HTC U Ultra review

Update: This review has been updated to include the addition of the Sense Companion read on to find out how we found it.

Huge phone screens are coque cordon huawei mate 20 pro coque samsung grand prime 3d becoming the norm, and HTC wants to try its hand at making a coque samsung paire phone that larger than its traditional flagship that how we got the U Ultra.

The 5.9 inch HTC One Max from 2013 showed it was possible to make a phone that was too coque samsung galaxy core prime neymar big, but this is a phone that much easier to handle thanks to a slightly coque samsung j3 2016 pas chere smaller display.

The U Ultra is one half of a new partnership of phones the other is the HTC U Play which aren exactly flagship products but still pack some impressive spec, and may tempt you to upgrade even before the HTC 11 launches.

But in a market full of great large screen offerings coque huawei y6 pro 2017 ballon from Samsung, Apple and other Android manufacturers, does the HTC coque samsung galaxy s5 mini caoutchouc U Ultra do enough differently to stand out from the rest of the crowd

HTC U Ultra price and release dateHTC has priced the U Ultra at the top end of the market, at personnaliser coque samsung galaxy s7 edge a whopping $749 ( That quite a step up from the HTC 10, which at the time of the U coque samsung j3 2017 ktm Ultra’s launch was going for $599 ( AU$1,099), and currently retails for / $400 / AU$1099, or less when there’s a sale on.

It puts the HTC U Ultra in coque samsung grande prime a coque samsung s6 pikachu similar price bracket to the iPhone 7 Plus, huawei p30 pro coque chantier which is the most coque mate 20 pro huawei rhinoshield expensive of Apple line of phones.

The U Ultra came to the coque samsung galaxy core 3 UK on March 1, and you can buy it directly from HTC. In the US it began shipping in mid March, while Australia saw a release on March 8.

Since release, the price of the HTC U Ultra has dropped a little, and it can now be found for around in the UK SIM free and has seen even heavier reductions around Black Friday, going for as little as from some coque samsung galaxi j3 retailers.

Key featuresHTC’s U Ultra features two screens, one along the top of the phoneIt offers extra functionality, including music controls and notificationsHTC Companion has now landed on the deviceThe headline feature of the U Ultra is its dual screen design. On top of large QHD 5.7 inch display you mainly use to interact with the phone is a 2.05 inch screen sitting alongside the front facing camera.

This smaller display has a resolution coque huawei y6 2017 pro licorne of 160 x 1040, and displays a series of apps in a similar fashion to the second screen on the LG V20. It also reminiscent of the way you interact with the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and its features.

The smaller display is a useful way to see information displayed without interrupting what you doing on the main screen.

For example, if you typing out a long email on the main screen you see your Facebook Messenger notifications appear in the second screen, rather than having to come out of your email program to check them.

That useful as a reminder, and for a brief glimpse of what happening, but it won show you everything you need, coque samsung j5 2017 personnalisable pas cher especially if you receive a long message or complicated notification.

The secondary display itself runs a series of different interfaces. There are options for weather, music, contacts and calendar notifications, and you can also set it up to display shortcuts to some of your most used apps.

We found the most useful option was a note app, as it meant our reminders were waiting at the top of the screen to jog coque huawei mate 10 pro rose our memory whenever we opened the phone. Spotify integration, meanwhile, makes the music app useful if you often want to coque samsung galaxy a5 2016 loup flick through tracks.

You can scroll through all these mini screens by flicking left and right on the screen itself.

Since launch, HTC has added its Companion software to the U Ultra, promising to suggest useful information based on your daily usage.

The Sense Companion can monitor your weight, activity, usage patterns and more, with the user having a fine degree of control over how much it can actually the whole hog and giving all of your info can involve reminders to take an umbrella if it is due to rain, information about nearby restaurants if you out at lunch, reminders to charge your phone in the evening and more.

Crucially, the Sense Companion never to you, instead like the rest of HTC software it attempts to coque samsung s5 swag fill a gap not taken by Google, giving reminders in writing.

In day to day use, the notifications proved to be only somewhat useful (though this is true of all digital assistants), often missing the mark entirely. They display coque samsung s4 mini swag in the same way as the Facebook Messenger heads a small bubble taking up a part of the screen.

HTC U Ultra users also have the option of displaying the notifications from the Sense Companion on the small secondary screen that is if they choose to keep coque samsung a5 2017 foot it enabled.

By far the best tie in is with HTC Boost+ app, the Sense Companion will monitor your RAM and battery usage and offer to clean up unused caches and stop power hungry apps on the fly. But this isn something that happens all the time, and this inconsistency can be a problem.

In theory, this could be a very powerful tool. Boost+ has an array of coque samsung j3 gymnastique granular options over how apps in the foreground and apps in the background can perform, even allowing app by app control. In theory, using this regularly could see battery life increase considerably, though it will depend massively on individual usage.

Still, for everyone who has ever had a mysterious Android program such as Browser eat up an unconscionable amount of battery, it could be a life saver.

As HTC continues to update the Sense Companion, and as it learns more about the user, in time it will likely prove to be a useful value add on. The real issue is with relevance every manufacturer in the game seems to be working on its own digital assistant.

Microsoft has Cortana, Google the Google Assistant, Amazon proudly touts Alexa and Samsung flaunts Bixby. All of these companies have more resources and have bigger visions. Whether the Sense Companion will last another year is yet to be seen as HTC insists again that it doesn wish to compete directly where Google provides a service better.

For the moment, it is not so annoying that it should be immediately dismissed, and coque samsung s9 plus rouge that is an achievement in itself.

Design and displayInteresting glass backed design that you’ll love or hate5.7 inch QHD main display, which may be too large for someThe HTC U Ultra features a brave design choice you won see on any other manufacturer phone on the market in 2017. It the first phone from the company to embrace a glass back design and it may not be to everyone taste…