After a long saga of leaks and rumors, HTC has announced its flagship HTC U11 smartphone. Yes, comes with Edge Sense for a new squeeze interaction that can be molded to launch the camera, send text messages, open the email and so on.
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HTC U11: Squeeze For The Brillant U
The smartphone sports a 5.5-inch Quad HD 3D glass on the front and 3D glass on the back as well. It is also dust and water-resistant with IP57 ratings. Few other features include USB-C audio and the new HTC USonic combines Active Noise Cancellation with the ability to tune audio to your unique hearing.
In addition to that, it comes with USonic earbuds with an advanced sonar-like technology and then adapts the sound profile to your unique biology, HTC BoomSound Hi-Fi Edition speakers, four optimally positioned omnidirectional microphones for 3D audio. It has HTC Sense Companion, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa. In China, it comes with Duer AI Assistant: Powered by Baidu DuerOS.
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HTC U11 Camera
It has 12-megapixel Ultrapixel 3 on the back with a 1.4μm pixel, dual-LED flash, f/1.7 aperture, OIS, UltraSpeed Autofocus, RAW capture, 4K video recording with 3D Audio, Hi-Res stereo recording, and Acoustic Focus, 120fps slow-mo video at 1080p.
It comes with 16-megapixel front-facing camera with 1080p video recording. The HTC U11 beats the Google Pixel in camera department by achieving DxOMark score of 90, the highest ever rating for a smartphone camera for both photo and video.
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HTC U11 Specifications
- 5.5-inch (1440 x 2560 pixels) QHD Super LCD 5 Display With Corning Gorilla Glass 5
- 2.45GHz Octa-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC
- Adreno 540 GPU
- 4GB / 6GB RAM
- 64GB / 128GB Storage + Expandable Via MicroSD (up to 2TB)
- 12MP HTC UltraPixel 3 Rear Camera With f/1.7 Aperture, Multi-Axis OIS, Dual LED Flash
- 16MP Front-Facing Camera With 1080p Video Recording
- Android 7.1.1 Nougat With HTC Sense UI
- 3000mAh Battery With Quick Charge 3.0
- HTC Edge Sense, HTC Sense Companion, HTC USonic, HTC BoomSound Hi-Fi edition
- 3D Audio Recording, Hi-Res Audio Certified, IP57 Rating, Fingerprint sensor
- Dual SIM (Hybrid), 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, GLONASS, NFC, USB-C 3.1
- Dimensions: 153.9 x 75.9 x 7.9mm; Weight: 169g
The HTC U11 comes in Amazing Silver, Sapphire Blue, Brilliant Black, Ice White and Solar Red. It is rolling out in selected counties next week and will be available worldwide from June 2017 and priced at €749 (Rs. 52,895 approx.) in Europe, £649 (Rs. 53760 approx.) in the UK and $696 with contract (Rs. 44595 approx.) in the U.S. India will get the 6GB RAM variant soon.
