HTC Desire 825, 630 and 530
HTC remembered its days as a
fashion-forward, music-oriented brand with the new Desire trio. The phones
feature polycarbonate exteriors, which have been treated with a micro-splash
process that creates a unique pattern of paint specs for each phone.
HTC Desire 825
The leader of the pack, the HTC Desire
825 comes in Stratus White, sprayed with a combo of pink and gray, and in
Graphite Grey Remix, sprayed with gold color paint. You can customize it further with
snap-on cases that received the same micro-splash paint effect.
The Desire 825 will come packaged with a
Hi-Res headset. The phone itself is Hi-Res Audio certified and features
BoomSound with Dolby Audio (it's almost like the golden years when Beats
headphones came in the box). And stereo speakers are back after HTC flirted
with going back to a single-speaker setup with the One A9.
Anyway, the phone itself features a
roomy 5.5" Super LCD with a disappointingly low 720p resolution. It's
powered by an old 32-bit Snapdragon 400 chipset (quad-core CPU at 1.4 GHz).
Memory is fairly basic too, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB storage, at least you get a
microSD slot. On the upside, the phone comes with Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
HTC says you'll be taking 25,000 selfies
in your lifetime, so it's important to have a good camera to do it. The 5 MP
selfie cam on the Desire 825 can pretty you up in real time, including putting
on virtual makeup. The camera on the back is a 13 MP
shooter, both it and the selfie camera can record 1080p video.
The phone will come in single and
dual-SIM flavors (depending on region) and has LTE connectivity. The battery is
quite small at 2,700 mAh.
HTC Desire 630
The HTC Desire 630 is essentially the
same phone, except smaller. It has a 5" 720p screen and an even smaller
2,200 mAh battery.
The phone comes with the same speckled
exterior and brings the Hi-Res audio setup, including the headphones and stereo
speakers. It has the same camera too, 13 MP on the back, 5 MP on the front.
That's the good news, the bad news is the
same S400 chipset (2 GB RAM, 16 GB storage) and single-band Wi-Fi (b/g/n). The
HTC Desire 630 will be dual-SIM only and offers Cat. 4 LTE.
HTC Desire 530
The HTC Desire 530 is a lower-end
version of the 630. It has the same 5" 720p screen, but the chipset drops
to Snapdragon 210 with 1.5 GB of RAM. Storage stays at 16 GB with a microSD slot.
HTC's focus on selfies remains strong
with a 5 MP front camera, but the back camera is reduced to 8 MP. Video
resolution is not mentioned (the chipset is technically capable of 1080p).
The HTC Desire 530 has the
uniquely-painted exterior, but the only audio goodie is the pair of speakers on
the front (no fancy headphones, no Hi-Res audio certification).
