superfast 4G LTE has long been a luxury feature only found on top-end phones with lofty price tags. It's steadily become more affordable over the past couple of years and is now beginning to be found at the budget end of the market as well.
The HTC Desire 510 is just such a phone. This 4.7-inch Android KitKat device doesn't have the most impressive specs around -- an 854x480-pixel display and 1.3GHz quad-core processor certainly won't spark much excitement among the tech elite -- but at only £90 on pay as you go with O2 in the UK, it's an extremely affordable entrance into the world of 4G LTE.
In the US, you can pick up the Desire 510 from BestBuy on the Sprint network for $1 up-front on a $9 per month contract. Australians can nab the phone for AU$179 on pre-pay from Telstra.
Design
If you've been eagerly eyeing the sleek metal curves of the HTC One M8 , but don't fancy its massive price tag, the Desire 501 won't be the affordable replacement you've been hoping for. It's a chunky beast, measuring 10mm thick and weighing a fairly hefty 158g.
Although the front has a speaker grille above the display -- reminiscent of the "BoomSound" speakers on much of HTC's pricier range -- it's generally a very uninspiring design. The back panel's matte plastic cover provides nothing of any interest, particularly in the black colour scheme I saw. The white versionyou can see on HTC's website looks a little prettier.
