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what's going on guys lon here from Android authority and HTC just introduced three new affordable smart phones to their desire line with the 525 26 and the 626 they're all more or less the same phone in many ways but the 6-2 6 is the most heavily SPECT one out of the bunch so naturally that's the one we got to spend time with this is your first look and hands-on of the HTC Desire 626 from a design perspective desire 66 shares a lot of similarities to the desire I the hit AT&T last year the body is made of plastic with a two-tone color scheme some of which feature a glossy finish and some are matte but color options will vary from carrier to carrier and there are quite a few of them beyond the ones you see in this video the 66 also carries many of HTC's typical design cues like the HTC logo centered squarely along the back the black HTC bar on the front and the dual speaker grilles but unlike the HTC One flagships there's no boom sound here in fact only one of the grilles is actually a speaker and the other one is just there to maintain aesthetics and familiarity the display is a 720p screen at five inches so nothing that's really going to blow your socks off but it will get the job done and because of these smaller screen size this makes the desire six to six very easy to use in one hand which can be a very refreshing feeling if you're coming from a much larger handset inside is a Snapdragon 210 quad-core processor with one-and-a-half gigs of RAM which kept things running smoothly during our short time but I wouldn't be surprised if you start to notice a lot of stutters and pauses under heavy loads this is a pretty old Snapdragon chip after all that isn't exactly a benchmarking beast so expectations should be tempered accordingly eight gigabytes of internal storage can also be found on board but if you need more and you most likely will the six to six supports up to two full terabytes of expandable storage keeping the 6 to 6 power throughout the day is embedded 2000 milliamp hour battery that should be good enough for at least a full day's worth of usage considering the overall specs for pictures the camera on the rear is an 8 megapixel shooter capable of 720p video recording with the typical suite of sense camera settings and the front-facing camera is of the 5 megapixel variety which should provide for some decent selfies in software the desire 6 to 6 ships with lollipop 5.1 out of the box with the latest sense 7 interface and a good chunk of these sense features have made its way over to the 626 like blinkfeed for aggregating all of your social media and news stories the brand new home widget that curates apps based on your usage and location and the themes engine to alter the look and feel of the OS however due to the lack of sensors there are no motion launch gestures like double tap to wake or swipe to unlock but otherwise this is mostly the same sense experience that you can expect to find from HTC's flagship s-- except in a much more budget-friendly form factor the 6 - 6 will be hitting every US carry you can think of both big and small as a postpaid phone on Verizon and 18t and a prepaid phone on other networks like t-mobile metro pcs cricket sprint and other sprint subsidiaries like boost and Virgin Mobile so far pricing and availability has only been confirmed for Sprint starting July 19th for a hundred and twenty-nine ninety-nine in marshmallow white other carriers will most likely be very similar in price point and will definitely keep you posted as we find out more but this has been a quick look of the HTC Desire 66 keep it locked here on Android authority for more and don't forget to check out the website and Jordan thorny calm because we are your source for all things Android