheaper, while for around £80 more you can get a Nexus 5 with an amazing spec sheet and 4 times the internal storage, plus LTE.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/25/2013
Rating: Total score: 60%

80% HTC Desire 500 review
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
The HTC Desire 500 is a very good phone that's perfect for light, relatively undemanding users who don't want to put up with the very cheapest phones around. But enthusiasts looking for a good deal are better off looking at the Nexus 5, which offers a lot more for not that much more money.
Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 11/12/2013
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 80% features: 70% display: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%

Foreign Reviews

93% HTC Desire 500
Source: Chip Test & Kauf - Heft Nr. 6/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 10/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 93% emissions: 90%

87% HTC Desire 500
Source: Stiftung Warentest - Heft 2/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 01/01/2014
Rating: Total score: 87%

78% HTC Desire 500
Source: PC News - Heft 01/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2013
Rating: Total score: 78%

78% HTC Desire 500
Source: PC News - Heft 1/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2013
Rating: Total score: 78%

87% HTC Desire 500
Source: Stiftung Warentest - Heft 1/2014
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 12/01/2013
Rating: Total score: 87% mobility: 89%

HTC Desire 500
Source: Android User - Heft 12/2013
Single Review, , Length Unknown, Date: 11/01/2013

279-Euro-Smartphone mit BlinkFeed und Zoe
Source: Netzwelt DE→EN Archive.org version
Positive: appealing functions; good camera; low price
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/10/2013

Comment

Qualcomm Adreno 203: Entry level GPU with support for OpenGL ES 2.0

These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

200 8225Q: Quad-Core Cortex-A5 entry level SoC» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

4.30":

This display is tiny. You will probably see very little on the screen and be able to use mini-resolutions.

HTC:

High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of cell phones, tablets and other electronic products.

78.91%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

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