HTC Butterfly

The Butterfly is powered by a more efficient quad-core SoC this time around. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC replaces Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chip and will most likely be seen in their upcoming One handset as well. Coupled with a whopping 2GB of RAM, there’s...

Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support; 3G with HSPA; LTE (market dependent) ; 5" 16M-color 1080p Super LCD3 capacitive touchscreen display with 441ppi pixel density; Curved Gorilla Glass 2 ; Android OS v4.1.1 Jelly Bean with Sense 4+ UI ; Quad-core 1.5 GHz...

The Butterfly leaves no doubt about how important it is to HTC to reclaim lost ground in the smartphone game. The device is good-looking, blazing fast, and has the best display in the business bar none. Those are the right boxes to tick if you're after...

Outstanding full HD display ; Thin, well constructed design ; Dual notification lights

Awful battery life ; Occasional performance hiccups ; Some annoying ergonomics

The HTC Butterfly's 5in, full HD screen is a marvel and its thin design quickly becomes appreciated. However, poor battery life, some odd ergonomics and HTC's tired Sense UI are all letdowns. Add a lack of 4G to that and we'd advise you give this one a...

At a price of £659.99 over at Mobicity I would buy one of these over the slightly bigger Samsung competitor, the Note II. It gives that limited feeling because the device isn’t really available here in the UK but Mobicity UK will bring it in for you....

We do like many of HTC's Sense widgets and there's a few nice touches throughout the OS that you won't find on any other Android phones. We've only used the Butterfly for a few hours so we can't make a final judgement on performance. However, our...