Before HTC announced the U Ultra and U Play, we used
to get rumors about a mystery HTC Ocean (or Ocean Note) device, which would
allegedly have a buttonless design, and a UI with contextual touch controls to
make up for that.
Well, when HTC took the stage to announce its
brand-new shiny marbles of smartphones, no revelation about such software
changes was made. Leakster @evleaks has now dug up a screenshot from
the settings menu of an undisclosed HTC smartphone. In it, we can see a
brand-new Edge Sense toggle, which apparently controls the mysterious “Sense
Touch” option. From the very limited amount of clues the source provides, we
can guess it has something to do with contextual controls, which would be
performable by either tapping on the side of the phone, or the edge of the
display.
The source also lists specs for the mysterious
device that took that screenshot — a 5.5-inch display, a Snapdragon 835 SoC, 4
or 6 GB of RAM, 64 GB of internal storage, Daydream support, and a special
Sense AI Assistant. That last one is a bit weird, since Google did announce
that its own Google Assistant is coming to a number of phones soon, the HTC 10
included — we see no reason for it to be gone or to need a substitute on future
HTC devices, unless the manufacturer has an amazing AI up its sleeve.
