HTC Butterfly S Officially Announced
HTC infuses Droid DNA with the One: Out of the cocoon comes the HTC Butterfly S.
Last year November HTC showed us the J Butterfly (otherwise know as the HTC Droid DNA), which was one of the first waterproof 5-inch 1080p devices of it's kind (just after the Oppo Find 5). Subsequently, both companies are working on successors, so while the Oppo Find 7 is still in development, HTC has gone ahead and announced the Butterfly S, an elegant fusion of the Droid DNA and the One.
Similar to its predecessor, the phone comes with a full-HD 5-inch screen (1920 x 1080 pixels), but got a SoC upgrade to the Snapdragon 600. With the system on chip comes a Krait 300 CPU clocked at 1.90 GHz, along with an Adreno 320 GPU (which can run at a respectable 52 GFLOPS). 2 GB of RAM supports the system along with 16 GB of internal storage, which is microSD expandable unlike the HTC One. Unfortunately, the Butterfly S will not have 4G LTE support, but will come with the expected array of radios, allowing for Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac at 2.4/5 GHz.
Image capture comes at the hands of a 2.1 MPx forward facing camera, while the rear camera is a HTC Ultrapixel from the One. The battery capacity is claimed to be a larger 3,200 mAh, which should hold the phone strong throughout the day running Android Jelly Bean 4.2 and the HTC Sense 5 UI.
Currently, the phone's price is listed at $765, and will go on sale in Taiwan sometime in July. We suspect that the phone will make its way around the world eventually like the J Butterfly did, landing in the U.S. with possible a different name and hopefully a tweaked model for some 4G LTE capabilities.
This, exactly.
Unless the phone is targeted specifically at markets where 4G LTE is not available, why would they even bother making a flagship-level phone without LTE support?
Show me which phones have the same great audio quality as the Butterfly. Phones is different.
Show me which phones have the same great audio quality as the Butterfly. Phones is different.
It's just the logo on the back that bugs me. I don't care about the quality.
And apparently it's worse.
In the phone world, Butterfly and One (they are essentially the same) are one the best phones, besides iPhone when it comes down to audio quality. They also has headphone amplifier built in, not many phones have them.
For a true audiophile they will use external headphone amp like FiiO or Pocket Amp, but how convenient it is when you can just plug a high impedance cans and it sound good without using any external amp.