HTC U20 5G 2Q9F100 256GB 8GB RAM
I came across a wide spectrum of reactions from people seeing my phone. Most people were curious as to what phone this was and were surprised that HTCstill made phones as they were only acquainted with the VR business side of things a shocking group were people who had never even heard of HTC as a company. They came up to me as someone who has long had an affinity for HTC as a brand of my touch.I was initially ecstatic to test out the current highest-end phone from htc the u20. While that enthusiasm did eventually wane as.I got to know the u20 it still showed me enough to say. htc should have a place in the smartphone world it's easy to say that the htc u25g is not a flagship phone. It's also not a very unique designed phone but there's also nothing offensive about the look of the u20 either this is simply a mid-range candy bar phone that is a dime a dozen in the market a far cry from the innovative years of the 1m line and their impressive boom sound. I will give htc credit for a mid-range phone.
I do like the quality of the built material they decide to use the back is a plastic mat material that is smooth to touch but efficient to mask fingerprints. A fingerprint scanner occupies space in the rear above the iconic htc logo and it works fine for what it is the volume rocker and power. Buttons are nice and clicky to maintain a surprisingly premium vibe to the overall experience of the u20.I have the u20 in the white color which in some positions gives off a blue tint.There honestly isn't anything intrinsically bad about the htc u20 as a phone that other devices don't share. It's a bit too long to fit comfortably in a pant pocket thanks to that 20 by nine aspect ratio of a display. It's a bit too slippery thanks to that width being slightly larger than what my hands could comfortably be able to wrap around and it's a bit of a hazard device as there aren't any case makers out there making htc. You know phone cases I mean why would they all these issues are just issues shared with many other devices in the world where this candy bar shape has stalled in evolution the most damning thing though about the htc u20 is the touchscreen.We're looking at a 6.8 inch by 2400p IPS display that has 387 PPI density that's fine and dandy as the viewing quality is quite solid.
The display is sharp from a multitude of angles and colors are well reproduced albeit a bit colder in tone than I prefer after all this is an enjoyable device to watch content on but the annoyance comes in with the actual touch screen aspect. I can't elaborate enough on how frustrating. It was to navigate around android 10 thanks to the sheer sensitivity that causes an abundance of ghost touches.It's eerily as if the u20 has a mind of its own and wants to steer me in another direction now I'm not 100 certain if these are true ghost touches or if the palm rejection is inadequate for a phone of this length the u25g is just an awkward phone to swipe through and to type with frustration immediately sets in when the keyboard is out and I'm typing only for it to lose all its progress .when the os swipes back to the home screen with the previous app. This is most likely due to my android settings of using gesture navigation instead of the traditional three-button android Layout however, I fully transitioned over to this method of navigation since Google introduced it in android uh when like 2019 and I haven't struggled like this on any other phone. I've used so it's something here with htc.I'm also disappointed with the single bottom-firing loudspeaker.
it's hollow and just downright depressing to listen to especially when you recall htc's legendary reputation with mobile sound. It isn't an exaggeration to say htc changed the way audio quality was perceived in smartphones back in the 2010s. This is a drastic fall from grace phone call audio is also horribly bad the other person on the line has often complained about how bad I sounded more often than not when I was using this phone the best way to explain. It is as if there was a flip between the earpiece and the loudspeaker and that's what it feels like to hear me talk on this phone honestly other than that huge issue of navigating the phone around ghost touches and the lackluster palm rejection. There isn't much to dislike about this Taiwanese-designed phone.The phone runs perfectly fine thanks to that Qualcomm snapdragon 765g chipset that gives access to 5g capabilities although. It doesn't work here in us because we don't have those bands on this phone for the USA 5 G network this model has 8 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage with additional storage capabilities thanks to MicroSD access .it's all rather standard or fair here for an upper mid-tier smartphone.All the games and apps I'm currently running effectively work at a reasonable rate. Where I don't miss using a phone with a snapdragon 888. It's close enough in performance for tasks that are important the battery longevity is fantastic. If you need to plug the u25g to charge that enormous 5 000 milliamp-hour battery before the day ends.You're most likely having a super long day with dramatic twists and turns because this battery does not die on a typical day. I'd go through all the chores of collecting and questing my mobile game apps along with that remedial task of responding to work emails and using various apps to get things done for work and this thing occupies about like three hours of on-screen time and roughly six hours of battery life off the plug and that only cost me about 25 of the overall battery life.
Yes, we're still at 75 remaining batteries with a majority of the workday already completed. This is fantastic battery life and one that should be applauded not that you'll ever need it but the u25g also has 18 watts fast charging four camera sensors occupy a neat strip on the left side of the rear body the right side when you're holding it facing you. You know.It's the right side opposite side. I'm right-handed so this irritates me every time. I need to touch something on the peripheral of the sensors unlike some of the other companies who kind of stack them in a squarish shape htc's decision to make it one of just downright stripped downwards extends.The range of the sensors through the reach of the fingerprint sensor area like. I've smudged the cameras with my fingers almost daily due to this design choice in terms of image quality the u25g would rank in the acceptable category while the cameras are serviceable and fluid to operate to catch a quick shot. It's best utilized as a person like an Instagram shooter. Where Quality isn't important to a brand image or anything. I say this because there is a noticeable overprocessing of images in hdr that I don't see in phones like the google pixel 4a or like a higher rated reputational phone like the iPhone 12 lineup too often do pictures look artificial the surprising thing though that the camera does well is how great the ai determines what actually to expose.
I'm pretty impressed with how it handles foreground and background exposure here ultimately there is just a lack of warmth and sharpness behind the photos for me to comfortably want to use this as my main smartphone shooter and even though htc is long past its heyday. I've always felt that there was a place that this legacy OEM can still have if they truly invested the time to create a product that makes sense the u25g has some of that htc pride from yesteryear but fails to carve out a responsible reason for its existence even.if this phone was readily available in the USA it kind of is through amazon. I still have a difficult time recommending this in the mid-level market.it just doesn't make sense to me with that said. I would love to see the u21 and then the u30 and many other htc are down the line because the smartphone world could certainly still keep a spot out for htc so the other day. I went to the market and I saw a bunch of people with their iPhones just checking their grocery lists
I do like the quality of the built material they decide to use the back is a plastic mat material that is smooth to touch but efficient to mask fingerprints. A fingerprint scanner occupies space in the rear above the iconic htc logo and it works fine for what it is the volume rocker and power. Buttons are nice and clicky to maintain a surprisingly premium vibe to the overall experience of the u20.I have the u20 in the white color which in some positions gives off a blue tint.There honestly isn't anything intrinsically bad about the htc u20 as a phone that other devices don't share. It's a bit too long to fit comfortably in a pant pocket thanks to that 20 by nine aspect ratio of a display. It's a bit too slippery thanks to that width being slightly larger than what my hands could comfortably be able to wrap around and it's a bit of a hazard device as there aren't any case makers out there making htc. You know phone cases I mean why would they all these issues are just issues shared with many other devices in the world where this candy bar shape has stalled in evolution the most damning thing though about the htc u20 is the touchscreen.We're looking at a 6.8 inch by 2400p IPS display that has 387 PPI density that's fine and dandy as the viewing quality is quite solid.
The display is sharp from a multitude of angles and colors are well reproduced albeit a bit colder in tone than I prefer after all this is an enjoyable device to watch content on but the annoyance comes in with the actual touch screen aspect. I can't elaborate enough on how frustrating. It was to navigate around android 10 thanks to the sheer sensitivity that causes an abundance of ghost touches.It's eerily as if the u20 has a mind of its own and wants to steer me in another direction now I'm not 100 certain if these are true ghost touches or if the palm rejection is inadequate for a phone of this length the u25g is just an awkward phone to swipe through and to type with frustration immediately sets in when the keyboard is out and I'm typing only for it to lose all its progress .when the os swipes back to the home screen with the previous app. This is most likely due to my android settings of using gesture navigation instead of the traditional three-button android Layout however, I fully transitioned over to this method of navigation since Google introduced it in android uh when like 2019 and I haven't struggled like this on any other phone. I've used so it's something here with htc.I'm also disappointed with the single bottom-firing loudspeaker.
it's hollow and just downright depressing to listen to especially when you recall htc's legendary reputation with mobile sound. It isn't an exaggeration to say htc changed the way audio quality was perceived in smartphones back in the 2010s. This is a drastic fall from grace phone call audio is also horribly bad the other person on the line has often complained about how bad I sounded more often than not when I was using this phone the best way to explain. It is as if there was a flip between the earpiece and the loudspeaker and that's what it feels like to hear me talk on this phone honestly other than that huge issue of navigating the phone around ghost touches and the lackluster palm rejection. There isn't much to dislike about this Taiwanese-designed phone.The phone runs perfectly fine thanks to that Qualcomm snapdragon 765g chipset that gives access to 5g capabilities although. It doesn't work here in us because we don't have those bands on this phone for the USA 5 G network this model has 8 gigabytes of ram and 256 gigabytes of storage with additional storage capabilities thanks to MicroSD access .it's all rather standard or fair here for an upper mid-tier smartphone.All the games and apps I'm currently running effectively work at a reasonable rate. Where I don't miss using a phone with a snapdragon 888. It's close enough in performance for tasks that are important the battery longevity is fantastic. If you need to plug the u25g to charge that enormous 5 000 milliamp-hour battery before the day ends.You're most likely having a super long day with dramatic twists and turns because this battery does not die on a typical day. I'd go through all the chores of collecting and questing my mobile game apps along with that remedial task of responding to work emails and using various apps to get things done for work and this thing occupies about like three hours of on-screen time and roughly six hours of battery life off the plug and that only cost me about 25 of the overall battery life.
Yes, we're still at 75 remaining batteries with a majority of the workday already completed. This is fantastic battery life and one that should be applauded not that you'll ever need it but the u25g also has 18 watts fast charging four camera sensors occupy a neat strip on the left side of the rear body the right side when you're holding it facing you. You know.It's the right side opposite side. I'm right-handed so this irritates me every time. I need to touch something on the peripheral of the sensors unlike some of the other companies who kind of stack them in a squarish shape htc's decision to make it one of just downright stripped downwards extends.The range of the sensors through the reach of the fingerprint sensor area like. I've smudged the cameras with my fingers almost daily due to this design choice in terms of image quality the u25g would rank in the acceptable category while the cameras are serviceable and fluid to operate to catch a quick shot. It's best utilized as a person like an Instagram shooter. Where Quality isn't important to a brand image or anything. I say this because there is a noticeable overprocessing of images in hdr that I don't see in phones like the google pixel 4a or like a higher rated reputational phone like the iPhone 12 lineup too often do pictures look artificial the surprising thing though that the camera does well is how great the ai determines what actually to expose.
I'm pretty impressed with how it handles foreground and background exposure here ultimately there is just a lack of warmth and sharpness behind the photos for me to comfortably want to use this as my main smartphone shooter and even though htc is long past its heyday. I've always felt that there was a place that this legacy OEM can still have if they truly invested the time to create a product that makes sense the u25g has some of that htc pride from yesteryear but fails to carve out a responsible reason for its existence even.if this phone was readily available in the USA it kind of is through amazon. I still have a difficult time recommending this in the mid-level market.it just doesn't make sense to me with that said. I would love to see the u21 and then the u30 and many other htc are down the line because the smartphone world could certainly still keep a spot out for htc so the other day. I went to the market and I saw a bunch of people with their iPhones just checking their grocery lists
