For so many years already, Asus has been manufacturing exceptional computers and laptops but now it has the Asus ZenFone 6 for its venture in the smartphone arena while HTC has its own flagship HTC Desire 816 that’s constantly compared with Asus’s handset that offer a device which works like a tablet. To find out what is the better phone, let’s compare these two superb options through their features and specs.
Displays and Sizes
The Asus ZenFone 6 comes with a 6-inch IPS display that supports a resolution of 720×1280 pixels and pixel density of 245ppi The HTC Desire 816 on the other hand, comes with a smaller 5.5-inch Super LCD2 display, similar support for resolution with Asus’ but higher pixel density of 267ppi.
There is a slight difference in the measurements and sizes of the two devices with Desire 816 measuring 6.17×3.10×0.31 inches and the ZenFone 6 measuring 6.57×3.32×0.39 inches. The Asus device weighs 165 grams while the competitor weighs 31 grams lighter.
Hardware and Operating System
The two smartphones are very much different when it comes to their hardware with the HTC Desire 816 winning over its competitor because of its very powerful quad-core processor Qualcomm MSM8928 Snapdragon 400 chipset together with 2GB of RAM and clock speed at 1.6GHz. The Asus phablet on the other hand, uses an Intel Atom Z2580 chipset and is supported by 1GB of RAM and a PowerVR SGX544MP2 GPU.
In terms of the operating systems that they use, the Desire 816 runs in Android v4.4.4 KitKat while the ZenFone 6 runs on Android v4.2 Jelly Bean. It was only recently that the Asus phablet received an upgrade to the same version as its rival which is using Sense UI v6 on top of its latest operating system.
Cameras and Batteries
Both devices have 13MP rear cameras with the same 4160×3120 pixels and features including autofocus, touch focus, LED flash, geo tagging, face detection and panorama. The difference in this segment is that Desire 816 has extra features not offered by its rival like simultaneous HD video and image recording. Also, the HTC device has a better user-facing camera of 5MP compared to that of Asus’ 2MP front shooter.
Based on the features and specs reviews between HTC Desire 816 and Asus ZenFone 6, the latter may have a bigger screen it is not as powerful as its rival. Therefore, it’s the HTC device which makes a better phone choice.