HTC has recently announced its new high-end smartphone - the Android Jelly Bean-powered Droid DNA, which the company is touting as the most advanced handset thus far.

Priced at $199 with a two-year Verizon service agreement, the new HTC Droid DNA boasts a 5-inch 1080p Gorilla Glass display with a staggering 440ppi density; and the impressive 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 chip.

The other attractive features of the slim 142-gram HTC Droid DNA - which is 9.73 mm at its thickest, and tapers to merely 4mm on the sides - include 2 GB of RAM; 16 GB of on-board storage capacity; a full HD 8-megapixel rear camera; a wide-angle front-facing 2.1-megapixel camera; HTC's Sense+ UI; Bluetooth 4.0; NFC; HDMI via MHL; and a 2020 mAh battery.

In addition, the Droid DNA ships with some overtly business-centric features, such as the built-in mail app, which natively works with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL and other generic POP3/IMAP email sources; with the advantage of manual addition of Gmail as an IMAP service, or via Google's native Gmail app.

Furthermore, the Droid DNA also features a pre-loaded instance of the Serve app from American Express; thereby underscoring a PayPal-like electronic payment service which can be a big plus for the users on the go. The other apps which come loaded on the handset include apps like Zappos and NFL Mobile, which can be disabled by users who do not need them.