**First Impressions: A Budget-Friendly Android Phone Review**

I would say that this is just a 600 MHz processor and it's running this game, which I think is a big thing. I would say it's not very smooth but again, playable. Just to show you, let me get out and let me kill those zombies now, let me show you the keyboard of this one, and I'm going to hit add text and type, we do get uh this predictive text over here, and uh, the keyboard is pretty large. I would say that you shouldn't have a problem with it.

I also want to try the voice dictation feature that we have in Ice cream Sandwich. This is a test of the voice dictation, and as you can see, it also works fine. There's a little bit of lag, but it's okay. I would say overall, in terms of the general UI while on this phone, I did not face any lags or that at times when you're heavily multitasking. Yes, they can be a half-second delay or something like that.

But overall, I was satisfied with the performance of this phone considering the budget price for which it sells. It's an okay phone, I would say. Sadly, I couldn't do any extensive testing with the battery. But this 1,230 mAh battery should be able to last you for a full day. The battery as of now is on 66%, and let us look at the battery figures; we can go in Battery and Battery use.

As you can see, it's almost a day, and it's at 66%. The screen time I used this phone was 1 hour and 14 minutes. I did make some voice calls that's about 18 minutes, so I would say with average usage, you can easily last this phone for a day.

Now, let me also show you one more benchmark that we'll do. This is the Quadrant Standard Benchmark, and I'm running it for the first time. The quadrant Benchmark is done, and let's have a look at the scores. It says our device got a score of 1,253, which is typical for a single-core phone.

The breakup of the total score is: CPU - 971, memory - 971, I/O - 2824, 2D Graphics - 400, and 3D Graphics - 1099. So that's for the Quadrant Benchmark.

One more thing that I noticed is that you notice these touch-sensitive buttons at the bottom of the phone. That's back home, and the multitasking bar at night; they do not glow, so you need to get used to it. It's a bummer that they don't glow at night, but again if you're using the phone, you get used to it.

Overall, the phone is very comfortable to hold, and it's a great phone for someone who doesn't like large phones. It fits comfortably in your hand, and it's also pretty light; it weighs just around 100 grams, so it's easier to hold.

The speakerphone performance is also pretty good. To show you, let me run this SAV app, and I'll play some random song now. As you can see, it's pretty loud. I'm going to lower the volume a little bit, and if you place the phone down; the volume increases because it bounces the surface.

In terms of the speaker quality, I would say it's pretty okay and pretty loud. So in that regard, I have no issues with the same. How do I rate this phone? This is an ideal phone if you're on a tight budget and you're not a demanding Android user. If you are a casual user, then this phone will suit you fine because as you can see; you can also do casual gaming with it.

It does that pretty fine, and also I would say I did not find many lags or something like that while general operations of the phone. But yes if you do heavy multitasking; you might get a lag of a second or two. For the price at which this phone sells here in India, this phone is currently selling at around 12,500 or so. So I would say it's a nice entry-level phone from HTC and we do get Ice Cream Sandwich out of the box.

**Conclusion**

I hope you found this video review helpful. That's it for now; this is Ranit from tech.com, and I hope to see you in my next video.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is ranit from tas.com and in this video I'm going to do the full review of this budget Android phone from HTC known as the HTC desc and this is one of the most affordable Android phones from HTC that comes pre-installed with Ice Cream Sandwich and I want to thank fisel Communications for providing this unit for review and the screen on this phone is a 3.5 in screen and the resolution is 320x 480 and I have to say the HTC has put in a very good quality screen the colors are also very good and the viewing angles also are pretty good for a normal LCD screen it's not if you tilt it obviously too much it'll fade but overall I found the quality of the screen to be very good and it also has ambient light sensor so you can just set it to auto brightness and also found that uh brightness outdoor if you keep it on auto brightness is also fairly legible in sunlight and uh moving towards the uh overview it comes with a 600 MHz processor and it also has adreno 200 GPU but again even though it just has a 600 MHz processor the phone is okay to use and moving towards the top we have a 3.5mm headphone jack a power button and we have indent over here using which you can probably open the back cover and on this side we have the volume rocker uh but I did not like the volume rocker a lot because though it's big but it's a little bit hard to operate and uh we have nothing over here and on the bottom we have have a pin hole for the microphone and on this end we have the micro USB slot that'll be used for charging and sinking nothing else over here and moving towards the back HTC has put in a 5 megap uh camera but sadly there is no LED flash and it can also shoot video but only up to 480p we have a speaker Grill over here we have the HTC logo and it also Sayes Beats Audio uh again the back cover is plastic uh but again the kind of material they have used this soft rubber so it's very nice to hold and it also resists the what you say fingerprints the battery that HTC I decided to put in is a 1230 mamp I have done a detailed unboxing of this phone so you can check out that on how to install the Sim and the battery and uh as I said this comes out of the box with ICS and it runs the HTC Sense interface and let me show you the same uh let's go to settings one thing I do not like is that we do not have quick taret buttons over here like we do on other popular Android phones and that makes toggling between Wi-Fi Bluetooth very easy here you need to go into settings to do that always like here so that's one little con that I have it also has a portable uh Wi-Fi hotspot and let's go to about the phone and let's go to software information and as you can see it runs on the Android version 4.0.3 and HTC Sense version 4 also uh moving to this internal storage uh though this phone comes with 4 GB of storage but you have access to just 1 GB of internal storage and you can use that internal storage to uh install a lot of apps I've installed a lot of apps for testing and you get about approximately 1 GB of space for apps that I feel is pretty good and you can also add a Micro SD card up to 32 GB have added a 2GB micro SD card and that also works fine with this phone so regarding storage you should have a lot of problem the ram provided on this phone is 512 MB uh what I'll do is I'll open this advanced task manager and kill all the apps and we also get these three buttons that's back home and multitasking tray and we can just slide off the apps to kill them and I'm going to kill all the apps and now let me run this Android System Info app and as you can see out of the 512 MB of Ram uh actually when we kill all the apps I was able to get approximately about 192 uh MB free so I feel that's okay for this budget uh phone and uh you can do a little bit of multitasking no issues with that now I'm connected to my Wi-Fi network and let us uh fire up the browser and it's loading the engaged website let it load and this is a heavy website that's why I want to test with it and let's go to the homepage one thing I have noticed is that as it has just a 600 MHz processor sometimes when you're doing a lot of multitasking sometimes you will notice a second or two of lag but with the general UI did not face any issues and as you can see it's loading the full version of Engadget website and this is a pretty heavy website again I noticed that if you try to scroll uh fast when the page is still loading it's a little bit jerky but when the page has loaded it becomes smoother now the page has loaded completely and and as you can see it does scroll but uh it is a little bit jerky now let me show you one more thing that is that is the pinch to zoom guesture again it is not silky smooth it is little bit jerky but again do notice that we do get text reflow uh with this phone and as you can see it has reflowed the test so it's pretty convenient even though the screen is just 3.5 in it's very convenient because of the auto text reflowing option so in terms of browsing it is not the fastest phone that you'll have seen you will occasionally get lags like this but I would say it's not a deal breaker if you have the patience it'll do the the job and the good thing is it does the text reflow but again it takes a second or two to do that so that's for the web browsing let me kill that and we do get this IC tray for multitasking regarding the UI uh this comes with the HTC Sense UI that's version 4 and we get five home screen that's 1 2 3 4 and five we don't get this guest by which you can see all the home screens HTC has removed that in this phone and regarding the T sensitivity also I didn't have any issues uh you can get to the app tray like this and the good thing is that you get these three tabs at the bottom if you click on the frequent tab the most frequent T apps that are using get populated here automatically and you also have this download tab which shows you all the applications that you have downloaded as you can see I tested it with quite a few applications here and all of them ran without any issues now moving to the media playback again as this is not a Powerhouse uh let me uh fire up this MX Video Player that I downloaded from the market you can play video up to 480p but uh beyond that you can force it to play 720p video for example uh this Transformer trailer that I have is encoded in 720p but you'll see that it is not smooth it is uh little bit jerky 480p content played without any issues and as you can see it is skipping a lot of frames so it can technically play 720p video but I won't do that I would restrict it to 480p also moving to the camera uh the camera It Sports is a 5 megapix shooter sadly on the front we do not get a front-facing camera uh the camera I would say is uh okay I will I have shot a couple of photographs it's pretty basic you the bad thing is we do not get what do you say the tap to focus functionality I missed that a lot I have taken a few pictures with this you can check these out I'll also just show them in what do you say full screen mode so that you can get an idea about that pictures taken indoor in artificial lighting indoors with natural lighting outdoors with natural sunlight I would say outdoors with natural sunlight the pictures come out to be pretty good but indoors as there is no flash the pictures tend to be a little bit soft also one more thing that is missing on this phone is we do not have a LED notification light and now I want to talk about the uh speaker Grill over here though the voice calls that I made were very clear I would rate it 9 out of 10 but one peculiar problem that I faced was that but during the call if I raise the volume beyond the what do you say 50% the voice was cracking a lot I tried it with five six calls and it was the same I do not know if the problem is with this specific unit or it's a problem because the voice were clear but when I raised the volume the voice was crackling it was like the speaker was distorting a little bit so that's one corn I have but the other party said the voice calls were very clear now moving to benchmarks uh let us do this Nina Mark Benchmark and as you can see I ran it earlier and I got a score of 15.7 it's a mid-range thing and I'm running it again and we going to get a similar score of about 15 to 16 I would assume and with this score you can play uh quite a bit of games I tried a lot of games on this like casual games like what do you say angry bird Angry Bird space and uh and I also uh ran one heavy 3D game and that also ran I'll show you the same so the Nina Mark 2 is already done as expected we got a score of 15.5 let's publish it and according to Nina Mark the GPU used on this is adreno 200 so that's the N Mark test and uh let us run this Temple Run game and this also runs fine on this phone and I just wanted to show you the touch sensitivity and I have no issues with the touch sensitivity and it's running the game and as you can see it is pretty smooth and I died and I'm going to run again and as you can see it is pretty okay I would say not the so casual gaming is fine with this phone so that's for the uh Temple Run one more game that ran I and I thought it would not run on this phone is dead trigger this is a fairly intensive game a 3D game I would say and this also ran uh okay on this phone there was some lag at times but it was uh okay and it was playable this game does take quite a while to load so you need to have a lot of patience and I accept it again loading takes a lot of time because just of the 600 MHz processor and as you can see I am playing the game as you notice there was some lag but it's okay I would say but again it's just a 600 MHz processor and it's running this game is a big thing I would say it's not very smooth but again playable I just want to showcase this game because if it can play this game it can easily play other casual games without any issues so that's for the Dead Trigger game let me get out and let me kill that all these now let me show you the keyboard of this one and I'm going to hit add text and type we do get uh this predictive text over here and uh the keyboard is pretty large I would say and you shouldn't have a problem let's also try the voice dictation feature that we have in ic this is a test of the voice dictation and as you can see that also works fine uh there's a little bit of lag but it is okay I would say overall in the general UI while in the phone I did not face some uh any lags or that at times when you're heavily multitasking yes they can be a half a second delay or something like that but overall I was satisfied uh with the performance of this phone considering the budget price for which it sells it's a okay phone I would say uh sadly I couldn't do any extensive testing with the battery uh but this 1230 mamp battery should able uh should be able to last you for uh full one working day uh the battery as of now is on 66% and let us look at the battery figures we can go in battery and battery use and as you can see uh it's almost a day and it's at 66% and the screen time I used the phone was 1 hour 14 minutes I did make some voice calls that's about about 18 minutes so I would say with average usage you can easily last this phone for a day now let me also show you one more last Benchmark that we'll do that's the quadrant standard Benchmark and I'm running it for the first time and I'll just quickly skip to this course because this Benchmark does take some time so the quadrant Benchmark is done and let's have a look at the scores and it says our device got a score of 1,253 that is typical for a single core phone and let me tell you the breakup the total is 1253 out of that the CPU got a score of 971 memory again 971 I/O 2824 2D Graphics 400 and 3D Graphics is 1099 so that's for the quadrant Benchmark and one more thing that I noticed is that you notice this touch sensitive buttons at the bottom capacitor that's back home and the multitasking trade at night they do not glow so you need to get used to it it is a bummer that they do not grow at night so that's one little con that I have but again if you're using the phone you get used to it overall the phone is very comfortable to hold and it's a great phone for somebody who does not like uh large phones it fits comfortably in your hand and as say it's also pretty light it's just around 100 G so it's easier to hold and this the speaker phone performance is also pretty good and to show you the same I'll run this Sav app and I'll just play some random song and uh and as you can see it's pretty loud I'm going to lower the volume a little bit and if you place the phone down the volume increases because it bounces the surface uh so in terms of the speaker quality I would say it's pretty okay and I would say it's pretty loud and uh let me show you the dialer also we get the stock HTC dialer and I'm going to just make a phone call and let's switch it on to speaker and I have switched on the speaker phone and as you can see it's pretty legible so in terms of the speaker phone I have no issues with the same so how do I rate this phone this is a ideal phone if you are on a tight budget and you're not a demanding Android User if you are a casual user uh this phone will suit you fine because as you have have seen you can also do casual gaming with it it does that pretty fine and also I would say I did not find many lags or something like that while General operations of the phone but yes if you do heavy multitasking you might get a lag of a second or two so for for the price at which this phone sells here in India this phone is currently selling at around 12,500 or so so I would say it's a nice entry-level phone from HTC and uh we do get ice cream sandwich out of the box uh I hope you found this video review helpful that's it for now this is ranit from tech.com and I hope to see you in my next videohi there this is ranit from tas.com and in this video I'm going to do the full review of this budget Android phone from HTC known as the HTC desc and this is one of the most affordable Android phones from HTC that comes pre-installed with Ice Cream Sandwich and I want to thank fisel Communications for providing this unit for review and the screen on this phone is a 3.5 in screen and the resolution is 320x 480 and I have to say the HTC has put in a very good quality screen the colors are also very good and the viewing angles also are pretty good for a normal LCD screen it's not if you tilt it obviously too much it'll fade but overall I found the quality of the screen to be very good and it also has ambient light sensor so you can just set it to auto brightness and also found that uh brightness outdoor if you keep it on auto brightness is also fairly legible in sunlight and uh moving towards the uh overview it comes with a 600 MHz processor and it also has adreno 200 GPU but again even though it just has a 600 MHz processor the phone is okay to use and moving towards the top we have a 3.5mm headphone jack a power button and we have indent over here using which you can probably open the back cover and on this side we have the volume rocker uh but I did not like the volume rocker a lot because though it's big but it's a little bit hard to operate and uh we have nothing over here and on the bottom we have have a pin hole for the microphone and on this end we have the micro USB slot that'll be used for charging and sinking nothing else over here and moving towards the back HTC has put in a 5 megap uh camera but sadly there is no LED flash and it can also shoot video but only up to 480p we have a speaker Grill over here we have the HTC logo and it also Sayes Beats Audio uh again the back cover is plastic uh but again the kind of material they have used this soft rubber so it's very nice to hold and it also resists the what you say fingerprints the battery that HTC I decided to put in is a 1230 mamp I have done a detailed unboxing of this phone so you can check out that on how to install the Sim and the battery and uh as I said this comes out of the box with ICS and it runs the HTC Sense interface and let me show you the same uh let's go to settings one thing I do not like is that we do not have quick taret buttons over here like we do on other popular Android phones and that makes toggling between Wi-Fi Bluetooth very easy here you need to go into settings to do that always like here so that's one little con that I have it also has a portable uh Wi-Fi hotspot and let's go to about the phone and let's go to software information and as you can see it runs on the Android version 4.0.3 and HTC Sense version 4 also uh moving to this internal storage uh though this phone comes with 4 GB of storage but you have access to just 1 GB of internal storage and you can use that internal storage to uh install a lot of apps I've installed a lot of apps for testing and you get about approximately 1 GB of space for apps that I feel is pretty good and you can also add a Micro SD card up to 32 GB have added a 2GB micro SD card and that also works fine with this phone so regarding storage you should have a lot of problem the ram provided on this phone is 512 MB uh what I'll do is I'll open this advanced task manager and kill all the apps and we also get these three buttons that's back home and multitasking tray and we can just slide off the apps to kill them and I'm going to kill all the apps and now let me run this Android System Info app and as you can see out of the 512 MB of Ram uh actually when we kill all the apps I was able to get approximately about 192 uh MB free so I feel that's okay for this budget uh phone and uh you can do a little bit of multitasking no issues with that now I'm connected to my Wi-Fi network and let us uh fire up the browser and it's loading the engaged website let it load and this is a heavy website that's why I want to test with it and let's go to the homepage one thing I have noticed is that as it has just a 600 MHz processor sometimes when you're doing a lot of multitasking sometimes you will notice a second or two of lag but with the general UI did not face any issues and as you can see it's loading the full version of Engadget website and this is a pretty heavy website again I noticed that if you try to scroll uh fast when the page is still loading it's a little bit jerky but when the page has loaded it becomes smoother now the page has loaded completely and and as you can see it does scroll but uh it is a little bit jerky now let me show you one more thing that is that is the pinch to zoom guesture again it is not silky smooth it is little bit jerky but again do notice that we do get text reflow uh with this phone and as you can see it has reflowed the test so it's pretty convenient even though the screen is just 3.5 in it's very convenient because of the auto text reflowing option so in terms of browsing it is not the fastest phone that you'll have seen you will occasionally get lags like this but I would say it's not a deal breaker if you have the patience it'll do the the job and the good thing is it does the text reflow but again it takes a second or two to do that so that's for the web browsing let me kill that and we do get this IC tray for multitasking regarding the UI uh this comes with the HTC Sense UI that's version 4 and we get five home screen that's 1 2 3 4 and five we don't get this guest by which you can see all the home screens HTC has removed that in this phone and regarding the T sensitivity also I didn't have any issues uh you can get to the app tray like this and the good thing is that you get these three tabs at the bottom if you click on the frequent tab the most frequent T apps that are using get populated here automatically and you also have this download tab which shows you all the applications that you have downloaded as you can see I tested it with quite a few applications here and all of them ran without any issues now moving to the media playback again as this is not a Powerhouse uh let me uh fire up this MX Video Player that I downloaded from the market you can play video up to 480p but uh beyond that you can force it to play 720p video for example uh this Transformer trailer that I have is encoded in 720p but you'll see that it is not smooth it is uh little bit jerky 480p content played without any issues and as you can see it is skipping a lot of frames so it can technically play 720p video but I won't do that I would restrict it to 480p also moving to the camera uh the camera It Sports is a 5 megapix shooter sadly on the front we do not get a front-facing camera uh the camera I would say is uh okay I will I have shot a couple of photographs it's pretty basic you the bad thing is we do not get what do you say the tap to focus functionality I missed that a lot I have taken a few pictures with this you can check these out I'll also just show them in what do you say full screen mode so that you can get an idea about that pictures taken indoor in artificial lighting indoors with natural lighting outdoors with natural sunlight I would say outdoors with natural sunlight the pictures come out to be pretty good but indoors as there is no flash the pictures tend to be a little bit soft also one more thing that is missing on this phone is we do not have a LED notification light and now I want to talk about the uh speaker Grill over here though the voice calls that I made were very clear I would rate it 9 out of 10 but one peculiar problem that I faced was that but during the call if I raise the volume beyond the what do you say 50% the voice was cracking a lot I tried it with five six calls and it was the same I do not know if the problem is with this specific unit or it's a problem because the voice were clear but when I raised the volume the voice was crackling it was like the speaker was distorting a little bit so that's one corn I have but the other party said the voice calls were very clear now moving to benchmarks uh let us do this Nina Mark Benchmark and as you can see I ran it earlier and I got a score of 15.7 it's a mid-range thing and I'm running it again and we going to get a similar score of about 15 to 16 I would assume and with this score you can play uh quite a bit of games I tried a lot of games on this like casual games like what do you say angry bird Angry Bird space and uh and I also uh ran one heavy 3D game and that also ran I'll show you the same so the Nina Mark 2 is already done as expected we got a score of 15.5 let's publish it and according to Nina Mark the GPU used on this is adreno 200 so that's the N Mark test and uh let us run this Temple Run game and this also runs fine on this phone and I just wanted to show you the touch sensitivity and I have no issues with the touch sensitivity and it's running the game and as you can see it is pretty smooth and I died and I'm going to run again and as you can see it is pretty okay I would say not the so casual gaming is fine with this phone so that's for the uh Temple Run one more game that ran I and I thought it would not run on this phone is dead trigger this is a fairly intensive game a 3D game I would say and this also ran uh okay on this phone there was some lag at times but it was uh okay and it was playable this game does take quite a while to load so you need to have a lot of patience and I accept it again loading takes a lot of time because just of the 600 MHz processor and as you can see I am playing the game as you notice there was some lag but it's okay I would say but again it's just a 600 MHz processor and it's running this game is a big thing I would say it's not very smooth but again playable I just want to showcase this game because if it can play this game it can easily play other casual games without any issues so that's for the Dead Trigger game let me get out and let me kill that all these now let me show you the keyboard of this one and I'm going to hit add text and type we do get uh this predictive text over here and uh the keyboard is pretty large I would say and you shouldn't have a problem let's also try the voice dictation feature that we have in ic this is a test of the voice dictation and as you can see that also works fine uh there's a little bit of lag but it is okay I would say overall in the general UI while in the phone I did not face some uh any lags or that at times when you're heavily multitasking yes they can be a half a second delay or something like that but overall I was satisfied uh with the performance of this phone considering the budget price for which it sells it's a okay phone I would say uh sadly I couldn't do any extensive testing with the battery uh but this 1230 mamp battery should able uh should be able to last you for uh full one working day uh the battery as of now is on 66% and let us look at the battery figures we can go in battery and battery use and as you can see uh it's almost a day and it's at 66% and the screen time I used the phone was 1 hour 14 minutes I did make some voice calls that's about about 18 minutes so I would say with average usage you can easily last this phone for a day now let me also show you one more last Benchmark that we'll do that's the quadrant standard Benchmark and I'm running it for the first time and I'll just quickly skip to this course because this Benchmark does take some time so the quadrant Benchmark is done and let's have a look at the scores and it says our device got a score of 1,253 that is typical for a single core phone and let me tell you the breakup the total is 1253 out of that the CPU got a score of 971 memory again 971 I/O 2824 2D Graphics 400 and 3D Graphics is 1099 so that's for the quadrant Benchmark and one more thing that I noticed is that you notice this touch sensitive buttons at the bottom capacitor that's back home and the multitasking trade at night they do not glow so you need to get used to it it is a bummer that they do not grow at night so that's one little con that I have but again if you're using the phone you get used to it overall the phone is very comfortable to hold and it's a great phone for somebody who does not like uh large phones it fits comfortably in your hand and as say it's also pretty light it's just around 100 G so it's easier to hold and this the speaker phone performance is also pretty good and to show you the same I'll run this Sav app and I'll just play some random song and uh and as you can see it's pretty loud I'm going to lower the volume a little bit and if you place the phone down the volume increases because it bounces the surface uh so in terms of the speaker quality I would say it's pretty okay and I would say it's pretty loud and uh let me show you the dialer also we get the stock HTC dialer and I'm going to just make a phone call and let's switch it on to speaker and I have switched on the speaker phone and as you can see it's pretty legible so in terms of the speaker phone I have no issues with the same so how do I rate this phone this is a ideal phone if you are on a tight budget and you're not a demanding Android User if you are a casual user uh this phone will suit you fine because as you have have seen you can also do casual gaming with it it does that pretty fine and also I would say I did not find many lags or something like that while General operations of the phone but yes if you do heavy multitasking you might get a lag of a second or two so for for the price at which this phone sells here in India this phone is currently selling at around 12,500 or so so I would say it's a nice entry-level phone from HTC and uh we do get ice cream sandwich out of the box uh I hope you found this video review helpful that's it for now this is ranit from tech.com and I hope to see you in my next video\n"