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I could definitely see a certain fuzziness to text, and you might want to steer clear if you do a lot of reading on your phone (whether that's websites, eBooks, email or other types of text). The resolution of 960 x 540 pixels is way out of date, and 234ppi is low. The screen resolution and quality are in okay-but-not-great territory. It is easy to lift the cover and hotswap microSD cards thanks to a small nick on the cover, into which you can easily get a fingernail. These two are transposed on the Desire 816. The volume rocker is on the right edge and the hinged cover protecting a slot for both your nanoSIM and your microSD card is on the left edge. The power button has moved from the left edge onto the top, which it shares with the headset slot. It is smaller overall than that phone which is probably a factor, but whatever the reason it feels more robust.īutton placement is different to that of the Desire 816.

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On the plus side I wasn't able to bend this phone in my hands as easily as I was the Desire 816. The Desire 610 can be had in navy, white, or red, and the shiny backplate of my navy sample attracted quite a lot of finger grease. Not everyone will dislike this, of course, but it's not to my taste. It's a combination that forces you to look at it, and when you do you'll see the join between back and edges. I mentioned this design feature in the Desire 816 and here we have a very similar effect of a shiny backplate and a matte plastic finish to the handset edges. The other design factor that turns me off is the way the non-removable backplate is quite clearly a separate part of the casing. If my ears are accurate, it seems BoomSound is not universally brilliant with the Desire 610, less impressive than the Desire 816, which in itself isn't as good as the superb One (M8). While I found the volume would crank up as high as I needed it, quality was decidedly iffy with a lot of treble and a lack of bass tones. BoomSound is not as well implemented here as in the flagship One M8 or the Desire 816 though. Yep, the Desire 610 has stereo speakers and BoomSound to augment the quality of the sound output. Now, a fair bit of that upper and lower space is occupied by a double row of speaker grilles. Moreover it makes for a relatively big phone - compare 70.5 x 9.6 x 143.1 mm (WxDxH) with the 68.8 x 6.5 x 139.8 (WxDxH) of the 5-inch screen-bearing Huawei Ascend P7, for example. Add in 5mm of screen bezel down each of the long edges and you'll see that this is a handset with a 4.7-inch screen which is lost in a sea of front chassis.

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There's a full 21mm of chassis between the bottom edge of the screen and the bottom edge of the phone, and an additional 17mm of chassis between the top edge of the screen and the top of the phone. In large part that's down to two factors.

While I waxed lyrical about the metal chassis and curved back of the One M8, the design here is a bit meh. The overall look of this handset is not HTC's finest moment.

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And we must never rule out the much lower cost Motorola Moto G with its new update to 4G, plus, of course, there are other phones floating around in this price range. Well, other handsets coming in around this price include the Huawei Ascend P6 (recently succeeded by the Ascend P7), Samsung Galaxy S4 mini from last year, and HTC Desire 601, which despite being a 2014 handset is being replaced by the Desire 610.

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