HTC Butterfly 2 Rumors: Second-Gen Smart Phone to Arrive Later Part of 2013? [PHOTOS]

HTC appears to be getting ready in another round of smart phone competition in the market after announcing a launch of the second-generation of the HTC Butterfly very soon. According to the "Focus Taiwan" report, HTC Chief Marketing Officer Ben Ho claims the Taiwanese manufacturer plans the arrival of the HTC Butterfly 2 to happen in the later part of 2013.

"We have no plans for the time being to change the name of this series," Ho stated in a media conference. HTC will reportedly launch the smart phone's successor under the signature Butterfly name in order to focus and capitalize on the increasing interest and demand of device consumers with the large-screen smart phone design.

The HTC Butterfly smart phone was officially launched in October 2012. HTC Chief Marketing Officer Ben Ho revealed that the company initially planned to release the HTC Butterfly in the Japanese smart phone market.

However, HTC later on decided to launch the Butterfly smart phone in the United States and Taiwan market where the device consumers are more engrossed with its bigger screen display size. HTC Butterfly received strong reception as well as demand and did significantly well when it comes to sales.

Though HTC Butterfly experienced production issues, Ben Ho revealed that the shortage problems have now been dealt with. Consumers will certainly expect features and specification improvements on the HTC Butterfly 2 since no further details were disclosed about the upcoming smart phone.

The existing HTC Butterfly smart phone has a 5-inch Super LCD 3 screen display with 1080x1920p resolution, 441ppi pixel density and Corning Gorilla Glass 2. Other remarkable features include a 1.5GHZ Qualcomm S4 Pro quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB internal storage capacity that can be expanded to 32GB.

HTC Butterfly operates on the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update together with the HTC Sense 4+. The smart phone has an 8MP rear camera with 2MP front camera powered with the 2020mAH battery and numerous connectivity choices such as HDMI out, Micro-USB, Infrared, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi.