HTC Desire 816: first look at the HTC-future - tweakers.net

Actually had this phone Desire 810 be called, which is in line with the previous naming of Desire phones and why such a pattern break? HTC headquarters in Taiwan, found that name is not a good idea. The number 810 would bring misfortune, though it is unclear where the association comes from. It might have something to do with Chinese symbolism have.

There was a compromise. This phone was named Desire 816, they are in the Far East like the number 8. For example, the flight from Schiphol to Hong Kong for example, flight number KL888. And 16 is eight two times. The manufacturer insists, therefore, that it is not the Desire Eight-One-Six, but the Desire Eight Sixteen. This device must bring HTC triple luck.

This gives the impression that the Desire 816, the phone that HTC presented in Barcelona, ??an important device for HTC. That is not so, the announcement is almost a sop to 25 March, when HTC unveils the successor to its main smartphone last year. The new one will in the coming months to pull the manufacturer, who for many years is in financial dire straits and booked last year for the first quarterly loss.

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Desire 816, which opens around May, actually hear some of the new One. He has a new design and above all: he will run new software. That also was evident, on the stand swung around a prototype, which changes HTC’s Sense Android skin could be seen. The employee who had left him accidentally asked explicitly to make details of the software no pictures or publish about it. After that HTC was even stricter against the media, employees were not allowed to turn it on, or at least show the lockscreen

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