HTC Desire 616  The HTC Desire 616 is a mid-range Android smartphone released by HTC in 2014. The phone received mixed reviews. Aloysius Low of CNET described the phone as "[a] good-looking device suffering from underwhelming performance". Ershad Kaleebullah of NDTV was unwilling to recommend the phone when compared to similarly priced alternatives such as the Xiaomi Mi 3.