Good smartphone at a very good price-performance ratio

Good smartphone at a very good price-performance ratio

HTC Desire 816 smartphone (13 megapixel camera, 12.7 cm (5.5 inch) touchscreen, 1.6GHz, quad-core processor, 8GB memory, Android 4.4) Meridian gray (Wireless Phone)

Customer Review

I bought the Desire 816 at Aldi. This is my first smartphone, so I have in this respect no comparison.

The display is a good size and the device fits comfortably in your hand. In a leather case it gets a little grip and will not slip so easily from your fingers. A small display came for me not in question, because I wanted to be able to read the contents displayed well.

The decor was playing easy and self-explanatory. The operation turned out to be intuitive, but that's probably due to more Android and has nothing to do with the phone.

The reception the phone is excellent, as is the transfer to the other party. The reception at my previous phone was there rather tinny and swaying in the reception strength.

Well, I think that the smart phone automatically switches to Wi-Fi (this is activated) once it is in the WLAN range (for example, in the apartment). This saves data volume on incoming emails or downloads. Hardcore smartphone users I tell here probably nothing new, but as this, as I said, my first is this fact a positive eye-opening experience for me.

The general use and surfing the internet go smooth and fast. The screen responds instantly to the lightest tapping and is crisp and clear. The lighting is nice and bright (at full power) and thus clearly visible even outdoors. In rooms you can safely battery power-saving shut down the lighting a bit, and you can read all good anyway.

The camera takes very nice photos, and snapshots of them was good enough. However, very noisy with flash photos. For really good photos I'd rather stay with my digital SLR.
The built-in stereo speakers have a really good sound for their size, ranging from their volume forth to provide sound sufficiently in a hotel room. The somewhat meager internal memory of 8 GB I have spiced up with 64 GB micro-SD, because there is now no more problems with lack of space.

Since I use the device while every day, but do not have permanent in continuous use, the battery lasts me two or three days before it needs to the power outlet again. Hopefully, this performance is maintained long. The only flaw is the permanently installed battery.

I particularly like that I now have a mobile, pocket-compatible device for everything: phone calls, e-mails, listen to music, audio books to hear (about the app from Audible can enjoy the audio books on any smartphone use), reading books, surfing. In order for the display from getting scratched, I have the same protected with foil and placed in a leather bag. Maybe this is not the most stylish smartphone, since no device, but it is in my opinion a high-end device at a very good price. I would have had no value from a so-called top device, which costs twice as much.

Full five stars.

Original Nikon Accu Rank: 1/5
July 26
good article 94 Rank: 5/5
January 7
Product compliant 152 Rank: 5/5
April 17
Good camera but .... 4 Rank: 4/5
January 17
Excellent chisels. Rank: 4/5
April 26

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