In recent months, we have talked about various devices getting official and unofficial KitKat builds. Some devices were never slated to receive and update due to technical limitations, but developers have spent countless hours porting device trees, libraries, and kernels to iron out bugs and squeeze the most performance from these older devices. The level of success is different for every device, but people have tried crossed some pretty impressive boundaries.

The HTC Desire Z was released in late 2010, and it is one of the few smartphones that offers a physical keyboard. A little over 3 years after its launch, the Desire Z received an unofficial port of KitKat by XDA Recognized Developer Flinny, who ported CyanogenMod 11 to the Vision and Saga. The ROM is still considered alpha, but a list of working things is getting longer from one release to another. It’s impressive to see older devices getting so much support from developers.

A change log, links, and release notes can be found in the development thread.

CREDITS : XDA

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HTC has official launched Desire 600 Dual SIM in India. It was announced back in May and went on sale in India earlier this month.  It has a 4.5-inch qHD (960 x 540 pixels) pixels super LCD2 display, powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor and runs on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) . It has a 8-megapixel camera on the back with LED flash, BSI sensor and a 1.6-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor.

It has Dual SIM support with dual active SIMs that allows you to have two SIM cards active all the times, enabling you to receive a call on first SIM, even if you are already using the other.

It has HTC BlinkFeed home screen that aggregates social streams and news, providing the freshest content at a glance and gets global content from more than 1,400 media sources. The Video Highlights feature automatically creates professional-looking 30-second show reels without the need for advanced editing software. The HTC BoomSound feature offers enhanced audio output with Dual frontal stereo speakers and built-in amplifiers and comes with Beats Audio integration.

HTC Desire 600 specifications

• 4.5-inch (960 x 540 pixels) pixels super LCD2 display
• 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 MSM8625Q processor
• Android 4.1 (Jellybean)
• Dual SIM with Dual Active
• 8MP rear camera with LED Flash, BSI Sensor
• 1.6 MP front-facing camera with BSI Sensor
• 3.5 mm headset jack, Beats audio support
• HTC BlinkFeed
• HTC BoomSound, Dual frontal stereo speakers with built-in amplifiers
• 3.5mm audio jack, Beats Audio
• 1GB DDR2 RAM, 8GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB with micro SD
• 3G (HSDPA up to 7.2 Mbps), WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 with aptX, GPS with a-GPS
• 1860 mAh battery

The HTC Desire 600 is priced at an MRP of Rs 26,990 and MOP (Best buy) price is Rs. 26,860.

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