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if you're keen to get your hands on an HTC phone but can't afford the luxurious flagship One m8 cast your eyes over at the Desire 610 it's a four point seven inch plastic bodied android kitkat phone that comes with a much more affordable price tag the 6/10 plastic body is nowhere near as sleek and stylish as its all-metal big brother but it feels nice and firm and the navy blue color doesn't look too bad either like most of HTC's phones it has the dual front-facing boom sound speakers above and below the screen that provide a decent volume for your podcasts or TV shows one thing I'm not keen on is the fake black bezel that surrounds the screen makes the display look rather squashed in and means the body is fatter than it really needs to be I actually found it quite difficult to use in one hand the display itself has a disappointing 960 by 540 pixel resolution which is lower than you get from the 4G motorola moto G which is bad news when you consider how much cheaper the Moto G is it's not particularly bright either which can make it awkward to use under bright sunlight it arrives have Android 4.4.2 kitkat onboard over which HTC has slapped its sense 6 interface I quite like sin sticks at its clean minimalist interface is simple to navigate and easy for even Android newbies to get to grips with you'll find the blinkfeed news aggregator off to the side of a home screens but you can get rid of it if you're not keen it's powered by a 1.2 gigahertz quad-core processor which while not exactly lightning fast has enough power to manage for critical tweeting Facebook trolly and Netflix streaming if actually didn't put up a brilliant fight in my test but with fairly careful use you should be able to get a day out of it on the back is an 8 megapixel camera which I found to be mostly decent but could be a bit hit-and-miss depending on conditions it's simple interface is easy to use though and is at least good enough for some cool Facebook snaps although the Desire 610 does come with an affordable price tag its uninspiring specs in particular its low resolution display means it's still not cheap enough it offers very little over the Motorola MOTO G which also has Android KitKat and a quad-core processor but has a higher resolution and a much cheaper price tag unless you desperately want the boom stand speakers all the slightly better camera the moto G is the much more sensible option I'm Andrew Foyle CNET's and this is the HTC Desire 610