HTC Desire 616 is one of those phones that is caught between ongoing war between local Indian smartphone manufacturers and Chinese smartphone manufacturers. They are both trying their best to gather as much ground as possible with aggressive pricing in India. If this HTC Device was launched say like 6 months before at the same price. It might have been a big hit. But now it feels like a stale product. It gives, been there done that kind of feel. Even the term “octa-core” doesn’t sound exciting anymore. All thanks to brands of our own and neighbour country that are spoiling us.
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HTC Desire 616 benchmark performance was pretty decent as expected from its octa core processor and powerful GPU. Although it does have the powerful octa-core Mediatek MTK 6592 chipset. But for some reason HTC decided to down clock or under clock it to 1.4GHz from its default clock rate which is 1.7GHz and in some phones like Micromax Canvas Gold it is over clocked to 2GHz. As a result of that HTC Desire 616 scored a little less in benchmarks than those phones. 
HTC Desire 616 is a smartphone that is destined to be overlooked at least by Indian consumers. Because they are already being spoilt by several Indian smartphone companies. Which not only offer the same octa core processor but also much more for more or less the same price. Like 2GB RAM, more internal storage, bigger battery, better screen, bigger camera(in terms of megapixel). Comparatively, HTC Desire 616 comes with only 1GB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage.