Which smartphone is worth the purchase: We pit the HTC Desire 601 against Apple's iPhone 5C to see which is better.
For the design and display, the HTC Desire 601 has a Corning Gorilla Glass 2, a 4.5 inches screen (TFT) which supports a resolution of 540x960pixels and has 245ppi. The smartphone is 9.9mm thick, 134.5 mm tall, 66.7mm wide and weighs 130 grams.
The iPhone 5C has a 4inches LED-backlit IPS LCD with a higher resolution of 640x1136pixels and it supports 326ppi. Its dimensions are: 124.4×59.2x9 mm and it’s 2 grams heavier.
For the hardware and OS, the HTC Desire 601 is powered by a dual core 1.4GHz processor, based on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset and it uses an Adreno 305 GPU. It has 1GB of Ram and 8GB of internal memory expandable up to 64GB and it runs on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) OS, which is upgradable to 4.4.2 (KitKat), and has HTC Sense UI 5.0 on top of it, plus an accelerometer, gyro and proximity sensors.
Apple's iPhone 5C has a dual core 1.3GHz Swift (ARM v7-based) which teams up with an Apple A6 chipset and a PowerVR SGX 543MP3 (triple-core graphics) GPU. It also hosts 1GB of RAM, but the built in storage is fixed and the phone comes in three variants: 8/16/32 GB. It runs on the iOS 7, which is upgradeable to iOS 7.1.2 and soon it will receive iOS 8.
Like the HTC unit, the iPhone 5C features the gyro, accelerometer and proximity sensors.
For battery and camera specs, the HTC Desire 616 has a Li-Po 2100mAh battery that lasts 440 hours in stand by mode and it allows users to talk around 13 hours on 3G. The iPhone 5C comes with a non-removable Li-Po 1510mAh battery, which allows users to talk only 10 hours on 3G and in stand by mode it lasts 250 hours.
The iPhone’s primary camera is more advanced, as it has a resolution of 8MP and it’s rich in features (autofocus, LED flash, 1/3.2” sensor size, 1.4µm pixel size, HDR panorama and photo, HD video and image recording at 1080p@30fps etc), plus there’s a 1.2MP camera on the front.
The HTC only has a 5MP primary camera and VGA front camera.
The HTC Desire 616 costs $296, while the iPhone 5C 16GB variant cost $505 and 32GB variant is at $563.
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