HTC Butterfly S Coming Soon to India? - Indiatimes.com ~ Techno Hub

HTC Butterfly S

HTC Butterfly S, the successor of the popular HTC Butterfly smartphone is already up on the Indian website. Does this mean that the Indian phone launch is not far off?

HTC announced the smartphone just last month and the phone is yet to be launched globally. HTC's listing of the device on their official Indian website might be hinting at an early Asia launch. While phone-makers generally give preference to launching smartphones in stronger economies, Asian countries like India are left behind with the phones sometimes taking even up to 3 months to arrive.

While BlackBerry changed the rules by launching the BlackBerry Z10 first in India, other big names like Apple and Samsung still prefer launching the smartphones in London or New York, or more recently on their home-turf before rolling out the devices globally. By listing the phone officially on their Indian website, HTC might be hinting at a universal global launch.

HTC Butterfly S

With Indian smartphone market still relatively untapped, phone-makers have scope for reaching the burgeoning segment and boosting sales. While the use of smartphones is slowly on the rise in India, the number is not balanced keeping in mind the population and the vast rural segment. Also, internet speeds are only slowly catching up making it imperative for people to understand the vast reach and use of their smartphone. By pushing products early in India, phone-makers are trying to make the best of the opportunity and capture larger shares. HTC Butterfly S shares many of its features with HTC One. However, the phone has some distinct differences and the looks arealso altered. While it is still unclear as to which Android version the phone runs on, our bet is the latest Jelly Bean variant.

HTC Butterfly S is a 5-inch phablet and comes with Super LCD3 capacitive touch screen. The display is fully HD and boasts of a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels. Needless to say, the phone comes with the latest version of HTC Sense UI (version 5). Under the hood of HTC Butterfly S runs a quad-core 1.9 GHz Krait 300 Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The phone comes in just one internal memory variant, the 16 GB variant. However, unlike HTC One which has no memory card slot, HTC Butterfly S supports memory expansion up to additional 64 GB using MicroSD card. The RAM is the now standard 2 GB. HTC Butterfly S shares the Ultrapixel camera with HTC One. Luckily, HTC has not downgraded from their flagship device and HTC Butterfly S also supports a 4 ultrapixel camera. The rear end camera comes with single LAED flash and the front, video-calling camera is 2.1 MP.

HTC Butterfly had the distinction of being the most expensive phone launched in India. We wonder if HTC plans to continue the tradition with HTC Butterfly S. We can't wait for the Taiwanese phone-maker to officially announce the device now!

HTC Butterfly S