To mark the 20th anniversary of HTC's life as a technology company, the brand has launched the new HTC U11.
The new handset features a large screen and water-resistant body, and offers the chance to squeeze the phone to take a picture or fire up the camera. You'll even be able to squeeze the phone underwater to take a picture.
The phone will also come with Alexa integration as well as Google Assistant, although it's not clear why both are enabled on the phone, rather than just one.
The HTC U11 will also pack four microphones to allow for 3D recording, even allowing you to zoom into the video and have the sound follow as well.
The HTC U11 camera has scored 90 on the DxOMark scale, the highest for a smartphone snapper... although that doesn't mean it's going to be the best camera out there. Previous phones from HTC and others have scored well on the scale, but not offered the best snaps 'from the wrist', as in taking a snap without having to put in a lot of effort with framing.
The phone won't have a 3.5mm headphone jack, but there will be a new set of headphones in the box - the HTC U Sonic. These can detect the noise inside your ear and map the space to give you strong audio feedback tailored to you.
The headphones will have active noise cancellation... right out of the box. That's pretty impressive, and BoomSound is included as well, with larger resonance chambers to increase the output.
The design of the phone matches that of the HTC U Play and HTC U Ultra using 3D shaped glass to fit well inside the hand, curving it both front and back.
You'll be able to buy the phone in Amazing Silver, Ice White, Brilliant Black, Solar Red and Sapphire Blue when it launches, and each color will have a pearlescent, two-tone look about it.
The phone's design is called Liquid Surface, used in the previously-mentioned handsets, and is a glass cover around a phone 5.5-inch QHD screen.
HTC claims that the color won't scratch off thanks to the new manufacturing methods, and confirmed IP67 rating of the handset.
The Edge Sense is made possible using eight power gauges inside the phone, to always be aware and ready for pressure to let you open up whatever you want.
It'll also have pocket mode, so when the phone is in your pants / trousers, the Edge Sense won't fire up to avoid mistakes. It'll also work with gloves as well, thanks to being pressure-sensitive, so you can press away whenever your fingers are working.
The phone will be running on the Snapdragon 835 chipset, and that means you can have more than one 'wake word' to open the phone and fire up a voice assistant. That's how Alexa and Google Assistant will be enabled at the same time.
Alexa will be coming to the US, UK and Germany and will land around a month after purchase... which should be around July.
HTC's Sense Companion is on board, giving you pokes throughout the day to find the best time to charge, the top restaurants to eat at and information on steps taken that day, although we've yet to see this working properly on any other phones at the moment.
The HTC U11 camera looks pretty powerful, thanks to a 5-axis optical image stabiliser, a 12MP snapper, f/1.7 aperture, dual pixel autofocus and improved HDR effects.
The front-facing camera will have a 150-degree sensor for wider selfies too.
HTC's president of smartphones Chialin Chang took to the stage to announce the new phone, and highlight some of the key moments in the company's history in terms of innovation and smartphone upgrade.
More to follow...
from TechRadar: Phone and communications news http://www.techradar.com/news/htc-u11-unveiled-squeezable-sides-coming-to-the-flagship-space
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