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Nevertheless, for a tablet that costs £150, it remains quite impressive. Movies streamed from Prime Video or Netflix look good, and text in Kindle books is crisp enough to comfortably read for long periods. I do find the whites a tad bright, often with a yellow tinge – but once again, it’s forgivable at this price. Related: Best Kindle deals This is a huge jump forward from the older model. ONNOVEMBER 16 "HTC U12 LIFE REVIEW: FLAGSHIP FEATURES FOR £299?" HTC U12 Life review: Flagship features for £299? What is the HTC U12 Life? HTC underwhelmed us all with the HTC U12 Plus earlier in the year. Here was a flagship phone with a clunky design, mediocre screen, ordinary battery life, and a gimmicky squeeze function.
All of which might ring alarm bells for the HTC U12 Life, its mid-range brother. Shared nomenclature aside, however, the HTC U12 Life only seems tangentially linked to the HTC U12 Plus. Thankfully, it doesn’t suffer from any of the aforementioned issues. We’re dealing with a deeply competent middle-of-the-road smartphone that doesn’t do anything massively wrong. Unfortunately, nor does it do anything to really stand apart like the similarly priced Honor Play and Nokia 7.1. HTC U12 Life – Price and release date The HTC U12 Life is available now for £299 in the UK. There’s an extra 10% off if you buy through HTC’s online store. There are currently no plans for a US release.
HTC U12 Life – Design The HTC U12 Life looks every inch the modern HTC phone. That doesn’t have the glowing connotation that it might once have had, though. HTC used to be known as a true innovator in the Android phone space, way before Samsung upped its design game.
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The HTC of 2018 plays things much safer. From the front, the HTC U12 Life could be any number of pre-iPhone X phones. It’s a plain black rectangle with rounded corners and a large display. That display doesn’t exactly fill the available space but nor are the chin and forehead massive. The side bezels are relatively slim too. Things get a lot more interesting when you flip the phone over, with a glass rear that sports an etched, lined finish on the lower two thirds. The top third is shiny, mirrored, and eminently prone to fingerprint smudges.
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It’s also here that the HTC U12 Life stashes its proficient fingerprint sensor. All of which makes the phone sound a lot more premium than it actually looks and feels. There’s actually none of the high-end allure of the aforementioned mid-range rivals when you handle it. Related: Best mid-range smartphone It’s a solidly built handset, though, with no flex and a fairly hefty weight of 175 grams. At only 8.3mm thick and with subtly rounded edges, it’s quite pleasant to hold.
Crucially, you don’t get the horrible haptic buttons of the HTC U12 Plus. Both the volume and power keys are standard clicky components, and the latter has a pleasantly rugged texture to it. Nor do you get Edge Sense, so squeezing the HTC U12 Life will achieve nothing other than smearing up those shiny edges. Sticking with the subject of edges, the top and bottom of the phone offer mostly good s. The top surface houses a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is becoming an endangered species even in this sector of the smartphone market. The bottom, meanwhile, houses a USB-C port and a weedy single speaker. There’s no water resistance here, though that’s not uncommon this far south of flagship phone territory.
HTC U12 Life – Screen The HTC U12 Life packs a 6-inch 18:9 aspect ratio display with a 1080p resolution. It’s big enough, plenty sharp enough, and plenty bright enough. Perhaps most notably, that size and aspect ratio is unimpeded by an unsightly notch, so you’re getting a pure widescreen picture for all landscape media. It’s an LCD rather than an OLED display, so it doesn’t have the most vibrant colours. But I really have no serious complaints about it in any respect.
Colours are reasonably accurate, viewing angles are good, and everything looks nice and balanced.
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