HTC Desire 601 and Desire 300 are now official

Previously we told you that the HTC Zara will be named as Desire 601 and there's an unknown HTC smartphone leaked with slim profile. Today, HTC has announced these two smartphones - Desire 601 and Desire 300.

The Desire 601 (Zara) aims to bring some high-tech specs to the mid-range, while the new Desire 300 is an entry-level smartphone.



The HTC Desire 601 has some similar specs to the Desire 600 dual-SIM, which include a 4.5" qHD display, 1.4 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 2,100 mAh battery and it has a 9.88 mm profile.


Thanks to the faster processor, the Desire 601 offers LTE and HSPA+ connectivity. The Desire 601 does features HTC Zoe and the Video Highlights in the Gallery, which were first introduced on the HTC One. The Desire 601 has a 5 MP camera but it doesn't has UltraPixel camera. 

The regular 5 MP camera however has some of the One's tricks such as Sequence shot, Always Smile, Object Removal and VideoPic. It uses a 1/4" BSI sensor with a wide F/2.0 aperture and a 28mm wide lens and is helped by HTC's in-house image processing chip, called HTC ImageChip. The 5 MP camera can also shoots 1080p videos and it has a VGA front-facing shooter.




The HTC Desire 300, which is an entry-level smartphone with higher specs than the Desire 200. The Desire 300 has a 4.3" WVGA display and a 1 GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 chipset with 1 GB of RAM.

HTC Desire 300 does comes with HTC BlinkFeed, which turns your smartphone's homescreen into a dynamic list of titles and social network updates. It has a 5 MP camera as well, but has a f/2.4 aperture and a 34 mm lens.

The user available built-in storage is about 1.2GB but the Desire 300 has a microSD slot to expand that. There is a removable battery on board, but it only has a capacity of 1650mAh.

Both HTC Desire 601 and Desire 300 will launch in October 2013.