HTC U11 life review: the affordable HTC U11 for the masses By High Tech Traveler

In, the past HTC has had a wide selection of mid-range devices that it releases, giving you the option to pick and choose which features that you actually want in your phone. But since HTC has been cutting back on the total number of unique devices that it releases every year. In the second half of 2017, we only have one mid-range device from HTC I'm, going to gray, the hi-tech traveler, and this is my review of the HTC. U 11 life! Now you might look at this phone and think that it's built with the same glass in metal as the iconic HTC? U 11, and u 11 plus, but looks, can be deceiving. The overall design matches the same liquid surface design, language as HTC's, more expensive phones, but the second that you hold the U 11 life in your hand, you'll be greeted by the warmth feeling of plastic. Now, obviously, HTC couldn't build the phone in the same way that its flagship devices are built.

Since this device here only cost three hundred dollars when you pick it up from T-Mobile, but the U eleven life does include some premium features which makes as higher price siblings so appealing for one. This phone is ip67 dust and water resistant and there's also HTC's. U sonic noise-cancelling headphones which allow you to create a custom audio profile which is mapped to your ear canals. Of course. That means that audio is passed over USB-C and there's no 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, and you can also forget about HTC's iconic boom sound audio as well. There's only one speaker which is located on the bottom edge of the phone, and it really doesn't sound that good.

The phone's 5.2 inch 1080p Super LCD is protected with Gorilla Glass 3 and gets pretty bright at 515. It's, which means that it's more than usable in direct sunlight, but it's not the best panel ever and there is some discoloration visible at extreme angles, and the overall color tone is a little cold and the downside there is that it can't be adjusted within the settings. On a positive note, you do get four gigabytes of RAM matching what you get on the base? U 11, but it does come with a slower, Snapdragon, 630 chips. The chip definitely feels under powered when you match up this smartphone against devices that use the latest snap dragon 835 processors, but it can still handle its own apps and games. Do you take a little longer to load, but the four gigabytes of RAM allow the device to multitask with ease, and I was a bit surprised to see how smooth they can handle graphic heavy 3d games? The smooth performance of the phone also has a lot to do with HTC Sense, which is one of the lightest Android skins out there out of the box.

The phone was running on android nougat, but HTC is already updated, the phone to Android Oreo and is also thrown in a brand-new launcher. In addition to all the standard, Android Oreo features. Oh, and there's another thing. The 11 life also has edge sense as well. Another premium feature that made its debut on the HTC: u 11 and was also used on Google's pixel 2 devices, while Google's implementation of the technology on the pixel phones only allows you to call up the Google Assistant when you squeeze the edge of the phone.

The? U 11, life has quite a few customization options for short and long squeezes personally, I use edge sense, the most as the shutter button for my camera, since it allows me to flip the phone around and use the main camera rather than the front-facing camera to take selfies and speaking of which both cameras on the U 11 life features, 16, megapixel, sensors, and they're paired with F 2.0 lenses, but there's a clear difference in quality between the front and rear sensors. But, as I said, just flip, the phone around and use the phone's a mirror finish to frame the shot and then squeeze the edges of the phone to snap the picture for a mid-range device. The results are quite impressive in daylight. The photos look absolutely stunning: that's because it uses the same HDR, auto feature as HTC's more expensive devices. The feature is turned on by default: delivering more dynamic range and richer colors.

The main sensor does pack in a lot of pixels, but it's not on the same level as what you get on flagship devices that use 12, megapixel sensors, and it also lacks optical image. Stabilization. As for the front-facing camera, you can get some good shots in daylight, but I don't recommend using it all. If lighting conditions aren't just perfect now, you might think that a 2600 William hour battery would be the first clue that battery life on the? U 11 life is pretty bad, but thanks to its lower resolution display and power, sipping Snapdragon 630 processor, you can easily get a full day on a single charge in using the phone for over a week as my main device, the battery level rarely dropped below 15% after using the phone for 14 hours. The only thing that is disappointing is that HTC didn't include quick charge.

Support so be prepared to keep the phone on the charger for at least two hours. If you want to charge from 0 to 100%, when the u 11 life was announced, I was pretty underwhelmed. I knew the device would have this year of compromises, even though HTC was pitching it as a budget-friendly. U 11! But after using it for a few days, the device actually grew on me. It's definitely not as good as flagship level devices, but it's an incredible smartphone when you consider it's $300 price tag and if you're among those who don't like OMG ins, there's always the Android 1 version as well, which sells in Europe and Asia.

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