MWC 2014: HTC Desire 816 hands-on

GSMArena team, 24 February 2014.

Introduction

HTC stuck to its strength with the two devices it presented at the MWC – the Desire 816 phablet and Desire 610 smartphone. Both feature attractive designs, LTE connectivity and BoomSound speakers.

The HTC Desire 816 is a 5.5" phablet, "one of the best value smartphones ever introduced by HTC" says the company. LTE is certainly a good step and the 13MP camera sure helps. There's also a front-facing camera with 5MP BSI sensor for better selfies.

The HTC Desire 610 is a smaller device, with a 4.7" qHD screen. The Desire 610 has an 8MP camera and is powered by a Snapdragon 400 chipset. It has a fairly large battery too, 2,400mAh, which surprisingly is only a bit smaller than that of the phablet.

Unfortunately, HTC only brought out a Desire 816 dummy, so we couldn't handle the live device. Still, there are some photos on the next page you can look at - HTC should allow hands-ons with the real deal tomorrow. The situation with the Desire 610 is even worse, there isn't even a dummy.

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