HTC Desire 10 Pro and Lifestyle Headed for India in October

HTC announced the Desire 10 series phones, a mid-rage variant of the HTC 10 flagship. The new HTC Desire 10 however is a brand new take on the mid-range and it looks fantastic. It derives its design hues from the HTC 10 with the bold lines and chamfers and adds the Desire design on top of it with the Large camera lenses and antenna lines.

The HTC Desire 10 pro, as the name suggests, is the more powerful of the lot with a Helio P10 chip , 64 GB storage and 4 GB RAM. You can still use a MicroSD card upto 256GB.

The main camera is a 20 MP shooter with an f/2.2 aperture and a 28mm lens whereas the secondary camera is a 13 MP shooter. Both cameras shoot 1080p video. The HTC 10 Desire Pro has a 3000 mAh battery and has a 5.5 inch 1920 x 1080p display.

The HTC Desire 10 Lifestyle has meanwhile, has a 5.5-inch 720p display, and uses a Snapdragon 400 chip, 2GB or 3GB of RAM, 16GB or 32GB of expandable storage, and a 2,700mAh battery. The Cameras also get reduced to 13 MP and 5 MP shooters on the Desire 10 Lifestyle. The HTC 10 Desire Lifestyle does have higher-res, 24-bit audio file support which lacks in the Pro variant.

Both phones run on Android 6.0 to start, underneath HTC’s Sense UI skin. Both the phones have a polycarbonate construction (with matte finish) alone with solid metal lines and frame.

HTC has launched the HTC Desire 10 Lifestyle in Europe for a price of £249.  However, HTC will launch the HTC Desire 10 Lifestyle in India in October with pricing set around the Rs. 20,000 price for the HTC 10 Lifestyle. India might get the CDMA equipped variant of the phones which means that apart from supporting LTE and VoLTE the phone ill also work on CDMA networks of Tata and Reliance.  The HTC Desire 10 Pro will be launched in November.