Performance
Performance is what you would expect from MediaTek’s ex-flagship chipset, the Helio X10. You get 8 cores, four high performance ones, four power saving cores. When combined, they are capable of pushing some serious benchmarks. All of those cores just aren’t for number crunching. You get flagship-grade real life performance. It won’t win you benchmarks against recent flagships but in day to day usage, you won’t feel any difference at all apart from a minor delay when opening certain apps, but that’s probably because flagships come with faster storage chips.
Supporting the X10 is 3GB of RAM, which is plenty for any Android user out there. No really! It is more than enough unless you have a habit of testing out whether your phone supports load-free multi-tasking with 30 apps running simultaneously or not. In terms of performance, you’ll have a hard time finding a phone which matches the 830 in this price range.
The GPU accompanying the 830 isn’t as powerful as the ones found in other phones with this chipset. While it runs great in day to day use, if you go for the most graphic extensive games, you might face a few hiccups here and there. Normal games, however, are a no sweat for this phablet.
Camera
Main Camera
The HTC Desire comes with “just” a 13MP camera but thanks to addition of OIS and bigger sensor size, you can expect some really good pictures whether its day or night. The f/2.0 aperture, 1/3” sensor and the OIS join to help in putting up some nice photos.
The exposure and color rendition is very good. You get slightly colder pictures, but it’s not that noticeable. Thankfully, it does not over expose the bright spots, especially in the sky. HDR mode can also be used to brighten up the dark spots and normalize the bright areas, however, that effect is very minimal with HTC phones. You can also use bokeh effects to create that background blur artificially making your images pop more as if shot by a DSLR.
The phone suffers slightly when differentiating between dark and light spots, resulting in slow adjustments and shadows, which sometimes, come out very dark. Other than that the camera is great and we would say a job well done by HTC.
Front Camera
The same goes for the 4 Ultrapixel camera at the front which was, not long ago, used as the primary camera for HTC flagships. The front camera is really good too especially in low light situations. It comes with the same f/2.0 aperture but misses out on the OIS.
Still you get some pretty detailed and nice looking selfies. If front camera is a major consideration when buying a phone, we advise that you consider the Desire 830 as well. While number of pixels may not impress you, the detail definitely will.
Some nice software features include auto selfie, touch to capture, volume as shutter, voice selfie and live makeup.
Video
Desire 830 supports 1080p video only. There’s no 4k options, and its not that we expected it at this price. Thanks to the inclusion of OIS, videos are really smooth on the Desire 830. It can nullify a good amount of shakes resulting in a video which looks more professional.
HTC also offers slow motion video recording. Allowing users to playback videos at 4 times slower than normal. It’s a good feature, though don’t expect much in terms of quality when viewing such videos.
Battery Performance
Desire 830 comes with a meager 2,800mAh battery unit which isn’t what you normally expect from a phone this size. As expected the battery timings isn’t all that great. You would barely be able to last a day if you are a moderate user. Heavy users would need a charge mid-day.
HTC should have put some more juice to let the phone be a complete package. You can expect battery timings of about 12 hours with a screen on time of 3 to 4 hours at most.
Conclusion
The Desire 830 comes with a price tag of about Rs 31,000, which we think is above par. The performance justifies the price tag since there is very little competition in this price range.
Pros:
- Good Performance
- Decent Build
- Good Front Camera
- Rear Camera with OIS
- Excellent front facing stereo speakers
Cons:
- Average Battery Life
- Plastic Build
- Low Screen Brightness
If you can get your hands on a phone with Damage Protection Warranty and some freebies, like other HTC devices, it could make the decision much easier. If not, you can still go for the phone if you want a phone with good cameras and outstanding speakers.
HTC Desire 830 Specifications:
- CPU: 1.5 Ghz octa-core
- Chipset: MediaTek Helio X10
- Design: Plastic build
- Dimensions: 157.5 x 78.9 x 7.79 mm
- Weight: 156 grams
- OS: Android 6.0 Marshmallow with HTC Sense
- Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, 4G LTE Dual-SIM
- Display: 5.5” with 1080p (1920 x 1080) resolution; 401PPI
- Memory:
- RAM: 3 GB
- Internal:32 GB
- Card slot:yes, up to 128 GB
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