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HTC's mobile division is underperforming. The button less design of the HTC U12 Plus has failed, and poor sales often lead to layoffs. The innovative Android pioneer is always on call and needs everyone's praise. We were thrilled by last year's HTC U11 Life, which brought the flagship brother's features to a more affordable package, but the HTC U12 Life is a completely different beast.

The mid-end deal is 300 euros in the UK and 350 euros in Europe, but there are no official publications in the United States. It has nothing to do with U12 Plus, which may be a good thing. With its interesting stripe design, large screen and battery, and attractive price, can U12 Life break a fraction of the increasingly competitive mid-market? We think it does, but it must beat competitors like Nokia 7.1 and Motorola One.

Design:

As manufacturers continue to wage war against the baffle, the HTC has lagged slightly and resisted the notches and retention edges above and below the screen. U12 Life has a nice relationship between the screen and the case. Its 6-inch display occupies nearly 80% of the front. The front bezel also has a front speaker and the left side is a self-timer camera. Reversing U12 life makes things even more interesting, as the universal facade gives way to a shiny plastic design called HTC Acrylic. Our test equipment is purple, but it is also blue. There is a two-tone pattern, a bit like Google's pixel phone, a glossy top, a dual-lens camera module on the top left, and a fingerprint sensor in the middle.

The striking stripe texture finish covers the bottom two-thirds of U12 Life. It makes the phone easier to grip, even if it doesn't extend on the side, but the main advantage is that it doesn't show any fingerprints and stains, just like the shiny upper part. On the left, you will find the SIM card slot available for the Micro SD card. On the right is a volume rocker with a structured on/off switch. The bottom edge is the USB-C port and the low volume speaker. In the form of a 3.5mm audio jack, HTC did not offer surprises in recent phones.

The design is nice, but in mid-range and even budget, phones have skyrocketed over the past year and often reflect the glass designs and notched displays of their more expensive contemporaries. We believe that there are more eye-catching and expensive cell phones in this price range - for example the Nokia 7.1.

SOLID PERFORMANCE WITH SOME SOFTWARE STUTTERS:

If you look at the benchmarks, the U12 Life is actually a little bit, but in real life there were occasionally problems with slow loading and jerking, especially in the camera app. (The AnTuTu benchmark is missing because the app cannot be installed on our device.) The HTC U12 Life is generally fast and responsive. Most of the time, U12 Life has served us well. We played games like Project High-Rise and Asphalt 9 without any problems. Internet surfing went smoothly. However, there were occasional delays in loading and unloading apps.

On the HTC U12 Life Android 8.1 Oreo runs with the Sense user interface of HTC, Swipe from left to right to receive the Blink Feed, HTC's Aggregated News Feed, and Touch Pal is also installed as a standard keyboard. There are several types of designs that you can choose from when you want to customize your home screens. We find the HTC software a bit spicy, with a few too many notifications and suggestions and some unnecessary pre installed apps.

CAMERA:

The HTC U12 Life features a dual-lens main camera that combines a 12-megapixel main lens with 1:2.0 apertures and a 5-megapixel secondary lens. This combination allows for a decent bokeh effect with blurry backgrounds for portraiture. When using the camera with the automatic settings, we found that it made decent photos in good lighting conditions. However, the quality deteriorated rapidly as the light began to fade. Movement tends to blur something.

HDR is disabled by default. As soon as you turn on the camera, the recording will be relatively slow and the processing very slow. We actually thought it was frozen because it took so long to process a shot. We usually suggest that HDR should always be on, but it's not just the slow processing that you have to worry about here.