Design and Build

The design and feel of the phone is heavily inspired from the Explorer. The Desire C has the same pebble-shaped rubberized body except for the Addition of the chrome strip along the bezel That sits. The phone feels light at just 100g and is very comfortable to hold. The rubber back Also adds to the grip, so it will not slip out of your Easily hand. We have the three capacitive buttons in the front and a proximity sensor and ambient light sensor but no front camera.

A handsome looking phone

The microUSB port, volume rocker and power / sleep buttons along the sides are Placed Along with the 3.5mm headphone jack on the top. The placement of the ports and buttons are quite ergonomic and everything is Within Reach. In the back we have a 5MP fixed-focus camera and the speaker grill beside it. The Desire C is available in different color trims, out of Which We like the black and red theme the most. The rear panel snaps back to reveal the removable battery, SIM card tray and a microSD card slot. Overall, HTC's done an excellent job With The Design and build of the phone.

Interface

We were quite surprised to see HTC bundle Along with Android 4.0 Sense UI on a phone powered by 600MHz CPU just to. By today's standards, this is way too under powered and Usually phones Expects That one cost around 6-7K to use this kind of CPU. And it's not like it's a new one either, HTC has used an older MSM7227A SoC With An even older Adreno 200 GPU. Thanks to the 512MB of RAM, the UI is manageable and while it's not the best ICS experience, you will not find yourself tearing your hair out either. With Sense 4.0, you get all of the bundled apps we've see in phones like the One S, One V etc.

Sense 4.0 Gives You a very familiar experience

The 3.5-inch screen features a resolution of 320 x 480, Which is a bit low so icons and menus are not the sharpest but not too bad either. There is a major color banding issue, Which is very noticeable across MOST color backgrounds, Especially white and black. We'd have expected HTC to fit a better quality screen for the price tag they've attached to this phone, but sadly They have not. multitasking is present as well, with the dedicated task switcher key.

Average

You get the new media player thanks to Sense 4.0, Which is a complete overhaul of Their previous versions of Sense. We now have Tune In Radio, Sound Hound and 7 digital, Which are integrated into the default music player. A simple tap fetches you the music info, the option to purchase music, lyrics and find similar artists as well as locate tour dates. A couple of them, Including the similar artists and music info PROVED to be quite useful to get more out of your existing music library. There are not any preset equalizer any more - You Only Have the options to enable or disable Beat Audio. The audio quality is good but for more Flexibility in tweaking the sound, we'd recommend something like power amp.

Good half playback options

The stock video player will only playback MP4 and AVI and that too only up to 480p. 720p playback will but with a lot of stutter. The Beats Audio option is available in the stock video player as well. HTC does not bundle the Beats in-ear headphones anymore, so to get the MOST out of it, we'd recommend a good pair of IEMs.

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