Tuesday, February 25, 2014

MWC: HTC announces mid-range smartphones Desire Desire 610 and 816 - ZDNet.de

HTC has presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two middle class smartphones: the Desire and the Desire 610 816 Both come with a plastic case, but take the case made in aluminum top model HTC One. Apparently the Taiwanese thus pursue a strategy similar Apple with the iPhone 5C.

The Desire 816 takes the design of the HTC one, but it has a plastic housing (Photo: Aloysius Low / CNET).

The common basic facilities in the Android 4.4 devices includes a quad-core processor, LTE, two front stereo speakers with HTC’s Audio Boom Sound and HTC Flashing Feed. The latter ensures a Flipboard-like presentation of content on the home screen.

slightly higher Desire 816 has a 5.5-inch display with a HD resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels. It is powered fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.6 GHz 400, 1.5 GB of RAM available to the side. The 8 GB of internal memory can be expanded using MicroSD card.

Instead of Ultra pixel camera known from the HTC Desire One comes in 816, a 13-megapixel model used. For HTC Zoe is integrated up to 20 sequential shots and a video dreisekündiges receives when pressing the shutter button. The back camera is complemented by a front 5-megapixel webcam.

Desire 610 has a 4.7-inch screen, which dissolves 960 times 540 pixels. His unspecified quad-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, ie slightly slower than the Desire 816 In the memory equipment users must also make concessions: in addition to 1 GB of RAM 8 GB of internal data on board. But here is an extension using MicroSD card possible.

The Desire 610 offers for 299 € a significantly poorer equipment than its 80 euros more expensive Desire 816 (Photo: Aloysius Low / CNET).

back camera of the Desire 610 takes photos at up to 8 megapixels. For video calls, there is also a front 1.3 megapixel webcam.

Desire 816 will initially be in China with the HTC Sense 5.5 interface on the market by the manufacturer in March. From April it will then be available worldwide. The suggested retail price for Germany and Austria is 379 euros. The Desire 610 follows in May for 299 Euros.

His upcoming flagship smartphone One 2 HTC has not presented at the MWC . The official launch takes place only on 25 March at separate events in New York and London. Of these, the Taiwanese seem to promise more attention for their top model.

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