HTC Desire 820

performance, price, portability, screen, sound

camera, battery

85% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

portability, price, performance, design, camera

screen, battery

80% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Brilliant UI ; Loud Boomsound speakers ; Powerful CPU ; Superb keyboard

Grainy selfies ; Noisy wide shots ; Low screen resolution ; Fiddly card slots

HTC has given the Desire 820 some really interesting party pieces in the form of a 64-bit processor, an 8MP selfie camera and low price tag, yet somehow misses its mark by some distance.

Design, build, HTC Sense is nicely refined

Price, Battery life, display not the best, some sensors missing, so doesn't have a fully-packed feature set

The HTC Desire 820 has plenty to offer: it's a refined day-to-day experience, with the Sense 6 interface offering plenty to set it apart from the competition. And we're sure it will be updated to Android Lollipop at some stage in the future, which will...

The HTC Desire 820's battery life may not be as good as its predecessor, but in every other respect it's easily the superior handset. With its decent screen, excellent performance and capable camera, it's one of the best budget phablets available...

We're waiting for an official UK price but we can predict the Desire 820 will cost around £300 and that's pretty good for a nice looking albeit plastic smartphone with a 13Mp rear camera and a 64-bit Octa-core processor ready for Android L. Look out...

Strong performance.

Awful battery.

If you are after a mid-range phone, you may want to keep looking. While the Desire 820 is not bad, it’s not as good as the standard-setting OPPO R5.

The HTC Desire 820 is part of the Taiwanese phone maker’s budget range, but you wouldn’t think that at first glance. Its huge 5.5-inch screen is great for enjoying movies and YouTube videos on, and the simple, sturdy and flat design with curved corners...

HTC’s Blinkfeed is love or hate, and even if you don’t use it, you’re stuck with it on the homescreen where it’s just a swipe away. Sense 6, while also a decent addition to Android, may split users, especially if you’re after a much purer Android...

Robust build, large HD screen, 13- and 8-megapixel cameras

Battery life not great, suffers in comparison with rivals

The HTC Desire 820 is a big, but mostly capable handset, with a splendid screen, great accompanying speakers, plus a decent -- if unspectacular processor. For the price, the 820's cameras also boast a good neumber of megapixels. However, for a similar...

Available as Desire 820 dual SIM or Desire 820 with LTE support, cat. 4 LTE (150/50Mbps) ; 5.5" 720p Super LCD2 capacitive touchscreen, ambient light sensor ; Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615 chipset (quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU & quad-core 1.0 GHz...

Glossy finish is a magnet for fingerprints ; Plastic is glossy and easily gets smudged and scratched ; Rather small 2,600mAh battery

In a lot of ways the HTC Desire 820 is the natural continuation of the mid-range handset line and can be considered more or less an upgraded version of the Desire 816. It is a solid device on its own, but HTC could have tried a little harder and...