You might want Netflix, a few games and Facebook at home, Citymapper added when you’re out and at work… some boring apps that make you look like you care more about work than your really do. Sense Home is a little box of app shortcuts whose contents can be customised depending on whether you’re at work, at home or somewhere else. There are a few other HTC Desire 626 software features worth noting, too. None truly simplify the UI, but being able to alter the look near-automatically is neat. At this point Sense 7 offers loads of themes that alter things like app icons and the wallpaper. What it lacks in discretion is makes up for with customisation. However, the HTC Desire 626 does at least let you do this officially, by hiding absolutely any app you like in the apps menu. It also has a fair bit of appy bloat, with things like HTC Club, Power to Give, HTC Dot View and the Zoe app going straight on the ‘to ignore’ list. It lacks some of the friendly plain-ness of default Android Lollipop, or the very latest Samsung Android interface.Īs with LG’s custom UI, HTC Sense could really do with a refresh. Perhaps my eyes are just tired of the HTC Sense visual style, which has remained as it currently appears since way back in 2013 when the first HTC One came out. It’s the same software we saw on the HTC One M9, complete with BlinkFeed, custom themes and, sadly, a look that is dating rapidly. Despite running Android 5.1 Lollipop, the look of the Desire 626 is determined 100 per cent by the HTC Sense 7 interface. How the phone actually looks is totally different to the Moto G, though. It’s also a bit more fingerprint prone than the Moto G, suggesting it uses an older form of toughened glass. Top brightness is decent, but it does struggle on the sunniest days. The HTC Desire 626 has pretty good colour, for a cheaper phone anyway. HTC does seem to have put some work in here, though, after the Desire 620 was accused of offering poor colours compared with some rivals. Then there’s the screen, which too is the classic upper-budget spec of 5in across, 720p resolution. But it would have been nice, wouldn’t it? Expecting top-tier sound quality from a phone at this price was probably a bit ambitious. Sound quality is nowhere near as exciting as that of the BoomSound brothers, either, being less weighty and less warm. HTC is trying to dupe you into thinking it does with those equal-size grilles at the top and bottom of the phone, but really only the bottom one functions as a main speaker. Contrary to the look of the HTC Desire 626, the phone doesn’t have BoomSound speakers either. It seems a bit less tough than the HTC Desire Eye, which has a similar design but is otherwise higher-end. The HTC Desire 626 has scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass on its front, and the plastic finish actually seems more prone to fingerprint smudges than scratches. Still, it should prove adept-enough at dealing with the slings, arrows and door keys of a life in your pocket. Basically it tells us there’s not a rigid steel/metal structure underneath. It seems HTC may be masking shoestring-style construction with the unibody aesthetics, which generally make you think a phone is higher-end. You can curve the thing backwards with hand pressure. I was a tiny bit alarmed by how easy the phone is to bend, though.
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