HTC U20 - Don't Judge This Too Quickly - Unboxing & Thoughts! By JEMZ Space

Hey everyone, it's jams from Jane space back with another video. This one is my unboxing for the HTC u25g, and I'm really quite excited about this one. Why? I'm? Actually? A fan of HTC and one of my most favorite phones of the last five years was the HTC u12, plus that phone took unbelievable photos. Some of the best low-light photo capability that I remember. I took some great pictures and nightclubs with that phone I'll, throw some up um to demo here so check them out, but that phone got absolutely slated in the press, the media reviews etc. because of the touch capacitive buttons which were used as the volume clickers, so they weren't actually physical buttons, and they had these haptics, and they were causing people a lot of problems, and because of that, the review is completely overlooked.

Everything else about the phone, how great the camera was, the audio quality on that phone was absolutely ridiculous. Some of the best stereo speakers on the phone- I remember incredible- sounding audio when you put headphones into it as well, and also the HTC headphones that they used to provide in those phones. Back then, were absolutely incredible as well, so it had a lot of going, for it was a really, really good phone for media but yeah. They just completely slated it just because of that one problem, which was then rectified in a future software update, and it's actually been a similar story with this. So you know this is ultimately HTC's flagship offering of the year and before reviewers have even had this phone in their hand, they have completely slagged it off purely because it doesn't have a Snapchat 865.

It uses snapdragon 765g, it's an IPS panel, and they just look at the specs, and they see full HD, not quad, HD and a few other things, and they just presume that it's going to be awful um. That is a letdown that HTC are ruining the legacy. Maybe they are maybe they're not at least try. The thing before you make your mind up because, like I say, the audio on this phone could be phenomenal. The camera could be great.

You don't know, you've just made your mind up without even trying it. So I'm looking forward to getting to know this phone. Like I say, the HTC u12 plus, was one of my favorite phones of the last five years, and if this has any kind of similar performance with the camera and the audio, then I'm going to really enjoy this phone. Let's just go through the specs, so it's a mammoth of a phone. It's 6.8 inches. It's a full HD display 1080 by 2400 pixels.

Furthermore, it is an IPS screen, though um, and it doesn't have a higher refresh rate. So 60 hertz is all you get in on an IPS panel. So the display is not going to be a strong point. The main camera sensor 48 megapixels, but I will break down the camera um sensor array um later um. You have up to eight gigs of ram on this one.

Obviously snapdragon 765. It has a mammoth 5000 William battery, it's a pretty substantial 215 grams, but it is a metal and glass finish, so it is going to feel quite premium in the hand it uses android, 10 and, as mentioned, I do believe it's a much more vanilla version of android. This time. Now, I'm not sure if it has an IP rating. I can't find that information anywhere now when this was released.

This was 700. I actually managed to get this for 410 pounds. So I guess that's about 500, so the price has dropped uh quite a bit um, since it was originally released, and it was very hard to get. I wanted to get it on release, but I couldn't find it sourced anywhere, but slowly and surely it started to come to the European markets. Okay, so without further ado, let's unbox it so the phone itself, the packaging is actually really quite nice.

I like these compartmentalized um boxes that just stack up on each other. That's really cool! So in here, you're going to have your sim card tray. Let's have a look. Okay, this one has your sim card tray and your warranty paperwork and instructions inside okay. This box has your USB type c to I can't make out.

Yes, this is USB type c to USB cable. This is your power brick here. This is an 18 watt power. Brick, though, so that 5 000 William battery is going to take a while to charge okay, so yet they provide earphones, and they have an apple ear pod design. So it's not the old design anymore, and they are USB type-c, okay, quick recap, so sim card ejector, tray and paperwork, 18 watt power, brick USB type-c, headphones USB to USB type-c, cable and the phone itself.

Okay, let's have a look at the phone okay, so here it is, and this is a nice looking phone. This is nice, if only you could actually feel how this feels in this hand, okay, so the back is a glass of metal mix, so it has a really premium feel, especially with this kind of like military, green look. This actually is very reminiscent to the x50 pro by real me, one of the colorways there, but for me this one looks even more premium now what you probably can't see it is a matte finish, so it's not a fingerprint magnet, but it has some sort of coating. So it feels like, like a kind of like a silicon or rubber coating, I'm not too sure, but it feels drippy in the hand and, like I say, no fingerprints, it just looks and feels absolutely fantastic. Okay.

So let's talk camera array, you have a main sensor with a 1.8 aperture and 48 megapixels. You have an ultra-wide camera, which is 2.2 aperture. You have a macro camera, so 2 megapixels on that one, and you also have a two megapixel depth: camera, which helps with close-up shots, portrait, mode, etc. On the front, you have a hole, punch camera here in the top left, which is 32 megapixels at a 2.0 aperture at the bottom. You have your speaker, your USB type-c input, your mic, your power button on the side here actually has this kind of, like bronze copper finish, so it gives that lovely sort of contrast from the actual green and just above it.

I don't know if you can make it out. You have your volume clickers as well. Sim card tray is on the left, no in-screen fingerprint sensor. You have a fingerprint sensor at the back of the phone here, so this is quite a big phone. Actually, I'm just seeing how it feels it's fine.

My finger can reach there, no problems. All in all this is one of the nicest looking phones without the screen being turned on because of this screen being turned on, can change the whole complexion of the phone, but from standby the phone just looks and feels super premium. This is a nice looking and nice feeling phone okay, let's turn it on. That's your HTC loading graphic and, of course this is a Taiwanese company and this is imported from Taiwan. So it's going to be all in Taiwanese, so I need to get this set up.

Obviously, in English, I need to put all my stuff onto it the apps and play with it just before I do that the bezels. Absolutely it's an IPS panel and IPS panels, don't usually have that real massive screen to body ratio. They tend to have quite big bezels, and this is no different. The chin is quite substantial and the bezels around the left right and top I've seen bigger. So it's not too much of a problem, but yeah.

There are some quite substantial bezels on this, but nothing that's making me good. Oh, that's horrid! I actually think it looks absolutely fine. Also, again, I have to mention this is an absolute whopper of a phone is massive. It feels a little similar size wise to the Samsung note 20 ultra, although I do believe that the note 20 ultra has a little less width, so this is thicker wider, so it just feels like an absolute beast of a phone in the hand, so make sure you got big pockets anyway. Let me get this set up and play around with it for the day, and I'll finish this video tomorrow, with my thoughts on it all right, everyone, I'm back so just before I get started with this part of the video I'd like to remind everyone that I am giving away a Xiaomi made kin2 pro, which, as you can see here, is actually one of the smallest, fully featured android phones on the market.

Not only that I'm giving away the telephone w3 now to stand a chance to win both of them. All you have to do is subscribe to my channel. That's it just subscribe before I get on to a breakdown of what I think of the screen, and everything like that. I want to just sort of like talk about a few problems that I've encountered. So this does use a sort of stock version of android, but, as you can see here by this little clock and the weather app at the top, those are trademark HTC widgets.

So there is HTC software refinement in here, and this software has encountered a few little glitches that has effectively soured my experience somewhat. Now I'm a big music guy. If you know my channel, you know that I love my music. I make music, I listen to music all the time and I have a Sonos multi-speaker system set up in my house now. Let me show you this.

I go to Sonos, okay, so all the speakers come up. I press play. You see that hang about. Let me choose a different track again. Do you see that, so saunas is just completely not working on here now? If anyone knows about sonos is pretty glitchy at most times, but I've only encountered this problem on the HTC u20 and without being able to control my music on this device on my multi-speaker system.

In my flat, it almost on a personal level renders this phone completely unusable to me. Okay, so an another problem that I've encountered. So if I load up a video press play, can you notice that these icons here for slow motion, forwarding, pausing, etc. ? All the YouTube control icons they haven't disappeared? I have to press the x to get rid of them. Okay, doesn't matter which video I choose so when I load up a new video every time that appears and that's really annoying, because every time a video comes up, I have to remove manually these icons and that's really kind of frustrating again.

This is only a problem. I've ever encountered on this phone now another problem which is really quite infuriating with this phone. This phone is massive, so there are taller phones, there are phones that are seven inches and beyond, but this is also really thick and wide, and even though this is not a curved screen or waterfall screen as they call it, this has potentially one of the worst cases of accidental palm touching ever, so you know if I'm reaching up here, you see, look, you see, you even saw it just there like the app slider drawer just appeared, so I might be watching a video. I might be in some sort of document, and I'm reaching up here to highlight something, and this part, and this part of my hand here it will touch, and it will trigger all sorts of things. It will either force out the app or bring up the app slider draw or just do loads of craziness.

So those are three problems that I've encountered in my last 24 hours with this phone, and normally you encounter some problems, but I have to tell you: those problems are pretty substantial um, and it completely ruins the experience for me, which is a massive shame, because actually this phone has a lot of going for it like a lot, and I really really really hope that HTC as unproductive as they are, do some software updates for this phone to eradicate those problems, because if they can eradicate these problems, this phone could be potentially a very good phone. Okay. Another thing I want to mention remember those headphones that I um had at the earlier in the unboxing. The headphones are actually very good. I have to say HTC alongside Samsung, always provide the best headphones out of any company.

Their headphones, always sound, excellent as good as the AKG ones that Samsung provide. Now that stereo speaker remember, I mentioned htc and their audio. Remember they originally purchased beats audio, and they incorporated their technology into their phones. Well, I can say that the audio is still great. The speaker is perfect.

Let me just play some music here and do you know those little Bluetooth speakers that you can get for 30 pounds or whatever, and you just connect it wirelessly five Bluetooth, so you can play your music a little of an acceptable volume, so you can enjoy it well. This bottom firing speaker on this one is actually that good that you don't even need one of them. It's a very good speaker. The headphones in the box are good, the speaker's perfect yep. I can safely say that the audio quality on this phone is excellent, and it has that classic HTC heritage of great audio.

Again, I have to mention the design I just love. This is really one of my favorite looking phones of the year. Okay, now the display, so the display is not that great, it's good, but it's in terms of IPS LCD panels. I have seen a lot better. For example, I currently have the word n10, which is also LCD, and that is a much better panel much sharper much brighter.

This one is actually quite dim and in bright sunlight you might struggle a little. It's also I mean bear in mind. This is a massive phone, so it's full HD, but full HD spread over such a large screen. You can sometimes see a little of pix elation um, it's not the sharpest of displays, but it's completely serviceable. You don't notice the 60hz refresh rate coming down from 90 hertz either I mean certainly you're not going to complain playing games with this or watching movies.

Furthermore, you know it supports full HD, I'm watching that batman, vs superman trailer. Just now it looked perfectly fine, let's load up a game and play it see how the performance is. So, as you can see, their asphalt rally looked absolutely fine rendered well performed. Well, the frame rate was good, no slow down the performance on this phone is good. The 765g is a completely perfectly acceptable, almost flagship level processor.

Now we check out his benchmark, so single core processor speed, 609 on geek bench, the multi-core score is 1735 and, as you can see here, that is roughly comparative to the old snapdragon 845, so basically flagship performance from about two three years ago now, in terms of the operating system, apart from those glitches that I experienced at the beginning, that I told you about, it runs nice and smooth, and it is a pretty much stock. Android experience. HTC have got rid of their suite of apps, their email, app and their calendar, and everything like that, and they're just using stock android versions. They didn't update those for years and years and years. So it's pretty much just as well that they got rid of them because they're extremely dated.

However, I am a little upset that they haven't even at least bothered to just update them, because I actually enjoy getting a new phone from a new manufacturer and using their particular versions of email, apps, calendars, etc. I love what OnePlus have done with their weather. App the Samsung email app is a fantastic equivalent to Gmail. It would have been nice if HTC just updated them, but yeah. This really is truly stock android, because there's not really any HTC customization tools or anything, that's individual.

To HTC I mean there is this quick launch menu that you have um, where you press it in the bottom right corner, and you have all of these quick access icons here. I haven't personally seen that before, so I don't know if that is unique to HTC it's the first time, I've ever seen it but yeah. This is a truly stock android experience, and that also translates to the camera app. You have obviously video photo 48 megapixel mode, so it doesn't default to that, so it actually bends it to 16 megapixels for standard photos' portrait mode night mode. Obviously it has a wide lens.

It has a macro lens panorama mode. All of this is neatly presented in the stock android camera app now, as for the camera, so I've not really pulled it through its full paces. Yet let me just flash up a few examples on the screen. Now what I've experienced with this camera potentially says to me that this camera is very good. Now I took the same pictures with the word n10 and the HTC u20 completely blitzed the quality of the 10.

, much better color accuracy, much better sharpness. The night mode photos are way better. Now, I'm looking forward to actually doing a comprehensive camera test, because I'm expecting this camera to be very good. Don't forget. Google bought out pretty much all of HTC's research and development team, and they did it for a reason.

The excellent camera you know and Google has amazing camera technology HTC still understand how to make a good camera so make sure you subscribe for the full camera review, because I think it's going to be very interesting. Okay and that's it that's my unboxing for this phone. I hope you enjoyed it. I will summarize my 24-hour experience with it. This phone clearly has exceptional audio, a potentially very good camera.

It looks fantastic well all of that doesn't matter if all of these software glitches still persist, so I'm really upset about those software glitches. I really hope software update comes, and it can sort them out, because that can literally define this phone. This phone could be a very good phone, but with all of them software problems, it makes it an average phone- and that's really sad, so I'm praying that HTC can sort that out. But if you can overlook those problems me personally, I can't, but this is potentially a very good phone. Like I say, excellent camera in the making audio quality is sensational.

It looks absolutely boss. There are a few things that are not the best. Obviously the display is pretty average doesn't have a flagship processor and for the original price of 700 pounds that's way too expensive. So I'm glad that you can get it for a lot cheaper when I compare it to phones that are roughly around the 400 pound mark other than the pixel range camera performance and audio performance is a lot better than a lot of them. So if they can get those software problems sorted, then this is probably one of the top five, maybe top three phones in that price range, but make sure you subscribe for the full review, because I'm going to be using this phone for the next couple of weeks, and maybe my thoughts will change on a few things.

Hopefully the software problems will be sorted and everything that I said about it, I'll take back, so the full review will come soon. I hope you enjoyed this video subscribe like comment. This is jams from namespace I'll, see you for the next one I'll see you later.

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