Gadgetory

let's be honnest for the past few years HTC really hasn't been killing it in the smartphone game that's unfortunate because back in the day they were the goat two awesome android phones that I would recommend to pretty much everyone but maybe that'll change we're here in San Francisco HTC invited us out because they're working on something new so let's go check it out and hopefully that opinion can change so here we have it it's the HTC u12 plus this is the next iteration and the you line and from the few minutes we got to spend with it it seems like a solid upgrade from last year it's not any smaller in size but it's just overall less chunky and less clunky it looks much more like a phone from 2018 so for the build it's glass on the front and back with aluminum around these sides comes in three colors the ceramic black super shiny a translucent blue and the flame red will be coming later on he turns loose and blue is one of the more unique colors on the market because like the name says it's translucent and you can actually see the components inside the phone it looks really cool now around front is the 18 by 9 6 inch quad HD plus Super LCD display it's not OLED but it looked good from the time we spent with it it has support for HDR 10 the colors did pop most importantly to me though the bezels are not huge and there isn't a knotch kind of the best of both worlds here those small bezels allow for a bigger screen without making the actual phone bigger the screen should be great for consuming content and now there's dual boomsound speakers one on the front and one on the bottom nice to see that here around the edges is the upgraded edge since - and now lets you do even more so when using the phone you can set certain gestures that will do different customizable actions based on taps and squeezes my favorite that they showed off was being able to shrink down the screen to one side making everything much easier to reach it's great that it's customizable and you have more options now another interesting note on the side is the volume and power buttons they aren't actually buttons when you press them instead you get a haptic feedback HTC says this is because the phone is ip68 water-resistant it's a little weird to get used to but I definitely have to use it more to see how I feel now cameras are obviously important and the u12 plus has a lot of them run back you have a dual camera system one camera is a 12 megapixel ultrapixel 4 camera with optical image stabilization and the other is a 16 megapixel telephoto camera the big feature here is their bokeh mode which blares the background like a typical portrait mode nothing really new here but around front there are now 2 8 megapixel front facing cameras and these allow for portrait mode with the front facing cameras in this short time we had with this phone we didn't get to test the cameras at all but you know definitely interested to see how these perform spec wise the u 12 has pretty much everything you'd expect snapdragon 845 6 gigabytes of RAM 64 or 128 gigabytes of storage expandable storage Android 8.0 3500 milliamp-hour battery tons of specs the only thing it doesn't seem to have is wireless charging but it does support fast charging with Kuk charge 4 so there's that as for availability he could pre-order starting today for $7.99 us for 64 gigabytes or 849 for 128 so that is the HTC u12 plus from initial impressions it seems like a solid foam that is feature heavy and I think it's an intriguing design there's obviously a lot more to unpack with this phone so be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell to see when our full review is out and be sure to let us know your thoughts on the phone down below thanks so much for watching and mackins also TechnoBuffalo and i'll see you next time