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it's name says desire and whether or not you feel that particular emotion when taking it in the branding is confusing because this selfie centric smartphone is much better equipped than other devices bearing the name I'm Michael Fisher with PocketNow here in New York City courtesy of HTC to bring you a hands-on with the new Desire eye that's I like eyeball and you don't need to go far to see where the name comes from a 13 megapixel camera dominates the phone's front side the same resolution as the one around back and even sporting the same dual LED flash I think someone wrote about this kind of thing once the specs don't stop at the selfies though under the hood we're looking at a Snapdragon 801 with two gigs of ram and 16 gigs of storage plus microSD expansion the casing is unibody polycarbonate poured in HTC's trademark dual shot molding process which makes for a very smooth piece of hardware the phone is ipx7 compliant for water resistance there's a two-step camera key here for shutter bugs and if you think the optics upfront mean the end of boom sound you can breathe easy the front firing speakers have been hidden away but they're still here the software isn't final on this device so we were only able to take a short test drive for this hands-on most of this is typical HTC Sense with the real additions confined to the camera HTC has blown up the concept of dual shot to something far greater with split capture it really takes advantage of the full res cameras on both sides there's also cropped me in which well lets you crop your selfie self into the primary cameras photo which is fun and ridiculous older features like face fusion and live makeup have made the cut as well you can finally use voice commands to trigger selfies or you can just stay still for a second and the camera will automatically snap a shot finally if you're into video calls the software can now intelligently keep your face centered in the frame there's much more to the HTC Desire eye but for this quick look we'll just say that it's a 5.2 inch waterproof smartphone with dual 13 megapixel cameras and boom sound and that's a pretty impressive sounding package to see whether it lives up to its potential you'll have to wait for our full review coming soon don't forget to stop by pocketnow.com for all the news and impressions from HTC s double exposure launch event in New York including a hands-on with the new HTC read until next time this has been michael fisher with pocket now captain two phones on twitter encouraging you to keep those selfies classy we'll see you next time