HTC BUTTERFLY REVIEW









HTC launched its first full HD smartphone namely HTC butterfly in India which is priced @ 45990/-. It is available in Black and White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY 
HTC does not bring in much design changes as far as HTC one x plus. It uses corning gorilla glass 2 front and a polycarbonate body on the back making it durable. It is slim at 9.1mm and weighs 140gms. The display is a 5 inch 16M FULL HD Super LCD-3 capacitive touchscreen with 441ppi. The viewing angles and the sunlight legibility of this display is very good. It has Sense 4.0 User Interface.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES 
It has a 16 GB internal storage and is expandable upto 32 GB. The device features its on dedicated multimedia apps which are very good. It has a beats audio sound enhancement.Onboard connectivity's such as 2G, 3G, 4G(LTE), WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS & GLONASS, NFC and USB are standard.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES 
It has an 8 MP Rear Camera with autofocus & led which features Simultaneous HD video and image recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Face detection, Image stabilization etc. The camera clarity is good. It does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization & stereo sound having bit-rate 12-14 Mbps in MP4 files. The video recording clarity is good. It has a 2.1 MP Front camera which does FULL HD 1080p@30fps video recording.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android(OS) 4.1.1 jelly bean out of the box with a planned upgrade to 4.2 jelly bean. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 PRO (APQ8064) processor running a quad core at 1.5 GHZ with 2 GB RAM and an Adreno 320 GPU. The performance is very good which provides high graphic intensive games and multitasking run smoothly and there is no lag in at all.
QUADRANT : 8082.
ANTUTU : 19513.
NENAMARK 2 : 59.6 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE 
It has a non-removable Li-Pro 2020 MAH Battery. The battery life is just descent which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 6:35H.
VIDEO PLAYBACK: upto 8:35H.  
TALK TIME : upto 11:30H(2G) / upto 12:30 H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500 H(2G) / upto 500 H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Great Display and viewing angles.
*Above descent camera & video recording clarity.
*Loudspeaker is good.
*Beats audio enhancements.

CONS
*Non-removable battery of lesser capacity providing lesser life.
*Power key placing could have been better. 
*Pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.



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