Update: Added link to HTC’s Butterfly S landing page.
If I’m not mistaken, HTC Corp (TPE: 2498), the company based in Taiwan, will sell two large smartphones by end of this year: the HTC One Max and the HTC Butterfly S.
The mobile phone maker betting mainly on Android already revealed the latter, but the One Max is still wrapped and will hit the stage sometime this quarter alongside the HTC One Mini. Can one of the phones outsell the Samsung Galaxy Note 3? Is Verizon getting the Butterfly S and call it a new Droid DNA?
And what are the things that separate the two HTC phones? Let’s look at the official features first before discussing all the rumors – specifically the HTC One Max’s attributes.
First, the HTC Butterfly S, the successor to the Butterfly series. Unlike its predecessor, the international version of HTC Droid DNA, the Butterfly S will offer “BoomSound” – the dual-speakers which offer better music quality – similar to the HTC One. And then, HTC also added the new Sense 5 launcher, and still similar to the “One,” the Sense user interface on the Butterfly S is equipped with the RSS-fetcher BlinkFeed allowing users to quickly access and read articles from top websites and posts on supported social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Sense 5 also supports the new Roboto font, new icons, cleaner platform with more white spaces and of course, it also includes the intuitive multitasking UI which lets users see more running apps on single screen, and dismiss them one by one by swiping the app’s window up.
Apparently, HTC has added a lot of HTC One features to the Butterfly series as part of the company’s “unification” strategy – but not on the design, unsurprisingly. Unlike the One’s aluminum zero-gap full body, the Butterfly S flaunts polycarbonate case which is arguably not for “high-end” phones in today’s standard, except for Samsung phones which are still using plastic, glossy plastic.
The HTC Butterfly S obviously falls under the “phablet” category and will compete with the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the device boasts a 5-inch 1080p LCD touchscreen display with more than 400 pixels per inch, beating the Retina display on the iPhone 5. The large Android phone runs Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 out of the box, so no more waiting for the software update. It also features the same 4-UltraPixel camera with HTC’s custom camera app which takes advantage of the phone’s back-facing “4MP” camera with upsized pixels.
And here comes the rumor mill – the HTC One Max, a new addition to the aluminum-equipped HTC One series. Unlike the Butterfly 2, the Max will reportedly feature anodized aluminum body too, just like the One, and the only difference is its larger 5.9-inch 1080p display, and because it is larger, it might offer fewer pixels per inch than the HTC One’s 4.7-inch with the same resolution rocking a staggering 460 plus pixels per inch.
HTC is also expected to “upgrade” the processors on the HTC One Max, from the Snapdragon 600 on the HTC One, the Max will reportedly offer quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 clocked at 2.3 GHz, and the larger 3,300 mAh battery with a longer battery life promise. For comparison, the HTC Butterfly S will ship with 3,200 mAh battery, while the HTC One includes a non-removable 2,300 mAh battery.
The HTC Butterfly S will invade the “unlocked” market first, phone pundits are saying, and HTC has nothing to share yet about the phone’s future in America. However, Verizon launched the first Butterfly phone last year, and changed its name to HTC Droid DNA – so it is safe to say that Verizon might grab the opportunity to slightly tweak the Butterfly 2 and call it the Droid DNA 2 – what do you think ?
Article by Carlo Raphael Diokno, posted under HTC.
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