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the HTC one was one of the best Android phones of its time it was one of the first with excellent build quality had great speakers and interesting camera but as years went on HTC seat on the throne started to slip a lot but now we have this this is the HTC you 12 plus and if you're using it for two weeks it seems HTC is back and I'm having all of these same feelings that I had with the original n7 this is a big phone but for the most part the space is used well up front there's a six inch screen and I'll talk about that more in a second there's an aluminum frame around the edge and the glass liquid surface on the back which basically means the glass curves around the edges and corners but the u12 has one of the more unique design cues out there a translucent back I love this you can see the housing for the camera and the fingerprint sensor and it just gives you a look that you don't see everywhere the only thing I don't really understand what this is the fake-out in the middle these little lines really give the impression that wireless charging is a thing but it's not that's really the only part of this design though that I don't understand everything else makes sense and coming from previous years this is a great look now back up front is that six inch screen it's a 1440 by 2080 Super LCD display and it's in the 18 by 9 aspect ratio yeah it's not OLED but it still looks great vibrant colors it's DCI p3 compliant and supports HDR 10 which is good to see it has good viewing angles the only thing I wish is it to be a bit brighter but it's still plenty usable and I'm not really missing Oland the bezels here are also not huge and there's no notch which is a rarity here in 2018 I'm personally a fan of this especially since the bezels are so small they're just no need for a notch here and I think this design works boomsound is also back with dual speakers which get loud and sound good there's one on the front of the earpiece and went down below compared to the iPhone 10 and s9 which have a similar setup the u 12 is noticeably louder I wish there was a tad more bass but other than that the speakers are enjoyable now there's no headphone jack here but you do get a pair of HTC u sonic earbuds in the box which work over USB C and four included here buds they actually sound quite good and they have noise cancellation so that's good now before we get to cameras I want to mention the sides of the phone so like with last year's phone the u12 plus has edge sense although now it's updated with even more features this gives you the ability to squeeze or tap the sides to give you quick access to different options with you twelve there is now more than just the squeeze you can double tap or long hold to get even more options that you could before there's one feature that sounds cool for a demo but honestly I didn't think I would be using it but I actually use it a lot my favorite shortcut was a tap to shrink down the screen size for one-handed use and you can do things like quickly open the camera or open a certain app really anything I think this is a better option than a dedicated button and the fact that you can remap each tap to do pretty much anything you want or just turn it off altogether makes this much more useful one thing I don't like is the new volume and power buttons now instead of being actual buttons they're only haptic buttons now in theory I have no issue with this but man it's just not executed very well it takes way too much force to activate it and you can't adjust the force needed to press it I was frustrated every time I use them this is probably something that can be fixed with an update but for now this is my least favorite part about this phone okay let's move on to the camera because there's a lot of them too on the front and two on the back the main shooter on the back is a 12 megapixel ultra pixel camera with an F 1.8 aperture and optical image stabilization and the second is a 16 megapixel sensor with an F 2.6 aperture and 2 times optical zoom but no optical image stabilization here the camera is solid it definitely has a tendency to add a lot of contrast which you may or may not like but I was impressed by the overall amount of detail that was retained even with these somewhat noticeable heavy processing when you zoom in it doesn't get splotchy and over sharpen it still holds up really well now switch over to manual mode and you have excellent hardware that can compete with the best in the bunch and produce great images like with most phones these days the limiting factor with the quality is the processing but the u12 does it better than a lot of fields it's a solid camera on the video side of things you get 4k 60 which is good on the front there are now two identical a megapixel cameras the only purpose for this is to get a bokeh effect I like the idea in theory but like with the back camera the portrait mode effect isn't all that great it does a decent job of cutting out a subject but it looks a little bit unnatural especially the blur in the background I would have liked to see the second camera used for something a bit more like maybe a super wide angle or something like that just not just two identical cameras but overall the cameras on the u12 plus are solid and certainly aren't a reason not to get this phone powering the phone is the usual slew of components Snapdragon 820 5 6 gigabytes of RAM adrena 630 64 128 gigabytes of internal storage which is expandable ip68 water-resistance 3,500 milliamp out of battery which I found to perform well with heavy use watching video browsing social on the web it lasts about a day like with pretty much every other phone in existence the only thing it doesn't have like I said is wireless charging it's a bummer there but it does support quick charging so there's that it comes with Android 8.0 Oreo and should be getting Android P with an updates although you never know what those things it is a skin version but it's not too intrusive there are things like blink feed if you swipe over Amazon Alexa built-in and different icons but all that is easy to change if you want so is the u12 plus perfect no but it's a solid phone that delivers almost all the features you would want in a flagship it could use a few software updates but I don't think you can go wrong with this if it's a phone you're looking at and it's $800 starting price the competition is fierce especially considering how similar phones are these days but finally it seems HTC is back in a big way and the u2 A+ is definitely worth considering so is the you 12 plus something that you would buy or are you gonna wait for some of the other flagships coming out be sure to let us know down below in the comments I don't think y'all so much for watching if you want to see more videos like this be sure hit subscribe and hit that notification bell to be notified when videos are out again thanks so much for watching I'm Matt Gonzalez with TechnoBuffalo and I'll 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