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HTC U12 Life – Design The HTC U12 Life looks every inch the modern HTC phone. That doesn’t have the glowing connotation that it might once have had, though. HTC used to be known as a true innovator in the Android phone space, way before Samsung upped its design game. The HTC of 2018 plays things much safer.
From the front, the HTC U12 Life could be any number of pre-iPhone X phones. It’s a plain black rectangle with rounded corners and a large display. That display doesn’t exactly fill the available space but nor are the chin and forehead massive. The side bezels are relatively slim too. Things get a lot more interesting when you flip the phone over, with a glass rear that sports an etched, lined finish on the lower two thirds.
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The top third is shiny, mirrored, and eminently prone to fingerprint smudges. It’s also here that the HTC U12 Life stashes its proficient fingerprint sensor. All of which makes the phone sound a lot more premium than it actually looks and feels.
There’s actually none of the high-end allure of the aforementioned mid-range rivals when you handle it. Related: Best mid-range smartphone It’s a solidly built handset, though, with no flex and a fairly hefty weight of 175 grams. At only 8.3mm thick and with subtly rounded edges, it’s quite pleasant to hold. Crucially, you don’t get the horrible haptic buttons of the HTC U12 Plus.
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Both the volume and power keys are standard clicky components, and the latter has a pleasantly rugged texture to it. Nor do you get Edge Sense, so squeezing the HTC U12 Life will achieve nothing other than smearing up those shiny edges. Sticking with the subject of edges, the top and bottom of the phone offer mostly good s. The top surface houses a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is becoming an endangered species even in this sector of the smartphone market. The bottom, meanwhile, houses a USB-C port and a weedy single speaker. There’s no water resistance here, though that’s not uncommon this far south of flagship phone territory. HTC U12 Life – Screen The HTC U12 Life packs a 6-inch 18:9 aspect ratio display with a 1080p resolution.
It’s big enough, plenty sharp enough, and plenty bright enough. Perhaps most notably, that size and aspect ratio is unimpeded by an unsightly notch, so you’re getting a pure widescreen picture for all landscape media. It’s an LCD rather than an OLED display, so it doesn’t have the most vibrant colours. But I really have no serious complaints about it in any respect. Colours are reasonably accurate, viewing angles are good, and everything looks nice and balanced.
There’s a colour temperature slider in the settings menu should you wish to make things a little warmer or cooler to your tastes. I also found the default auto-brightness setting to be accomplished, neither dazzling me in low light nor undercooking things in bright outdoor conditions. You might be surprised how many otherwise accomplished phones fail to get this right. HTC U12 Life – Performance As with much of the rest of the HTC U12 Life, its performance is good enough.
It packs a Snapdragon 636 CPU, which is one of Qualcomm’s current mid-range chips. I would have preferred to have seen the more capable Snapdragon 660 in here, having been so impressed with its performance in the Xiaomi Mi A2 (which can be had for significantly less money than the U12 Life, incidentally). But as the Snapdragon 636 seems to be a far more commonly used chip, it would be unfair to be too critical of HTC’s decision.
The Nokia 7.1 mentioned earlier uses the very same processor, for example. Besides, everything moves along at a decent clip as it is. The phone wakes up promptly through the fingerprint sensor, the camera app responds well enough with a double press of the power button, and home screen navigation is stutter-free.
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