The Design and Build of HTC Butterfly
The HTC Butterfly takes an appearance of a sports car -- perforated metal trim along the sides and red, spun aluminum are blatant
clues that this is not just any smartphone. It's a seriouThe Display
The main attraction of the HTC Butterfly would be its 5" Full HD Super LCD 3 display that boasts of a whopping 440ppi pixel density, and if you are a voracious reader of PDFs and other e-books, surely the HTC Butterfly would make for a decent short term substitute for your dedicated e-book reader. The wide viewing angles also do help when you want to share your latest escapades on video with your mates. Under bright sunlight, the display obviously performs better than your entry level or mid-range smartphones, but chances are you will not be using it too long under such conditions unless you want to take a trip to the nearest optometrist, on the double.
The Software
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Camera and Video Recording
Inside that red-rimmed contraption on the back is an 8MP camera with
f/2.0 aperture, 3.63mm focal length (28mm equiv.) wide-angle lens, BSI
sensor, AF and HTC's special Image Chip. Flip over the phone and you'll come face-to-face with a 2.1MP front-facing camera with BSI sensor and 88-degree ultra-wide-angle lens. You can also adjust white balance manually, which unfortunately you will want to do more often on the DNA since the auto white balance is a little too warm. You can also choose to use HDR, macro mode or low-light mode and you can also adjust exposure / contrast settings. Since the DNA doesn't offer the ability to lock exposure, adjustments will be needed more often than not. When using the front-facing camera, you can tap the viewfinder to start a three-second timer to get that perfect Facebook profile shot.
Although HTC's 8MP camera was one of the best on its release but with the increasing number of 13 MP cameras phone such as LG Optimus G Pro,Sony Xperia Z and Samsung Galaxy S4 most people began to be less interested in 8MP phones.The HTC One will feature HTC’s very own ‘Ultrapixels’ technology, but that is missing on the HTC Butterfly. You will be able to shoot stills of up to 3,264 x 2,448 pixels in 4:3 mode and 3,264 x 1,840 ones in 16:9 mode, not to mention capturing 6-megapixel stills at 16:9 whenever you are recording video.All in all, the HTC Butterfly is a decent camera and video recording device which should be enough for the average man on the street.
Performance
Specifically, you can expect to enjoy a 1.5GHz APQ8064 Snapdragon S4 Pro processor
paired with an MDM9615m modem, Adreno 320 GPU and 2GB RAM. This thing
is as powerful as they come right now, and power users won't be
disappointed with its performance. It trucks along swiftly; the speed of
the processor, complemented by the efficiency of Jelly Bean, make for a
killer combination that certainly kept us happy the entire time we used
the phone. To be fair, there are a few more demands on the processor
thanks to the higher-res display, but the hiccups this factor caused are
the exception rather than the rule.Sad to say, our gaming experience was a mixed bag -- some of our favorite titles worked flawlessly and games like Riptide and Reign of Amira
looked amazing with the Adreno 320 pushing the graphics behind the
scenes, as well as the high-res screen. But it's that fantastic display
that will be the thorn in early adopters' sides for a little while,
we're afraid; it seems that some games don't play well with the higher
resolution. To offer an example or two, Angry Birds Star Wars crashed every time we tried starting a level, and Need for Speed: Most Wanted
displayed a black screen instead of a racetrack -- even though all of
the controls, car positions and damage notifications showed up without a
problem.Battery
Visually, there is little that slows the HTC Butterfly's quad-core Krait CPU down. It hangs well with zipping around the interface as fast as my fingers will move.And the Adreno 320 GPU handled graphic-intensive games quite well. That said, after just about five minutes of playing The Amazing Spider-Man the phone started to get quite hot. And the battery plummeted.There were reports of the HTC Butterfly not going beyond 4 hours on a full charge of its 2,020mAh battery, and I have taken the liberty to give it a go in different situations. , I managed to eke out around 14 hours of juice, which is not the most respectable score out there, but it will suffice for the average user.Road warriors would do well to pack the charger wherever they go, and I would recommend you charge the smartphone whenever you are on the road regardless of the battery level, as you can never tell just when you need that extra percentage of juice when you arrive at your destination.
I have also tried watching encoded High Definition videos on the HTC Butterfly, and with Wi-Fi turned on without any cellular connectivity, and I eked out 5 hours or so, and the battery had dropped to 20% left. This was done with volume on the loudspeakers set to 70%, and I used a third party app known as MX Player for video playback purposes. This is respectable in my books, and I suppose the earlier mentioned 4-hour battery life was a defective unit that needed looking into. Still, it would be nice to see the 2,020mAh battery last longer to keep up, but surely it is not going to top the list of longest lasting high end smartphones in the market in terms of battery life just yet. Of course, having a swappable battery would be a boon to counter a shorter battery life, but that is not an option on the HTC Butterfly. Average would be the best word to describe the battery life.
Conclusion
The HTC Butterfly is a smartphone that would not disappoint if you are all about flash, although the newer HTC One has already usurped the HTC Butterfly as the flagship model for the Taiwanese company. It does feel as though the HTC Butterfly is an interim device before the HTC One is fully ready for the masses, something like how Windows Vista arrived in between Windows XP and Windows 7. The non-removable battery will surely be a major complain against it, and I would say that the battery life is also disappointing for a flagship. Of course, the strongest point of the HTC Butterfly would be its brilliant display that offers eye popping visuals, and at 5”, you will most probably find yourself obtaining more High Definition videos to enjoy on it, especially if you are one who spends plenty of time commuting to and from work each day using the public transport. As for its Sense UI, it has improved a whole lot over the earlier generation Sense offerings, delivering an integration level that is downright intuitive when it comes to sharing images and streaming media. If you have the dough to spare, it might be better to wait for the HTC One or the Samsung Galaxy S4 to arrive.
Here are the Pros and Cons:
Pros
- Fantastic display
- Waterproof Somewhat
- Powerful quad-core processor
- Excellent camera
- Beats Audio
- Design and build quality
Cons
- Non-removable battery
- No Android 4.2 out of the box
- Polycarbonate body is slippery to the grip
- No Micro SD Card Slot (Except for India,China and Japan Versions)
Here are the Key Specs just it case I missed out anything:
- 5-inch Super LCD 3 1920x1080p display with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 (440 ppi)
- 1.5GHz Qualcomm S4 Pro quad-core processor
- 2GB RAM
- 16GB internal storage (expandable by another 32GB)
- 8-megapixel rear camera
- 2-megapixel front camera
- Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) with HTC Sense 4+
- 2, 020mAh battery
- HDMI out, Micro-USB, Infrared
- Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC
- 143 x 70.5 x 9.08 mm
- 140 grams with battery
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