HTC announces 5″ smartphone with full-HD display Butterfly

HTC has announced the Butterfly; a 5 “Android smartphone with a screen resolution of 1920×1080 pixels and a quadcore Snapdragon S4 Pro-soc. The device is probably intended for the international market, but is not yet available in the Benelux.

The introduction of the Butterfly went without much fanfare; HTC quietly placed the device on its website so discovered BGR. Judging by the product page, the Butterfly is almost identical to the Butterfly J, which was previously released in Japan, and the Droid DNA, which is available exclusively from US telecom provider Verizon. Inquiries with HTC Benelux shows that there are currently no plans to release the device in the Benelux.

The smartphone is powered by Qualcomm’s APQ8064 soc which consists of four Krait processor cores at 1.5GHz and the new Adreno 320 GPU. The same chip is used in the Nexus 4 and the Padfone 2. The soc is assisted by 2GB of RAM and the device also contains 16GB of storage capacity that can be expanded via a micro-SDHC card.

The housing measures 143x71x9.1mm, making the smartphone a fraction wider than HTC’s One X and Samsung’s Galaxy S III, while those devices have screens of 4.7″ and 4.8″ respectively. The Super LCD 3 screen is the successor to the Super LCD 2 screen used in the One X phone. Due to the combination of a high resolution and a relatively small screen, the number of pixels per inch is no less than 440, a lot higher than with other smartphones. This should make the image look much sharper.

The device has an 8-megapixel camera with autofocus and an LED flash on the back, and a 2.1-megapixel version on the front. Both cameras can record 1080p video. The battery has a capacity of 2020mAh. Nothing is known about the exact version of Android that the device runs, but given that the J variant runs on 4.1 in combination with HTC Sense, that will most likely also be the case with this model.