The HTC Desire 500 and Sony Xperia L are excellent choices if you are looking for a mid-range is around 200 euros

The offer of smartphones is so broad that it becomes overwhelming and choosing a model is often an impossible task. The easiest thing is to decide how much we want to spend and from there look for the best option. The terminals with the most advanced technical profile usually take center stage, but the truth is that there is a very wide range of intermediate smartphones. The HTC Desire 500 and the Sony Xperia L are two examples of what we can find if looking for an affordable Mobile and a balanced technical profile. Both have similar displays, and eight megapixel camera. We will see all their differences in a comparison.

A common feature is that the midrange terminals usually have more compact screens. In this case we have two panels with 4.3-inch diagonal, a manageable size, but at the same time not too small and allow content to be seen clearly. Both have a similar resolution WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) in the case of the HTC Desire 500 and FWVGA (480 x 854 pixels) for the Sony Xperia L.

Sony and HTC are two brands that are committed to design a line of quite characteristic that distinguishes their products from the competition, while creating cohesion in their catalog. For HTC there is a clear predominance of rounded shapes that make the terminal more comfortable to hold in hand. The HTC Desire 500 is slightly larger than its opponent, but draws attention to get a tighter weight. Sony, for its part, is committed to its Arc type design, characterized by its curved back cover inwards. The Sony Xperia L carries a diode LED on the bottom that lights up when notifications pending combines curved shapes with sharper lines.

Both models feature a chamber eight megapixels able to record video in HD720p, but have features that differentiate them. The HTC Desire 500 has a BSI sensor 1/3.4 inch which is accompanied by the image HTC ImageChip processor. Its lens is very light (f/2.0), has an intelligent flash with five levels of power and allows you to record videos with slow motion effect. To top it off it takes a front 1.6 megapixel camera whose sensor is also BSI. The Sony Xperia L carries a sensor Exmor RS is also prepared to make sharp photos in low light, plus it reduces noise and can record video in HDR. The camera is accompanied by LED flash, autofocus, digital zoom four increases and also a VGA camera on the front, which is equivalent to 0.3 megapixel resolution.

HTC and Sony pay special attention to the quality of sound of these two models. The HTC Desire 500 bears the certificate of the brand Beats Audio, while the Sony Xperia L features improved sound xLOUD and Clear Audio. Both carry a tuner FM radio system with RDS.

The HTC Desire 500 has a processor 200 Snapdragon quad-core, which runs at 1.2 GHz and is supported by a graphics chip Adreno 203. The Sony Xperia L comes with a Snapdragon 400 that, despite having two cores (1 GHz), with a smooth performance as much or more than its opponent because it is a chip architecture Krait. Besides wearing a Adreno 305 graphics chip, which is more powerful than the HTC Desire 500. Both carry 1 GB RAM.

The internal memory is one of the weaknesses of the HTC Desire 500, which has a depth of only 4 GB capacity, but at least allows the expansion card MicroSD (64 GB maximum). The Sony Xperia L is double and offers 8 GB users, which is not too much but enough to store a lot of data. Also accept MicroSD, but in this case of 32 Gb as much.

As we said in the entry, the two terminals have the Android platform, but in different versions. The HTC Desire 500 has Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and Sony Xperia L Jelly Bean Android 4.2.2. The differences are not too obvious and they can enjoy the entire package of services offered by Google. The main difference is the interface that includes each manufacturer, and here it is noteworthy that HTC Sense offers a good user experience. The company seasoned system with a characteristic and very functional, plus other option like widget design HTC BlinkFeed. The interface of Sony has its own design, although not as striking as with its opponent.

Both the HTC Desire 500 as the Sony Xperia L offer a profile of connectivity up to what you may still require phone in its range. Among the systems we find the wireless mobile networks support 3G, but it is noteworthy that the Sony Xperia L can navigate to 21 Mbps, while the HTC Desire 500 will have to settle with a peak discharge of 7.2 Mbps. Also have WiFi, WiFi Hotspot to share the connection, the standard DLNA, Bluetooth 4.0, antenna GPS chip and even NFC. Physical connections are the usual: a plug for headphones and port MicroUSB for charging or transferring information.

The HTC Desire 500 has a battery of 1,800 milliamps, according to official data, can be on a single charge at rest 435 hours and twelve hours to use. The Sony Xperia L carries a battery of 1,750 milliamps and Sony claims it can be eight and a half hours using a total of 498 hours in standby.