Intex Aqua Curve

Intex has launched its latest smartphone for the Indian market, the Aqua Curve at Rs. 12,490. The Intex Aqua Curve was listed recently on the company's official site without pricing.
The Intex Aqua Curve runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, which also powers most of the handsets in the market. Along with dual-SIM support, the smartphone also features a 5-inch qHD (540x960 pixels) OGS (One Glass Solution) based curved display.
The smartphone is powered by a quad-core MediaTek (MT6582) processor clocked at 1.3GHz, paired with a Mali 400 GPU and 1GB of RAM. The Aqua Curve smartphone sports an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with flash and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera.
The Intex Aqua Curve comes with 4GB of inbuilt storage, which can be further expandable up to 32GB via microSD card. The smartphone supports 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Micro-USB and GPS connectivity options.
The Intex Aqua Curve is backed up by a 2,000mAh battery capacity and comes in three colour variants - Black, Blue and Red. The smartphone also includes the Shake Screenshot feature which allows users to take screenshots by shaking the phone.
Commenting on the launch Sanjay Kumar Kalirona, Business Head- Mobile Division at Intex said, "Aqua Curve is a smartphone for next generation mobile phone users who like to make their own style statement and prefer to stay connected, while on the go. This phone is perfect blend of style and technology."
Keshav Bansal, Director- Marketing at Intex said on the announcement, "We are constantly innovating to offer our consumers technology that is reasonable in terms of affordability, sturdy in terms of its robust hardware configurations and advanced in terms of its ability to multitask and connect users seamlessly."

HTC Desire 310 with quad-core MediaTek

HTC has expanded its Desire range with the unveiling of a new mid-range smartphone, the Desire 310.

HTC had on Wednesday temporarily listed the new smartphone on its European site without pricing and availability details. Soon after, the HTC Desire 310 page on the site was pulled, and is currently still down, with no word on the global rollout of the device.

The HTC Desire 310 is company's first smartphone powered by a MediaTek chipset, the quad-core MT6582M clocked at 1.3GHz. The dual-SIM smartphone features a 4.5-inch display with a resolution of 480x854 pixels. The HTC Desire 310 runs Android 4.2.2 out-of-the-box, while there is no word on BlinkFeed feature on the device.

It comes with 512MB of RAM and also includes 4GB of inbuilt storage, though there is no mention of expandable storage in Desire 310. It sports a 5-megapixel rear camera, while there is a VGA 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 and measures 131.44x68.03x11.25mm. The HTC Desire 310 was first spotted by PhoneArena

Earlier, HTC introduced a new mid-range smartphone, the Desire 400 dual-SIM which was listed on company's Russian and Ukrainian sites.

The HTC Desire 400 dual-SIM runs Android Jelly Bean OS with HTC Sense UI on top featuring BlinkFeed. However, it's not clear at this stage whether the OS version in the Desire 400 dual-SIM smartphone is Android 4.2 or Android 4.3.

The HTC Desire 400 dual-SIM as the name suggests comes with dual-SIM functionality and supports micro-SIM instead of regular SIM. It comes with a 4.3-inch WVGA display with a 480x800 pixels resolution. It is powered by a quad-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200 processor along with 1GB of RAM, according to the Russian site, which also lists an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and BSI sensor, apart from a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera.