HTC Desire 816 unveiled, price in India set at Rs 23,990, brings Zoe and Boomsound

The HTC Desire 816 is a mid-range device that has been launched in India along with the high-end One M8 and the budget-friendly Desire 210. This smartphone has been loaded with a lot of advanced and proprietary features from HTC and adopts the design that adorns the One series smartphones by the Taiwanese company.

The HTC Desire 816 boasts of HTC BoomSound and has dual frontal speakers for an improved audio experience. There’s HTC BlinkFeed for helping you keep tabs on social updates and news, while HTC Zoe enhances pictures you capture using the phone’s 13MP camera. This camera fulfills all your photography needs and another 5MP one on the front facilitates video conferencing.

HTC Desire 816

Its front panel is dominated by a 5.5-inch HD IPS touchscreen of 720p resolution and under the display lies an intuitive user interface that can be attributed to the Android OS and the HTC Sense UI. The smartphone makes the most of a 1.6GHz quad core Snapdragon 400 SoC and tags along 1.5GB of RAM as well as 8GB of onboard storage which is expandable by up to 128GB using a microSD card. A 2600mAh battery keeps it charged up for talk time of about 21 hours.

HTC Desire 816 Smartphone

The HTC Desire 816 smartphone is slated to be up for sale in India for Rs 23,990.

Key specs of the HTC Desire 816:

– 5.5-inch HD IPS touchscreen
– 1.6GHz quad core Snapdragon 400 SoC
– Android OS and HTC Sense 5.5
– 13MP and 5MP cameras
– 1.5GB of RAM
– 8GB of onboard memory
– Expandable by up to 128GB
– 2600mAh power pack
– Up to 21 hours of 3G talk time