Manufacturer: HTC
What is the HTC Desire 601?
The HTC Desire 601 is a phone that gets close to the sort of specs you’d get in a top-end One-series phone, but at a slightly lower price. You get 4G, high-quality speakers and the HTC Sense UI introduced with the HTC One, but in a slightly less attention-grabbing body.
HTC Desire 601 – Design
The HTC Desire 601 trades in the impressive aluminium bodywork of the HTC One and One Mini for something a little more traditional – a plastic body with a removable rear battery. Underneath you’ll also find a memory card slot, found in most lower-end Android phones. There’s a reasonable 8GB of internal …show more content…
However, it’s a significantly less sharp display.
It has a qHD, 960 x 540 pixel, display – where the One Mini has a pretty impressive 720p screen. That’s not to say the HTC Desire 601 looks terrible, though – quite the opposite.
Screen quality is good, with solid contrast and colour reproduction. It’s only the searing sharpness of an ultra-high resolution screen that you miss out on here. It uses the SLCD2 screen type, which is roughly comparable with a half-decent IPS display.
HTC Desire 601 – Software
Like every Desire phone, the HTC Desire 601 runs Android. It also features the latest version of HTC Sense, incorporating the Blinkfeed home screen and the all-round sharper, cleaner look that was introduced to HTC’s Androids with the HTC One.
Although the HTC Desire 601 doesn’t have the fastest processor in town, it has easily enough power to make Android run very well. A dual-core 1.4GHz processor may not sound grand in this time of quad-core chips, but the Snapdragon 400 chipset used here is pretty powerful ,capable of outperforming some less advanced quad-core CPUs.
The HTC Desire 601 also has 1GB of RAM to grease Android’s cogs.
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