HTC Desire Eye, has your selfie needs covered

It appears that the leaks were quite spot on. HTC does
indeed have a double-sided camera phone for digital
photographers and selfie addicts alike. As part of its
brand new imaging thrust, which led to the new HTC
RE camera as well, the HTC Desire EYE offers a new
kind of mobile photography experience, by making the
front-facing camera a first class citizen and on the
exact same level as the back one. Perhaps it also
helps that the HTC Desire EYE is strangely quite on
par with the HTC's One M8 flagship in terms of
hardware.
Let's get those boring specs out of the way first. The
Desire EYE runs on a 2.3 GHz quad-core Qualcomm
Snapdragon 801 paired with 2 GB of RAM. The 5.2-inch
display reaches a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels, Full
HD, in other words. Internal storage starts at 16 GB,
noted to have other configurations available, and
expandable up to 128 GB with a microSD card. If this
list sounds a tad familiar, it is because it is the exact
same specs on the One M8, except for the larger
screen size. Despite those premium innards, the
design of this smartphone is unequivocally that of a
Desire and not that of a premium-looking One.
That slight lapse in the looks department can perhaps
be forgiven, because the focus won't really be on its
appearance. The cameras, are, especially the front
ones. Actually, both front and rear shooters share
many things in common. The back has a 13 megapixel
sensor with a 28 mm wide angle lens and an opening
of f/2.0. The front has an, until now unheard of, 13
megapixel sensor as well. The lens is only slightly
smaller at 22 mm but has a higher aperture of f/2.2. It
also has auto focus with zoom features and, also
unheard of, a dual LED flash as well.
If the hardware hasn't convinced you yet that this is a
smartphone made with cameras in mind, then the new
software might. We've met Zoe before , HTC's video
editing app turned into a collaborative social activity,
now at its milestone 1.0 version. New to our ears,
however, is the EYE, not a single software but a whole
suite of features that take full advantage of the Desire
EYE's dual (camera) personality.
It has face tracking which is able to keep tabs on up
to four people in a single room for the perfect group
video chat. Split Capture combines photos or videos
taken simultaneously on both front and rear cameras
into a single split image or video. Crop-Me-In puts
your face, taken by the front camera, right in the
middle of the scene taken by the rear shooter.
Voice Selfie removes the pain of having to reach out
for that button to trigger the shutter, allowing you to
use simple phrases like "smile" or "say cheese" to do
so.
And finally, fun editing features like Face Fusion and
Live Makeup will also be descending from the HTC
Desire 820 to the new EYE Experience.
The HTC Desire EYE will be coming to the US, EMEA,
and Asia starting this month, though no exact date or
price has been given yet.