TAIPEI, Taiwan — A week after launching its Desire 820 smartphone, HTC has sent a press invite for an October 8 event in New York. The invitation has not mentioned what it will showcase in the event, the words “Double exposure” in it, and the focus on the camera on the pictured smartphone, hint that HTC will probably unveil something camera-specific at the event. This may be HTC Eye phone, which boasts the best handset to take great selfie.
After Sony, Samsung, and Apple unleashed their new products, HTC is going to unveil its lastest product on October 8 event in New York. HTC's Eye phone will probably be released then.
Rumor has it that the Eye phone will be powered by MediaTek MT6595, which is the first MediaTek chip that has an on-board LTE chip. In technical terms, the MT6595 works on GSM, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, TD-LTE and FDD-LTE, basically supporting every network that is in use at the moment.
In terms of performance, the MT6595 is the first chip that can compete with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chip. It uses ARM's big.LITTLE architecture with four Cortex-A17 cores for performance intensive tasks and four Cortex-A7 cores for simple tasks. All eight cores can be active simultaneously, and graphics performance should also be killer thanks to the use of the PowerVR G600 GPU clocked at up to 600MHz.
Apart from LTE connectivity and high-end performance, the MT6595 also supports 4K video recording.
