HTC of Taiwan has expanded its Desire range of smartphones portfolio and launched today its affordable HTC Desire 516 smartphone with Dual-SIM support. The Desire 516 is priced at Rs. 14,200 and will be available in Dark Gray and Pearl White colors, by the end of this month across India.
The Desire 516 features a 5 inch qHD display with 540×960 pixels resolution, and is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 with 1.2 GHz Quad-core processor, coupled with 1GB RAM and 4GB internal storage, which can be expanded upto 32GB via microSD card. The Desire 516 runs on out dated Android Jelly Bean 4.2 OS
This smartphone is also equipped with 5MP fixed focus rear camera with the capacity to do 720p HD video recording, and 2MP front camera. It is packed with a 1950 mAh battery, which can give talk time of 9 hours on 3G network and standby time of 220 hours. The phone measures 14.0×7.2×0.97 cm and weighs 160 grams.
The Desire 516 also has prominent feature of BlinkFeed of premium HTC One smartphone. With this feature, you can get updates from your favourite news and social sites including Twitter, Facebook and China’s Sina Weibo on the screen of Desire 210, in crisp detail and rich colour. Moreover, with the offline Reading mode, you can view articles from your personal feed, drawn from more than 20,000 articles a day from the world’s leading media companies, which is an ideal option for those on a limited data plan.
Commenting on the launch of the Desire 516, Faisal Siddiqui, Country Head, HTC India, said, “Everyone enjoys a large screen, good quality phone and the HTC Desire 516 dual sim is that very phone. The latest addition to our renowned HTC Desire range combines super-fast processing and premium features at a lower price, offering users the best possible experience in this category.”
If you recall, HTC had launched its entry-level Desire 210 with 4 inches display at Rs. 8,700; the mid-range Desire 816 with 5.5 inches display at Rs. 23,990 ( http://www.techvorm.com/htc-desire-210-desire-816-smartphones-launched-india/), and the flagship HTC ONE M8 at Rs. 49,990, in the month of April.(http://www.techvorm.com/htc-one-m8-will-available-india-rs-49900-ist-week-may/)
