HTC J Butterfly: The phone with the sharpest screen in history revealed!
HTC just blew the doors off. If you thought the HD screen of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 or the Retina Display of the iPhone 5 were easy on the eye, the Taiwanese smartphone pusher has something for you to see. Say hello to the HTC J Butterfly, the world’s first full HD, 1080p smartphone.
Announced in Japan today, the HTC J Butterfly packs in a 5-inch display with an enormous 1920×1080 resolution. That’s full HD, and almost twice as sharp as any other competitor right now, including the iPhone 5: the results? Everything looks crystal clear, like on a full HD telly or a Retina Display MacBook Pro.
Under the hood, the Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” HTC J Butterfly is powered by a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, and it packs in an eight megapixel camera and a monstrous 2GB of memory for app juggling on the go. The whole affair is just 9.1mm deep too, to round things off.
That’s the good news: the HTC J Butterfly proves HTC still has what it takes to go toe to toe with Apple and Samsung. The bad news? This is a Japan-only phone for now. Still, we’d be very surprised if HTC doesn’t bring this to the West, just as soon as enough full HD panels have rolled off the pipeline. Stay tuned: whichever side of the Android/iPhone divide you sit on, this is one to watch.
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Jeff17 October 2012
This is plan daft and another example of technology for the sake of it. The same thing happened with CPU clock speeds, Intel were pushed to produce higher clock speeds knowing full well that nothing could effectively exploit it due to all of the other hardware limitations, but that desire for the "mine goes faster" badge on shiny PC towers dominated the market. A 1.5Ghz quad-core CPU in a phone that will spend 99% of it's time idle ... why? Still, if people will buy it, someone will make it...
Report as inappropriateDavid Slater17 October 2012
Would they be the words if an iPhone user ?
Report as inappropriatepaul17 October 2012
sounds like n iSheep user to me. but he is right though
Report as inappropriateGhytho17 October 2012
Why didn't you mention the Sony Xperia S in the beginning of the article? It's display is sharper than iPhone 5 or Samsung Note 2, actually before this phone it held the title of sharpest screen. Other than that would love to see what that screen looks like :)
Report as inappropriateDavidSlater17 October 2012
I must admit iphones, windows 7 phone and Android are really good OS's dependant on what you as a user does with them and what hardware you have for it to work smoothly. I work away....LOTS and I use a HTC Sensation to stream my home content via HDMI to my hotel tvs from home...live TV recorded TV etc.. If you want a device where u cant really go wrong , it would be the iphone and then the windows 7, but I want flexability in the OS to do what I want and the power to go with it. Its not a phone.. thats only 5% of what it does its a media device...!!!
Report as inappropriatej17 October 2012
Am I reading this right? A "monsterous 2GB"? Sorry but that sounds kinda poor to me, many handsets have atleast 4GB and some 16 or even 32GB with the ability to expand. 2GB wouldn't last me 5 minutes (or 5 apps come to that).
Report as inappropriateKaz17 October 2012
LOL @ J - the 2GB of memory is RAM, not storage! And it is monstrous for a phone. Storage, I believe, is 16GB upgradable to 32GB
Report as inappropriateSteve17 October 2012
J, you are mistaken. Memory does not equal storage space. 2gb is a reference to RAM. Your 32 refers to the storage space on the phone. Ram is used to do lots of things at once
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tony17 October 2012
Lol@jeff. If bounderies were not pushed, we would still live in the dark ages.
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