HTC J Butterfly Launched in Australia for AUD849

The International and unlocked model of the latest HTC J Butterfly or known as Droid DNA for US market, is now available in Australia under the name HTC X920e Butterfly.

As the time of writing, the unlocked SIM free version of the device is offered exclusively by online phone retailer MobiCity and is on sale for AUD849 and Shipping of this exceptional smartphone is scheduled to begin on January 18th. Although not yet available in Europe, the Australian market pricing of the J Butterfly give us the rough idea of how the phone would cost when the phone eventually launch there. 

The HTC Butterfly come with a 5-inch Full-HD 1920 x 1080 resolution, Super LCD 3 with Gorilla Glass 2, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 SoC with a quad-core 1.5HGz Krait CPU and Adreno 320 GPU, 2GB of RAM plus the 16GB of internal storage and of course there is the microSD expansion slot. 

The smartphone also boast a 8-megapixel cameras with 1080p video recording capabilities and 2.1 megapixel front camera with both of the camera equipped with a dedicated HTC ImageChip technology and offer one-click continuous photography. Connectivity wise, the HTC Butterfly come with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, A-GPS + GLONASS, NFC.

The Device is still awaited it official launch to European territory, as HTC has reportedly struggled to keep up with the production due to the very high demand for the phone. 

On the other hand, HTC just released their early Q4 earning result and the news is not that encouraging for the Taiwanese based manufacturer. The revenue stats for HTC continue to fall and in the last quarter of 2012 they received $34 million (NT$1 billion) net income before taxes. HTC produced a 2.1 billion (NT$60 billion) revenue in Q4 of 2012 which is a big 41% drop from the last year’s numbers.

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HTC's J Butterfly 1080p Smartphone Could be Heading to Europe?

New leaked photo of the HTC’s 5-inch J Butterfly smartphone have surfaced, prompting speculation that an official announcement regarding the European availability of this phone could be held on 6 December.

The J Butterfly which is the name of this latest HTC smartphone in Japan or the Droid DNA to U.S consumer is still without the specific name for the European market with HTC quick to deny rumors that it will be named as HTC Deluxe when it hits the UK market in near future.

In respond to a query on its Facebook page by a fan that might have seen the leaked image on GSMArena, HTC was quick to deny that the name ‘HTC Deluxe‘ not a part of its European list of upcoming devices.

"The Deluxe unfortunately will not come to Europe," read the response.

 The same source that provide the ‘HTC Deluxe’ photos to GSMArena also predict that the device will be announce in the early week of December.

The Deluxe/Butterfly J/Droid DNA are the world’s first smartphone that feature a 5-inch full 1080p HD display that by far the beat the most high-end smartphone available in the market at the moment including Apple’s iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S3.

The new 5-icnh display HTC device is reported to pack an amazing 440ppi pixel density which is super impressive compared to the latest iPhone 5 displays that only has 326ppi. However, given the large display possess by this HTC device, it would be positioned as a direct rival to the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 which has 267ppi.

Spec wise, the next HTC flagship handset will run on the latest Android platform and is expected to be powered by a Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM with 16GB on internal storage, an industry standard 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 2-megapixel camera on the front plus a 1080p full HD recording capabilities.

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