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this is dan from the verge and this is the new HTC u 11 this is HCC's true flagship phone for 2017 it's the second phone they've released this year we saw the u ultra come out earlier this year but that one was a little bit less mainstream this is rest-assured the full flagship phone experience from HTC it's got a 5.5 inch display it's quad HD resolution Super LCD very similar to HTC devices in the past it's powered by qualcomm snapdragon 835 processor it's got 4 gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage 3000 milliamp hour battery over all the hardware is actually really really nice really well put together this is one of the colors that they're they're calling it silver there's also a blue sapphire blue that's really vibrant as well as a nice deep black so the colors are really poppin phone really does look great I one thing that you may have noticed is that there's no headphone jack here just as a USB C port agency is a few reasons for this one of them is that it can provide a better in box headphone experience so in the box with the HTC u 11 is a set of noise cancelling headphones that are powered by USB C so that's a new thing and it allows it to add a louder speaker a couple other things that it couldn't do if it had a regular headphone jack on there now what's unique and different here are these sides you can't actually see it because the sides look exactly the same as any other phone but we Shh CC is added is this squeeze function they're actually pressure sensitive so I can crush them and launch the camera I can press them again and take a photo she's gonna take a selfie here or I can long press them and turn the flashlight on or long press them again turn the flashlight off you can customize all these things so you can launch a different app if you want you can launch a voice assistant kind of a different experience and we've seen before makes it a little bit easier to use the phone in one hand especially when you have a bigger screen the other thing that there's new for this HTC u 11 is a partnership with Amazon HTC's adding alexa services to the phone so that you can say Alexa to the phone and it will do various things that you'd expect an echo to do like you can check the weather and play music turn lights on and off and it will do that even when the screen is off you don't have to open an app or do anything special to launching Alexa services it also has Google Assistant which you can wake up with okay Google it has HTC Sense Companion which does things like remind you to charge your battery or tells you about nearby restaurants and stuff so it has a bunch of different virtual assistants on here and you can kind of pick and choose which one you want to use for software it's running Android 7.1.1 nougat it's got HTC Sense software on top which pretty much looks like stock Android at this point pretty simple and clean interface and pretty easy to navigate now the phone is really really nice I think it's put together really well it's built really well obviously HTC kind of has its unique design characteristics the refinements over the HTC u ultra are definitely appreciated the camera bump is a lot less than it was before it's easier to hold it's just kind of refined over all HTC is gonna be releasing this real soon or announcing it here in an event in Taiwan right now they say it's gonna be on sale really soon as can be priced around the same as other flagship phones in this price range so that's the HTC u 11 for more on this phone and plenty of other things be sure to check out the verge comm and subscribe to youtube comment that's why I hate these chairs man you guys put me in these like little squatters okay