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HTC unveiled their new Desire 820 smartphone today at IFA Berlin . The phone which uses a new "doubleshot" uniobody construction hopes to reduce panel gap and improve the device's longevity .apart from the construction. HTC has also added two front facing speakers (Boomsound) and a 8mp front camera and a 13mp rear one . The display is a 5.5" panel which makes this much larger than the previous desire smartphones .The phone has a 64Bit Snapdragon 615 octacore unit . The phone will go on sale later this month . Display - 5.5" SLCD3 1280x800  OS - Android 4.4 Kitkat +Sense 6 UI with Blinkfeed Design - Unibody smartphone , "doubleshot" construction reduces panel gaps 157.7 x 78.74 x 7.74 mm , 155g Connectivity - Dual or single sim .QuadBand  LTE ,FD-LTE  cat 4 speeds , Quad band GSM ,NFC , Bluetooth 4.0 ,DLNA , WIFI 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.5-5Ghz) ,GPS +Glonass  Processor - 8 core Qualcomm Snapdragon 615  (1-1.5Ghz) (Cortex A53 in Octacore...

Sixty-four bit processors on mobile devices are the latest must have Soc's in the tech world , the trend , set in motion by the iPhone 5S is still somewhat stagnant , but in the next few months , the architecture will probably start the next Smartphone arms race as each manufacturer promotes its product over the other .Oualcomm who holds the monopoly in the SOC business,  has taken a bit of a back seat when it comes to making 64Bit chips , and while rivals design and test their own models ,Qualcomm has instead decided to wait out the storm , and instead launch mid range 64Bit processors - mainly the Snapdragon 410/610 And the Snapdragon 615 , which is rumored to be on the upcoming HTC Desire 820 . The latest leak , which when roughly translated into English states that indicates a date (9) September and 4th and a huge 64 in front , which is accompanied by another poster with the text - World's first 8 core 64 phone , which definitely points at the 8 core Snapdragon 615 proces...