Gadgetory

hey what is up guys MTV HD here and this phone is already comeback player of the year for HTC for 2017 you already remember how poor the use of space and money the U ultra was just a couple months ago well less than six months later we get this at a very similar price and Cu 11 so from the outside you might not see that much of a difference you know same shiny blue body same thick rounded design same lack of a headphone jack it seems at first glance really similar because it is but as far as packing features and specs into this phone they cleaned up real nice so it's run right down the spec sheet you have Android 7.1.1 with the same HTC software on top so Snapdragon 835 with the audrina 544 gigs of ram a 3000 milliamp hour battery a 5.5 inch quad HD display 64 gigs of storage expandable via microSD and a 12 megapixel F 1.7 camera with oh is now specs aren't everything they don't tell the whole story but here they do a pretty good job if we head down that spec list again besides just of course the very impressive numbers this phone gets a lot of things right so with Android it's already on the latest version later than most phones it's 7.1.1 so that's a good sign and hopefully it gets updates plus it has all the same features HTC has decided to add on top of Android the snapdragon 835 chipset we already know has been awesome and other phones plus four gigs of ram so we're expecting and getting top-notch performance here best-in-class and it's absolutely one of the smoothest and most responsive Android phones out there right now I'm just a little less confident with that full-time smoothness lasting as long as something like from a stock Android phone but I'm still very impressed with how HTC's animations just glide for the most part they use really short simple animations and that's what you want to see this thing's flies it's got a 3000 milliamp hour battery not the biggest number in the world but we're seeing this thing up or form phones with bigger cells and laughs comfortably all day thanks optimization and that's super impressive considering the display and that display is a 5.5 inch 1440p LCD display pretty bright it's definitely not the brightest and it can struggle outdoors so I admit that but still high pixel density and great colors anytime you're not outside is going to get a thumbs up there storage is all there 64 gigs out of the box with a microSD card slot and a camera has been absolutely killing it it's a 12 megapixel sensor big wide-open F 1.7 aperture and optical image stabilization really matters and helps it a lot in low-light plus it has that same Snapdragon 835 as the 1 plus 5 so it's doing auto instant HDR and this thing has been taking some killer shots so HTC could stop right there they've already wiped the floor with their previous phone pretty much no reason to buy the you ultra anymore but I haven't even gotten to the headlining feature of this phone so the main major headlining feature of the you 11 is a custom shortcut that's mapped to squeezing the phone it's called edge sense so this is for real so instead of a custom button like an extra key or an edge display feature or anything like that HTC has crammed pressure sensors into the size of this phone specifically in the lower half on both sides so you can squeeze the phone to launch any app of your choice it can be the assistant or the camera or your Instagram or whatever you want really or you can have squeezed to take screenshots or toggle the flashlight or instantly start a voice recording or turn Wi-Fi hotspot on so it's completely custom it can do a lot of things the question is squeezing it is that a gimmick or is that legit well I think that all really will depend on how your hands wrap around this phone and how naturally you think it feels to just squeeze the phone in the middle of using it it can be kind of a weird thing depending on the way you hold the phone to squeeze it to launch something maybe a bit unnatural the phone doesn't flex at all it's metal but HTC actually does let you calibrate how hard you want to have to squeeze before it activates edgesense so there's 10 different pressure levels so naturally naturally you'd think you'd want to set it as low as possible so you don't have to grip the phone super hard just to launch something but the thing is if you set the squeeze value to low you can actually accidentally start triggering it when you're just taking up the phone off a table I had it happen to me a couple of times it can be too sensitive or even sometimes when you're just pulling out your pocket it's not the end of the world but it still does launch that stuff accidentally but if you set the squeeze level too high then you need like a two-handed vise grip on the phone just a squeeze it hard enough to trigger it and that's not natural at all so you kind of have to have it somewhere in the middle got to make sure you calibrate it right I found it best at around level four or five and I also tried a bunch of different grips not everyone holds the phone the same way but basically if you do squeeze just one side of the phone that will activate it too so you can squeeze one side or the other on the lower half that'll be fine so while it was definitely weird at first for me to squeeze the phone instead of just pressing a custom button or launching my app it did pretty quickly get pretty easy with that mid-level squeeze pressure the more I got into it the more I got used to it you can enable advanced mode which lets you set different shortcuts to a quick squeeze versus a long squeeze kind of like a single press versus a long press if it was a button and you can really dig down and customize a whole lot of functionality just in squeezing this phone so if you're into it this phone is already a pretty complete package and then you add the squeeze feature on top of all of that and it becomes really interesting I would buy and use this phone if I was more of a fan of HTC software but I'm not a more of a pure Android person but this it's not perfect this one is definitely not perfect there's still no headphone jack that's still a poor use of space it's still super shiny and very reflective and I think the anodized matte blue look around the edges would have looked way hotter for the entire back of the phone but we still have this mirror and the fingerprint reader is still annoyingly small and the bezels are still annoyingly big so it's not perfect but this is a way better phone than six months ago and I think they have the right idea trying to do something new with interaction but still trying to make it feel somewhat natural kind of just in the grip of while you're using the phone every day but that will of course all depend on whether you guys buy this phone or not on what you guys think so let me know what you think is this pull squeeze thing a gimmick will it be dead in a year or is it the next big thing is going to catch on your guess is as good as mine but feel free to leave a comment below and then come back to an ear and say if you're right or not so that's pretty much it thank you for watching autopsy has the next one pace