HTC Desire 310 with dual-SIM support listed on company's China site

HTC's China site has listed the Desire 310 with what appears to be a different design to what was spotted in January on the company's European site; however, the innards of the two smartphones are identical.

The Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer had temporarily listed the Desire 310 on its European site without pricing and availability details in January. However, soon after, the HTC Desire 310 page on the site was pulled down.

The HTC Desire 310 runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out-of-the-box and features BlinkFeed, according to the information on the official site. The dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) smartphone also features a 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 480x854 pixels.

The Desire 310 is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582M chipset, coupled with 512MB of RAM.It includes 4GB of built-in storage, which is expandable up to 32GB via microSD card. It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera, while there is a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera. The HTC Desire 310 comes with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB, EDGE, GPS and 3G connectivity options. The smartphone packs a 2000mAh battery. It measures 131.44x68.03x11.25mm and weighs 140 grams. The listing was first reported by Blog of Mobile.

HTC at MWC 2014 announced the Desire 816 mid-range handset, alongside the Desire 610, without revealing the pricing and availability details of both the smartphones.

Running Android 4.4 KitKat, the HTC Desire 610 features a 4.7-inch qHD (540x960 pixels) display with a pixel density of 234ppi, and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor paired with 1GB of RAM.

On the other hand, the HTC Desire 816 sports a 5.5-inch HD (720x1280 pixels resolution) display and is powered by a 1.6GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 SoC processor paired with 1.5GB of RAM.