HTC has launched two new phones in the market – Desire 601 and Desire 300. HTC Desire 601 brings high end specs to the mid range. Desire 300, on the other hand is an entry level Android phone. The 601 has 4.5 inch display and looks like a close kin to the HTC Desire 600 dual SIM phone. It has single SIM slot though. Desire 300 has 4.3 inch display and dual core S4 snapdragon processor. It has an excellent 5 megapixel camera with F / 2.8 aperture and 34mm lens. Built in storage is meager 1.2GB but fortunately, you do get micro SD slot to expand it by using (upto) 64GB card. The phone will be launched in October 2013.
HTC Desire 601 and Desire 300 were codenamed HTC Zara and Zara Mini. You can find more about snapdragon s4 processor here.
HTC Desire 601 Specs
GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – all versions
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 – EMEA version
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 – Asia version
4G Network LTE 800 / 900 / 1800 / 2600 – EMEA version
LTE 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 – Asia version
SIM Micro-SIM
Announced 2013, September
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2013, October
BODY Dimensions 134.5 x 66.7 x 9.9 mm (5.30 x 2.63 x 0.39 in)
Weight 130 g (4.59 oz)
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 540 x 960 pixels, 4.5 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
– HTC Sense UI 5.0
SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes, with stereo speakers, built-in amplifiers
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 64 GB
Internal 8 GB, 1 GB RAM
DATA GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Speed HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps; LTE, Cat4, 50 Mbps UL, 150 Mbps DL
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot, DLNA
Bluetooth Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go, USB Host
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features 1/4” sensor size, 1.4µm pixel size, geo-tagging, face and smile detection
Video Yes, 1080p@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA
FEATURES OS Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 400
CPU Dual-core 1.4 GHz
GPU Adreno 305
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser HTML5
Radio TBD
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black, Silver, Red
– SNS integration
– Dropbox (25 GB storage)
– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
– DivX/XviD/MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
– MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV/FLAC player
– Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
– Organizer
– Document viewer
– Photo viewer/editor
– Voice memo/dial/commands
– Predictive text input
BATTERY Li-Ion 2100 mAh battery
Stand-by (2G) / Up to 440 h (3G)
Talk time (2G) / Up to 12 h 48 min (3G)
HTC Desire 300 Specs
GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – all versions
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100 – EU, Asia, China
HSDPA 850 / 2100 – Asia
SIM Micro-SIM
Announced 2013, September
Status Coming soon. Exp. release 2013, October
BODY Dimensions 131.8 x 66.2 x 10.1 mm (5.19 x 2.61 x 0.40 in)
Weight 120 g (4.23 oz)
DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~217 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
– HTC Sense UI 5.0
SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal 4 GB, 512 MB RAM
DATA GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Speed HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
USB Yes, microUSB v2.0
CAMERA Primary 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection
Video Yes, WVGA@30fps
Secondary Yes, VGA
FEATURES OS Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8225 Snapdragon S4 Play
CPU Dual-core 1 GHz Cortex-A5
GPU Adreno 203
Sensors Accelerometer, proximity
Messaging SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser HTML5
Radio TBD
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black, White
– SNS integration
– Dropbox (25 GB storage)
– MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
– MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
– Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
– Organizer
– Document viewer
– Photo viewer/editor
– Voice memo/dial
– Predictive text input
BATTERY Li-Ion 1650 mAh battery
Stand-by (2G) / Up to 625 h (3G)
Talk time (2G) / Up to 11 h (3G)
Folks at evleaks say that it will soon be making its way to Virgin Mobile.