HTC Desire 310 is HTC's first smartphone that powered by MediaTek's chipset, on July 4th HTC released dual sim HTC Desire 616 in Hong Kong that is powered by MediaTek's octa-core chipset MT6592, 1.4GHz processor.

Other features are large screen power with high-quality video: octa-core processor drives stunning 1080p video playback on its generous 5-inch screen. Updating home screen feeds and a camera feature that creates mini-films makes Desire 616 a media powerhouse.

Accordint to handset makers, currently, 4G LTE smartphones are more popular than 3G smartphones. HTC Desire 616 is a 3G smartphone, since MediaTek is going to unveil its 4G octa-core MT6595 in Shenzhen next week, maybe HTC Desire 616 will have 4G version, and to sell in Taiwan.

It seems that in Asia customers are crazy about how many cores a smartphone posseses. Mark Hung, Research VP at Gartner said “In America, customers don't really care about how many cores a smartphone posseses, but it seems helpful to boost sales in Asia so that we see many octa-core smartphones now.”