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The folks over at HTC Europe have most probably revealed the yet unreleased HTC Desire 310 smartphone by accident, as until now, no formal announcements were made. It could be due to the fact that HTC did not see the HTC Desire 310 as a device worthy of receiving its very own dedicated announcement, or it could have boiled down to an error by the manufacturer themselves. The official page (which has since been taken down, of course) pointed to an extremely moderate hardware specifications list, which means this would clearly reside somewhere in the mid-range or entry level side of things.

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HTC Desire 310 Revealed By Accident original content from Ubergizmo.

Virgin Mobile, a prepaid carrier, has announced immediately availability of the HTC Desire smartphone. Don’t confuse it with another Desire that HTC launched back in 2010. The model that Virgin Mobile has picked up is actually called Desire 601 in various other markets. Its a mid-range smartphone which is relatively affordable off contract, so a good option for those who don’t want to stick with a carrier for at least two years.

The HTC Desire has a 4.5 inch qHD display, a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 dualcore processor with 1GB RAM, 8GB onboard storage, microSD card support, 5 megapixel rear camera as well as 4G LTE compatibility. It runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box. This particular smartphone is actually often referred to as a watered-down relative of the HTC One, the all metal flagship smartphone which the Taiwanese manufacturer released earlier this year. The HTC Desire brings the custom Sense user interface as well as a number of other software enhancements not found in stock Android. It also features HTC Zoe, BlinkFeed as well as Video Highlights. Much like the HTC One, the Desire has dual front-facing speakers with HTC BoomSound. Virgin Mobile is selling the revamped HTC Desire for $279 without any lengthy service contract.

Virgin Mobile Picks Up The LTE HTC Desire original content from Ubergizmo.

For those of you who happen to reside in China, here is something that might just interest you if you are a huge fan of all things HTC – the HTC Desire 709d. The HTC Desire 709d does seem to shape up to be a China-only handset, and it remains to be seen whether it will be introduced elsewhere or not. What can we expect from the HTC Desire 709d in terms of its hardware, so that we would know just where it stands in the general scheme of things in the smartphone hierarchy?

Well, the HTC Desire 709d would arrive with a 5″ qHD Super LCD2 display and will be powered by a Snadpragon 200 chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A5 processor, Adreno 203 graphics and 1GB RAM. It certainly does not sound like much where its processing muscle, or rather, the lack of it, is concerned, but at the very least the camera department seems to fare a whole lot better. We are talking about an 8-megapixel shooter at the back that is also capable of 1080p video recording, in addition to a front 2.1M-megapixel front-facing snapper that can also handle video chats of up to 1080p resolution, 8GB of internal memory, a 2,100mAh battery, and stereo BoomSound front speakers. Expect Android Jelly Bean as the operating system of choice with Sense UI, although we have our reservations as to whether this will be Sense 5.5 or not.

HTC Desire 709d Hits China original content from Ubergizmo.

It’s a weird time at HTC, where its flagship smartphones earn so much praise, but the bottom line continues to evaporate at an alarming rate. It’s the mid-range and low-end that the company now needs to improve in the hope of recouping some of Robert Downey Jr.’s fee. That’s what the Desire 601 is for, a second-tier smartphone that shares more than a little of its DNA with the company’s highly-lauded flagships. We got to spend a couple of minutes with the device, the first Desire handset to ship with LTE, and we’d like to share with you our very first impressions.

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HTC’s Desire line of mid-range Android smartphones have typically used the alphabet to denote different models, but the company is now switching to numerals. At least according to a Taiwanese certification page, we can expect a Desire 200. Some leaked benchmark results also indicate that a Desire 600 will head to market.

We don’t know much about the Desire 200 apart from its name. It’s listed as the HTC 102e on the certification page, and there’s plenty of speculation that this handset is the G2 we heard about earlier this year. It’s a different story for the Desire 600: the benchmark results indicate this device sports a 960 x 540 (qHD) display with an unspecified 1.2GHz chip. The benchmark sheet also reveals this is a dual-SIM model destined for Europe. That’s it for now, but more details are sure to follow shortly.

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Via: Pocketnow

Source: GFXBench, VR-Zone