Both the front-facing and the rear-facing camera can record HD videos ( 720p). The front camera has a resolution of 1.6 megapixels. The HTC Desire 500 has an 8-megapixel BSI rear camera sensor with 3264x2448 pixels, 0.312 inches sensor size, f/2.4 aperture, and 28mm focal length. The HTC Desire 500 has a 4.3 inch LCD display with a resolution of 800x480 pixels (WVGA), RGB matrix and a pixel density of 217 ppi. Only 1 GB of the 4 GB internal storage is user-accessible. It comes with 1 GB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage expandable up to 64 GB through the microSD card slot.

HTC equips the Desire 500 with Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 8225Q system-on-chip that comprises a 1.2 GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A5 CPU that supports ARMv7 instruction set and Adreno 203 GPU and is manufactured on a 45 nm manufacturing process. It is available in black, white with red accents and white with green accents. The HTC Desire 500 measures 131.8 x 66.9 x 9.9 mm and weighs 123 grams the dual SIM model weighs 130 grams, 7 grams heavier than the normal model. The phone has a plastic unibody back cover removing the back cover reveals a removable battery, a microSIM card slot, and a microSD card slot for storage expansion. The rear-facing camera paired with an LED flash and the speaker are located at the back.

On the side frame there is a volume rocker on the right side, there is a power button and a headphone jack at the top and there is a microUSB port and a microphone hole at the bottom the left side is empty. The side frame is wrapped by a color stripe that is only interrupted at the volume rocker. The HTC Desire 500 has a 4.3 inch display there is an earpiece, a front-facing camera and an 'HTC' logo at the upper bezel of the display and there are two capacitive buttons (back and home buttons) at the lower bezel of the display.

On 7 August 2013, the device was unveiled for the European market. On 23 July 2013, HTC Desire 500 was announced in Taiwan. The HTC Desire 500 (also known as HTC Desire 500 Dual Sim) is a low-mid-range Android smartphone released by HTC in 2013. (Only one SIM card can be used at 3G at a time on the Dual SIM model)Ĩ-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED dual tone flash, 1/3.2' sensor size, 1.4µm pixel size, geo-tagging, face/smile detection, HTC ImageChip image processing chip, 720p video recording 2013 Android-based smartphone by HTC HTC Desire 500

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