HTC Desire 820 & Desire 820 dual SIM review: The doppelganger

The HTC Desire 820 is a typical member of the manufacturer's mid-range lineup. It bears all of the characteristic design features for the family - a two-tone unibody plastic shell, complete with particular color accents and an oversized camera lens on the back. The handset is surprisingly thin, measuring 157.7x78.74x7.74mm and also pretty light for its size at 155g.

The Desire 820 is shaping up as a successor to the popular HTC Desire 816. The display is identical - a 5.5-inch 1280 x 720px Super LCD2. The front-facing BoomSound speakers are still present, which is definitely great news. The 13MP main camera is identical (at least on paper), while the front-facing shooter has been bumped-up to 8MP. Other hardware improvements in the Desire 820 include a 64-bit Snapdragon 615 chipset with an octa-core Cortex-A53, 2GB of RAM and an Adreno 405 GPU. Key Features Available as Desire 820 dual SIM or Desire 820 with LTE support, cat. 4 LTE (150/50Mbps); 5.5" 720p Super LCD2 capacitive touchscreen, ambient light sensor Qualcomm MSM8939 Snapdragon 615 chipset (quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU & quad-core 1.0 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU), Adreno 405 GPU and 2GB of RAM Android 4.4.2 KitKat with HTC Sense 6.0 13MP autofocus camera, 1080p video capture, f/2.2, 28mm lens,LED flash 8MP front-facing camera with BSI sensor; 1080p video capture 16GB of built-in memory, expandable via the microSD card slot Wi-Fi b/g/n; Bluetooth 4.0; GPS/GLONASS; FM radio; USB On-The-Go Active noise cancellation with a secondary microphone Front-facing stereo speakers 2,600mAh battery; Extreme Power Saving Mode

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