HTC may not have had an official launch event at this year’s MWC, but that
didn’t stop them from announcing three new handsets and a global roll-out
for the One X9. The latter was an Asia-only variant of the very impressive A9
that included Boomsound and dropped the fingerprint sensor.
The other two turned out to be budget Desire handsets, with the 530 taking up the
bottom of the range. Featuring a small 5-inch screen with a 720p panel and lowly
Snapdragon 210 processor, it makes more sense to call this a budget handset since
the specs seem to dictate so, yet HTC wants this line associated with the mid-range.
Like previous Desire devices, it comes with a plastic body that still feels better than
most other plastic handsets on the market... Even if it doesn’t quite compare to the
premium metal finishes we’re all mostly used to by now. The Desire 630 makes up the
middle of the line and is essentially the same device from the outside, but it benefits
from a beefier snapdragon 400 processor, BoomSound and a much better 13
megapixel camera.
Moving up to the top device in the range we have the Desire 825, which is visually a bit
different and lies half way between the A9 and lesser Desire handsets (it’s still plastic
for the record). The device will come packaged with a Hi-Res headset and features
BoomSound with true stereo speakers. Other than this, it ships with a larger 5.5-inch
screen with the same 720p resolution and Snapdragon 400. RAM is also the same as
the 630, at 2GB. In fact, even the camera is the same, with the only true difference being the
battery, which gets a nice bump to 2,700mAh.
The
HTC Desire 825, 630 and 530 will be hit stores in March for money. No
info on pricing as of yet, but we’ll keep our eyes out in the
coming days.