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what do you do when your htc and you want to create the perfect blend of price design and specs well you build a desire phone I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow and this is our first look at the HTC Desire 6 to 6 so we're actually taking a look at two phones here the desire 66 for postpaid Verizon and AT&T and the 6 to 6s for a variety of prepaid carriers externally they're identical but there are important variations and specs with the S version taking reductions in camera quality NFC and LTE carrier aggregation will focus on the standard six to six which is not the same six to six announced for Taiwan back in February yeah the branding is a little weird as for specs we're firmly in mid-range territory here because this is an HTC phone there are definite high points to that the construction is HTC double-shot with minimal or non-existent seams between polycarbonate and abs materials it finished in varying custom colors depending on carrier the display is 5 inches at 720p the cameras are 8 and 5 megapixels for primary and selfie respectively and there's a gig and a half of RAM for multitasking plus their support for microSD expansion to augment the poultry 16 gigs of storage if 4G LTE carrier aggregation and you've also got HTC's newest build of blinkfeed riding atop android 5.1 which skips along very smoothly on the demo unit here you know this is a budget phone so here comes the other shoe the process are driving everything is a snapdragon 210 hardly the epitome of powerful silicon for the more the battery is only 2000 milliamp hours which is on the small side there are no wake up gestures as there are in higher-end HTC models and while the 66 looks like it's got HTC boomsound it doesn't only the top grille is a speaker the bottom one is just a fancy mask for the microphone included for symmetry yep those are some compromises alright but for the right price do you really care like all the desire devices HTC announced today the 66 is priced very competitively at well less than $200 unlocked company isn't giving full details on pricing until later on HTC looks to have succeeded in bringing more of its high-end features from the flagship one series to the lower tier desire family as for whether that's enough to choose this phone over recent entrants from competitors like a soos and Alcatel OneTouch well time and more pricing details will tell then we'll find out in a full review coming soon the summer season is picking up so be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for all the new hotness coming from new and old tech players alike and follow us on social media - till next time has been michael fisher with PocketNow captain - phones on twitter thanks for watching we'll see you next time