In today’s smartphone world, most handsets, especially the high-end ones with big-ass displays, usually come at a price, and we began to wonder if the HTC Droid DNA was one of those devices. We are not solely referring to the amount of money you fork over, but rather the “price” you have to pay just so you can get to play with these bad boys. The “price” we are referring to is the somewhat shorter battery life of these smartphones where its juice usually gets squeezed out rather quicly thereby necessitating a trip to the wall charger towards the end of the day so the handset can have enough for use in the morrow.
The HTC Droid DNA is on sale now starting at $149.99.
This is the exact same reason as to why we were a bit apprehensive when we found out that the HTC Droid DNA, the Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer’s entry to the phablet competition, only packs a 2020 mAh power pack in its chassis. And when you compare it to other devices, the high-end ones with a regular big-ass HD display, they pack at least a 2100 mAh power pack in their internals and not the massive 5-inch display found in the HTC Droid DNA which come with a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
It is a good thing that HTC engineers and designers managed to identify this common pitfall among smartphones and was able to make use of a new technology for its Full HD panel in the HTC Droid DNA to ensure that the display doesn’t become too much of a battery hog. To ascertain the capabilities of the HTC phablet in terms of battery life, the HTC Droid DNA was put through a battery of tests that will give us an idea of what its capabilities are in terms of battery life.
The HTC Droid DNA 4G was put through real life situations and the handset managed to rack up 11 hours of talk time, 6 hours and 40 minutes of web browsing and seven and a half hours of video playback. Though not as impressive as the battery life of the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD which comes with a massive 3300 mAh power pack, the HTC Droid DNA is still one impressive and very capable device with a more than decent battery life.
As for the HTC Droid DNA, the HTC phablet reached official status when it was unveiled a couple of days ago. The handset is now available off the shelves of Verizon and is running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for its operating system. It has a QualComm APQ8064 SnapDragon chipset in its internals and this SoC brings to the fold a quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor and a staggering 2GB of RAM. The storage space on board the HTC Droid DNA comes up to 16GB with only 11GB set aside for user content. Display-wise, the HTC Droid DNA comes with a massive 5.0-inch SuperLCD 3 panel with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. its dual-shooter configuration on the other hand features a rear 8Mp shooter and a front 2.1MP video chat and self-portrait camera.
You can purchase the HTC Droid DNA now starting at $149.99.
