The HTC Desire 510 will be the first phone from HTC with a 64 bit processor to be sold in the US. Sprint has announced that it will start selling the phone on September 19 for $199.99 (or $0 down and 24 monthly payments of $8.34). Boost Mobile and start selling the HTC Desire 510 on Monday, September 22 for $99.99 while Virgin Mobile will be offing the phone to its customer a day later for the same price. HTC Desire 510 will be available in white and blue, but Boost Mobile will only be selling the white model and blue model will be available on Virgin Mobile.
While the HTC Desire 510 is regarded as an entry-level smartphone, the quad-core Snapdragon 410 is fairly impressive. The SoC sports a quad-core 1.2GHz Cortex-A53 processor and an Adreno 306 GPU. The new chip does allow the HTC Desire 510 to support HTC’s retro DotView case, but there’s no evidence that Motion Launch gestures. For now, benchmark numbers from the HTC Desire 510 are in line with other phones using the Snapdragon 400, but that should change once Android gains native 64 bit support with the L release.
Can someone tell me why you need a 64 bit processor in a smartphone?
If its already fitted why not. 64 sounds more than 32. Like a camera war. 8mp more than 4mp.
No joke we will see soon and I think boys from HTC know why is there.
Looks like they kings now in low end products from Snapdragon.
If HTC knows what it is is doing they would be the market leader by now. I see them make mistakes before. Product is already been sold so why do we still have to find out what the use is of putting a 64 bit processor in a mobile phone.It should be a thing you miss in your phone and HTC is delivering the thing you miss in the device that you like to buy. I am seriously thinking of buying a Samsung phone because of the replaceable battery and better camera and better position of the power button. I know the sound is better on HTC but most of the time I kill the sound when I go out playing my game of Ingress 😉 (and Samsung is waterproof and can be use with cloves on)
I meant HTC is know by specialist as the best company to put together hardware and software. And me as a user can confirm this. Must be a reason why they used to do phones for Nokia etc.
Yes no battery and no certificate for waterproof but as shown on youtube M8 does well underwater.
Its up to you for me Samsung look cheap from outside and button as well. With M8 you just double tap screen so no need for button.
Both phones should be great and LG G3.
Android L next incarnation will make a use of 64 bit processors.
I also a user for many years. Starting with the HTC HD2 then HTC one x and then the HTC one x plus. ps. The last thing I like is a phone reacting on hand moves I make by accident. I was very irritated lately by volume button I touch by accident or the telephone start making screenshots out of the blue. It would be nice if I could turn that kind of functions of.
One X + my favourite phone. Have a word with Samsung to change design as well.
I like to bet money on “underdog” and with market like this nobody knows what will be in next 5years. Maybe no facebook or IBM making best phones.
64 bits uses less battery with more power and heat less, as far as I know
But do there not need to be special software that is been written for this 64 bits processor to make us of the 64 bit option? I was thinking more in the line of more internal memory.
Android L.
Sixty-four-bit improvements will make games look better, and devices will be able to decode and encode high-resolution video faster. Algorithms for facial recognition and speech interaction will be able to take advantage of 64-bit processing.
Intel has been testing 64-bit chips with Android in its labs and has seen performance benefits in graphics, data encryption and decryption, decompression and applications with large data sets. Mobile devices will be able to have more than 4GB of memory, and “fewer trips to the memory” will be required to process applications, said Doug Fisher, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Software and Services Group.
Intel is working with Google to made kernel-level changes for Android L, and will make an x86 distribution available at a later date.
Improvements in Android L also will help improve mobile device battery life, Insight 64’s Brookwood said. In addition, the notification and application launching mechanisms have been revamped in the OS.
Android L supports ARMv8, which is ARM’s 64-bit microprocessor architecture. Meanwhile, industry consortium Linaro is working on a 64-bit version of the mobile Chrome browser.
Google has said that Android applications will run two times faster on ART, the new Android 64-bit run-time environment for application execution. Android developers won’t have to make many code changes to move to ART from the Dalvik runtime, Brockwood said.
In this light make sense if HTC will do Nexus 9 together with Android L. Its a biggest change for OS and new 64 bit processors. Nvidia kicked out by Snapdragons coming back with K1. Another “underdog” in silent making something to beat dominance of Snapdragons.
Android L will be compatible. And HTC should upgrade it to L
can the phone be internationally unlocked from Virgin mobile?