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HTC U12+ - 4.0 / 5
Liquid Surface design delights… but it’s a bit hench
Glass finish in multiple colours: Ceramic Black, Flame Red, Translucent Blue IP68 rating water and dust sealed 156.6 x 73.9 x 8.7-9.7mm; 188g
HTC through the ages: A brief history of HTC’s Android handsets
This is the stunning Flame Red HTC U12+ in pictures
Edge Sense and rethinking those side buttons
- Mechanical buttons are out Edge Sense 2.0 brings lots of functions
Snapdragon power globally and a great display
- 6-inch LCD display, 18:9 aspect ratio, 2880 x 1440 resolution Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, 6GB RAM, 64GB + microSD 3500mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 USB Type-C, no 3.5mm headphones Rear fingerprint scanner
A return to dual cameras, front and back
- 12-megapixel, 1.4µm pixels, f/1.75 UltraPixel 4 main camera 16-megapixel, f/2.6 50mm 2x zoom camera Twin 8-megapixel f/2.0 front camera
Android Oreo with HTC Sense
To recap
The HTC U12+ is a powerful phone with a good main camera and great display, but the zoom camera lets things down. Edge Sense means some inconvenient compromises and overall it just feels a little more chunky than it needs to be.
