What is up everybody.
Muwen360 is here giving you guys my full review of the HTC Desire 626s.
This HTC phone is what HTC calls “a mid-tier phone with flagship DNA.
Before we dig in too deeply, it’s worth mentioning right up front that there is more
than one phone that carries the “Desire 626″ name.
Depending on who you ask, each version has similar performance, but they each have significantly
different internals.
So to be clear, the model we’re reviewing here is the Desire 626s for T-Mobile.
The Desire 626 feels solid in the hand.
Its rounded corners look nice, and its edges are also rounded over for a comfortable but
secure grip.
Unlike the One M9, the Desire is made of a semi-matte polycarbonate, not hyper-glossy
aluminum.
Unlike previous Desires, which were great at fighting off fingerprints, fingerprints
can be easily seen on this Desire 626s.
It does have a microSD card slot for expandable storage next to the SIM tray.
Rather than a rounded back, like the flagship One series, the Desire 626s is an elegantly
flat slab that is very stable on your desk.
Opting for polycarbonate rather than the aluminum unibody of the One means the Desire 626s has
a little flex to it, but nothing to worry about.
Weighing in at 140g, it’s no lightweight, but it doesn’t feel particularly heavy.
Despite its svelte 8.13 mm thickness, measuring in at just under 147 mm x 71 mm it does feel
somewhat large in the hand – not wide, but tall.
To accommodate its height, HTC put the power button under your right thumb, and the volume
rocker above it and that took quite a bit of getting used to.
The screen on the Desire 626 won’t win any awards either.
Colors are washed out, the screen is fairly dim, and it only has a pixel density of 293.74
ppi.
The display is a 5-inch HD (1280 x 720) LCD panel that HTC opted to use.
On the Software side of things, the Desire 626s runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with HTC Sense
7 on top of it.
There’s really nothing new to add here but you do get some HTC apps and also a folder
with T-Mobile pre-installed items.
The camera is probably my least favorite part about the phone.
The main camera sports an 8MP resolution with a single LED flash.
The front camera is 5MP.
Both can shoot 720p video.
But overall the pictures taken regardless of lighting conditions, are grainy and lacked
detail.
But for the price, it’s an okay camera but far from good.
In everyday use the HTC Desire 626 isn’t particularly fast, but it’s not what we’d
call “slow” either.
We noticed hesitations when launching pretty much any app, and when switching between them.
That performance is thanks to a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 clocked at 1.1 GHz
with 1.5GB RAM.
With specs like those, we’d almost expect the Desire 626 to be a smartwatch, not a phone.
On the flip-side, using the Snapdragon 210 makes the 2,000 mAh last for days.
We left the phone on our nightstand for a week, and it still had most of its charge
left.
Screen-on time was equally impressive – with heavy use, we were able to get almost two
solid days between charges.
Lastly call quality and 4G LTE data speeds in my area were quite good and reliable on
T-Mobile’s network.
So on the whole, if you’re someone that’s doesn’t take a lot of pictures and you don’t
care raw performance and still want an affordable phone, then this device should be near top
of your list.
But if you’re someone looking to spend a little more to get a better and performance,
then I would suggest to look elsewhere.
Thank you so much for watching.
And I’ll see you in the next one take care.