Japanese carrier KDDI has just announced a new HTC J Butterfly, a handset which resembles the HTC One in specs, but with features aimed at KDDI's home market. Like a lot of other Japanese devices, the 5-inch, full HD handset is waterproof in case you feel like taking fish photos. And HTC has brand new cameras: a 13-megapixel rear dual-camera model with a selfie-friendly 5-megapixel front shooter. That differs from the One M8's 4-megapixel Duo "Ultrapixel" camera. KDDI instead calls it a "Duo Effect" camera, with the secondary 2-megapixel module giving depth-of-field adjustment and other features. Filling out the spec sheet are a Snapdragon 801, 802.11ac WiFi, LTE-Advanced, 150Mbps 4g, 2GB of RAM, Android 4.4 KitKat and a Dot View case. All of that sounds pretty nice, but will it come to US shores? Hard to say, but the last J Butterfly model did eventually arrive as the Droid DNA (to Verizon), so we wouldn't be surprised to see the new model here too.
Geek: You know what that smartphone with a barely pocket-able 5-inch screen needs? An NFC-capable remote control that allows you to hold a slimmer piece of plastic to your head as you make phone calls and control media playback. Sure, you could just buy a smaller phone, but in case you hadn’t thought of that HTC has announced the Mini.
TheNexusNews.com - Been quite a while since HTC was working on Phablet. Now the Phablet is released and its called "HTC J Butterfly", and the specifications are released as well.
The display screen is using "Super LCD 3" that makes Full-HD possible, hence it results in a better display quality than iPhone 5.
I was planning on buying the Nexus, but honestly this one looks like its off the charts! Very excited :D
For now :D Do you think It's a good idea if I ask someone to buy it for me in Japan?
umm it all depends, LTE and CDMA/GSM/UMTS/GPR all those radios are supported but the phone is only in japan meaning only Japanese spectrum, it will have to be unlocked like the galaxy s3 international (sim unloked), so you can flash it to any other carrier or use a different sim card, i don't think is good idea unless you want it for development, to root it, once a phone is rooted anything is possible even sim unlocking it your self ;p
Pocketlint: HTC has announced the launch of a 5-inch Android smartphone in Japan, confirming rumours that it would, however the bad news, it is only available in Japan at the moment.
