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HTC Desire 12s

HTC Desire 12s

by HTC

Release Date: Release date: dec 2018

4 GB / 3 GB RAM
5.7 inches, IPS LCD
Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 , Octa-core
13 MP rear, 13 MP front
64GB/32GB, up to 512 GB
Android 8.1 (Oreo)

Full Specs

3075 mAh Lite Yes Fingerprint

HTC Desire 12s Pros and cons

HTC Desire 12s - Full Specifications

Device Information

Device Type

smart android phone
Model

Desire 12s
Released

08 December, 2018
Status

Available

Design

Type Type refers to the phone's size and shape or the overall layout that the smartphone adapts. Generally, we see these types. - Bar, sliding, phablet and foldable.

Phablet
Dimensions (Width*length)

154.2 x 72.7 x 8.3 mm
Weight

150 g
Colors The shade of a single or gradient tint uses by the device.

Black, Red, Silver
Flashlight The flashlight is the LED (Light emitting diode)

Network

2G

GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 and SIM 2
3G

HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
4G

LTE bands
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module)

Nano SIM
Dual SIM

Dual Nano SIM Dual Standby

Display

Display Type

IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen
Size

5.7 inches, (~74.8% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution

720 x 1440 pixels
aspect ratio Height of the display screen compared to the width.

18:9 ratio
Display Colors The different degree (hue, tone) of colors that the display is showing. There are 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors. As of now, 16 M is the most distinguished color value.

16M
Touch Screen

Multitouch
Display Protection

Corning Gorilla Glass (unspecified version)

Media

FM Radio
Notifications In the notification panel, the user gets notified while receiving an alert, task, updates or event.

vibration, wave, mp3, ringtone
Ring Tones

Yes
Loudspeaker

Yes

Cameras

Rear (Primary)

13 MP (f/2.0 PDAF)
Front

13 MP (f/2.2)
Video quality

1080p@30fps front and rear
Face Unlock Face-unlock enables the function to unlock the face by seeing on the screen.
4K supported 4 dimensional or 4K is a short phrase given for the video resolution of 2160p@30/60fps/120fps. It's now a standard meter for the newage smartphones.
Back Flash
Front Flash
Camera Features The rear and the front camera hold many features making every phone work differently. There are some features that the smartphone usually holds are - Optical Zoom, smile-detection, self-timer, brightness setting e.t.c.

Panorama, HDR, PDAF, optical zoom, Dual-LED dual-tone flash, beauty function, brightness control

Software

Operating System

Android 8.1 (Oreo)
Java Support

yes

Hardware

Chipset Chipset is an array of integrated circuits meant to perform in real-time constraints and dedicated functions. Expensive smartphones tend to have better chipset, which performs more advanced operations.

Snapdragon 435 (28 nm)
CPU It stands for a Central Processing Unit. It's generally known as the brain of the device. In short, the CPU process the lines of tasks assigned by the operator.

Octa-core
GPU The Term GPU stands for the graphics processing unit. It is a single-chip processor meant to boost up object alteration, image production, and 3D Motion by manipulating the memory.

Adreno 505
RAM (Memory) Random Access Memory

4 GB/ 3 GB RAM
Processor Speed

1.4 GHz Cortex-A53
Internal Storage It's a reserved memory in Smartphones, laptops, tablets, e.t.c, allowing to save all the data pertaining to the applications, videos, images, and other files in one place.

64 GB/ 32 GB
Expandable Memory It's an alternative external memory to extend the storage size by means of MicroSD card, flash e.t.c

up to 512 GB
Card Slot It's a medium or location putting the memory card.

MicroSD (uses SIM 2 Slot)
Sensors

Fingerprint (rear-seated), proximity, compass, accelerometer

Connectivity

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless computing technology to collect and transmit the data in two paired devices. Using Bluetooth, A User can connect the wired and wireless device to share any kind of file without the Internet. It's slow but self-reliant.

4.2, A2DP, LE
Wi-fi

Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot A Hotspot is a kind of technology devised to connect multiple devices all in one Internet. The hotspot is solely dependent on the person who is sharing it, and other people need to turn on the wifi to use it.
Infrared It's an old electronic way to share data between two devices using infrared beams.
GPS The Global Positioning System is a widely used satellite technology to navigate the location, velocity and the position of the object.

A-GPS, GLONASS
NFC It's A Standard mobile feature that stands for Near field communication. It acts under the proximity sensor when bringing two devices too close.
HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface
USB (Universal Serial Bus)

Micro USB 2.0
OTG
Wireless Charging It works when an electromagnetic field develops the tension between the two objects providing the output via inductive coupling
Microphone Jack
Headphone Jack

3.5mm

Data

GPRS GPS (General Packet Radio Service) allows wireless data transfer service in 2G and 3G GSM SIM. Example - pictures, SIM network browsing, and videos.
EDGE EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) enables a 4x faster data transfer rate compared to the regular 2G GSM Service.
Speed

HSPA 42.2 down/5.76 up Mbps, LTE-A (2CA) Cat6 300 Down/50 Up Mbps
Web Browser Web Browser can be a software or a web that lets users surf contents (Images, videos, texts, and other stuff) on the WWW (World wide web) URL. Web browser renders the HTML (markup language) from the website to display contents.

HTML5

Messaging

SMS Short Messaging Service

Yes
MMS Multimedia Messaging Service helps users send more graphical short messages including Audio clip, GIF e.t.c.
Email Electronic mail is not so different from a traditional mail system as it lets the user send, receive and store data in the form of images, text and other digital files. Each user has a unique email address, If you have no one yet, then you can get it via GMAIL and Yahoo
IM

Battery

Battery Type In short, these are some of the battery types that smartphones use - Lithium Polymer, Lithium-Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride, and Nickel Cadmium. Li-po and the Li-on are in the current phase.

Li-Ion (Lithium Ion)
Capacity Battery capacity is the maximum number of energy packets stored in the mass of the battery.

3075 mAh
Fast charging An Integrated technology that powers up the smartphone much faster than the regular charging.
Removable Users can disengage the removable battery, but the non-removal battery comes fixed with the device and cannot be removed.

What's inside the box

Overall

Htc Desire 12s
Sim ejector tool
adapter or charger
earphones
USB cable
manual guid book

Total Specs Score

8.7 4.4 1

Design 8
Display 9
Camera 9
Features 9
Cpu 9
Battery 8

HTC Desire 12s price and quick details

Display

Htc Desire 12s was announced in November 2018 and been launched on December 2019. The smartphone boasts 5.7 inches of IPS LCD display at a 720 x 1440 pixels, 18:9 aspects ratio and ~282 PPI density (Higher the pixels, the better is the display). The phone comes with a three-colour variant including Black, blue and silver. It measures around 154.2 x 72.7 x 8.3 mm of dimension and weighs nearly 150 g with the battery.

Camera

As to talk about the camera, the phone sports a single 13 Megapixels rear camera of f/2.0 aperture while has 13 MP (f/2.2) front camera with the video resolution of 1080p@30fps pixels. The device features some camera’s functions like Panorama, HDR, Dual LED Flash, PDAF, and so on and on.

Performance

Under the hood, it equips with a Snapdragon 435 (28 nm) chipset, octa-core processor which runs at a clock rate of 1.8 GHz and for the gaming it employs an Adreno 505 Graphics card. It touts a 4 GB of RAM to max up the performance of applications when opened more than one or two at the same time. Regarding the storage, the smartphone stores 64 GB of internal memory along with 512 GB of External memory. The external memory backs up by a MicroSD card (Dedicated). HTC Desire 12s runs on a dated Android 8.1 Oreo.

Battery

This smartphone gets its sip of energy from a lithium-ion 3075 mAh battery.