HTC Desire 709d Hits China

For those of you who happen to reside in China, here is something that might just interest you if you are a huge fan of all things HTC – the HTC Desire 709d. The HTC Desire 709d does seem to shape up to be a China-only handset, and it remains to be seen whether it will be introduced elsewhere or not. What can we expect from the HTC Desire 709d in terms of its hardware, so that we would know just where it stands in the general scheme of things in the smartphone hierarchy?

Well, the HTC Desire 709d would arrive with a 5″ qHD Super LCD2 display and will be powered by a Snadpragon 200 chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A5 processor, Adreno 203 graphics and 1GB RAM. It certainly does not sound like much where its processing muscle, or rather, the lack of it, is concerned, but at the very least the camera department seems to fare a whole lot better. We are talking about an 8-megapixel shooter at the back that is also capable of 1080p video recording, in addition to a front 2.1M-megapixel front-facing snapper that can also handle video chats of up to 1080p resolution, 8GB of internal memory, a 2,100mAh battery, and stereo BoomSound front speakers. Expect Android Jelly Bean as the operating system of choice with Sense UI, although we have our reservations as to whether this will be Sense 5.5 or not.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Cellphones
Tags: HTC, htc desire