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HTC announces the HTC J Butterfly for Japan
HTC’s flagship smartphone lineup just got a little more crowded today with the unveiling of the HTC J Butterfly in Japan. The phone isn’t as visually appealing as the HTC One M9 or the One M9+, but HTC’s engineering team decided to take the best components from those phones and combine them in the J…
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HTC Butterfly 2 and J Butterfly HTL23 officially unveiled
The HTC J Butterfly was announced a few weeks back, but HTC’s Peter Chou took center stage today in Japan to officially unveil the new phone along with the HTC Butterfly 2. The two phones are a slight variation on the HTC One (M8), wrapped inside a plastic shell with an IP57 rating (achieved without…
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HTC J Butterfly unveiled with One (M8) guts, waterproof body, 13 megapixel DuoCamera
The HTC One (E8) is slowly rolling out in select markets across Asia, but with today’s unveiling of the HTC J Butterfly, we doubt HTC plans on bringing its budget flagship phone to Japan any time soon. The HTC J Butterfly is a cross between the HTC One (M8) and the HTC One (E8). The…
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Will your HTC handset be updated to Android 4.4? Here’s what we think
Android 4.4 has been around for only a few months, but HTC is already off to a good start, releasing Android 4.4 builds for the HTC one Google Play Edition and the unlocked/developer HTC One here in the US. HTC has also posted its own Android 4.4 update page which highlights the update process and…
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Will your HTC handset be updated to Android 4.2? Here’s what we think
In the past 12 months, we’ve watched as HTC pushed out over a dozen different Android 4.1 updates to its devices. Android 4.2 has been around for a while (ok, a while may be an understatement since 4.2 made its debit last fall on the Nexus 4), so we thought we’d put together a list…
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HTC to capitalize on strong demand for large-screen smartphones with an HTC Butterfly successor
The HTC One may be HTC’s main flagship device for 2013, but that doesn’t mean we won’t see any other news worth devices from HTC this year. HTC’s Ben Ho revealed today that HTC is working on a successor to the HTC Butterfly to capitalize on strong consumer demand for large-screen smartphones. Since the debut…
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HTC J Butterfly sales exceed expectations – HTC to increase shipments to meet demand
Reviews of the HTC J Butterfly (Japan’s version of the HTC Droid DNA) have been extremely positive, so we’re not at all surprised to hear that the phone has been selling well in Japan. According to a statement by HTC CEO, Peter Chou, the company is actually not fully able to meet demand at the moment due…