HTC Desire Eye First Look: A Super Powered Selfie Smartphone With A Great Design

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PROS

High-end Frontal Camera
Flagship Specs
Great Looking Design
Waterproof

CONS

Over-powered Camera
Price Could Be Hefty
Bait for One M8

HTC Desire Eye: Storage, Connectivity and Battery

The HTC Desire Eye houses an in built storage capacity of 16GB, which is further expandable up to 128GB, which is same with all the new smartphones being launched off late. In terms of battery, it is powered by a 2400 mAh battery, which the compay claims to be pretty good without specifying the credentials of the cell.

Connectivity options also remain regular with inclusion of 4G LTE/ 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4 and 5 GHz), Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX codec, NFC and GPS with GLONASS. These are just the regular part of the specs which are not much of the highlighting factors of the phone. Nonetheless, these are the basic requirements of the flagship smartphone.

Availability, Pricing and Verdict

As announced at the event, the HTC Desire Eye will be available in the US, Asia and EMEA from late October, with the price still yet to be confirmed. Looking at the specs and the features of the new smartphone, HTC might put a price tag on it which will resemble the figures of HTC One M8 or more.

As it is the early hands-on, we can't offer the full and hard-on verdict against the latest HTC Desire Eye. However, as they say it, first impression is very important, lets talk about how it made its first impression with GizBot.

The HTC Desire has a remarkable hardware and software balance that makes it an obvious flagship device. Also this is the first time that HTC has ousted the number from the name of the Desire series handset, which is nice.

Coming to the critical part, the phone has been bestowed with an over-powered camera features and also hardware. Obviously, it is not bad thing to give a lot of features in a phone in itself, but its adds more dollars in its already hefty price, which could be a bad conclusion altogether. The downsides of the smartphone is that HTC could have played more with the camera module placement at the rear side, and the company could have also offered a larger battery capacity as well.

However, there are many things that are reasonably worth the money factors in the phone. Obviously, who wouldn't want a smartphone with a camera features so rich and with the latest and best of the specs used in the phone, the phone will take some time to be outdated.