Which smartphone is the ideal purchase for consumers? We pit the HTC Desire 601 against the Sony Xperia C to see which is better.
In terms of design and display, the Sony Xperia C is a made of plastic and slimmer than its rival, weighing 153 grams and measuring 141.5×74.2×8.9 mm. It comes with a 5inches TFT display which is capable of rendering a resolution of 540x960pixels and its pixel density is 220ppi.
The HTC Desire 601, has also a plastic body and supports the same screen resolution of 540x960pixels, but the display measures 4.5 inches (TFT) which gives a pixel density of 245ppi. Its dimensions are 134.5×66.7×9.9 mm and being 23 grams lighter than the Sony smartphone.
For the hardware and OS, the Sony Xperia C comes with a 1.2GHz quad core Cortex A7 processor, which teams up with a Mediatek MT6589 chipset and a PowerVR SGX544 GPU. It has a 4GB of internal memory which is expandable up to 32GB with a MicroSD card, and has 1GB of RAM.
The HTC Desire 601 on the orher hand also has 1GB of RAM, but the internal memory is at 8GB, expandable up to 64GB. It runs on a 1.4GHz dual core processor, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset and an Adreno 305 GPU.
Both smartphones run on the Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) OS, but only the Desire 601 received an update to the 4.4.2 KitKat version.
For the batteyr and cmaera specs, the Sony Xperia C’s battery is replaceable and it’s a Li-Ion with the capacity of 2390mAh, which should allow up to 12 hours and 25 minutes of talk time on 3G. Meanwhile, the HTC Desire 601 comes with a non-removable Li-Po 2100mAh battery, which allows 25 minutes of talktime on 3G.
The HTC smartphone has a better rear camera with the resolution of 8MP and features such as autofocus, LED flash, geo tagging, HDR, face and smile detection and touch focus, plus video recording capabilities at 1080p. Both smartphones have a VGA secondary camera, but the HTC unit's primary camera is weaker (5MP) with features that include video recording at 1080p, 1/4” sensor and 1.4µm pixel size, geo tagging, face and smile detection, autofocus and LED flash.
The Sony Xperia C costs $270 dollars, while the HTC Desire 601 is around $284.
Which smartphone is worth the purchase? Sound off in the comments section below.
