HTC Unveils Desire 816 GSM-Only Model

The phone has 8GB internal storage and supports up to 32 GB external storage.    

The 4G models unveiled by HTC too have 13 MP main camera but their front camera is 8 MP. These phones promise to support download speed of up to 150 megabit per second.

This means a video equivalent to full size normal Bollywood movie can be downloaded in about half a minute.  

Desire 820 have internal storage capacity of 16 GB and support external storage of up to 128 GB.

Chiang said that HTC will launch more 4G phones across various price points once the network are launched in India.    

"Desire 820 smartphones support both the variant of LTE (4G) which is fit for Indian market," Chiang said. 

In India, Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Augere, Aircel and Tikona Digital have spectrum that can be used for deploying TDD-LTE - a variant of 4G technology.

Recently telecom companies in India acquired spectrum in 1800 Mhz band, widely known as 2G spectrum, in which ecosystem for another 4G technology, FDD-LTE, has been developed.   

Desire 820 handsets support both TDD-LTE and FDD-LTE.

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