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sometimes you don't need the best phone with the most impressive specs sometimes what you really need is a pretty good phone with pretty good specs at a damn good price that's exactly with the HTC u 11 life is for it looks almost identical to the powerful and beautiful u 11 but comes in smaller with more relaxed hardware specs it really is a mini u 11 down to that gorgeous blue color and those squeezable sides just like with the u 11 you can program the phone to open up to two different apps when you give it a squeeze like the camera for example squeeze once to open it and squeeze again to take a photo you can long squeeze to flip it over to selfie mode warning though your shot may not be totally in focus you can also open Google Voice Search flashlight the browser or any other app the you 11 life has a 16 megapixel lens on both the front and the back there's no fancy portrait mode and photos won't be as crisp or as detailed as those from high-end cameras but they're good enough for posting online and sending to family and friends despite a few trade-offs with battery life and processing speed you still get a fair amount of here instead of the glass backing you have acrylic and there's no headset jack but the you 11 life is water-resistant and comes with a pair of noise cancelling headphones in the box they plug right into the USB C port there's also a micro SD card slot option to boost the phone's 32 gigabytes of internal storage the u 11 life starts out with the Android nougat but will update to Android Oreo by the end of November look it's pretty and the price is more than reasonable if you're looking for a low-key phone that still makes a statement you'll want to keep this one in the running