Rumors of HTC’s own oversized smartphone (oft categorized as phablet)
has been swirling ’round the net for a couple of months now, but it
looks like the Taiwanese company has officially outed their own phablet
offering in the form of the HTC J Butterfly that’s destined for the
Japanese market. This particular smartphone holds the title of the first
ever 5-inch smartphone with a 1080p capable display, which is achieved
using a Super LCD 3 panel made by Sharp. That’s right folks – you’re
getting a pixel density of 440ppi, which is the highest we’ve ever seen
on a device of this size. There’s a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro,
quad-core processor under the hood of the J Butterfly running at 1.5GHz,
which is paired with 2GB of RAM. Connectivity-wise, you’re looking
at 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE), NFC, LTE and
CDMA/GSM/UMTS/GPRS, which means that this is a truly global device that
should work wherever it goes. Oh, did we mention that it’s also water
resistant, and has a rating of IPX5. Naturally, everything will be
powered by Android 4.1. Now all we need is the price and availability –
one thing is for sure, we’re salivating at the opportunity to paw this
thing.
