Performance
Under the hood, the HTC Desire 12+ is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 chipset, built on a 14nm process. It houses an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, clocked at 1.8 GHz, paired with an Adreno 506 GPU. This combination offers competent performance for basic tasks, such as web browsing, social media, and light gaming. The device comes with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, which can be expanded via a microSDXC card using the shared SIM slot. Running on Android 8.0 Oreo, the Desire 12+ delivers a smooth user interface, although some newer apps might not be fully optimized for this version of the operating system.