So HTC had a couple really interesting years leading up to this new phone and this turns out to be the only flagships available in 2018 with no notch and a couple super unique features and the other thing is in the US or anywhere really this phone is not going to be in stores that may explain why you or someone you know hasn't really heard of this or you're hearing about it for the first time not as much hype around ths sky but it will be available online for 849$ , so that's definitely high-end it's a premium flagship so is it worth your money.
well,first of all just as far as design this is the translucent Blue color it's the only color of this phone i consider buying it in as you can see that the the glass is a little bit see-through in the top half which i love it's not quite "jerry-rig everything" fully seeing all the components see-through but it's still pretty unique and i'm fan of this i'd love to love to see other phones offer something similar to this too , there are some other colors available for this phone as well but they aren't see-through so who cares about them, but this is the glass back enabling this of course so the whole back of the phone is now this glass it's much slipperier but there is no wireless charging so if you hated oneplus for going glass back but no wireless charging so you have to hate this one too .
the bottom line i'm a big fan of the way this one looks even though it does catch plenty of finger prints i think it is one of those where i would just not ever put a case or a skin on it just leave it the way it is.
The rest of this phone looks pretty normal though for 2018 you know pretty simple design lots of HTC cues and shape but you wouldn't suspect anything to stand out crazy just looking at it but there are actually a lot of really interesting things about this phone.
First of all the Squeeze is back and it's like leveled up it still has the side squeeze sensitivity from the U11 So you can set a shortcut to launch something when you squeeze the phone but also have different types of squeezes , so a quick squeeze is one thing and a long squeeze is a different shortcut and on the top of that you have pressure sensitivity all the way up the side of hte phone so while you're holding it if you double tap the side of the phone with your thumb it acts as shortcut to one-handed mode and if you switch hands and double tap with the other thumb that's the other side shrinking to one-handed mode so a lot of hand gymnastics but it's being really smart about what it does with that pressure sensitivity so that's pretty impressive when it works it's not always perfect it can get pretty finicky and sometimes i tried an outright doesn't work and there's a lot of ghost taps and it can fix itself after a while.
but then on top of all of that the most interesting part about this phone might ot be the color might not be the pressure-sensitive squeezed feature it's that this phone doesn't actually have any real buttons the power button and the volume button in the side of this phone aren't normal clicky actuating buttons there are even more pressure sensitive areas on the side of the phone so when the phone is off you press the volume buttons they don't move you know kind of like apple'solide-state touche ID home button it's not an actual button
until the phone turns on and when it is on there's a vibration motor that kicks in and simulates the feel of pressing a button when you squeeze or put pressure on that area.
another unique thing about this phone you may have already noticed the dual cameras on the back but you also get two cameras up top here at the front two-selfie cameras and these are just for portrait mode selfies and i was hoping one of them would be a regular camera and one of them would be a super wide-angle selfie camera so you could take super wide angle selfies without having to do some corny stitching effect but no this is the same focal length slightly separate from each other to do better blur for portrait mode .
those are the main unique things about the phone that may not be obvious from the second you pick it up, i'd say the rest of the phone is normal for 2018 it's a flagship that checks a lot of boxes it has high-end specs and a pretty conservative but likable design it's IP68 water-resistant which is great.
the finger print reader is on the back in the middle again right where it should be excellent use of space , it has a micro SD card expansion slot and it really has a lot of what peaople have been asking for , no notch thin side bezels great build great display high-end specs quality camera etc..
the only thing that's really missing is the headphone jack even the dual speakers are a nice upgrade that's not boom sound or anything but it's the one at the bottom lus the earpiece doubles as a front-facing channel and they do get loud and sound full and then it has a 3500 mha battery wich sounds like it should be plenty but it's definitely not it could have something to do with the display so tit s a 6 inch 2880 /1440 super LCD panel will work it has something with HTC software but i'm basically barely getting a day out of it when i thought i'd be getting a day and half easily it charges quick and that's nice there no wireless charger but that's not a deal breaker for me just wish the battery life was better to begin with maybe software can be improved maybe a software update can actually make that better so that just leaves us with the software and the camera.
The software is HTC Sense so it's about what you''d expect and the camera is pretty good so HTC Sense UI is on top of Android 8.0 oreo and hopefully with Android P coming very soon and i've never had a problem with HTC Sense really it's never been my favorite skin on top of android but it's also been pretty tame for a while you still have blinkfeed to the side of the homescreen you stillget all these fancy looking icons with these shadows now and everything there is a customizable second panel next to the navigation bar for shortcuts which is pretty cool but you can't add app shortcuts i wish i could add a custom app down there if i wanted but that would have been even cooler
They added face unlock which everyone seems to be doing now but i still prefer this phone fingerprint reader which is great and there's even a smart rotate feature which i love which keeps the phone in portrait mode at all times when it knows it's being gripped in portrait mode but lets it rotate when it's not being gripped that way i think that's really cool so it's mostly what you're used to from HTC here pretty quiet just tossing in a couple things here and there over the last couple of years you can still phim it but there's no radical design changes here it's about what i expected and then on the back the camera or cameras like i said are pretty good so you are getting a 12 megapixel main shooter with F 1.75 aperture with OIS and your secondary is a telephoto 16 megapixel shooter F 2.6 with no OIS and the photos i've been taking they are not quite the best in any smartphone but they do fit right in here with i would say a top 5 good detail and color and even a shallow depth of field and a kind of nice looking bokeh if you get shallow enough, i think the cameras biggest flaw is that it tends to overexpose making things a little bit too bright and you'll notice it doesn't have the best dynamic range .
So yeah overall right now is a packaged HTC U12 plus is a flagship worthy of your consideration you know it's spect like a flagship it's definitely built like a flagship and it's price like a flagship but as an overall package it feels like this phone is almost there i mean i guess if you're a super anti notch if you're one of those people that left a comment saying this phone has a notch so i'll never buy it then i guess your choices are like this and galaxy S9 because this is one of the few phones without a notch but other than that this phone legit checks a lot of boxes with a thumbs up and really only fall short in the buttons and the battery life like these buttons i'm barely okay with like i'm used to them now but i feel like i'm gonna be happy about them in 2 or 3 years but they are what they are but it's subpar battery life you got to think about and that experience that all comes with it and i think HTC is not always tops or first to update their phones to the new OS but fingers crossed they get to Android P soon like they seem to have promised counting on you guys anyway that's HTC U12 Plus you think you could rock a phone with no real buttons.
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