HTC Desire 820s With Octa-Core SoC Launched In India

Not long ago, in November last year HTC unveiled the Desire 820s, a variant of the original desire. The device was available in China and now has finally hit the Indian market.

The handset has a 64-bit 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6752 processor with 4G LTE connectivity and Mali T760 GPU instead of the 64-bit octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 SoC (1.5GHz quad-core + 1.0GHz quad-core) of the original. The octa-core MediaTek SoC is coupled with 2GB of RAM. The device doesn't have a pure octa-core SoC, instead it has two quad-core processors serving the purpose.

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The 'Desire 820s' also supports dual 4G support as the device is a dual sim handset. The handset supports 3G+3G, 4G+3G, or 3G+4G configurations. We're still skeptical about the same as the company's page on the same says that only one sim card can connect to 3G/4G network at a time.

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The dual SIM HTC Desire 820s runs Android 4.4 KitKat, featuring a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels) display. It also packs a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, and an 8-megapixel secondary camera, quite identical to the

Desire 820.The HTC Desire 820s dual sim also features HTC's signature BoomSound^TM front facing speakers for an extraordinary listening experience with outstanding sound quality.

The internal storage on the Desire 820s is 16GB and expandable upto 128GB via microSD card. Connectivity options on the handset include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, 3G and 4G LTE.

The HTC Desire 820s will be available in the Indian sub-continent today onwards and is prices at Rs. 24, 490.