The HTC Desire 620g is a well-made smartphone with a good camera, but its poor screen and mediocre battery life hold it back
Specifications
Processor: Quad-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410,
Screen Size: 5in,
Screen resolution: 1, 280x720,
Rear camera: 8-megapixel,
Storage: 8GB, Wireless data: 3G, 4G,
Size: 150x73x9.6mm,
Weight: 160g, Operating system: Android 4.4
The HTC Desire 620g is a surprisingly large smartphone given its 5in screen. Measuring 150mm high, it’s almost a full centimetre taller than Motorola’s similarly sized 2nd Gen Moto G, and it’s not far off HTC’s own Desire Eye, which stands at 152mm and has a larger 5.2in screen. This is partly to make room for HTC’s BoomSound speakers at the top and bottom of the handset, but the bezels round the edge of the screen are also quite sizable, adding a lot of empty space to its overall bulk.
This isn’t surprising, as last year’s Desire 610 used exactly the same design. However, whereas the Desire 610 looked rather cheap and tacky thanks to its copious amounts of glossy plastic, the Desire 620 has a new matt, soft-touch chassis that not only looks much smarter than its predecessor, but also feels much better made.
In this sense, the added height isn’t so much of a problem, as the phone is comfortable to hold and the superb build quality is more in keeping with its mid-range phones.
DISPLAY
The larger, higher resolution 5in 1, 280x720 display is another welcome improvement over the 610’s grainy 4.7in 960x540 display, as text, icons and web pages are now much easier to read. I didn’t have to zoom in quite so often when browsing desktop websites and HTC’s Sense 6.0 UI looked much sharper and more defined when browsing through Android 4.4’s home screens.
PERFORMANCE
Inside, the Desire 620g is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor running at 1.2GHz, paired with 1GB of RAM. This produced noticeably faster benchmark scores than last year’s Snapdragon 400 chipset. Its video playback score was particularly high, scoring 4, 122, putting it just behind last year’s top flagship phones. However, in practice, I still noticed the odd judder and delay when swiping up and down web pages, which did get a bit frustrating every time we loaded up a new page.
Graphics performance wasn’t quite as good as we were expecting either, as the Desire 620 only produced an average of 21.7fps ( or 5, 046) in our 3D Mark Ice Storm test and a much more stuttering 15.1fps average ( or 2, 503) in Ice Storm Extreme. In Epic Citadel, it only managed an average frame rate of 30.2fps on Ultra High Quality settings, which is significantly slower than last year’s Desire 610, which scored 49.2fps.
BATTERY LIFE
Battery life suffered as well, as I only managed 8h 42m in average usage. This should still be enough to get you through the day, but when the Desire 610 lasted just over 11 hours, we were hoping for a little more from its successor.
CAMERA
Fortunately, the Desire 620g’s 8-megapixel camera redeemed its mediocre performance, as there was plenty of detail on show in our test shots and colours were bright and accurate.
FINAL VERDICT
In my point of I don’t suggest anyone to buy this product because you can get much better specs as well as real life performance in same or lesser price.