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There’s a colour temperature slider in the settings menu should you wish to make things a little warmer or cooler to your tastes. I also found the default auto-brightness setting to be accomplished, neither dazzling me in low light nor undercooking things in bright outdoor conditions. You might be surprised how many otherwise accomplished phones fail to get this right. HTC U12 Life – Performance As with much of the rest of the HTC U12 Life, its performance is good enough. It packs a Snapdragon 636 CPU, which is one of Qualcomm’s current mid-range chips. I would have preferred to have seen the more capable Snapdragon 660 in here, having been so impressed with its performance in the Xiaomi Mi A2 (which can be had for significantly less money than the U12 Life, incidentally).
But as the Snapdragon 636 seems to be a far more commonly used chip, it would be unfair to be too critical of HTC’s decision. The Nokia 7.1 mentioned earlier uses the very same processor, for example. Besides, everything moves along at a decent clip as it is. The phone wakes up promptly through the fingerprint sensor, the camera app responds well enough with a double press of the power button, and home screen navigation is stutter-free. Advanced tasks like high-end 3D gaming will tax this processor a little more, particularly PUBG Mobile, Asphalt 9, and Guns of Boom with the 60fps setting engaged.
But all are perfectly playable. Indeed, they play very well on that large notch-free display. Benchmark tests bear this perception of solid but unspectacular performance out, with an average Geekbench 4 multicore score of 4884 and a single-core score of 1341. It’s got much less high-end potential than the Honor Play, though, and it even falls short of the cheaper Honor 8X, which scored 5313 and 1412 in the same Geekbench test.
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HTC U12 Life – Software In the early days of Android, HTC’s Sense UI used to be an example of how a heavily modified skin could improve the experience. As Google’s stock OS has gotten neater and more accomplished, however, HTC’s level of software tinkering has diminished in all respects. It’s still very much in evidence, though. HTC’s stock clock and weather widget will feel warmly familiar to longstanding fans of the Taiwanese manufacturer’s work.
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Related: Best Android phone Scrolling left from the home screen, meanwhile, will bring up the Highlights screen, which is more commonly known as BlinkFeed. This pulls together key stories and videos from your Facebook and YouTube feeds, among other sources. In truth, it’s feeling a little dated these days and the sheer number and size of the ads in it is particularly off-putting. It’s not even as useful as it used to be, now that there’s no s-collating element to it. I would have much preferred the option of having Google’s own feed in here, as it is on many other Android phones. Elsewhere, HTC’s Themes app lets you customise the look of your home screen to a fairly extensive degree.
This isn’t the unique feature it used to be either, with the likes of Huawei and Xiaomi offering similar customisation hubs in recent years. It also can’t be denied that many of the alternative skins available through this digital shop front are just plain tacky. But it’s easy enough to ignore if you don’t like it. Related: Android 9.0 Pie review Cosmetics aside, HTC Sense provides a reasonably fluid experience with its Android 8.1 Oreo underpinnings. No, it’s not the super-slick and stylish Android One experience of the Xiaomi Mi A2 and the Motorola One but it’s good enough.
There’s that phrase again. HTC U12 Life – Camera HTC has equipped the U12 Life with a promising-looking dual-camera setup, which incorporates a 16-megapixel main shooter and a 5-megapixel depth-sensing assistant. The two combine to produce the kind of portrait shots we’ve grown accustomed to in the Android mid-range throughout 2018. That is, quite clever for a quick initial play-around, but slightly fiddly to execute and with inconsistent results.
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