Unlike the all-aluminum designs that HTC has used for its high-end phones since 2013, the U Ultra has a new glass-and-metal design, not too different from Samsung’s recent efforts. To start with a positive, the U Ultra is an eye-catching, attractive device. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Rather, it’s a combination of factors (and not the usual ones that you might expect) that keep it from being a phone I can recommend. There’s not one single major failing to point to that befalls the U Ultra. At its worst, the U Ultra is a mess of bad ideas and even worse execution, as my colleague Vlad Savov highlighted after its announcement in January. At best, it feels like a phone that HTC needed to put out because it had been so long since its last phone was released, but not the real flagship that’s still coming down the road. Even more importantly, the U Ultra doesn't have its own identity, instead recycling a pile of ideas first introduced by other companies. The way HTC is selling it - unlocked, through its own online store, and without any carrier involvement - isn't typical for top-tier phones. That phone, the $750 U Ultra, is the company’s current flagship, and the first major device released under its own name since last spring’s HTC 10.īut there’s little about the U Ultra, apart from its screen size (5.7 inches) and price (high), that makes it feel like much of a flagship.
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In a season filled with almost endless smartphone hype and announcements, you’d be forgiven if you missed that HTC, once a major player in the Android world, announced and released a new, high-end phone.
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