HTC has unveiled a new flagship smartphone combining revolutionary new squeeze interaction with stunning liquid surface design, intelligent personal audio, amazing cameras and multiple AI assistants.

HTC U11 offers advanced smartphone features including:

•    HTC Edge Sense, the next dimension in touch interaction with your phone.
•    Liquid Surface, a stunning, unique design that reflects you.
•    HTC USonic, an advanced headset for personal audio, now including Active Noise Cancellation.
•    Amazing cameras with the highest independent rating ever awarded to a smartphone camera.
•    HTC Sense Companion, Google Assistant, and Amazon Alexa for a smarter, more helpful smartphone.

HTC Edge Sense transforms the fundamental sense of touch into a completely new and revolutionary interaction with your phone. With a simple squeeze, HTC Edge Sense lets you easily engage with your phone in an unprecedented yet intuitive way, helping you more naturally enjoy the things you love like taking photos, opening Facebook, or launching any of your favourite apps.

For example, with HTC Edge Sense, launching your camera has never been easier. No more fumbling for buttons or awkward hand positions. No more worrying about dropping your phone while you pose. Just lift, squeeze, smile, and snap.

You can also send texts faster and easier than before. Texting can be impossible when you are on the move, but using HTC Edge Sense for Voice to Text, you can speak your text messages without having to slow down. Lightly squeeze, speak your message and send your texts on the go.

You can even customize the squeeze gesture: open email with just a squeeze. Or launch your favourite game (or any other app). Or pick any one of a host of options. HTC Edge Sense also gives the user the ability to activate advanced touch and use a “short squeeze” as well as a “squeeze and hold” for even more functionality at your fingertips.

And because Edge Sense is based on actual pressure applied to the side of the device, it can be used in nearly any condition – including while wearing gloves or in weather such as snow or rain that would normally be a challenge with capacitive buttons.

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HTC U11’s liquid glass surface is crafted to impress using Optical Spectrum Hybrid Deposition. By layering highly-refractive precious minerals across the phone’s back cover, we’ve created vivid new colours that transform light with every movement you make.

The new seamless, curved look of HTC U11 is achieved with 3D glass on both front and back. Heating and then bending the glass using extreme pressure results in unique, 3-axis symmetry for a phone that is slim no matter which way you hold it.

The water-resistant HTC U11 has a 5.5-inch Quad HD 3D glass screen designed for vivid, crisp images and text in any light – even direct sunlight. With our best display and true-to-life colour reproduction, we provide you a purer full-framed viewing experience. Our display avoids the cropped pictures or distorted colours at the edge that are the results you can expect from a curved screen.

HTC U11 introduces the latest version of HTC USonic, which now combines Active Noise Cancellation with the ability to tune audio to your unique hearing. By leveraging built-in microphones on the headset and USB-C data connectivity, USonic earbuds map your inner ear with an advanced sonar-like technology and then adapt the sound profile to your unique biology. This creates an incredibly personal and optimized listening experience with vibrant audio shaped specifically for you.

HTC U11 has achieved the highest ever rating for a smartphone camera for both photo and video by independent metric DxOMark. The multi-axis optical stabilization system and super-fast autofocus in all lighting conditions make the camera quick, your pictures sharp, and videos smooth. We improved our camera and video for a more dynamic exposure range with HDR Boost without the lag, new white balance enhancement, a major reduction in noise, and excellent detail preservation.

HTC U11 is the first smartphone to be commercially released worldwide that is exclusively powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform. So no matter what region of the world you live in, you get an octa-core processor with breakthrough speeds, jaw-dropping graphics, impressively smooth performance and outstanding battery life.

The HTC U11, available in Amazing Silver, Sapphire Blue, Brilliant Black, Ice White, and Solar Red, and will be in the region at leading retailers from early June. – TradeArabia News Service