HTC Desire 310 with quad-core MediaTek chipset Will Coming Soon

HTC has expanded its Desire range with the
unveiling of a new mid-range smartphone, the
Desire 310.

HTC had on Wednesday temporarily listed the
new smartphone on its European site without
pricing and availability details. Soon after, the
HTC Desire 310 page on the site was pulled, and
is currently still down, with no word on the
global rollout of the device.

The HTC Desire 310 is company's first
smartphone powered by a MediaTek chipset, the
quad-core MT6582M clocked at 1.3GHz. The
dual-SIM smartphone features a 4.5-inch display
with a resolution of 480x854 pixels.

The HTC
Desire 310 runs Android 4.2.2 out-of-the-box,
while there is no word on BlinkFeed feature on
the device.

It comes with 512MB of RAM and also includes
4GB of inbuilt storage, though there is no
mention of expandable storage in Desire 310. It
sports a 5-megapixel rear camera, while there is
a VGA front-facing camera. The HTC Desire 310
comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB, EDGE,
GPS and 3G connectivity options.

The
smartphone packs a 2000mAh battery and
measures 131.44x68.03x11.25mm.
The HTC
Desire 310 was first spotted by PhoneArena .

Earlier, HTC introduced a new mid-range
smartphone, the Desire 400 dual-SIM which was
listed on company's Russian and Ukrainian sites.

The HTC Desire 400 dual-SIM runs Android Jelly
Bean OS with HTC Sense UI on top featuring
BlinkFeed. However, it's not clear at this stage
whether the OS version in the Desire 400 dual-
SIM smartphone is Android 4.2 or Android 4.3.
The HTC Desire 400 dual-SIM as the name
suggests comes with dual-SIM functionality and
supports micro-SIM instead of regular SIM.

It
comes with a 4.3-inch WVGA display with a
480x800 pixels resolution. It is powered by a
quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200 processor
along with 1GB of RAM, according to the Russian
site, which also lists an 8-megapixel rear camera
with LED flash and BSI sensor, apart from a 1.6-
megapixel front-facing camera.

Most of the MT6582 powered handsets are
priced well under Rs. 13,000. Let’s see if
HTC can come up with a competitive price
tag.