Thursday, January 12, 2017

HTC U Ultra, U Play With Sense Companion Launched


The Taiwanese smartphone maker, HTC launched its brand new U series with the HTC U Ultra and U Play along with the company's new Sense Companion, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system that learns the user's daily patterns to provide usage recommendations and friendly advice.

The prices of the HTC U Ultra and the HTC U Play have not been revealed yet, but the company says the devices will arrive in India in March. The new smartphones will be available in Sapphire Blue, Brilliant Blue, Cosmetic Pink, and Ice White.


The HTC U Ultra features a Dual Display, similar to the LG V20. HTC U Ultra's primary 5.7-inch Super LCD display is a QHD (1440x2560 pixels) display, while the secondary 2-inch display bears a 1040x160 pixels resolution. The new HTC smartphone will be made available in two inbuilt storage variants - 64GB and 128GB that is expandable via microSD card (up to 2TB); with the former sporting Gorilla Glass 5 protection and the latter sporting sapphire glass protection.

HTC U Ultra is powered by a 2.15GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SoC with 4GB of RAM. It bears a 12-UltraPixel rear camera with a BSI sensor, laser + phase detection autofocus, optical image stabilisation, a f/2.8 aperture, and dual-tone LED flash. At the front, HTC U Ultra sports a 16-megapixel camera with an UltraPixel mode and a BSI sensor.

On the connectivity side, the HTC U Ultra supports 4G LTE with VoLTE, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth v4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, NFC, DLNA, Miracast, HTC Connect, and USB 3.1 Type-C connectivity options. The HTC U Ultra smartphone sports an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, digital compass, and gyroscope. HTC U Ultra bears a fingerprint sensor on the Home Button, HTC BoomSound Hi-Fi edition stereo speakers, Hi-Res Audio support, as well as 3D Audio recording support with 4 microphones. It is powered by a 3000mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0. It's estimated to deliver up to 26 hours of talk-time and up to 13 days of standby time.


For the HTC U Play, the smartphone will be made available in 2 variants- 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage and 4GB RAM/ 64GB storage. It sports a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) Super LCD display with Gorilla Glass. The smartphone is powered by an octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 SoC. HTC U Play's 16-megapixel rear camera comes with a BSI sensor, optical image stabilisation, PDAF, a f/2.0 aperture, and dual-tone LED flash. The front camera sports a 16-megapixel sensor with an UltraPixel mode, a BSI sensor, a f/2.0 aperture with a 28mm focal length.

Just like the HTC U Ultra, the U Play's inbuilt storage is expandable via microSD card (up to 2TB). HTC U Play connectivity options include 4G LTE with VoLTE, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth v4.2, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, NFC, DLNA, Miracast, HTC Connect, and USB 2.0 Type-C. The HTC U Play also sports an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, digital compass, and gyroscope. Similar to the HTC U Ultra, it bears a fingerprint sensor on the Home Button. HTC U Play is powered by a 2500mAh battery with fast charging support (5V/2A) that's rated to deliver up to 15.21 hours of talk-time and up to 427.54 hours of standby time.

The U Ultra and U Play smartphones also features HTC's new AI, HTC Sense Companion which is said to learn from the user, and provide recommendations, such as suggesting you to dress warm or leave for work earlier on a snowy day; reminding you to charge if it figures you need more power to last until you get home, and even recommending the perfect restaurant when you're away for the weekend.

Apart from the Sense Companion, other common features of HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play smartphones include HTC USonic, which analyses the shape of the user's inner ears with a "sonar-like pulse" to adapt to you as well as a "liquid surface" curved glass construction. Both HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play smartphones will be available in single-SIM and dual-SIM (Nano-SIM) variants, depending on the region. The duo also run Android 7.0 Nougat, with the HTC's Sense UI customisation on top.

Source: HTC
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