The HTC Desire 816 is a mid ranged Android-based

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designed and manufactured by

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. Announced at the 2014

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, it features a 5.5-inch super LCD 2 display with a 1280x720 resolution, with full HD video recording and play-back.

Features

HTC Desire 816 offers

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6, a 1.6 GHz

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400 system on chip with 1.5 GB RAM, 8 GB internal memory, 128 GB external memory capacity and a non removable 2600 mAh battery. It also comes with a 13.0 MP rear-facing camera and 5 MP front-facing camera. It has dual front facing speakers with Boom Sound. The smartphone runs on android version 4.4.2 and is upgradeable to 5.0.2, lollipop, globally in April 2015.

Firmware Upgrade

In March, HTC revamped its sense home to a version 7. Users can create their own

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or can access and use various themes, wallpapers, sounds. This works best with

7 and the HTC "zoe" feature fully active. New power saving and extreme power saving options extend battery life or when the users need to ward off from switching off the phone due to low battery level. Apps include one that operates the integral FM broadcast receiver.

Successors

HTC also launched new HTC Desire 816G in September that runs on Android 4.4 KitKat OS and a Mediatek processor. HTC Desire 820 is the successor of desire 816.

References

Android (operating system) devices Desire 816 Mobile phones introduced in 2014 Discontinued smartphones {{mobile-phone-stub

Features

Firmware Upgrade

Successors

See also

References