The Taiwanese tech giant HTC brought its new showpiece to Las Vegas at CES 2017, the HTC U Ultra smartphone, which belongs to the newly formed U family. It has a secondary screen and a personal assistant, but, like the iPhone 7, it was left without the classic headphone jack.
HTC is at the fair CES 2017 introduced a new family of phones - HTC U. HTC U Ultra is HTC's new flagship that has succeeded flagship model HTC 10. In addition to the mentioned model, the family is completed by another HTC U Play, Ultra's smaller brother. Such as iPhone 7, Lenovo Moto Z and HTC Bolt The HTC U Ultra does not have a headphone jack. In contrast to the HTC 10, which was very restrained in design, the HTC U Ultra goes in a completely different direction. It has a 'liquid' look (Liquid Surface), which in practice means that they are promising interesting reflections.
It is very smooth to the touch, so it probably won't do without a case if you don't want it to slip out of your hands like soap. Although you hope that your phone will never fall out of your hand, it is inevitable. That's why there will be protection Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and choice sapphire glass came in handy.
The HTC U Ultra smartphone adorns 5.7-inch LCD 5 screen with QHD resolution (1440 x 2560 pixels) and secondary display with resolution 160 x 1040 pixels, through which, among other things, you can access the new home assistant AI assistant, which can learn from you. It is also worth mentioning U Sonic, a function with which the phone adapts the sound to the user. It is powered by a powerful Snapdragon 821 processor (Android 7.0 Nougat operating system was installed on it), assisted by 4 GB of system memory.
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It is intended for data storage 64 GB space that can be expanded with a microSD memory card. The main camera that is in the company two LED flashes, has 12MP (f/1.8), optical image stabilizer and laser autofocus, and the front one wide angle lens and 16MP. Not to be overlooked is the fingerprint reader. Autonomy is ensured by a battery with a capacity of 3000 mAh. You will have to shell out around 730 euros for it.
The HTC U Play smartphone, on the other hand, has a 5.2-inch Full HD (1080p) Super LCD screen also protected by Gorilla Glass, and an octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 processor, 3 GB of system memory, 32 GB of working memory, which expandable capacity up to 1 TB. The battery also has a slightly smaller 'lung capacity' than that of the Ultra, namely 2500 mAh.
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