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Staying in the Spotlight all around is easy with the HTC Desire EYE smartphone
HTC has finally introduced their first super selfie smartphone Desire Eye last month. Now few other tips are available including the launch date already this month.
We have already talked about its specs. So speaking quick the phone has 5.2-inch FullHD display (1080p), Quad-Core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory with possibility to expand the space, one of the best front cameras with 13MP sensor and a LED flashlight equipped and supported by Eye Experience software, the battery capacity is 2400mAh and the OS is the essential Android 4.4.4 KitKat. By the way, Desire Eye also has the same camera on the back, so you will never feel the difference no matter which side is used for shooting.
This is definitely the best option for those who knows the price of the best selfie capture and doesn't want to overpay for a professional photo session in a studio. It's really easy to take the phone out of the pocket and start the pro photo shooting at any convenient moment with no necessity to carry the large-sized camera on your neck or in your bag. Pick your aspect angle to make a new avatar for social network or simply share yourself with your friends or relatives how wonderful you are today. Using the display as the mirror it is possible to know what will be the picture after the shot. So there's no need to be disappointed that the photo will be crumbled or can be an object of ridicule. So having the HTC Desire Eye there will be only you who controls the process, so there cannot be a photo not satisfying you on the first place.
If you have found what you were looking for, then you should know that the sales start on the 7th of November and will be available under the best contract conditions with AT&T. The phone will be bound to the contract for $149.99 for two years. HTC Desire Eye costs $22.92 per month for the next 24 months, $27.50 per month for next 20 months or $549,99 without it. Jump to the offsite of your cell operator to ensure you have the best selfie pictures on your page having the best selfie making device in your pocket.
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HTC has exposed a new and not that expensive phone Desire 820 in Mini concept
It seems that making the Mini versions of smartphone flagships is a routine job nowadays. Reasonable doubt becomes truthfulness, when the same flagship specs are taken onboard the minor form factor version at a lower price.
HTC Desire 820 Mini is a glaring example of how to save money on a first date. Actually this is the same Desire 820, which we all well know since the September this year. Speaking about the flagship itself, we can simply note that a wonderful combination of different specifications and price made the device look pretty attractive to the potential buyers, therefore all the derivative products came from the original basis device look very seductive, especially, when the price gets even lower than the celebrity itself. The information about it has only flashed on the Chinese web-site of HTC, but it could be enough to become popular. Anyway the time will show, if the matter is really worth it.
New Mini version of HTC Desire 820 apparently has lost 0.5 inches of the 5.5 full-size display, adding few pixels on every lost inch to reach the FullHD, having a better resolution quality than the forefather with a resolution at 720x1280 pixels. Moreover the Mini one loses a half of the RAM keeping it at a safe distance from the flagship in order to understand why you pay less. And the processor the tiny guy will have is the Quad Core 1.2GHz, which indeed concedes to the more aggressive Octa-Core Snapdragon 615.
Small Desire 820 will have a respective small storage space with a capacity of not more than 8GB, but with a possibility to enlarge it, as always, along with the 8MP camera on the rear side and 5MP one on the front panel. The OS will be surely upgradable up to Android 5.0 Lollipop instantly after the purchase is made.
But at the very beginning you will have Android 4.4 KitKat and Sense UI interfaces pre-installed out of the box. Mini is also equipped with essential WiFi 802.11a/g/b/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and more than just essential LTE to have the 4G networks in your pocket. The price twinkled appeared to be only $230 after the currency conversion was made, which is significantly cheaper than the elder bro. We expect more details soon to give you more feedback.
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Google together with HTC will launch Nexus 9 tablet quite soon
We've already heard few bits of rumors about the Google Nexus 9 during last couple of weeks. It's an interesting strategy because the Nexus 6 leaks flooded the web truly intensively.
Perhaps HTC is better at keeping the secrets than Motorola, though it didn't prevent Desire Eye from breaking through on the outside and scare every competitor with its huge eye. But speaking about the tablet we can foresee that it will retrace to the same roots as before and will have a matte textured aluminum casing, as well as Nexus 7 had.
From the leak we can see an 8-megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash single diode in the left upper corner and 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera under f/2.4 lenses. The miniUSB output is in the center of the bottom face for recharge. An LTE module is also expected to be available for the US market.
Google Nexus 9 tablet comes with an 8.9-inch Quad HD display, that will have a high resolution of 2048x1536 pixels, a 64-bit NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, not more than 4GB of RAM, a 6700mAh battery and Android 5.0 Lollipop to make the mentioned components work.
The tablet is now available. The prices for the tablet is $399 for the 16GB model with Wi-Fi only, $479 for the 32GB of inner storage aboard and $599 for 32GB LTE tablet. The Nexus 9 stirred a bit and we’ve informed you accordingly.
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HTC RE camera can be easily masked as a throat sprayer in your jacket's front pocket
A camera that could be simply mistaken with a throat sprayer being a good masked video camera sitting invisibly in your front pocket. You can easily shoot video just walking by the streets and making your dirty work all around!
HTC isn't stating that this oddly looking friend can compete with GoPro series cameras, they're just saying that you might need it right when the video record time visits you and you have no smartphone quickly accessible to use. It's much more convenient to touch a start button with your finger on the device that is already waiting for action in your pocket. HTC even tells us that it is not waterproof and damage resistant enough to go on skiing or rafting, so think for yourself where you might use it in a daily life.
Few tips to use it may come from the outer specs of the device. As you have already noted it is small. And as a small device its weight is also small - only 65.5 grams (2.31 ounces) with dimensions:96.7 x 26.5mm. So it could be useful to take the small and easily reachable camera somewhere where you go on the vocation or just for a ride with your friends. Just imagine that when you feel yourself excited and there is no time to think of a hardly removable phone sitting tight in your jeans pocket, there is an excellent way to instantly start recording the moment you wish to be remembered for the entire life and not only in your mind, but video registered.
And do not be afraid that this video reminiscence will have a worse quality than your eyes could have remembered. Actually there's a 16MP sensor installed, shooting at 1080p/30fps video and 4x slow-motion 720p video and time-lapse recording, and features a CMOS sensor of 1/2.3-inch size along with a lens of 146-degree wide-angle range.
The video and photo shooting is solved with a single button: press it quick for a still image or hold for a few seconds to start video record. Another button will let you take slow motion pictures, above it there's a mic and beneath it there's a speaker and LED indicator, allowing you to instantly turn it on automatically with no other buttons to push, as HTC wants you to use it immediately with no other electricity source triggers to think about. The LED indicator knows exactly when to switch your RE camera, as when you keep it in the pocket where only the darkness rules there's no sense to devour your accumulator senselessly. Still think about the device that it is just an inhaler not capable for anything? Maybe the indicator will be slow to turn the device, but is much more convenient than looking for a small "turn on" button in the dark. It’s only one start button to commence the capturing.
At the watertight foundation a microSD slot is situated with an already assigned 8GB card coming as a part of the set, which can be easily taken away and interchanged with another one up to 128GB of free storage.
It is made of a glossy plastic, which does not fall out of your sticky hands with possibility to choose between following colors: black, white, blue, teal or orange. The device is compatible not only with HTC smartphones, it can smoothly work with all Android and iOS based devices of the latest versions. You can use your tablets or smartphones to change the slow-mo settings of your RE camera and actually app is the only way to do it. Also by pairing it with your smart devices using its Bluetooth LE you can manage the 3rd party options with an API or use the WiFi Direct for files transferring and all of the other features for reconfiguring your camera the way you want.
The water and dust resistance rating RE camera has is IPx7, which can be upgraded to IPx8 after an additional protective cap is bought. 840mAh battery is able to record up to an hour and 40 minutes of continuous 1080p video or 1,200 16MP photo shootings.
The periscope camera is already available for pre-order now at a cost of $200, though all of its advantages are null, when remembering the new GoPro Hero 4 action camera with an interface on the device and other reasonable options only at a twice higher price.
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HTC Desire Eye will make your Selfies professionally
The HTC Desire Eye called so due to a situated full sized impressive 13 MP camera on the forehead panel. We have already looked in his eye, but now we know more after the release actually happened.
This is the same Desire 816, but with a narcissistic temper. This selfie maker is more than just a classic smartphone, as it assists you in a self-admire stuff limitlessly. There's nothing unnatural in feeling yourself being in need of few selfie photos a day made in a good quality. Moreover Desire Eye owns two equivalent cameras, which are perfect for selfies and ordinary photos.
Both cameras are equipped with a wide-angle lens, double light-emitting diode flash making the process of photographing ideal. Phone has also adopted only the best abilities from its progenitors, to become even better as far as it is possible nowadays. It feels itself solid, sturdy and IPX7 waterproof and even the stereo BoomSound has a spectacular sound quality.
The rest of the specs are foreseen. As it was expected Desire Eye will come with a 5.2-inch FullHD display with a fascinating color rendering, brilliant intensity of brightness and wide range of view. Distributing the photos throughout the folders of the smartphone will be 2.3GHz Quad Core Processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 along with 2GB of RAM. The internal storage will be presented with only a 16GB of storage, simply solved by using the microSD card and increasing the memory capacity up to 128GB.
The means of communication include LTE and HSPA, WiFi a/b/g/n (2.4/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX, NFC, a microUSB2.0 port, and a 3.5mm headphone audio output. Additionally there are proximity, accelerometer, ambient light, gyroscope, and digital compass. The three microphones for background noise cancellation are included too. The selfie device will be supplied with a 2400mAh removable battery, a latest version of Android 4.4 KitKat and Sense 6 UI on top.
HTC Desire Eye will go on sale in October. Large markets, as USA and Europe can only whisper that Eye should be cheaper than One M8, which is priced at $800. HTC hasn't given us an official pricing yet, but it will be revealed soon enough.
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HTC launches a new Desire smartphone with 13-megapixel Eye
It is not surprising that the company has reported their most efficient income is coming from smartphones HTC One M8 and Desire 816. These models were warmly welcomed by the customers not only in the United States, but also in other regions all over the world.
Taiwanese engineers felt themselves elevated and decided to perform aerobatics of a higher rank using the same tricks from the past. New model of phone, which is under development now by HTC is not just the old Desire with the same set of specifications and reasonable price, but it is a brand new product with new priorities that fit into the image of the latest trends.
There are some facts about the future handset. The basic and the main attraction of this smartphone will be located on the front side. It will not be an ordinary 2MP front-facing camera, but an impressive full-sized one with 13MP sensor. That's why the name Desire Eye has a rational explanation. Other features of a young Cyclops are a 5.2-inch IPS display with a decent resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, a big processing heart 2.3GHz Snapdragon 801, 2GB of RAM and memory jacket with pockets capacity of 32GB, which can be increased.
The alleged HTC Desire Eye comes in a waterproof IPX7 certification case with a 2400mAh removable battery, a latest version of Android and Sense 6 UI on top of it. Other specifications are hidden as well as the price and the date of smartphone's emergence from the cave, but we look closely and will report when action starts.
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HTC Recamera should be another stunt video camera able to compete with GoPro cameras
A new competitor for the well-known GoPro cameras is coming on board with the periscope raised and ready for recording! Though this is all we’ve got for the moment, we are sure that this oddly looking camera might give a contest to GoPro, which are quite expensive.
All we can work with for the moment is a video from the official site and few leaked photos showing us the strange shape of the HTC Recamera. Watching the video we can note that the camera should be waterproof by seeing the people diving in the pool. And if we watch the video up to an end we can see that the camera can be used in the most extreme conditions or during the ordinary cycling, so it should be dust and damage resistant, just like the GoPro cameras.
What will be inside is still a mystery, but thanks to rumors, we might at least imagine that the sensor could be 16MP, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections will be available as well, and an app was considered for remote control via separate device whether it is HTC’s Android smartphone or, for example, Apple’s iPad tablet.
Who knows, maybe it will not be as useful, steady and immune to the environment, as GoPro Hero 4, but it will certainly show everything it is capable of. What will it be, should be told on October, 8th, as shown in video, when HTC raises their action recording periscope, and we’ll get back to you with more news or at least rumors once some of them revealed.
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Nexus 9 shows its shape attracting all tablet lovers
It seems that the new rumors have pierced through the internet and a new tablet called Nexus 9 is slightly revealed to us. Who could actually be the real maker of this device you ask? Well, Google could give it to anyone, for example, to Asus or Motorola, but the choice is actually done in favor of HTC, the one which already failed with the Flyer – a 7-inch tablet at $500 cost in 2013.
A new Nexus – a name that was already used plenty of times – is created under the code name of “Flounder”… and it actually coincides with a well-known to us Nexus X with a code name “Shamu” - the killer whale from the history of entertainment. So we guess Flounder and Shamu could be good friends.
So the display of Nexus 9 should be 9-inch IPS LCD at a 1920x1200 pixel resolution. Processor is meant to be NVIDIA Tegra K1 Denver (64-bit), just like the NVIDIA Shield Tablet. Free given storage is ought to be 32 GB with microSD card adjustable space. A rear camera with 8 megapixel will be accompanied with 1.6 megapixel front one.
A date that has been announced cannot be said strictly, therefore we can expect it in October in order not to tell you false dates at all. The price is expected to be around $400, which is quite fascinating for such a device. If any more news arrives on board, we will surely tell them to our visitors.
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HTC teases the competitors with their latest 64-bit smartphone Desire 820
Now HTC is again trying to get to technological Olympus by improving the devices of the present. A high probability to stay on top has a new Desire flagship smartphone, which was built using a 64-bit architecture.
HTC promotes the new Desire 820 as the world’s first Android smartphone with a 64-bit mobile processor on board. Unsurprisingly that HTC is betting on 1.5GHz octa-core processor Snapdragon 615 from Qualcomm since it provides overall reduction in energy consumption and acceptable thermal condition. Although this is an advanced computing engine with unimaginable productivity, so you don’t have to worry about the battery life and burns on your palms.
It is worth remembering that this device is not an ordinary representative of its class, and the potential is close to a portable multimedia center packed together with full-fledged game console for your favorite and upcoming games too. Outfitted in a total of eight independent cores it provides efficient multitasking at a steadily increasing demands of multimedia applications.
In a addition to eight core processor there are 2GB of RAM, Adreno 405 GPU and 16/32GB of built-in storage, which probably can be expanded by memory cards. The new HTC Desire 820 will come with 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 720x1280 pixels, Android 4.4.4 KitKat and HTC Sense, that is naturally for this manufacturer, but there is no mentioning about Android 5.0 that we would like to see on board the new Desire, considering Nexus 6 already has. It will also come with an 8-megapixel front facing camera, a 13-megapixel sensor on the cap and a 2600mAh battery on board.
HTC Desire 820 holds a 4G LTE Cat. 4 connectivity, as well as a Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi 802.11a/g/b/n. The 64-bit pioneer will reveal itself at the end of this month with the price tag of $449 in Marble White, Tuxedo Grey, Santorini White, and Milky-way Grey boby colours. It seems reasonable, acceptable and quite natural for this part of the market.
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HTC has launched new Desire 610
The smartphone HTC Desire 610 was announced in the beginning of the this year at Mobile World Congress. For meet the needs of middle-class smartphone market HTC offers the best-in-class specs without having to compromise on quality.
Unlike HTC Desire 816 which also was announced in February, the handset Desire 610 comes with a 4.7-inch display that has a resolution of 960x540 pixels, a quad-core 1.2Ghz Snapdragon 400, a graphics accelerator Adreno 305 and 1GB of RAM. The device features 8GB of built in storage and a MicroSD slot for additional storage cards up to 64GB.
The HTC Desire 610 also has a 8MP rear camera with an LED flash, HDR, auto focus, face detection and Geo tagging. For video calls in front located a 1.3MP camera. Other specifications include a WiFi 802.11, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, 4G LTE, a mUSB port and a 2040mAh battery. HTC will set a Google's mobile OS Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and HTC Sense 5.5 user interface.
The smartphone HTC Desire 610 is available now.
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HTC One M8 Mini goes on sale
HTC is working on the miniature version of HTC One M8. Like its predecessor HTC One Mini, HTC M8 Mini got nothing fundamentally new from flagship smartphone, it will keep main design and metal body but now at smaller dimensions.
The smartphone, as expected, will be equipped with a 4.5-inch display which support a resolution of 1280x720 pixels, a quad-core processor 1.7GHz Snapdragon 400 and 1GB of RAM. 16GB of internal storage, a slot for MicroSD cards, 13MP rear camera, 5MP front-facing camera, WiFi, Bluetooth 4 and OS Android 4.4.2 KitKat with UI Sense 6.0 also on board.
The handset is available now. HTC is also preparing another version of its flagship - One (M8) Ace.
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HTC Desire 816 is the best smartphone of middle segment
The HTC Desire 816 was first introduced at MWC 2014. This smartphone may be a good choice when need a handset wisely. It brings a pretty wide set of specifications traits of the senior flagship HTC One.
Desire 816 includes a 5.5 inch HD display with resolution of 1280x720 pixels, a quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 with a clock frequency 1.6GHz plus 1GB of RAM and 8GB of built in storage which can be extended by a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 128GB.
On the back the smartphone has a 13MP camera with back-illuminated of matrix for making high-quality images even in low light and a 5MP camera for video calls in the front. HTC handset also has a 2600mAh battery and 4G LTE module. The device comes with Android 4.4 KitKat and HTC Sens 5.5.
HTC Desire 816 is available now.
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HTC launched the flagship smartphone M8
The Taiwanese company HTC named a new flagship smartphone HTC M8. It is similar to Galaxy S5 and LG G3 and is one of the most anticipated mobile devices of the year.
According to preliminary information HTC M8 got a 5-inch display with a resolution of FullHD. The foundation of the device is a single-chip quad Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 with 2.3GHz and Adreno 330 graphics processor. Complements the composition 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal flash memory. The standard amount of memory can be expanded by MicroSD memory card.
HTC M8 (HTC One 2) is equipped with an 10MP camera with dual LED flash, battery of 3200mAh and OS Android 4.4KitKat with a new user interface HTC Sense 6.0 out of the box. Is not excluded that the M8 will have a version that supports two SIM cards. Is known only that the smartphone will be deprived of the usual touch buttons below the screen. They moved on the screen.
The new HTC flagship will be widely available later. Price of the new smartphone will be a regular for HTC One lineup that ranges from $600 to $700.
Really huge HTC One
Rumors are confirmed, HTC One Max is not just another mega clone of our time. HTC already has a dwarf as HTC One Mini, the company now wants to build a giant as required by the synthetic theory of evolution. So what should we expect from the new super-sized smartphone.
First of all, the new phablet received 5.9-inch (SLCD 3) Full HD display with 1080 x 1920 pixels and a pixel density of 373 ppi. Another remarkable characteristic this quad SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor with a clock speed of 1,7 GHz which is accompanied by 2GB of RAM and a battery capacity of 3300 mAh. 4-UltraPixel camera which gives One Max high-quality photos for any degree of illumination. For video calls using 2,1 MP front camera.
It is worth to expect 32GB and 64GB onboard memory that corresponds to the usual HTC One and the availability of slots for expansion cards MicroSD. Another thing is the support for 4G LTE at 800MHz, 1800MHz and 3300 MHz. In addition, the currently known characteristics of HTC One Max include front speakers BoomSound and fingerprint scanner. As an operating system is expected to Android 4.3 Jelly Bean right out of the box and additionally HTC Sense 5.5 software.
White HTC One Max on sale now. Black and red body will be available outside of Taiwan in 2014. Fixed price in the US is $799
HTC Zara wants to have fun
HTC has decided to speak at the premium segment of the phone market not only the quality but also the quantity. The company has already started work on budgetary version of the flagship HTC One. The new model HTC Zara is not engaged in a ballet school as One M8 it likes strip bars.
HTC Zara with 4.5" QHD display and plastic body is from a good family, but beer and partying likes much more than a dinner parties. Several design features make it very similar to the older model but only in appearance.
Inside the installed agresivny dual-core processor Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8930 1,2 GHz, 1 GB of RAM. In order to capture the defining moments in the life the smartphone is equipped with a 1.6-megapixel front camera and is capable of recording Full HD-video 8MP camera with LED-flash. Not forget everything will allow 8GB memory with expansion cards MicroSD. A few hours of sleep to recharge the battery (2100mAh) and to have fun again.
For better performance the phone is equipped with Adreno 305 graphics. High quality and enviable output sound volume provides a front BoomSound. The important point is that this unit will be the first of HTC smartphones which will work with the operating system Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and the new shell Sense 5.5. Design of the smartphone indicates a possible membership in the flagship line, however, it most likely will be the top representative of the series Desire.
Unfortunately HTC keeps secret the information about release date and price of the new model.