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HTC has revealed the Desire 500 in the Desire series of Android smartphone which has an affordable price which seems competitive to several Android Phones of international brands. The smartphone has good specifications as well. So far, the HTC Desire has only been announced in Taiwan, but very soon it’ll be released in several other markets as well.

The device features a Quad-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, 1GB of RAM and a screen size of 4.3-inches featuring a 480 x 800 pixels resolution which could have been a lot better. It has an 8 megapixel camera on the back side with LED flash and f/2.0 aperture and the camera position with back panel looks similar to many former HTC Desire series smartphones. The camera at the front is a 1.6 megapixel lens featuring a BSI sensor.

HTC Desire 500 Specifications


4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen
Screen resolution: 480 x 800 pixels
OS: Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) OS
Interface: HTC Sense 5.0
1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 Processor
Rear camera: 8-megapixel Auto focus camera with f/2.0 aperture, LED flash
Front camera: 1.6MP front-facing camera with BSI sensor
3G (HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX, GPS, NFC
Storage: 4GB internal, expandable to 64GB with MicroSD card
1GB RAM
Battery: 1800 mAh

HTC Desire 500 Pricing and Availability

As mentioned above the device has only been released in Taiwan and there, it is priced at around $400 which is not a very low price, but not very high either. Hence, with the screen size and specs that we’re getting in the device along with Quad-core processor and HTC’s sense interface, it does not look a bad deal. The device will be available for purchase from 1st August.