HTC Desire V

HTC DESIRE V REVIEW

The Desire V will be available in Asia from June 16. Do check with your local telcos and resellers for pricing. The display is pretty good with nice viewing angles and even under direct sunlight, the screen is visible perfectly well. The multi touch 4-inch display has 16M colors with 233ppi and is a pleasure to look at.The phone has a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. This part is very essential to me and believe me, with Beats Audio, you would keep on listening to your favorite songs! With or without Beats Audio, this is an excellent device to listen to songs and be amazed by the super sound quality. Sadly, there's no equaliser and you just have the option of turning the sound enchancer On and Off. but, the loudness, clarity, bass etc is excellent. FM Radio with RDS also works good. The handset only has 4GB of onboard storage, though you can expand it with a microSD card. You may want to do so for your music and multimedia needs--if only to take advantage of the Beats Audio integration of the handset. On the 4-inch 480 x 800 screen, browsing web with flash is simply fluid. The 512MB RAM would show up lags for flash heavy Pages, but overall, the standard web browser would keep you satisfied. Zooming and text are flawless and pretty sharp. You get all the option to tweak, but I have seen that Opera Mini is exceptionally smooth, so maybe future firmwares may address the default web browser sluggishness once a while. And yeah, it supports Adobe Flash 11 and not lite. There's a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, but we note it lacks the features of the photography-orientated One series handsets (including a dedicated imaging chip). It also doesn't do HD video recording.The 4-inch display may have only a WVGA (800 x 480-pixels) resolution, but it looked great in the brief time that we spent with it. The SIM card slots are near the camera module and in between, you have the memory card slot, making it a very simple and elegant design. Very user friendly, I must admit. On the top is the Power/Lock Button + 3.5 mm jack, on the left, microusb slot and on the right is the  volume control. The power button is too slim and takes some time to get used too. Below the beaultiful 4-inch screen, you will find three capacitive buttons which are a joy to use. In the Box, you get the beauty with standard things like normal non-Beats headset, charger, manual and data cable cum charging cord. The 8GB card is to be given by the retailer separately as the retail box just instructs you to ask for your free 8GB card. The 1650 mAh battery is good for 1.5 days and if sparingly used, then up to 2.5 days. Heavy usage would still give you one full day. For me, it's above average as I am still in awe of Motorola Razr MAXX 3300 mAH, which is like the benchmark for me! I am connected to my Google accounts & services 24x7 and the same goes for my Facebook account. Phone calls for 1 hour thorughout, lots of text messaging, occasional web browsing, 1 hour of Beats Audio Bliss and rare Shots from the Camera are the other regular things I do on my cellphone. The HTC Desire V is a dual-SIM smartphone and comes with very light and thin body built. Some of the Desire V's highlights include the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, a larger battery pack for better battery life, Sense v4.0 user interface and Beats Audio. This is prrety set.

SPECIFICATION & FEATURES

HTC DESIRE V PRICE

Price in USA $272

Price in UK £142

Price in EURO €199

Price in PAK Rs.29,800

Price in INDIA Rs.16,200