HTC Desire 820 to Set New High Bar for Mid-Range With Snapdragon 615

From DailyTech: HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) played it a bit conservative with the HTC One M8's hardware spec, opting for only modest updates of its high-end flagship, and in some cases scaling its capabilities back from the previous year (for example, dropping the optical image stabilization package). In the mid-range, though, were HTC has for some time expressed its largest interest in, the Taiwanese phonemaker appears poised to flex a bit of its muscle, adopting a bleeding edge spec.

The HTC Desire 820, the successor to February's HTC Desire 816, brings a major boost in both core count and processor architecture over its Snapdragon 400 powered predecessor.

The caption of HTC's teaser, posted by the company's official account on Chinese microblogging service Weibo, suggests a September 4th unveil -- a date which would put it just before the IFA 2014 (Sept. 5-10th) mobile electronics trade show in Berlin, Germany. The text also reads:

World's first 8-core 64 (bit) phone -- yes, this is the first.

That title suggests that HTC is using Qualcomm Inc.'s (QCOM) new Snapdragon 615 chip, an octa-core 64-bit system-on-a-chip (SoC) based on ARM Holdings plc's (LON:ARM) Cortex-A53 core design. The Snapdragon 410 (also 64-bit) would seem perhaps a more likely candidate, given the Snapdragon 400 found in the Desire 816; however, it does not come in an octacore variety, so the caption is almost certainly indicating the Snapdragon 615 is the chip du'jour.

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