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HTC Desire 816 Black (Virgin mobile) - 5.5 inch S-LCD Display

A photo lover’s dream. 13 megapixel main camera and a 5 megapixel front camera ensure high-resolution pics from either side. Capture moving HD images with built-in editing and sharing tools, and combine results for multiple-angle views. Incredible de...

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Price

(112 reviews)
Picture

(70 reviews)
Size

(101 reviews)
Display

(57 reviews)
Feature

(53 reviews)
Sound

(90 reviews)
Camera

(220 reviews)
Quality

(113 reviews)
Screen

(224 reviews)
Battery life

(119 reviews)
Speaker

(97 reviews)
Situation

(15 reviews)
Battery drain

(23 reviews)
Plastic

(24 reviews)
Bloatware

(24 reviews)
Bite

(17 reviews)
Time

(30 reviews)
Pixel

(9 reviews)
Memory issue

(6 reviews)
Lack

(14 reviews)
People

(13 reviews)
Sense

(3 reviews)

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Reviews around price (4.51 of 5)

  • Fast shipping, great price, excellent condition, love this phone
  • Nice big phone with a good display and camera for a great price.
  • I recommend anyone who is looking for a decent smartphone for a cheap price to simply invest a couple hundred bucks into this phone
  • The screen size is wonderful, a very good price for such a phone.
  • $100.00 less than Virgin, and at a cheaper price than ebay
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Reviews around picture (4.48 of 5)

  • I have a 16 gig SD card loaded in it where I dump all my pictures and some of the apps
  • This is a great phone, screen is clear, takes great pictures, sounds great, just great all the around.
  • The back camera takes beautiful and clear pictures although it loses some clarity when zooming
  • I like the picture, its very clear and it takes really nice clear pictures
  • Actually felt like a downgrade with 16gb memory and horrible picture quality and sound!I recently switch tto family mobile and bought myself a LG G6 unlock phone and this feels like a true upgrade to the HTC 816.
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Reviews around size (4.41 of 5)

  • Phone is a great size and works great, all but the storage
  • I love the screen size, the camera, and the sound quality
  • Next, the size of this screen has ruined me from ever going back to a smaller phone
  • I thought that a phone this size would have trouble fitting into my front pocket, but no, not an issue at all
  • It's an amazing phone nice size screen defiantly good for apps or YouTube
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Reviews around display (4.33 of 5)

  • The display is crystal clear and the sound is amazingly good
  • Beautiful display, nice sound, and nice BIG display (without being overly huge)
  • Phone didn't even last 2 months before the display shorted out and died
  • Nice big phone with a good display and camera for a great price.
  • Really enjoy the 5.5 display, great for watching videos, movies, etc
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Reviews around feature (4.32 of 5)

  • I'm still learning all the features,but the features I do know& use,I love(I love HTC anywayslove,I think they have the best phones out there right now
  • Love the features , excellent video cam, great twin boom sound speakers, power saver mode
  • Loved it, although I would suggest not turning up the volume to loud as to avoid blowing out the speakers (especially the bottom one).
  • I have longer than normal fingers and find it difficult to swipe as easily as in the past on my HTC Evo
  • its a nice smart many features for his needs thanks chose the best phone
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Reviews around sound (4.29 of 5)

  • Good sound through the two front speakers and very good pictures.
  • The phone is amazing what you pay for great sound its has and the size of the phone is great as well good job virgin mobile.
  • The phone had great sound; but, everything else about it sucked.
  • It's really big and has a good sound and good thing I got this phone
  • It takes a little bit to get used to the left side power button but isn't a problem, and The speakers produce a loud and vibrant sound
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Reviews around camera (4.23 of 5)

  • This is a great phone , almost a "phablet" with a super sharp screen and great camera
  • It had a great camera and front camera was good as well
  • Absolute worst problem with this phone however is the camera
  • The price is great for the phone with a great camera and loud speakers
  • Nice big phone with a good display and camera for a great price.
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Reviews around quality (4.14 of 5)

  • The last one had terrible call quality and this one has great call quality
  • The phone itself has a large good quality screen and good audio
  • Great camera, great sound quality, all the features I need
  • Love this phone, no slowing down with multiple apps open, good picture quality for front & rear camera
  • The phone is fast, stylish, large, and the sound quality is the best
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Reviews around screen (4.09 of 5)

  • Unfortunately my screen has started to freeze and flicker and the phone will reboot
  • then my old 3g phone was... great design and big screen
  • One week after purchase the phone was dropped, and the screen is severly cracked
  • My only problem with the phone is that when in the sunlight the screen is hard to read
  • Phone has great screen and sound for a mid priced phone.
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Reviews around battery life (3.68 of 5)

  • The battery life is terrible, and i wish it was removable
  • Performance for all tasks has been great, battery life has been great too.
  • The battery life is horrible, and it takes FOREVER to charge
  • Also the battery life is abysmal, but i learned to work around it
  • The battery life is much better for me than was the Evo.
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Reviews around speaker (3.57 of 5)

  • The price is great for the phone with a great camera and loud speakers
  • The price is great for the phone with a great camera and loud speakers
  • The speakers are great (and LOUD) for all of my media needs
  • huge display i love it the speakers are super loud and it was under $200
  • The thing that has surprised me most about this phone is its battery life given that it has a big screen and great sounding speakers.
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Reviews around situation (2.94 of 5)

  • I had to sign in with my Gmail account and everything worked!I like the size, I like the phone
  • otherwise, works great, very speedy with all my apps, takes great video and picture, actually took better pictures in some strange lighting situations than my Nikon D3100 on a recent trip.
  • I had to sign in with my Gmail account and everything worked!I like the size, I like the phone
  • I really didn't want to use it unless I really was in a desperate situation, and this really isn't a desperate situation but it does suck
  • I have longer than normal fingers and find it difficult to swipe as easily as in the past on my HTC Evo
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Reviews around battery drain (2.30 of 5)

  • I have longer than normal fingers and find it difficult to swipe as easily as in the past on my HTC Evo
  • I use it to take notes in church as well as in meetings at work and it works great.
  • Loved it, although I would suggest not turning up the volume to loud as to avoid blowing out the speakers (especially the bottom one).
  • I have longer than normal fingers and find it difficult to swipe as easily as in the past on my HTC Evo
  • I bought this phone for sale for $77 just over a year ago, and it has held up and performed as well as you could hope for the price
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Reviews around plastic (2.23 of 5)

  • Even though the front looks great, the back looks cheap because of the shiny plastic (which is a fingerprint magnet)
  • The only thing i dislike is the back, its very cheap plastic that scratches very easy if its put down flat on a hard surface, i would recommend to buy a case to go with.
  • The body is two pieces, shiny plastic on the back and matte plastic around the rim and on the front
  • So now i can never remove this crappy plastic case or else the simm card shoots out of my phone
  • The outer shell is a smooth hard plastic very similar to the stuff they use for the Samsung Galaxy phones
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Reviews around bloatware (2.23 of 5)

  • I have longer than normal fingers and find it difficult to swipe as easily as in the past on my HTC Evo
  • This isn't the fault of the manufacturer but the unnecessary and uninstallable bloatware certainly is
  • I bought this phone for sale for $77 just over a year ago, and it has held up and performed as well as you could hope for the price
  • Constantly losing network and requires reboot, so much bloatware from
  • The phone has way too much useless HTC bloatware that can't be removed or moved to the micro SD card, short of rooting the device
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Reviews around bite (2.22 of 5)

  • It's a bit less intuitive than Apple's OS, but I do have to say that when I first started using the iphone 4 for work, I wanted to throw it out a window at least once a day.
  • and I would be a bit more picky.****EDIT*****After using this phone for a month and a
  • If you have smaller hands then it may be a bit difficult trying to type with just one hand, but the size and quality of the screen are definitely worth it
  • I was a bit skeptical about getting it from the Amazon marketplace for the price
  • Do not turn on phone until you are ready to activate or it will be a little bit harder process than it has to be
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Reviews around time (1.99 of 5)

  • but when youre sitting around killing time on Netflix its worth it
  • although it was still working well, i realized it just didn't have the storage capacity, the screen size, decent loading time, or call clarity
  • I love music to death and am a band nerd and this phone made me love music infinite times better
  • However I cry a little every time I get in the car and can't plug my phone in to listen to Pandora.
  • I had to sign in with my Gmail account and everything worked!I like the size, I like the phone
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Reviews around pixel (1.95 of 5)

  • I had to sign in with my Gmail account and everything worked!I like the size, I like the phone
  • Amazing i love this photo.
  • Good pixel per inch for a mid-range phone.
  • I really do love this phone but the dead pixel on ny first one was just so distracting
  • no regrets even though I did have to return the first phone due to a very distracting dead pixel that wasn't able to be fixed
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Reviews around memory issue (1.95 of 5)

  • The memory issue with this phone is such a disappointment that I cannot recommend it for
  • I had to sign in with my Gmail account and everything worked!I like the size, I like the phone
  • Hardest thing to do was find a chip that would work with it through virgin mobile it has had a lot of internal memory issues but just got a memory card in it now
  • Amazing i love this photo.
  • The bloatware/memory issue is most annoying, as others have mentioned
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Reviews around lack (1.80 of 5)

  • My only gripe is the lack of a removable battery, but the upside to this is that the phone has a really nice aesthetic and feels really smooth
  • The only problem I've had is lack of space on the internal drive
  • My only problem is the lack of memory, and now that the battery has gone
  • I bought this phone for sale for $77 just over a year ago, and it has held up and performed as well as you could hope for the price
  • Pretty good phone, only big issue is the lack of storage but it was only $20 for a large micro SD card
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Reviews around people (1.63 of 5)

  • Crazy!People are astonished to find out what I paid for this phone and that my plan is only $35/Month for unlimited text and data
  • I went to the VM website and set it all up and didn't even have to talk to any annoying customer service people
  • The screen is massive and its such a sleek, beautiful design people have often asked me what I have
  • Some people may dislike the plastic back and the fingerprints that will get all over it, but that's a very minor concern - you're not using the back of your phone
  • Some people have complained about this, but I actually don't mind it at all
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Reviews around sense (1.00 of 5)

  • Sense lacking a message widget stinks too.
  • After system updates, HTC sense junk updates, you will be scouring your phone for things to delete just so you can install the next major system update
  • While I do believe this phone has some nice features and is rather smooth, it has some very odd glitches in the hardware that don't make sense and interrupt my daily usage of the phone

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More about HTC Desire 816 Black (Virgin mobile) - 5.5 inch S-LCD Display

  • A photo lover’s dream
  • 13 megapixel main camera and a 5 megapixel front camera ensure high-resolution pics from either side
  • Capture moving HD images with built-in editing and sharing tools, and combine results for multiple-angle views
  • Incredible design, massive 5.5” HD display, front-facing stereo speakers, customized real-time info feeds, and a quad- core processor all make this one of the best value smartphones ever.