When HTC is mentioned, everyone will immediately think of the excellent products it has brought us and the countless glories it has ever brought us. However, as we all know, that is a thing of the past. It is hard for HTC today to remind people of high-end, flagship and other words until the release of HTC U11.

The still elegant appearance, extremely powerful performance, unique innovative technology and strong cooperation with IT giant Baidu all show HTC's determination to return to the battlefield. Personally, I am also very happy to see this situation, after all, no one wants the good memories to become a bubble. So I'm very happy to get this trial. Thank you Love to play computer games Give me a chance to experience HTC's strongest smartphone - HTC U11 so far.

First of all, we need to explain that the trial machine we got this time is not a retail version officially sold in the market. When I got the machine personally, this product was not sold in mainland China. Therefore, the product experienced this time is an engineering prototype of HTC U11, so some problems encountered in the evaluation process are not representative of mass production machines.

The trial machine obtained is relatively simple. There is no packaging box, only a bare machine, charger and a type-c data cable. Although the accessories are simple, this is not the point. The point is that the new HTC U11 is too beautiful.

I got the black version myself. As the most classic color matching, black is the most difficult to make patterns. On the one hand, everything that can be played has already been played. On the other hand, the technical requirements are very high. Even the black version of the HTC U11 has made a new pattern. In fact, the previous media photos show that compared with the silver and blue versions, the black version of the HTC U11 is slightly inferior, but it is compared with itself. If compared with other products, HTC U11 has a great advantage. The black glass on the back is not pure black. It will give off different gloss under the irradiation of light, giving people an illusion. HTC calls this 3D curved surface ripple technology. It is said that this technology has been developed for two years. However, in my impression, the design of this glass back shell seems to have been used on HTC U Ultra. This time, HTC U11 has completed the further innovation of technology.

HTC is no exception when curved screens are popular today. The mobile phone adopts an "eight curved surface" design, that is, the front and rear panels adopt a four curved surface design, which fully fits with the metal frame. This makes the whole mobile phone look mellow, completely saying goodbye to the "sharp and exotic cutting feel". When you grasp the mobile phone, it even has a feeling that it will slide out of the palm of your hand. The appearance design of circular arc is impressive.

However, this is only in the case of screen rest. The HTC U11 does not use a bendable OLED screen, so the screen is not bent. This makes the screen still appear to have black edges. Fortunately, HTC has also realized this. The front panel is designed in pure black, and the frame that controls itself well will not give you the impression of a large frame. Of course, the amazing design also needs to pay a price. The double-sided glass makes the HTC U11 a fingerprint collector. If you want to keep its beauty, you have to wipe it more.

In terms of screen, the HTC U11 is equipped with a 5.5 inch 2K LCD screen (2560 * 1440) with a pixel density of 513ppi. The color display restoration is excellent, and the brightness and display permeability are very ideal. It is completely an excellent flagship product, which makes people very satisfied.

Of course, the powerful 2K screen provides users with excellent display effects, but also consumes much more power than the full HD screen. In addition, the built-in battery of the HTC U11 is only 3000mAh, which makes the battery life of the whole phone average. In the morning, when fully charged, in the case of daily use, only 10-20% of the electricity is left by the end of the day. I have to say that this is a short board of this product. Fortunately, the HTC U11 supports QC3.0, and can provide up to 15W of charging power. The performance is ideal.

The HTC U11 supports the dual card dual standby of all Netcom. The type of SIM card is the Nano SIM card, with 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM built-in. The flash memory specification is all UFS2.1, which can provide users with the fastest transmission speed at present. In addition, the HTC U11 also supports external storage expansion, with a maximum of 2TB expansion. This feature is rare on mobile phones. In addition, the HTC U11 is also well designed. The expansion card slot is not designed together with the SIM card. Instead, there is an independent expansion card slot at the bottom of the phone. Users can use dual cards and dual waiting memory to expand at the same time, which is very considerate.

In terms of system, HTC U11 is the latest Android 7.1 customized version of ChinaSense. The entire interaction logic is very similar to the Android native system, which is very comfortable for daily use. This time, HTC U11 has made two super large changes at the system level, one is equipped with the new Edge Sense; The other is a powerful small assistant. Let's introduce these two functions in detail.

Edge Sense is one of the highlights of this HTC U11, a new attempt at human-computer interaction. It is mainly to complete the quick startup of programs and phone functions by squeezing the phone's border. After opening the advanced mode, you can also customize two different pressure levels: short press and long press. It performs very well in practical use. For example, the quick start of the camera, taking pictures, or quick screenshots can be done by single hand operation, which saves users a lot of trouble. It is a very excellent innovative function.

And you won't feel any trouble during the whole use process. The reason why many new functions haven't been popularized lies in the high learning cost. Edge Sense solves this problem very well. Holding the phone in your hand, you can take photos by gently squeezing. It is natural and smooth, and gives a good impression.

In addition to Edge Sense, HTC also cooperated with Baidu very closely this time, with Baidu DuerOS built-in. It is said that the voice assistant is very powerful. Can it meet the needs of users? Let's take a look. This time, we choose to compare it with Apple Siri.

First, a simple restaurant search:

Neither of them has any problem. You can find the surrounding restaurants smoothly, but when you add an additional condition, Siri will be GG... This is too weak. Fortunately, the small assistant carried it down. It can be seen that in the case of continuous questions and continuity, the minor assistant has no problems, but Siri is not.

I was surprised when I asked the small assistant of the "2017 Champions League Final Scores", who was very concerned by the fans, to show the clear card results directly. But what's more surprising is siri... What's the answer you gave? Why is it so weak! Small assistant wins again.

It is said that the voice assistant can play games, so let's try again. Small assistants will set questions first, and then we will answer them. If we can't answer them, we can also choose prompts. At the same time, there are funny words in it, which is very funny. And Siri... directly came to Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation. It seems that Siri needs to do too much in terms of localization.

Let's create a reminder schedule through the voice assistant. It should not be too difficult in principle, but there have been problems in the actual testing process. Let's look at it together.

The small assistant can recognize it smoothly, ask you the specific time, and then create an alarm clock. Siri does not fully recognize affixes, and the time is only 9 o'clock by default. To fine tune, you need to open application settings, which is troublesome.

Next, let's see whether the application can be opened through the voice assistant. Small assistant, I tested a system application: flashlight; A common application, WeChat. It's all on in seconds. Very satisfied. Siri has no way to identify.

I did five different tests in succession, which surprised me a little about the small assistant HTC carried. The overall performance was a lot of surprises. Wake up is also very simple. The default is to gently squeeze. At the same time, long press the home key can also wake up. It has to be said that Baidu's small assistant, which knows users best, performs surprisingly in practical applications. It can almost help you solve all kinds of problems. It saves a lot of steps that require two hands to operate, and it is also quite powerful in speech recognition rate. It wasn't special at first, but it was a big surprise.

In terms of system performance, HTC U11 is equipped with the most powerful SOC at present - Snapdragon 835, with 4GB of memory. It can take all the current mainstream 3D large-scale games. The feeling of daily use is the same word - Shuang. You don't have to worry about getting stuck. And thanks to the new 10 nanometer technology, power consumption and heat dissipation also have quite excellent performance·

The HTC U11 is equipped with a 16 megapixel front camera and a 12 megapixel rear camera. The single pixel size of the rear camera is 1.4 μ m, supporting full pixel focusing, the lens aperture is f/1.7, and supporting four axis optical anti shake. Users can shoot RAW or JPG files through the camera. Through the professional mode, the user can make various adjustments to the camera parameters.

The following is a sample display. I have to say that the performance of this camera is impressive. For example, the environmental performance under macro distance and backlight or the degree of color reduction are excellent. When macro photos are enlarged, the edge processing is also in place. It is worthy of 90 points in the test of DxOMark.

Finally, the HTC U11 also cancels the 3.5mm audio interface. On the outside, the U11 uses BoomSound dual speakers, one at the bottom of the phone and one at the receiver. The sound quality is also very satisfactory. It is better than most mobile phones on the market.

As HTC's latest flagship mobile phone, the HTC U11 has not disappointed us. With its powerful configuration and excellent small assistant, it has amazing photographic performance, and every point proves that the former HTC once again came back as the king. In this cooperation between HTC and Baidu, the small assistant carried by HTC is definitely a highlight. Siri was childish before him. It also makes people sigh again about the power of artificial intelligence. If you have this mobile phone, you must feel the charm of a small assistant.

Of course, this mobile phone is not without shortcomings. First of all, it still uses the traditional LCD screen instead of the curved screen, which is somewhat disappointing. The standard version only has 4GB RAM, which is not particularly good in the current flagship. But on the whole, HTC U11 is still a very ideal flagship phone. Although the price of 4599 yuan is not cheap, it is also very good compared with other major brands. It can be said that this is the most outstanding mobile phone of HTC so far.

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