HTC Desire 620 Coming To Europe By Q1 Next Year

HTC Desire 620 Coming To Europe By Q1 Next Year

After announcing the Desire 620 and Desire 620G for the Taiwanese market earlier this month, HTC has now announced the Desire 620 as its early 2015 mid-range offering for the European market. The successor to the Desire 610 will be available in UK and rest of Europe by early Q1 next year. The Desire 620 is a lot more solid device overall than its predecessor and should be competitive with rivals from other manufacturers when it launches.

The Desire 620 has a 5-inch 1280 x 720 HD Super LCD IPS display, 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor with an Adreno 306 GPU, 1GB RAM, 8GB internal storage with a microSD card slot for further expansion, 8MP rear camera with 1080p video recording and LED flash, 5MP front-facing shooter with 1080p video capture, 2100mAh battery, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, DLNA and 4G LTE connectivity. The Desire 620 comes with Android version 4.4.4 KitKat with HTC Sense 6 out of the box, but it isn’t clear if the mid-range smartphone will be upgraded to Android 5.0 Lollipop when it launches in Europe next year. By Q1 next year, we expect that other mid-range smartphones from major Android OEMs will arrive with Android 5.0 Lollipop, so HTC could be at a disadvantage with the Desire 620 running Android KitKat in 2015. Mid-range customers may not be as concerned about having the latest Android version on their smartphone as flagship device owners, but it still does count for a lot of people.

In the UK the Desire 620 has been confirmed to be sold by all the major smartphone retailers in the country like Carphone Warehouse, EE, O2, and Three from early next year onwards. It will be available in three color options – white with blue accent, grey with light grey accent and gray with orange accent. Pricing information isn’t available yet, but HTC definitely needs to price it competitively if they want the Desire 620 to prove itself to be a tough rival to the Moto G 2nd gen. As far as the specs go, it definitely can go up against the Moto G, but what the deciding factor will of course be the price. If it is priced significantly higher than the Moto G, HTC will most likely not see much success. In the past one year, the Moto G and also options from Chinese Android OEMs have made the mid-range Android segment very price competitive. In the past, major Android OEMs could get away with average hardware specs and premium pricing on their mid-range models, but now that Motorola and Chinese players offer devices with as good or superior specs at a much lower price, the major Android OEMs are finding it increasingly difficult to compete in the mid-range Android space.