The HTC U11 is an Android smartphone manufactured and sold by HTC as part of the HTC U series . It was announced on 16 May 2017 and succeeds the HTC 10 smartphone. In the United States, the HTC U11's major carrier is Sprint ; however, it is also compatible with unlocked carriers, such as AT&T , T-Mobile , and Verizon .
29-465: On May 23, 2018, HTC presented its successor, the HTC U12+ . The HTC U11 has a glass unibody-like design with an aluminium frame that includes pressure sensitive points for the implementation of HTC Edge Sense. This enables users to control or navigate several functions by pressing the edges of the metal frame. It is fitted with a 5.5-inch Super LCD 5 Quad HD (2560×1440 pixels) display. The front glass
58-578: A telephoto lens with 2× optical zoom and 10× digital zoom ; OIS and EIS image stabilization ; and HTC's UltraSpeed Autofocus 2 phase-detection and laser autofocus . The camera achieved a DxOMark score of 103, placing it second highest amongst smartphone cameras after the Huawei P20 Pro at the time of its launch. Video can be shot at up to 4K resolution (3840×2160) at up to 60 fps in h.265 format, or slow motion at 240 fps at 1080p (1920×1080). When zooming, HTC's Sonic Zoom technology focuses
87-527: A Universal Flash Storage Association press release, Samsung planned to transition its products to UFS cards during 2020. Several consumer devices with UFS card slots have been released in 2020. On 08 December 2022, IQOO announced the IQOO 11 which was the first phone to come with UFS 4.0 Storage . After that other android OEMs started using this storage solution on their flagship to upper mid-range category smartphones. On 30 March 2016, JEDEC published version 1.0 of
116-418: A hybrid dual SIM system in which one slot can also be used for microSD storage of up to 2 TB. The screen is a 6-inch Super LCD 6 panel at Quad HD+ (2880×1440) resolution (573 ppi ) with an 18:9 screen ration, covered with Gorilla Glass 5. The device is Quick Charge 4.0-compatible, and comes with a Quick Charge 3.0 charger. HTC's BoomSound dual-speaker technology features on the device; it uses
145-520: Is a fingerprint scanner on the rear and facial recognition . The U12+ continues with the Liquid Surface design the U Ultra introduced the previous year. The front and back are both glass, with an arched back and rounded corners. The lack of physical buttons helps the U12+ achieve a water- and dust-tight IP68 rating. Ceramic Black and Translucent Blue were the colours at launch; internal parts such as
174-451: Is also currently rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo (without the Treble feature for device independent system updates) updates for the phone via OTA . Google Assistant , Amazon Alexa and Baidu Duer ( China only) are pre-installed. Alexa only became available on 17 July 2017. HTC Sense Companion is installed to make personalized suggestions by learning from daily routines and suggestions based on
203-502: Is an Android smartphone manufactured and sold by HTC as part of the HTC U series . It was announced on 23 May 2018 and succeeds the HTC U11 and HTC U11+ smartphones. The HTC U12+ has 6 GB of RAM and runs on a 2.8 GHz Snapdragon 845 SoC , the latest and highest-end chip available from Qualcomm at the time. It comes with the option of 64 or 128 GB of internal UFS 2.1 storage, and
232-614: Is based on the SCSI architectural model and supports SCSI Tagged Command Queuing . The standard is developed by, and available from, the JEDEC Solid State Technology Association . The Linux kernel supports UFS. OpenBSD 7.3 and later support UFS. Windows 10 and later support UFS. In 2010, the Universal Flash Storage Association (UFSA) was founded as an open trade association to promote
261-514: Is made of Corning Gorilla Glass 5 while the rear glass uses Gorilla Glass 3. HTC U11 features a 3000 mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0. The rear camera is a 12 megapixels sensor with 1.4 μm pixels and an f/1.7 aperture; it also includes OIS and Ultraspeed Autofocus. The front camera is a 16 megapixels sensor with an f/2.0 aperture and includes EIS . The HTC U11 has 4 microphones for 24-bit 360-degree audio recording. It also has HTC BoomSound Hi-Fi edition stereo speakers where
290-400: Is optional. In 2022 Samsung announced version 4.0 doubling from 11.6 Gbit/s to 23.2 Gbit/s with the use of MIPI M-PHY v5.0 and UniPro v2.0. UFS 4.0 introduces File Based Optimization . As of Q2 2024, Zoned UFS (ZUFS) is in development by SK hynix . In February 2013, semiconductor company Toshiba Memory (now Kioxia ) started shipping samples of a 64 GB NAND flash chip,
319-553: Is positioned as a replacement for eMMCs and SD cards . The electrical interface for UFS uses the M-PHY , developed by the MIPI Alliance , a high-speed serial interface targeting 2.9 Gbit/s per lane with up-scalability to 5.8 Gbit/s per lane. UFS implements a full-duplex serial LVDS interface that scales better to higher bandwidths than the 8-lane parallel and half-duplex interface of eMMCs. Unlike eMMC, Universal Flash Storage
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#1732930955371348-516: Is pre-loaded with Android 8.0 Oreo. The Verge reported via internal sources that the U11+ had previously been developed as a successor to the original Pixel XL smartphone HTC had developed with Google, under the codename "Muskie", but that it had been shelved in favor of a version produced by LG instead, and was re-engineered into an update to the U11. The U11 Life is a T-Mobile exclusive smartphone that
377-496: The Edge Sense pressure-sensitive sides that debuted on the U11 and Pixel 2 , which allow it to perform various functions when squeezed. Edge Sense also features in pressure-sensitive technology in place of physical volume and other buttons, similar to Apple's Force Touch . When touched or tapped, the unmoving button-like protrusions give haptic feedback , and react in different ways to the level of pressure applied to them. There
406-546: The U11+ was a larger version of the U11 , HTC did not announce a "U12." The slogan for the U12+ is "Live on the Edge". Universal Flash Storage Universal Flash Storage ( UFS ) is a flash storage specification for digital cameras , mobile phones and consumer electronic devices. It was designed to bring higher data transfer speed and increased reliability to flash memory storage, while reducing market confusion and removing
435-685: The UFS Card Extension Standard (JESD220-2), which offered many of the features and much of the same functionality as the existing UFS 2.0 embedded device standard, but with additions and modifications for removable cards. Also in March 2016, JEDEC published version 1.1 of the UFS Unified Memory Extension (JESD220-1A), version 2.1 of the UFS Host Controller Interface (UFSHCI) standard (JESD223C), and version 1.1A of
464-536: The UFS standard. In September 2013, JEDEC published JESD220B UFS 2.0 (update to UFS v1.1 standard published in June 2012). JESD220B Universal Flash Storage v2.0 offers increased link bandwidth for performance improvement, a security features extension and additional power saving features over the UFS v1.1. On 30 January 2018 JEDEC published version 3.0 of the UFS standard, with a higher 11.6 Gbit/s data rate per lane (1450 MB/s) with
493-642: The UFSHCI Unified Memory Extension standard (JESD223-1A). On January 30, 2018, the UFS Card Extension standard was updated to version 1.1 (JESD220-2A), and the UFSHCI standard was updated to version 3.0 (JESD223D), to align with UFS version 3.0. A UFS drive's rewrite life cycle affects its lifespan. There is a limit to how many write/erase cycles a flash block can accept before it produces errors or fails altogether. Each write/erase cycle causes
522-673: The USB-C port. It has no notch around the front-facing camera, and no wireless charging . The HTC U12+ ships with Android 8.0 with an overlay of HTC Sense UI . It features Project Treble , which allows for faster updates after new versions of Android appear. Both the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant virtual assistants come pre-installed. The device's Edge Sense 2 software controls its pressure-sensitive hardware features. It recognizes squeezes and taps of different pressures The actions are configurable; default actions include shrinking
551-465: The camera sensor are visible through the back on the Translucent Blue version. A Flame Red (or Solar Red) was announced for later in the year. The smartphone has both rear- and front-facing dual cameras. The rear has a 12 MP main camera with a 1.4 μm HTC UltraPixel image sensor an ƒ /1.75 aperture; a 1.0 μm 16 MP secondary camera accompanies it, with an ƒ/2.0 aperture. Features include
580-454: The device's four microphones on the area zoomed in on. The front-facing cameras both have 1.12 μm 8MP sensors with ƒ/2.0 apertures and have an 84° wide-angle field of view (FOV). They have EIS but not OIS. Both sets of cameras enable altering the point of focus after the image has been shot to achieve a bokeh effect. HDR Boost 2 improves image quality under low-lighting conditions. It has no 3.5 mm jack ; earphones are connected to
609-417: The earpiece as a tweeter and a bottom-firing speaker as a subwoofer . The phone uses four microphones that can isolate subjects in videos and that can automatically zoom up to 4×. As with the U11, a pair of USonic earbuds are included that connect via USB-C and incorporate a DAC and active noise cancellation . The U12+ can transmit 24-bit audio files via Bluetooth with aptX-HD . The U12+ features
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#1732930955371638-611: The first chip to support the then new UFS standard. In April 2015, Samsung's Galaxy S6 family was the first phone to ship with eUFS storage using the UFS 2.0 standard. On 7 July 2016, Samsung announced its first UFS cards, in 32, 64, 128, and 256 GB storage capacities. The cards were based on the UFS 1.0 Card Extension Standard. The 256 GB version was reported to offer sequential read performance up to 530 MB/s and sequential write performance up to 170 MB/s and random performance of 40,000 read IOPS and 35,000 write IOPS. However, they were apparently not actually released to
667-464: The headphone acts as the tweeter while the bottom firing speaker acts as the woofer . Dust and water resistance are included with an IP67 certification. The phone ships with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset and includes either 4 GB RAM and 64 GB of storage or 6 GB RAM and 128 GB of storage. The HTC U11 ships with Android 7.1 Nougat with an overlay of HTC Sense UI . HTC
696-558: The need for different adapters for different types of cards. The standard encompasses both packages permanently embedded (via ball grid array package) within a device ( eUFS ), and removable UFS memory cards . UFS uses NAND flash . It may use multiple stacked 3D TLC NAND flash dies (integrated circuits) with an integrated controller. The proposed flash memory specification is supported by consumer electronics companies such as Nokia , Sony Ericsson , Texas Instruments , STMicroelectronics , Samsung , Micron , and SK Hynix . UFS
725-541: The public. On 17 November 2016, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 835 SoC with support for UFS 2.1. On 14 May 2019, OnePlus introduced the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro, the first phones to feature built-in eUFS 3.0 (The Galaxy Fold, originally planned to be the first smartphone to feature UFS 3.0 was ultimately delayed after the OnePlus 7's launch). The first UFS cards began to be publicly sold in early 2020. According to
754-414: The screen on double-tap for one-handed operation. Smart Rotate suppresses auto-rotate when it detects the user's hand positions have not changed, such as when they lie down in bed. There are no gestures available for the fingerprint sensor . Most of the U12+'s specifications were leaked before its official launch on 23 May 2018. Though it bears a "+" in its name, suggesting it is a larger-size model as
783-497: The use of MIPI M-PHY v4.1 and UniProSM v1.8. At the MWC 2018, Samsung unveiled embedded UFS (eUFS) v3.0 and uMCP (UFS-based multi-chip package ) solutions. On 30 January 2020 JEDEC published version 3.1 of the UFS standard. UFS 3.1 introduces Write Booster , Deep Sleep , Performance Throttling Notification and Host Performance Booster for faster, more power efficient and cheaper UFS solutions. The Host Performance Booster feature
812-633: The user's location. On 15 June 2017, Chang Chia-lin, the president of HTC's smartphone and connected device division, stated that the HTC U11 had been selling better than its predecessors, the HTC One M9 and the HTC 10 . HTC unveiled an upgraded version of the U11, the U11+ , on November 2, 2017. It features a 6-inch 2:1 display (marketed as 18:9) with thinner bezels, a larger battery, a rear-mounted fingerprint reader, IP68 certification for dust and water resistance, and
841-521: Was unveiled by HTC along with the U11+ on the same day. It features a 5.2-inch display, IP67 certification for water and dust resistance, a 73 hour long battery life, and is also shipped with Android 8.0 Oreo. Unlike the U11+, the U11 Life has a smaller display and comes shipped with the 4th Generation Android One platform, which it joined on September 13, 2017. It is based on SoC Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 with 3 or 4 GB RAM. HTC U12%2B The HTC U12+
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