HTC launched the high end smartphone ‘HTC U Ultra’ along with ‘HTC U Play‘ with secondary displays and pretty good specifications. Priced at Rs. 59,990, the U Ultra is packed inside a metal frame with rear glass is fully curved at all four edges and has glass finish on the front and back. It comes with 5.7 inch Quad HD Super LCD 5 display offering 1440 x 2560 pixels resolution and is protected by Gorilla Glass 5 protection. Its 128GB variant comes with Sapphire Glass. As said, there’s also a 2.0 inch secondary Super LCD 5 display offering 160 x 1040 pixels resolution with 520 PPI which keeps you updated with important notifications.
The phone is running on Android 7.0 Nougat OS with company’s new HTC Sense Companion software that has an AI to learn about your activities and offers intelligent suggestions. It is a Dual SIM phone with Hybrid slot. HTC has powered U Ultra with Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 64-bit processor (2×2.15 GHz Kryo and 2×1.6 GHz Kryo) accompanied by Adreno 530 GPU and 4GB of RAM making the phone good enough for faster performance and smooth multitasking. It comes with 64 internal storage memory which can be expanded up to 2TB using microSD card.
Just like rest of the specifications, U Ultra is also good enough in camera section. It carries a 12 Megapixel (UltraPixel 2) rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, 1.55um pixels, f/1.8 aperture, Laser AF and OIS that supports up to Ultra HD 4K video recording. For Selfie fans, we get a 16 Megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and UltraPixel mode. For multimedia fans, HTC U Ultra also comes with HTC USonic, HTC BoomSound Hi-Fi edition and 3D Audio recording with 4 microphones.
As per connectivity, the phone supports 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4 and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS with GLONASS, NFC and USB 3.1 Type-C. HTC has powered up the device with 3000mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0.
HTC U Ultra Specifications:
- Android 7.0 Nougat OS with HTC Sense UI
- Hybrid dual SIM Support
- 5.7 inch Quad HD Super LCD 5 display with 1440 x 2560 pixels resolution and Gorilla Glass 5 protection / Sapphire Glass (128GB version)
- 2.0 inch Super LCD 5 secondary display with 160 x 1040 pixels resolution and 520 PPI
- Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 64-bit processor (2×2.15 GHz Kryo and 2×1.6 GHz Kryo)
- Adreno 530 GPU
- 4GB of RAM
- 64 internal storage memory, Expandable up to 2TB using microSD card
- 12 Megapixel (UltraPixel 2) rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, 1.55um pixels, f/1.8 aperture, Laser AF and OIS
- Ultra HD 4K video recording
- 16 Megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture and UltraPixel mode
- 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 ac (2.4 and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS with GLONASS, NFC and USB 3.1 Type-C
- 3000mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0
To make the best out of your HTC U Ultra, you must download some separate official tools such as HTC PC Suite, latest USB Driver and HTC Sync Manager. All these can be downloaded from here for free in just one click. While USB Driver is must for connecting your phone with computers, PC suite on other hand brings in several important features that increases the phone’s productivity and also provides best security to each data and information stored on the phone by letting your Backup and Sync them with Computers as well as major clouds. Sync manager is a tool that syncs all your videos, music and pictures between phone and PC on wire or wirelessly.