Saturday, 19 January 2013
HTC is planning to bring its first
phablet to India. The device is expected to hit store shelves towards
the end of January, for Rs. 44,000. In the US the device is called the
HTC Droid DNA but in the rest of the world, it is called the HTC Butterfly or HTC Deluxe. The device has been available globally since December 2012.
- 5-inch display with a full HD resolution (1920x1080 pixels) giving it a pixel density of 441ppi.
- Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor clocked at 1.5GHz, Adreno 320GPU
- 2GB of RAM power the device.
- 16GB built-in storage expandable via a microSD card up to 32GB.
- 8MP rear facing camera and a 2.1MP front facing camera.
- 2020mAh battery.
- It will run on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
- Priced @ Rs. 44,000 will be the most expensive Android smartphone available.
Currently we have the Samsung Galaxy S III priced at Rs. 31,900 and the Samsung Galaxy Note II priced at Rs. 37,400. We have the iPhone 5, which is the most expensive (non-luxury) smartphone available in India starting at Rs. 45,500.
The launch of the Butterfly comes at the
heels of the largest global smartphone event, MWC 2013, which will take
place in February in Barcelona, Spain. We expect to see quite a few
flagship smartphones at the event such as the Samsung Galaxy S IV,
Samsung Galaxy Note III, LG Optimus G2 and more.
