HTC Salsa C510e
Product Features:
| 3G: Yes | Wifi: Yes | Camera: 5 MP with flash |
| Display: 3.4 inches | Touch: Yes, Capacitive | Memory Card: upto 32 GB |
| Music Player: Yes | OS: Android | FM Radio: Yes |
Product Review:
- Well built and styled
- Good quality screen
- Surprisingly fast interface
- Feature packed
- Facebook integration genuinely useful
- Laggy camera
- Ugly HTC Facebook pages
- Woeful onboard app memory
- Earpiece volume too quiet
Quick Specifications
See Full Specifications- General:
- Android, v2.3.3
- Display:
- Touch (Capacitive)
- 3.4 inches
- 320 x 480 pixels
- Camera:
- 5 MP
- AutoFocus
- Flash
- Video Recording
- VGA Front Camera
- Video Calling
- Technical:
- Memory Card Support, upto 32 GB
- 512 MB RAM
- 800 MHz Processor
- Connectivity:
- 3G
- WiFi with hotspot
- Bluetooth
- GPS
- Extra:
- Music Player
- Video Player
- FM Radio
- 3.5 mm Headphone
Advantages
Display In Groups| Display | |
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Has A Responsive Touch Screen
Capacitive, MultiTouch
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Touch Displays offer a more interactive experience. |
| Camera | |
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High Resloution Camera
5 MP with AutoFocus
(Average: 5.97 MP)
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High resolution camera for taking sharp and clear photos. |
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Has Flash For Camera
LED
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Having a camera flash allows you to take photos in low light. |
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Has Front Camera
VGA (0.3 MP) with videocalling
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Front Camera enables you to take your own photos and also you can use videocalling feature because videocalling is supported in this phone. |
| Technical | |
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Supports Memory Card
upto 32 GB
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Memory cards give your device more storage capacity. So you can store more songs, photos and videos. |
| Connectivity | |
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Supports 3G
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3G Enabled Handsets give you more download speed and a faster internet experience. |
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Faster Download Speed
7.2 Mbps
(Average: 9.8 Mbps)
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Faster Download Speed means stream videos at real time. |
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Supports WiFi
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You can connect to wifi hotspots in your area to experience a superior internet experience. |
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Supports WiFi Hotspot
Wifi Tethering
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Allows you to use your mobile internet connection on your wifi enabled laptop. |
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Supports Bluetooth v3.0
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Bluetooth enables you to wirelessly listen to music and calls using bluetooth headsets. |
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Supports GPS
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GPS is used for determining your location. You can get directions to a place with the help of GPS. |
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Has A 3.5mm Headphone Jack
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Having 3.5mm Jack enables you to connect to large number of other devices (such as speakers) having 3.5mm Port. |
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Has Accelerometer
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Detects motion as well as the orientation of a device (horizontally or vertically). |
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Has Compass
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Determines direction facing relative to North, East, West and South. |
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Supports Video Player
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Watch your favourite video songs and movies in video player. It supports MPEG4, XviD, AVI, 3GP, 3G2 file types. |
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Supports Music Player
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Listen to your favourite songs in music player. It supports MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI etc. file types. |
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Supports FM Radio
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Listen to your favourite radio stations on your phone. Enjoy music on the go with FM Radio. |
| Battery | |
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Long Battery Standby Time
18.5 days
(Average: 18.4 days)
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With long battery standby time, mobile phone battery can last more days without charging in idle condition. |
Disadvantages
Display In Groups| Display | |
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Doesn't Use OLED Display
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OLED Displays have faster response times, better viewing angles, improved contrast and consume less bettery power. |
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Small Screen
3.4 inches
(Average: 4.42 inches)
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Gives an unpleasant experience while Reading, browsing internet and watching videos. |
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Low Resolution Screen
320 x 480 pixels
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Images, videos and text will not look very sharp. |
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Not Very Sharp Screen
~ 170 ppi
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Images, videos and text will not look very sharp. Text will be harder to read. |
| Technical | |
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Fewer Processing Cores
1 Core
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More cores result in better parallelism, meaning more tasks can be processed in parallel without slowing down the User Interface. |
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Slower CPU
800 MHz
(Average: 976.9 MHz)
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Slower CPU has trouble in running graphics rich applications. |
| Connectivity | |
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Can't Output To TV
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You can't connect your smartphone to a TV. |
| Extra | |
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Doesn't Have A Gyroscope
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Gyroscope Determines orientation and rotation and provides more accurate 3D motion tracking than an accelerometer. |
| Battery | |
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Short Battery Talk Time
9 hours
(Average: 9.3 hours)
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With short battery talk time, you won't be able to talk continously on the phone for a long period of time without charging. |
Full Specifications
Report An Error| General | |
| Sim Type: | GSM |
| Dual Sim: | No |
| Device Type: | Smartphone |
| Release Date: | February, 2011 |
| Design | |
| Dimensions: | 109.1 x 58.9 x 12.3 mm |
| Weight: | 120 g |
| Form Factor: | Classic (Candybar) |
| Display | |
| Type: | Color TFT screen, 16M colors |
| Touch: | Yes, Capacitive with Multitouch |
| Size: | 3.4 inches, 320 x 480 pixels |
| Memory | |
| Phonebook: | Unlimited |
| Internal: | 512 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM |
| Card Slot: | Yes, upto 32 GB |
| Connectivity | |
| GPRS: | Yes |
| EDGE: | Yes |
| 3G: | Yes, 7.2 Mbps Download, 384 Kbps Upload |
| Wifi: | Yes, with wifi-hotspot |
| Bluetooth: | Yes, v3.0 |
| USB: | Yes, microUSB v2.0 |
| USB Features: | USB Charging, Mass Storage |
| Extra | |
| GPS: | Yes, with A-GPS Support |
| Sensors: | Accelerometer, Compass |
| 3.5mm Headphone Jack: | Yes |
| Camera | |
| Camera: | Yes, 5 MP with autofocus |
| Features: | Face detection, Geo tagging |
| Video Recording: | Yes, 720 x 480 pixels @ 24fps |
| Flash: | 1 Flash |
| Front Camera: | Yes, VGA (0.3 MP), supports video calling |
| Technical | |
| OS: | Android, v2.3.3 |
| CPU: | 800 MHz Processor |
| Browser: | Yes, supports HTML5/Flash |
| Multimedia | |
| Supports: | MMS, Instant Messanging, Voice Recording, Calendar, YouTube Player |
| Email: | Yes |
| Music: | MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, M4A (Apple lossless), AMR, OGG, MIDI |
| Video: | MPEG4, XviD, AVI, 3GP, 3G2 |
| FM Radio: | Yes |
| Document Reader: | Yes |
| Social Networking: | Facebook, Twitter, Youtube |
| Battery | |
| Size: | 1520 mAH, Li-ion Battery |
| Standby time: | 445 hours, 530 hours on 3G |
| Talk time: | 540 minutes, 470 minutes on 3G |
Shame we didn't think of it first. Facebook has 750 million users. And you don't actually need all of them. Oh well, some of them are obviously a bird, a rodent or a fish but that's not the point. All you need is to get a mere one percent interested in the Salsa or the ChaCha. Stick a phone in the hands of half of that and you may as well clock out and go to lunch.
The Salsa is supposed to fill the gap between the Desire S and the Wildfire S. read more →
- Quad-band GSM and dual-band 3G support
- 7.2 Mbps HSDPA and 384 Kbps HSUPA
- 3.4" 16M-color capacitive TFT touchscreen of HVGA (320 x 480) resolution, Gorilla glass
- Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread with HTC Sense
- 800 MHz CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
- Below-par screen sunlight legibility
- Camera not the best weve seen
- microSD slot under the battery cover, not (quite) hot-swappable
- No HD video recording
We love the hardware and HTC's Sense interface runs exceptionally smoothly on top of Android 2.3, plus the Salsa works very well indeed as a mobile web browser and can handle the demands of Angry Birds' physics code with ease.
If the camera worked a little more smoothly and if there was a touch (well, a lot) more app storage space, it would be the perfect mid-sized Android phone. read more →
- Well designed body
- Interactive lock screen
- Responsive screen and buttons
- Glitch-free home screens
- Clever Facebook integration
- Laggy camera
- Ugly HTC Facebook pages
- Woeful onboard app memory
- Earpiece volume too quiet
So if you're looking for a phone in this price range, you will fall into one of two groups, those who should get an HTC Salsa or those who'd be better served with an HTC Desire S or another similarly specced handset. If you consider your phone's primary function to update your status, send pictures to your wall and share music, then the HTC Salsa could certainly help speed up your social workflow. It's also a good size, well put together and ships with a nice camera. read more →
- Facebook integration
- Solid build
- Good camera photos
- Poor video recording
- Facebook integration only works with HTC apps
- Low-res screen
The HTC Salsa may be a smaller, budget device, with Facebook at its core but it's actually a surprisingly grown up smartphone. It's smartly styled, speedy in operation, packed full of features, and can get you to Facebook nirvana quicker than you can say toasted Tortilla. Whether your desire for Facebook fripperies is strong enough to overcome the slightly high price is more of a personal preference issue but if you do like the idea then it's very well executed. read more →
- Well built and styled
- Good quality screen
- Surprisingly fast interface
- Feature packed
- Facebook integration genuinely useful
- More expensive than other small smartphones
- Only 600MHz processor
Between the ChaCha and Salsa, the latter is superior but it doesn't mean it's the best Android smartphone you can buy at this price.
We've constantly compared the Salsa to the ChaCha in this review for a very good reason. While you can't buy the Salsa outright at the current time from Vodafone, it does offer both phones at the same contract price points. Of the two, the Salsa is arguably the superior — unless for physical reasons you simply must have an actual keyboard. read more →
- Decent battery life
- Lock screen works really well
- Compact
- Camera is only average
- F button is a gimmick, not a feature
- Can't see why you'd opt for the Salsa over the Nexus S
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