HTC U11 unboxing (live) By Mobile Tech Podcast

Hey, hey, hey everybody check this out. HTC u11 is in the house. Yes, I got one. This is a sprint version for the US, not the unlocked model. I believe that's coming later to me at some point. I hope really hope.

But it's exciting I'm back at doing 1080p live videos. I was using the YouTube app for a while because it's a lot more convenient, but it turns out, it doesn't do 1080p and more portly. This one does, if you have a good connection, it works. Otherwise, it's a complete disaster, but even the YouTube app isn't really that great. If we have a bad connection, it does scale down a bit more gracefully, but not too much, so I know you're dying to see this look at how thin this box is not bad.

You get the label down here, really a bunch of specs here in the back. You know all the things so remember. This is the flagship from HTC for this year, and it's only available in the US on Sprint and in unlocked. Otherwise, so are you guys ready you ready? Are you ready come on? Somebody needs to say something: don't a Ton Ton Ton boom. Look at that.

So we got a quick charge: three compatible charger. It's the same one at C, HTC 10 last year. I can tell this because I've got it, and it's exactly the same while mine is white, so this is a black one. Actually, it's kind of a gunmetal gray, color right, USB type, a US prong I'm not going to take the wrapper off. But, as you know, this is USB type-c phone, so it does have a Type C chord right here.

You can see type C down there at the end, of course, type a to connect into your laptop point to your desktop or into whatever it is. You have your car and, of course, the charger. So it's nice I like it when it's type A to type C personally and then here's the type C you can see it in there again. I'm, not gonna. Take these I'm not probably not gonna use this because I already have a quick charge.

Three compatible charger, then there's these new earbuds. Now this is very controversial, as you can see very USB. Type-C right, of course, as you know, this phone, the 11 as well as the or you ultra, which I also have, as well as the HTC 10 Eve, which is called the bolt in the US. All three of these phones have no headphone jack and come in bundle with earbuds, with USB type-c, but by the way, these are the replacement at different sized ear cushions, but the evil, the evil, the 10 evil and a Kay bolt, and you ultra and you well, those two have headphones earphones that are adjusted to your ear canal. They play some frequencies and kind of measure the size of you ear, the shape of your ear canal and adjust accordingly.

Now, in my opinion, makes no difference. It doesn't sound better but then again, you're talking to somebody who's a bit of an audiophile when it comes to earphones and headphones and earbuds, and so this doesn't do it. For me, the sound quality is just not good enough. Now the reason I'm giving you all this preamble is because these one with the UE lab and only the ones with you 11, have been further improved by adding noise cancellation, so they have microphones in them and because this is all going through us PC as a USB, basically device digital device, and it's powered by the USB port. They can have active electronics in these.

So the ideas really sound right, but honestly, ironically pun intended I guess it doesn't sound that good to me now, I haven't tried these new ones with active noise cancellation, but I tell you the old ones, weren't that great, so I'll be focusing on what the experience is like on these, and I'll be trying these out. Let's continue, shall we um? Let's see? Is there anything under here nope, nothing is just a little divider and then, of course, is the phone which, as you see from the front just looks like a phone but from the back Oh shiny, blue, now stay tuned, I'm gonna actually take this off in a second I want to show you what's in the box, so yeah little divider here and then Oh. What's this so yeah, look at that there is a little case, translucent case like the new ultra. This is a fingerprint magnet this phone, so they're, including a case to protect it from this abacus glass, but also, more importantly, to like to make it less fingerprint prone. I appreciate that, and I'm not a huge case user, but I will use this case and then what we have here.

We have a bunch of paperwork and a sim removal tool. There you go, it shows you where the same slot is very conveniently on top just likely you alter up by the way who are shamming very nice and then, as you can see, this is how you know it's a sprint unit. There has not been any branding on the phone or the box so far other than the barcode, and you know each spring device right here so, and this is supposedly a sprint device that supports gigabit LTE on Sprint's Network enough, probably for the 10 people to have that network capability, because snapdragon 835, which has a built-in x16 radio, which supports gigabit, LT and gigabit, is not you're. Going to get not going to get a thousand megabytes per second, but you're going to get three to four hundred megabits per second sustained, which is really amazing. I've experienced that before T-Mobile's rolling that out as well the other phone that supports it is a Galaxy, s8 and s8 plus.

So important information cares. Now we have a warning. The warning says: place this label and Wi-Fi call I have no idea. What about? Who cares? Okay, so now this part, the reason I waited last for this dongle is that it's really important, and I explain to you why it's really important, because it is USB type-c to headphone adapter, because the phone does not have a headphone jack right. But more importantly, this is necessary because all previous HTC phones without a headphone jack, meaning the bolt / Eve 10 or 10- evil, the new ultra, neither those had a freaking adapter in the box.

That was a real hassle for somebody like me, who has all their own headphones and earbuds that are kind of all legacy, and some of them are up to 20 30 years old. I want this bad, so I really appreciate HTC you're doing this, even though I don't appreciate you not including a headphone jack on the device itself. There's another thing: I want to take the opportunity to talk about. I have not talked about this at length yet, except for maybe on my podcast, because it needs to be said. HTC is the only company in the world to exclude the headphone jack, but not support analog audio output from the USB type-c motor with the Z and live eco with the low pro 3 and low pro 2 in other markets in the US has no headphone jack and has USB type-c, but they have analog support.

Why? What am I talking about what I'm talking about is Intel when they created USB type-c, basically created two standards for connecting and adapter. If you don't have a headphone jack, one is analog and one that's digital. The digital one makes sense right. It's a USB port, so you plug, for example, these headphones in here and what you get is power goes in inside is a USB controller. The USB controller says to the phone: hey I'm, a music device, I'm a sound card, and it adds a sound card device, and then inside here is some circuitry with a know, a DSP and a digital to analog converter and a headphone amp all this in that little plug right here, or maybe it's inside the buds.

Now that's a lot of electronics right. That's also what Apple's doing they're lighting adaptive lightning adapter has all this electronic stuff in it. Well, the Z, the motor Z, all of them, except the play and their legal low pro 3, which don't have a headphone jack, do support analog audio only on the U. S. PC, which means you can plug an adapter.

That looks like that. But really all it is, is a piece of wire, the digital to analog converter and the headphone amp are inside the phone and when you plug the adapter in you, get like a couple of pins as say to the phone: hey I'm, just an adapter, and then it sends the audio out as analog through the USB, see to the right pins, and it comes out the headphone jack. That's what motor is doing. That's what Latina are doing when I got the bolt. The HTC 10, Eve and I confirm this with you ultra that functionality was disabled for some reason, so you needed to use a digital interface.

You needed to use an active interface, and so you couldn't use the more Uzis adapter, and you couldn't use the Eco adapter with your HTC phone for audio for headphone adapter, and that really vexed me, because it means that we now have multiple standards of adapters on USB type-c, it's kind of insane. So this is after it's gonna, be very valuable because it's a digital adapter, it's a full-on active adapter. It appears as a USB sound card, so when I plug it into here it'll work on this phone, it will work on all the other HTC phones, and it should work on any phone that supports USB sound cards over type-c. So that means that more Rosie, the Eco Pro 3, the pixel, maybe it'll sound better through this, then the built-in headphone jack now I have some options very, very interesting. Thanks for staying on for this little rant, it's really important for me to explain this you, if you're into audio you know, HTC per additional e, has been very cent bent on audio, so I wanted to make sure you knew about this.

Alright I know you're all waiting for this to happen. So let's go ahead and remove it from it's a little prison of plastic here. If I can catch this sorry, my fingernails are not super long. There we go I'm, hoping I can just slide it out at this point, but it's very tight. No I'm going to have to undo it I'm afraid this requires some more peeling of labels, and you know how much I love peeling.

Here we go. You ready! Oh no, that's my phone vibrating! Oh! That was a good, sound. Okay, look at this shiny I! Don't want to touch it. Look at how shiny this is insane. Let's see, reckon put it down there.

We go without touching it. Good luck! Okay, I won't touch it by the edges. There we go so the front. Let me remove the box. The front looks pretty boring.

Actually you can see the fingerprint reader here and the front-facing camera and the ear phone, and that's it dusty already and of course the back is super. Sexy I'm going to have to remove this sticker, but look even me trying not to touch it. I already have fingerprints on it. This is an autofocus nightmare. I hope that my recording camera can focus.

It looks like it can, but holy crap. You can see the phone I'm using. You can see the strap that's holding into the tripod. Furthermore, you can see my face behind here, yeah, alright. So let's turn it on and let's do a quick walk around before I wrap this up boom HTC powered by Android.

So again, this is a sixteen by nine screens, not a super wide screen like we saw on the g6 and the galaxy s, 8 plus LT +. U HTC you huh and when dark I, don't know why up there, you go it's back and welcome. So this is a beautiful screen. It's a 5.5 inch display it's 2k, so you know standard 2k display like pretty high-res pretty normal for a flagship today and talk back is trying to talk to me, so I'm, just going to dismiss it and get a little close and personal. So you can see the beauty of this display.

Maybe I'll go back so that you can see the viewing angles. It's not bad! It's Super, LCD 5! So it's an IPS panel, all right, I'm going to go back in here because it's gonna talk all right, so um, quick, tour, I'm sure there are some sensors behind here, but right now there is a piece and then oh, you can see the sensors right there. This looks like a microphone to me, and then we've got the front-facing camera. It's a 16, megapixel ultrapixel camera I'm, not sure exactly what that means, but it's the same camera, that's in the front of the U ultra, so a bit vexing, because this year it loses the optical image stabilization that he had last year, which made it a really awesome. Selfie video camera I mean it's not mean s, so you have, oh, is on the front camera, but the HTC 10 was the first one to ever.

Do it, and it removed it on the U 11. Sadly, so just be aware of that at the bottom here, you've got the fingerprint reader, and it's not lining up, but there is actually two capacitive buttons on each side here, the back button and the recent app buttons and then, of course, home button is also the capacitive fingerprint reader and in the back we have a dual LED flash notice, there's no more laser autofocus. But there is the same. Well, it's an improved camera sensor. It's a 12, megapixel I believe, and it's large pixels, dual pixel autofocus, like the Galaxy, s8 and s7 I.

Think it's for 1.8, so I mean it's a freaking delightful camera. Oh, is of course autofocus. This should be a perfect camera. It's a know, I, don't believe in DX, no mark I think there it's a lot of it's a load of, but it's got the best UK so mark score so far, which again I don't care, but it there. It is so.

HTC logo camera lots of camerae. Let's show you the sides, which are probably full of thing prints right now. You have a power lock key, which is Ridge, which is lovely. It's a metal button volume rocker here nothing else on the left side at the bottom, you have a speaker cavity. You have the USB type-c port, not quite sure what this is, but there's another microphone, probably the primary mic.

You can see these antenna bands again. This is machined aluminum, anodized, blue and blue glass, a belief, Gorilla, Glass, 5, there's another mic here and mic on top. So that's three mics! So far, there's supposedly four, so I'm trying to find them all on the right-hand side. You see, there's absolutely nothing. Just an antenna band really cool.

It's right. There look at it and then on top of course, oh yeah there's the fourth mic. So there's the sim slot, which is also micro, SD slot, and there you go you've done the tour of the whole thing, so I think there's four mics total. That's right, there's one in the front! So the reason for that is actually this supports audio zoom when you do video recording, which is a kind of cool feature, and it uses those four mics ? good. Do some clever DSP to get perfect audio recording during video I'll be half I'll have to put them through its paces.

Um I'm going to be reviewing this phone for Chip chick, so please tune on to chip chick in a few days and when I get around to finishing that review, because I just got it out of the box, so need to get cracking here very interesting like as much as this is not an edge-to-edge display like the Galaxy S8. You can see how it has the same kind of taper on the aluminum going inward on both sides. Very, very cool I'm discovering this as I'm talking to you just so you know um. So that's it! That's the HTC! U 11 and a nutshell now notice that from the front, it's very nondescript, just a black slab of glass I mean it's beautiful. It's.

It seemed thinner to me than last year's. U HTC, 10 I'm digging, if I'll be honest. This is a beautiful phone. I love this beautiful hue, it's impossible for the cat to make it justice. It is really amazing! So there you have it guys: the HTC? U 11, unboxing, with a bit of a rant in the middle because.

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