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  • HTC Butterfly S Mini 4.5″ 720p Display, 3200 mah battery. Shut up and take my money!

  • This is superior to the HTC One IMO. I’ve been using the DNA for months now, and I always that it would be the perfect only if it had a better battery life. I’m Glad HTC is listening to the customers’ needs.

  • This doesn’t look anything like the One… Looks like a big Droid DNA with speakers on the front.

  • Am I the only one who cringes at seeing yet another built in, non-replaceable battery? Granted this battery is freakin’ huge, but after 8-12 months of use, they don’t seem to hold a charge nearly as long as they did when new — and now you have to keep the phone the full 24 months!

  • Am I the only one who thinks the release of this phone and the reactivation of the ‘Droid’ twitter account are related?
    The last Droid was the renamed ‘J Butterfly’ and the day before the ‘Butterfly S’ is announced a dormant ‘Droid’ Twitter account reinitializes, hmmmmmm

  • Butterfly. What a stupid name. I dunno who comes up with these terrible names

  • i still like the HTC ONE better this doesn’t look or feel like a
    flagship phone it was only meant for Verizon. it will nevr come to
    Tmobile or at&t or sprint

  • This is a BIG mistake if Verizon does get this phone ESPECIALLY because it’ll be “exclusive” to the carrier. Let’s look at all the Verizon exclusives that have been ever so neglected: HTC Thunderbolt (no 4.0–later was but a mistake), LG Revolution (no 4.0), HTC Rezound (no 4.1) and now DNA, which I doubt will receive anything passed 4.2 and that’s if they even bother to push out 4.2 since it’s already EOL.

  • This is the HTC One that Verizon will announce, with the DROID moniker, with the AR game they annouced.

  • Maybe this is the Droid you’re looking for? re: DroidLanding going live again?

  • HTC’s phone series are all messed up.
    their secondary series (butterfly) is superior than their main series (one)

  • am i the only one who isnt upset with the phone, but upset with the stupid looking bottom speaker?

  • Well that takes all the fun out of what phone Verizon is going to announce, Droid DNA 2.

  • For those wondering, the tagline “Change your CurFew” means “Change your Current View”
    Current View
    CurrentView
    Curriew
    CurFew

  • Can’t think this is the new Droid Combat… Combat is more likely to be the new Casio G’Zone. Not sure that they would say coming in June for this new Droid Combat if it were the butterfly S… that doesnt even launch JDM utnil July. who knows US. Somewhere I saw that the HTC One will not be Droid branded.

  • also, thanks HTC for fixing the button order and not giving in to ugly illogical on screen buttons that just happened to waste screen space as well. If you ever want to see how on screen buttons should be done look up the applications pie control or wave launcher. Anything else is just for techtards trying to have something different without thinking about function or aesthetics.

  • HTC needs to settle down and stop releasing phones for a while.
    Also, I wonder if this will be Verizon’s new DROID that they announced yesterday?

  • Beautiful phone HTC. I’m in Verizon with a tweaked GS3 and all looking to upgrade. After listening to front facing speakers I’m the Nexus 10 and HTC One, I will never buy a phone or tablet with rear speakers again. If the Note 3 doesn’t have front facing speakers and much improved low light shooting, I will buy this phone immediately when it comes to VZW (nicer build quality wouldn’t hurt either).

  • HTC Droid One or DNA ONE. All stupid names but I would like this version on VEEZEEDUB!

    • Lol @ saying the phones all have stupid names and then calling Verizon VEEZEEDUB.

  • HTC’s best effort yet. Give me this exact phone but with 32 or 64Gb of internal storage and in a Nexus Experience unlocked version and I *might* consider leaving VZW & grandfathered unlimited.

  • what’s so terrible about home/back??? I think that 95% of the time those are the only buttons I use? Do people really use the recents/multitask button that much?

  • Let the phone overall color is more shine, so that everyone can choose the most personalized colors.

    • Don’t worry dude: It’ll be the HTC Droid Butterfly! It might still be a butterfly, but it’ll be all roboty and ninjotic!

  • “Change Your Curfew”? What the hell does that mean? Because you can stay out later because of that battery?

    • It means “Change your Current View.” And Yes I’m serious.
      Current View
      CurrentView
      Curriew
      CurFew

  • Anyone notice it says “Use 8 megapixel camera, you can automatically generate 30 seconds brilliant movie clips”

    Does this mean it will have a 8 ultrapixel technology?

    • Oh nevermind that’s for the HTC Desire, my bad. Had me excited there for a second.

  • To bad that battery doesn’t justify the the ultra gimmick camera. Oh well.

    • Ultra gimmick? They boast better low light quality pictures and it delivers on that front. True, 4 MP is 4 MP and sucks for cropping, but as someone who frequently takes pics in low light settings and hates using flash, this isn’t all gimmick.

    • While I’ll agree the UltraPixel term is merely a marketing term, I will gladly take better low light performance on a phone’s camera over higher resolution. If I want a high resolution picture, I’ll grab my DSLR.

      • If you wanted a good low light picture, wouldn’t you also grab your DSLR?

        • Let me put it this way. When I take a picture on my phone, it’s usually not all that important. In most cases, it’s something I want to show a friend or two and a picture would do better than words. For example, there was an old TVR driving around town the other day. My friend would be interested in knowing that, so I snapped a picture. I didn’t go over and hassle the guy and take proper pictures like I’d want to with my DSLR, just something to get the point across. He’s going to be looking at it on a phone so I don’t need it to be 30-some megapixels. However, it’d be nice if enough light was captured that you could clearly see what car it was. And remember, if more light hits each pixel in a given amount of time, then you don’t need a long shutter to get all the detail you want, which is the most important aspect on a phone which is hard to hold perfectly still and often times is used to capture moments in action.

  • HTC’s taking a page right out of Motorola’s book and dropping slightly better phones every 3 months.

  • I would love for this to be the new Droid Campaign….doubt it though….here’s to wishful thinking

    just oh how i would love for them to ditch capacitive or hardware keys all together..

  • It’s red, that screams Droid, and Verizon is on the verge of unveiling a new Droid device it seems. This may be more likely to be Verizon’s version of the One then you think. Plus VZ likes big batteries lol.

    • I guarantee that if Verizon gets a version of this, they’ll bastardize it somehow just like the DNA with limited storage and difference design.

      Exclusives are never a good thing nowadays. Esp. if you want good software support (updates). Just look at any Verizon HTC or LG phone in the past couple years (Moto is a bit different because of the Google aquisition, I think).

  • Had HTC kept the One’s build quality in tact and crammed this battery and button layout, and removable storage into it… Instant winner and best phone of 2013.

  • Why can’t they just use soft keys? Is it an excuse for the extra bottom bezel??

    • Honestly, all of the phones and tablets I have seen that use soft buttons still lazily have tons of wasted space around the bezel. For phones that are 5″ or smaller , I am fine with capacitive or hard buttons. Look HOW much of the usable screen space is wasted on a GNex or Moto RAZR HD with the virtual buttons compared to a similar Sammy or HTC device (at least until HTC’s atrocious soft menu bar appears).

      • Compromise. Expand the size of the screen to fit the soft-keys. Add some ability to adjust the size/layout, or even when/how they appear. Done.

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