HTC DESIRE 828 REVIEW

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HTC launched midrange android smartphone namely Desire 828 (Dual-Sim) in India which is priced @ 19,900/- exclusive to flipkart. It is available is Dark Grey and Pearl White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is Great. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a polycarbonate unibody back and feels great in hands. It is slim at 7.9mm and weighs 148gms. It has a 5.5 inch Full HD LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1280 with 401 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Very good. It runs on HTC's Sense 6.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 16GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 200GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps such as Zoe camera app stores all your images and has built video player as well as music player which stores and plays respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed too. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42.2mbps download & 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & 50mbps upload, Wifi /b/g/n, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.1 but lacks NFC & IR blaster support. It also has gyroscope sensor 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP Optically stabilised rear camera with autofocus and LED flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Great overall. Daytime the images are Great and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images and clarity is quite good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 16-17 mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is great overall. Daytime the video clarity is Very good and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been better. It also has a 4MP (ultra pixel) front camera for selfe's which does 1080p@30fps video with HDR and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 5.1 Kitkat out of the box. It has a MediaTek (MT6753) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Octa-Core processor clocked at 1.5 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 2GB RAM and Mali-T720 MP3 (700 Mhz Tri-Core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite well and there is no major lag at most cases.
QUADRANT :24050.
ANTUTU : 42746.
NENAMARK 2 : 59.3fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 2800 mah battery. The battery life is good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7H.
TALKTIME : upto 18H(2G) / upto 15H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 480H(2G) / upto 450H(3G).

PROS
*Great build quality.
*Great display and viewing angle.
*Great Performance.
*Great camera and video recording clarity.
*Excellent Loudspeaker with Boom sound speakers.
*USB OTG & gyroscope sensor support.
*Good battery life.

CONS
*Non removable battery & battery life could have been bit better.
*No IR Blaster, NFC & Wifi Dual-band support.
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.7/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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