What do you get when you learn from your mistakes? Improvement. What do you get when you put Snapdragon 650 inside a phone? you get a roaring dragon of a phone. Snapdragon has never really been true to its name when it comes to mid range processors but this time they have learned from their mistakes and made a beast of a processor.
HTC Desire 626 is a phone that has fooled me twice. How? you may ask. Well, first in the form of HTC Desire 626G and then second time in the form of HTC Dsire 626G+. Both the times i thought that it is the same phone but with a slight name change but it wasn’t. But finally, i got the right one thanks to HTC because now a year later they have decided to finally launch it in India.
Take an HTC Desire 820s and give it HTC Desire 820’s features like BoomSound speakers, full HTC Sense and a brand new Ultrapixel front camera and what will you get? You will get a HTC One E9s. Or you can do it the other way, the result will still be the same.
I wonder why Sony launched this phone? Especially at the MRP of Rs. 37,990(Approx $560) although you can buy it for around Rs. 32,000 – 34,000($500) in the market currently. But still, it’s like Sony sent a soldier from their cavalry to fight a war without any ammunition. In other words ‘dead on arrival’.
Now this isn’t an ‘everyone phone’ ’cause not everybody likes a screen this big. But to overcome that Sony tried its best to keep the phone as small as possible with respect to its as big as possible screen size. They certainly did a good job.
How do you mess up an almost perfect phone? Easy, just price it so high that even the people whom were interested in buying it earlier won’t even think about buying it anymore. That still doesn’t make it a bad phone though. More like a bad decision on the company’s side.
Sony is kind of late in releasing this phone but better late than never. HTC launched a somewhat similar device last year known as HTC Desire 820 but that phone didn’t have the ‘Aqua’ features that this phone has. Everything else is almost the same though even the price.