HTC U12+ review: A good phone ruined with gimmicky buttons

TwitterFacebook
HTC U12+
$799
The Good

Great cameras • Fast • smooth performance • Awesome see-through glass back on Translucent Blue mode

The Bad

Gimmicky Edge Sense 2 features • Frustrating pressure-sensitive buttons • Kind of thick and heavy

The Bottom Line

The HTC U12+ is a very capable flagship Android phone with a premium design, great cameras, and 2018 performance, but it’s dragged down by crummy pressure-sensitive buttons and gimmicky Edge Sense 2 features.

Mashable Score3.5
Cool Factor3.0
Learning Curve4.0
Performance4.0
Bang for the Buck3.0

Read more…More about Mobile, Gadgets, Android, Reviews, and Htc

View More HTC U12+ review: A good phone ruined with gimmicky buttons

Google is quietly formulating a new strategy for China

Google is slowing piecing together a strategy for China to ensure that it doesn’t miss out on the growth of technology in the world’s largest country. It’s been months in the making through a series of gradual plays, but further evidence of those plans comes today via a product launch. Files Go — a file manager for […]

View More Google is quietly formulating a new strategy for China

Google brings its ARCore technology to China in partnership with Xiaomi

Google is ramping up its efforts to return to China. Earlier this year, the search giant detailed plans to bring its ARCore technology — which enables augmented reality and virtual reality — to phones in China and this week that effort went live with its first partner, Xiaomi. Initially the technology will be available for […]

View More Google brings its ARCore technology to China in partnership with Xiaomi

HTC adds some bells and whistles to the Vive Focus ahead of Western rollout

As HTC gears up for a stateside launch of their Vive Focus standalone headset, the company announced a number of changes that they’re bringing to the device currently available in China. The company has long fancied itself the “premium” brand of VR, but at its annual developer conference it was tasked with showing off features […]

View More HTC adds some bells and whistles to the Vive Focus ahead of Western rollout

Edge Sense is starting to come into its own with HTC’s U12+

Edge Sense has always been a gimmick — but who can blame HTC for embracing a gimmick. The company’s mobile division has been struggling in recent years, so why not embrace the novelty of a squeezable side input? The tech got a bit more support when Google embraced it for the Pixel 2, renaming it […]

View More Edge Sense is starting to come into its own with HTC’s U12+

Edge Sense is starting to come into its own with HTC’s U12+

Edge Sense has always been a gimmick — but who can blame HTC for embracing a gimmick. The company’s mobile division has been struggling in recent years, so why not embrace the novelty of a squeezable side input? The tech got a bit more support when Google embraced it for the Pixel 2, renaming it […]

View More Edge Sense is starting to come into its own with HTC’s U12+

Yes, HTC is working on a ‘blockchain phone’

A few weeks ahead of its latest flagship announcement, HTC just revealed another piece of hardware. While the Taiwanese company has consolidated much of its mobile offerings in recent years, it announced today at the Consensus 2018 blockchain conference in New York that its upcoming Exodus handset is embracing everyone’s favorite tech buzzword. So, what […]

View More Yes, HTC is working on a ‘blockchain phone’

HTC announces new flagship reveal on May 23

TwitterFacebook

HTC is about to launch a new flagship smartphone, the company announced in a (typically) cryptic tweet Thursday. 

The name of the device wasn’t mentioned but we reckon it’s going to be the HTC U12+, and according to earlier rumors, it’s going to be pretty powerful. 

In the tweet, HTC claims the phone is going to be “a phone that is more than the sum of its specs.” The tweet was actually surprisingly revelatory, as it includes an image of (presumably) the phone’s innards. 

Coming Soon. A phone that is more than the sum of its specspic.twitter.com/m2skJSK0qt

— HTC (@htc) May 3, 2018 Read more…

More about Smartphones, Htc, Htc U12 Plus, Tech, and Smartphones

View More HTC announces new flagship reveal on May 23

HTC confirms its newest flagship smartphone will arrive May 23

Perennial smartphone struggler HTC has revealed its newest smartphone — the U12/U12+ — will launch on May 23. The big spoiler from the company is that the phone will include… components. Coming Soon. A phone that is more than the sum of its specs. pic.twitter.com/m2skJSK0qt — HTC (@htc) May 3, 2018 That isn’t exactly an […]

View More HTC confirms its newest flagship smartphone will arrive May 23

Covering “Virtual Insanity” in virtual reality

A musician from Raleigh, North Carolina named Chase Holfelder, recorded a cover of Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity,” a stonerific acid jazz anthem that should be familiar to ’90s kids. This version, however, is recorded entirely inside a virtual reality rig with the help of the HTC Vive and VRScout. Holfelder used the SoundScape VR project to […]

View More Covering “Virtual Insanity” in virtual reality