HTC hopes to change this situation with U11 Life, the UK's first Android One phone. Oreo is fully stocked and inspired by the beautiful U11 and some pixel features, such as squeezable pages for waking up Google Assistant.
Design and construction:
The U11 uses the same green glossy back as the U11 and looks like a high-end phone. Holding it, you will quickly see how HTC can lower the price. Instead of the gorilla glass front and back, you get a polycarbonate frame that is covered with acrylic back wall. This makes things easier than and not as viable as glass: it found some bruises and scratches in the weeks we have experienced, which attracted a lot of fingerprints that you think are magnetic.
It also sounds hollow when you touch it. It looks like this, but not as good as the award-winning Honor 9. The chunky display border didn't help either. Of course, it leaves room for fingerprint sensors and lighting hardware buttons, but as OnePlus and Honor switch to a thin 18:9 screen, these more traditional mid-range games will soon feel outdated. This finger scanner is also a bit slow. Huawei's sensors can skip the lock screen faster.
SCREEN & SOUND:
HTC has long been a fan of LCD screens for its phones, and that does not change - but you will not be interested in OLED yet. The U11 Life has an impressive display for cash with vivid colors and a dynamic range that helps to give a lot of pop to photos and videos. Viewpoints are also on the point.
The brightness is perfect for indoor use, but on sunny summer days it can be a little bit lessened. You also get no HDR support, but this is pretty much a matter of course for mid-range phones now. It's a 5.2-inch panel with full-HD resolution, so text in almost any size is sharp enough to read, and although the contrast does not match OLED, photos and videos still have one proper depth.
However, audio is not that impressive. The Life does not have the BoomSound Hi-Fi Edition speakers on the U11, which cause a single driver to emit unpleasant, rather quiet audio signals from the bottom of the phone. It's too easy to block it by hand and completely mute it. It also copies one thing that we would have liked to have stayed on the U11 - the missing headphone jack, Use the supplied USB-C headphones, switch wirelessly or search for a dongle. Not that HTC has put one in the box of our review unit. None of the third party vendors we tried worked well.
POWER & BATTERY LEVELS:
It's no surprise that U11 Life arrives with a host of midfield internals - you do not pay the big bucks for it. However, a Snapdragon 630 is not a pushover, especially when paired with 3GB of RAM. Most of the time, the Moto X4 is designed for absolute performance, charging apps and games in no time and showing minimal delays or stuttering when switching between them. Sure, it's slower than a flagship, but not much.
If you need a bit more support for multitasking, there is a version with 4GB of RAM available directly from HTC. In addition, the integrated memory is doubled from 32 GB to 64 GB. Since both phones have a Micro SD card slot that allows you to add more capacity at any time, you are probably saving cash.
OS & SOFTWARE:
Android One is Google's ambition to increase the consistency of mobile phones, so customers will not be left in the dark when switching or feel connected to a particular manufacturer. For the most part, it works: the U11 Life feels like a pixel phone, with the same pull-to-open app drawer, the same familiar quick-setting screen, and the same friendly Google apps that are waiting for you when you first turn it on.
You even get the touch-sensitive Active Edge pages of Pixel 2 - or better: HTC Edge Sense. It was a feature that Google loved so much that it was kinked for the second generation of the pixel, but here's the original experience.
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