The U11 is HTC’s best phone in years and the company
is working on a smaller, 5.2” variant that will go under the moniker HTC U11
Life (its code name is Ocean Life).
Of course it’s IP67 waterproof, just like its bigger
sibling. And like it, it will lack a 3.5mm headphone jack. The good news is
that you’re getting the USonic headphones with noise cancellation included in
the box. And if you want to go wireless, there's Bluetooth 5.0.
The U11 Life will have a mid-range chipset – a
Snapdragon 630 instead of the 660 that was initially rumored. The GPU will have
an easier time since the screen has 1080p resolution (makes sense, given the
smaller diagonal). The phone will come with 32GB of storage, expandable with a
microSD card.
The front camera is unchanged – 16MP – but the
excellent 12MP rear camera has been swapped out for another 16MP shooter. Edge
Sense should still be on board, no word on Alexa yet.
The HTC U11 Life will be available through
HTC.com and (in the US) through T-Mobile. Pricing is yet unknown, but HTC has
been fairly competitive lately (in the US, at least, euro prices are not so
hot).
