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SMARTPHONE HTC Butterfly: The Most Expensive Android in India Sleek yet rugged, the Butterfly is a force to reckon with and is equipped with the best configuration found in any smartphone we’ve seen till date — Abhijit Ahaskar TC prefers their to be rugged and sturdy and that shows Price: `45,000 Key Spec: 5-inch multi-touch, 1080p, in their Butterfly’s unibody build. 441 ppi, Gorilla Glass 2, micro SIM, 3G, It fits comfortably into one hand , WiFi, GPS, NFC, 16 GB internal, 32 H GB via micro SD, 1.5 GHz Quad core as it has been kept thinner and longer like processor, 2GB RAM, Adreno 320, 8MP the iPhone 5. Moreover, while the iPhone has rear with 1080p recording, 2.1MP front a 4 inch screen that isn’t even HD, Butterfly with 1080p recording, 2010mAh battery, has a stunning Gorilla Glass based, 5 inch, 143x70.5x9.1mm, 140g Pros: Great build quality, light form factor, full HD display with a high density of excellent display, great cameras 441ppi. The only other smartphone with this Cons: Expensive much is the Z. Write to: [email protected] for The iPhone 5 is lighter than Butterfly, but more info. then at 140g, the Butterfly is far from heavy. It has a striking pair of cameras that can turn out first class full HD videos and photos and have superior display and is thinner and lighter than a a lot of handy functions and modes found in lot of high-end smartphones. point and shoot cameras. It has 16 GB internal Butterfly’s battery back-up is decent storage and can be stretched to another 32 GB with according to our battery tests. It lasted for 6 hours a microSD card, which is lesser than iPhone 5’s 64GB. on our battery comparison test, in which we played a 2hrs Its price can be called a let-down, but once you factor-in movie at 720p resolution in loop. The results are at par with its features you will realize it is actually pushing smartphones the likes of Galaxy S3 or Lumia 920. The device can to newer heights. At 35k, is cheaper and be used for high quality leisure stuff and is a dependable tempting, but has a TFT based smudge prone display, productivity device as well. You can download whatever apps whereas, Butterfly’s AMOLED screen with Gorilla Glass offers you want from Play, and since the touch response is by far the best visuals in a smartphone. flawless and typing accurate, you will like using it. Butterfly can’t provide the creative medley of Note 2 Bottom Line: The overall performance, including games, movie or its side by side multi-tasking, but it does have an equally playback, live streaming, is smooth and without any hitch. Apart from hefty quad core processor and 2 GB memory, a much the price, we couldn’t find anything contrite in it.

Smartphones Compared Model Price (`) Weight Core Speed RAM In-built storage Front Camera Rear Camera NFC Battery back- (grams) (GB) (mp) (mp) up (hrs) iPhone 5 45,000 112 Dual core 1GB iOS 6 16/32/64 1.2 8 no 6 HTC Butterfly 45,000 140 Quad Core 2GB Android 4.1 16 2.1 8 yes 6 HTC One X+ 40,190 135 Dual core 1GB Android 4.1 32/64 1.6 8 yes 7 38,900 183 Quad core 2GB Android 4.1 16 1.9 8 yes 12 Galaxy Note 2 Lumia 920 38,199 185 Dual core 1 GB Windows Phone 8 32 1.3 8.7 yes 7 Sony Xperia Z 35,000 146 Quad Core 2GB Android 4.1 16 2.2 13.1 yes 5 HTC 8X 34,990 130 Dual core 1GB Windows Phone 8 16 2.1 8 yes 6

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