HTC remembered its days as a fashion-forward, music-oriented brand with the new Desire trio. The phones feature polycarbonate exteriors, which have been treated with a micro-splash process that creates a unique pattern of paint specs for each phone.

HTC Desire 825

The leader of the pack, the HTC Desire 825 comes in Stratus White, sprayed with a combo of pink and gray, and in Graphite Grey Remix, sprayed with gold color paint.

HTC Desire 825

You can customize it further with snap-on cases that received the same micro-splash paint effect.

The speckled back covers

The Desire 825 will come packaged with a Hi-Res headset. The phone itself is Hi-Res Audio certified and features BoomSound with Dolby Audio (it’s almost like the golden years when Beats headphones came in the box).

And stereo speakers are back after HTC flirted with going back to a single-speaker setup with the One A9.

Anyway, the phone itself features a roomy 5.5″ Super LCD with a disappointingly low 720p resolution. It’s powered by an old 32-bit Snapdragon 400 chipset (quad-core CPU at 1.4GHz). Memory is fairly basic too, 2GB of RAM and 16GB storage, at least you get a microSD slot. On the upside, the phone comes with Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

HTC says you’ll be taking 25,000 selfies in your lifetime, so it’s important to have a good camera to do it. The 5MP selfie cam on the Desire 825 can pretty you up in real time, including putting on virtual makeup.

The speckled back of the Desire 825

The camera on the back is a 13MP shooter, both it and the selfie camera can record 1080p video.

The phone will come in single and dual-SIM flavors (depending on region) and has LTE connectivity. The battery is quite small at 2,700mAh.

HTC Desire 630

The HTC Desire 630 is essentially the same phone, except smaller. It has a 5″ 720p screen and an even smaller 2,200mAh battery.

The phone comes with the same speckled exterior and brings the Hi-Res audio setup, including the headphones and stereo speakers. It has the same camera too, 13MP on the back, 5MP on the front.

HTC Desire 630

That’s the good news, the bad news is the same S400 chipset (2GB RAM, 16GB storage) and single-band Wi-Fi (b/g/n). The HTC Desire 630 will be dual-SIM only and offers Cat. 4 LTE.

HTC Desire 530

The HTC Desire 530 is a lower-end version of the 630. It has the same 5″ 720p screen, but the chipset drops to Snapdragon 210 with 1.5GB of RAM. Storage stays at 16GB with a microSD slot.

Note that you can buy the phones without the speckles, here’s what that looks like:

Speckles, no speckles

HTC’s focus on selfies remains strong with a 5MP front camera, but the back camera is reduced to 8MP. Video resolution is not mentioned (the chipset is technically capable of 1080p).

The HTC Desire 530 has the uniquely-painted exterior, but the only audio goodie is the pair of speakers on the front (no fancy headphones, no Hi-Res audio certification).

The HTC Desire 825, 630 and 530 will be hit stores in March for money. How much money remains to be…

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We first head of the HP Elite x3 about a week ago and what was originally considered a sketchy device, has been leaking all over the place since. At this point, we are actually pretty confident that the Windows 10 powered phone will be released sooner or later, perhaps even at MWC 2016.

We already have a pretty good idea of what to expect in terms of hardware from a previous leak, so today’s fresh batch is more or less a confirmation of said info, along with a look at the device from a few extra angles.

HP Elite x3

Just to reiterate, the Elite x3 is shaping up as a prime competitor to the Lumia 950 XL. It has a 5.96-inch QHD touchscreen, a 16 MP rear camera, an 8 MP selfie cam, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chipset powering it, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of expandable storage, a USB Type-C port with support for USB 3.0, Qi wireless charging, a fingerprint scanner (which might be embedded in that ‘chin’ underneath the display), an iris sensor, a special docking connection, IP67 certification for water and dust resistance, as well as MIL-STD-810G rating for withstanding drops from 1 meter or less. Windows 10 Continuum will, of course, be a central feature of the 7.8 mm thin device, as well.

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One flagship and three mid-range smartphones. That’s what HTC brought to the MWC 2016 table and here are our first impressions of the devices.

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ZTE Spro Plus is the successor of the portable smart projector Spro 2. The new gadget features a 8.4″ 2K (2560x1600px) AMOLED display and its key spec is the WXGA projector (that’s 1366×768 px) with 500lm brightness and auto-focus, which supports vertical and horizontal keystone correction.

The projector uses laser-phosphor projections instead or regular LED, which helps it maintain excellent brightness, accurate focus, and clarity no matter the surface. It can out 80″ picture from 2.4m distance.

All the technicalities aside, this makes the Spro Plus projection perfectly visible on any surface, any direction, and any time of the day.

The projector will be available in two flavors, both running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and powered by a 12,100 mAh battery. The Wi-Fi model is running on Snapdragon 801 chipset with a quad-core Krait 400 processor and Adreno 330 GPU, while the LTE-enabled projector will be utilizing a Snapdragon 625 chip a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor and Adreno 506 GPU.

Both the Wi-Fi and LTE models of the Spro Plus feature 3GB RAM and either 32 or 128 GB internal storage, expandable via a microSD slot up to 2TB.

You can attach an external USB camera to the Spro Plus and make video-conference, too. If a camera is not available, you can still make voice conference calls.

Finally, the Spro Plus packs a JBL sound system with stereo 4W HARMAN speakers with Dolby technology and high-performance HARMAN microphones.

The Spro Plus projector launches worldwide in mid-2016. Its pricing is yet to be detailed, but ZTE expects it to sell big, as the Spro and Spro 2 have already sold more than 500,000…

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Mobile World Congress draws in gadget makers big and small. We focus on phones and tablets, here we’ll cover those, but also anything else that catches our eye.

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