HTC is smartphone and LTE phablet with stereo speakers - Heise Newsticker

HTC upgrades its Android series Desire Desire Desire 610 and 816 look like a plastic version of the top model HTC One and both cost less than 400 euro

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The HTC Desire 610 looks like a plastic-One.
image: HTC shows HTC at Mobile World Congress two new smartphones under 400 euro, the Desire and the Desire 816 610 Both play in the smartphone middle class, but have fast LTE with up to 150 MBit / s gross installed in the downlink (Cat. 4). The Desire Series also gets a new design language missed: you visually reminds the slim frame above and below the display strongly to the One series. Instead of aluminum HTC’s commitment for housing but mainly colorful plastic one.

The most striking difference between the new Desire devices is the display size. The HTC Desire has a 610 4.7-inch display with 960 × 540 pixels only. The Desire on the other hand reached 860 with 5.5 Inch Display Diagonal already phablet-size, its screen has a resolution of 1280 × 720 pixels higher. Not only LTE and design, even the stereo speakers have inherited the Desire smartphones from the One. HTC promises about their own sound technology boom sound an enhanced sound.

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Desire 816 is significantly more equipped than the 610 So put a Snapdragon 400 with 1.6 GHz and four cores and 1.5 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory in it. A MicroSD slot comes as standard, such as NFC. The Snapdragon 400 Desire 610 only comes to 1.2 GHz, the main memory with 1 GB also smaller. As with its big brother, there is a MicroSD slot and 8 GB of flash memory. Also, the cameras differ: The 13-megapixel notches of Desire 816 should be significantly better than the photos shoot 8-megapixel camera of 610

Both smartphones will come in the next few months to Germany – in April, the Desire 610 for 300 euros, and in May the Desire 816 for 380 euros. (acb)