Overseas, The HTC Butterfly S Is Unveiled: Snapdragon 600, UltraPixels, And More
The HTC Butterfly S is the latest smartphone to be debuted by the master of Android smartphone design: HTC. Still making use of metal, the Butterfly S uses a Snapdragon 600 processor in a quad-core, 1.9GHZ setup, BoomSound and Beats Audio, Android 4.2.2 with HTC Sense quad-band HSPA/WCDMA radios, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage, expandable through microSD.
All of which totals to a weight of 160 grams. The screen is of the 5-inch variety, presented in full 1080p HD at 440 pixels-per-inch.
Other typical additions include the UltraPixel camera and Zoe software features, along with a 2.1-megapixel wide-angle shooter on the front. Current details for a launch are pinned for July in Taiwan, accompanied by a NT $22,900 (roughly $766) price tag; a launch in the United States hasn’t been mentioned.
In a press event in London, Huawei unveiled its latest smartphone. What’s the big deal? It’s the thinnest smartphone in the world, measuring 6.1mm thin, and made of metal. The Ascend P6 also features more important things, like a 4.7-inch 720p display, with availability in 19 countries at the end of July for $600. What’s Huawei’s competition you ask? It’s limitless and daunting: Galaxy S4, the iPhone 5, the Xperia Z or HTC One; however you want to spin it, really.
The Nexus 4 is pretty old now, after being launched in November of 2012, but that didn’t keep our curiosity away from the limited edition white model. It works just like the previous Nexus 4, in black, 
Coming to the US and Europe this summer is the Galaxy S 4 Active — a rugged version of the current S4. While sporting the IP67 water and dust protection — able to survive three feet of water for up to 30 minutes — as well as a 5-inch (TFT LCD) 1080p display (443 ppi), there’s an unspecified 1.9GHz quad-core processor to get the work done. Alongside LTE radios and Android 4.2.2, the GS4 Active packs an 8-megapixel camera with LED flash, while the front-facer will take up to two-megapixel stills — a stark difference from the original S4′s 13 megapixel main camera.
Finally, Twitter has released the Vine app for Android. The social networking service spin-off from Twitter is gaining popularity among users an companies, for its simple sharing of 5 second video clips. The app supports all Android 4.0 devices and up. Twitter will also bring the app up to the speed of the iOS version, introducing hashtags, mentions, search, Facebook sharing and the ever-important use of a front-facing camera for frontal shots. Vine is now available on the Google Play Store, for free.
Taking it up a notch, Samsung has unveiled the rest of the family that makes up the Galaxy Tab 3. A 7-inch model has already existed, but now 8-inch and 10.1-inch models have joined. The 8-inch Galaxy Tab 3 features a 1.5 GHz Exynos dual-core processor, WXGA TFT 1280 x 800 (189 PPI) display, 1.5GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear-facing and 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, a 4,450 mAh battery, and 16 or 32GB of internal storage.