The HTC U11 Plus emerges about a year after the U11 and offers very similar specs. It comes with more storage space, and the new Super LCD display now has a trendy 2:1 aspect ratio. Moreover, the battery also gets a significant bump. You can buy it through Lazada via Cash On Delivery and Nationwide Shipping.
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Design and Display
The HTC U11 Plus has the most popular, most common design style among current ultra-high-end phones. There’s curved glass on the back, and a band of metal around its sides to join the front and rear glass panels. Its look is less dynamic than the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus, though, which has a curved front and even more aggressive cutting of the screen surround.
HTC U11 Plus has a 6-inch 1440 x 2880 LCD screen. If you’re not used to the resolutions of this new breed of 18:9 aspect phone, that’s the equivalent of a 1440 x 2560 screen like the HTC U11’s, with more vertical pixels to fill in the added space.
HTC calls the screen “Super LCD6”, a proprietary take on the IPS tech we see in most good non-OLED phones, tablets and laptops. Turn up the brightness and take the U11 Plus into a dark room and you’ll see its black level isn’t quite OLED standard.
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Software
The HTC U11 Plus runs Android 8.0 with HTC’s Sense interface. This time around, HTC has preserved the core feel of simple Android almost completely, even while packing-in plenty of extras. You flick up from the home screen to bring up the apps menu, like a Pixel 2 XL. There’s a degree of inertia to the way the system moves, like a Pixel. And in the notifications drop-down icons slide fluidly from the bottom of the screen, opening up to full notifications, as you scroll.
HTC Sense also allows for customization of the apps menu. Icons can be arranged alphabetically, by date or by most recently used. And you can tweak the grid to make the icons more spaced out.
Then there’s Edge Sense. This is one of the more advanced applications for the HTC U11 Plus’ squeezable sides. Instead of launching an app it brings up a carousel of app shortcuts, and shows a monthly calendar view. Then there’s Edge Sense. This is one of the more advanced applications for the HTC U11 Plus’ squeezable sides. Instead of launching an app it brings up a carousel of app shortcuts, and shows a monthly calendar view.
Performance
The HTC U11 Plus has a Snapdragon 835 like several of 2017’s flagships with an
octa-core chipset with Kryo cores clocked at 2.45GHz. All around performance on the U11 Plus is fast, fluid, and reliable. If you’re persistent enough, you can certainly add your own launcher, Google’s Gboard, and a number of other tweaks to make using this phone feel tolerable. But that’s an Android advantage rather than an HTC one.
Camera
The HTC U11 Plus has a 12MP rear camera with a dual-LED flash and optical image stabilization (OIS). It’s a reminder the best phone cameras use this resolution, even if there are sensors with 20 megapixels or more.
Images are sharp right down to pixel level, and daylight photos look superb. They’re detailed, colorful, dynamic range is great and there’s no evidence of HTC’s historic problem with overexposure.
The front camera has an 8MP sensor, down from a 16MP one in the HTC U11. That sounds like a huge downgrade, but the HTC U11 Plus’ selfies are actually great.
They resolve fine details like facial hairs better than some 13MP selfie cameras, and as the camera isn’t overburdened with megapixels (which with lower sensor surface area tends to cause poorer low light performance) you don’t lose this when shooting indoors either.
Battery
HTC U11 Plus has a 3,930mAh battery, which seems about right for the display size and resolution. The HTC U11 Plus isn’t the longest-lasting phone in its class. But it’ll last through a solid day’s use with a bit of change in the tank if you forget to plug it in overnight. There are no particularly clever battery optimizations, though, just the usual ones. Some recent phones let you change the screen resolution to save some juice. The HTC U11 Plus doesn’t.
Full Specifications:
- Brand – HTC
- Model – U11 Plus
- Alternative Names – U 11 Plus, U 11+
- Device Type – Android 4G Smartphone
- CPU – Octa-core 2.45GHz (Quad Core 2.45 GHz Kryo & Quad Core 1.9 GHz Kryo) CPU Clock
- Chipset – Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 MSM8998, 64-Bit Processor
- GPU – Qualcomm Adreno 540 GPU
- Camera – 12 Megapixels f/1.7 Aperture with Dual-tone LED flash and AF Rear Camera | 8 Megapixel Front camera
- Memory – RAM- 4GB/6GB | ROM 64GB/128GB External Memory Supports Up to 256GB (Uses SIM 2 Slot) using microSD
- Display – Screen size 6.0 inches super LCD5, QHD+ Display (2880 x 1440 Pixels), Corning Gorilla Glass 5
- Battery – Non-Removable 3,930 mAh Lithium-ion
- SIM – Single SIM (Nano-SIM Card) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM + Nano-SIM/microSD)
- Sensors – Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity, Motion, Accelerometer sensor, Compass, Gyroscope, Magnetic sensor Fingerprint Sensor (Rear Mounted)
- Color – Blue, Black, White
- Operating System – Android 8.0 Oreo with HTC Sense UI
- I/O Interface – Single or 2 x Nano SIM Slot or TF Micro SD Card Slot, Type-C USB 3.1 Gen 1, Type-C, Power Button, Volume Button, Capacitive keys, Microphone, Speaker, DisplayPort
- Dimensions – 153.9 mm x 75.9 mm x 7.9 mm
- Weight – 169 Grams (With Battery)
- Version – Two 4GB/64GB, 6GB/128GB
- More Feature – Gorilla Glass 5 Protection, Magnesium Alloy Metal Body Design, Bluetooth, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, Edge Sensor, Speaker, Oreo OS, LTE Cat-16, VoLTE Support, Features Voice Assistant, Motion Launch, UltraSpeed Autofocus, Rounded Edges, IP68 certified, Wide Viewing Angle Display, NFC, Extreme power saving mode, Quick Charge 3.0, Pocket mode, 4K Video Support, Wireless Charging Support, 3D Sound, Usonic Sound, Headphone Adapter, Hi-Res Audio, 5V/2A, 9V/1.7A, 12V/1.25A Charger Output Power.