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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. You’ll most probably grow tired of being hounded to get the appropriate distance from your subject by the camera app and forget all about the mode after a few attempts.
In general shooting, the HTC U12 Life camera has its highs and its lows. On the one hand, I found myself impressed with the vividness of certain shots taken in optimal conditions, such as a food snap taken at an outdoor table on a sunny day, or a close-up shot of my partner at a well-lit coffee shop. At other times the results I got were rather less stellar, such as the noisy, poorly-focused mess of an indoors shot taken in less than optimal (but far from dark) lighting conditions.
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The HDR mode, meanwhile, needs to be manually activated and is a little heavy-handed when it comes to brightening up shady corners. This isn’t a flagship feature any longer (though the HTC U12 Plus features a slightly iffy auto-HDR mode), so I’m not sure why the execution is so rudimentary here. Around front, you get a 13-megapixel selfie cam. Which sounds impressive and indeed it’s capable of capturing some sharp images in strong lighting.
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In anything less than that, though, it’s just as noisy as the 5-megapixel alternatives found in much cheaper phones. This food shot looks good enough to eat, if it is a little dim An okay shot but those overexposed white elements are crying out to be reined in There’s no auto-HDR mode, which is a little strange at this price HDR mode can be a little aggressive when it comes to brightening up darker areas The HTC U12 Life really struggles with noise and focus in lesser lighting conditions HTC U12 Life – Battery Life If I were to praise one element of the HTC U12 Life as being outstanding, it would be its battery life. And by that I mean it’s the one component that performs comfortably above average.
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You could conceivably attain the longed-for two-day battery life if you’re a light user. During one particularly quiet spell where I only used the U12 Life for the bare essentials (a few calls, text messages, social media checks and a little web browsing), I managed just that. No sophisticated power-saving tricks appear to have been played to get these results.
HTC has simply packed the U12 Life with a larger-than-average 3600 mAh battery, which combines well with that power-sipping Snapdragon 636 CPU. When you apply some pressure to that battery, though, it’ll drop just like the rest. A 15-minute spell of Guns of Boom, set to 30fps, with screen brightness at half, sapped 5% of the U12 Life’s juice. That’s towards the better end of the scale but it’s far from exceptional.
If stamina is particularly important to you – more so than fancy camera tricks or super-fast performance – then the HTC U12 Life does enough to enter contention. Why buy the HTC U12 Life? Contrary to its name, the HTC U12 Life is a wholly different kettle of fish to the HTC U12 Plus.
It looks, feels, and performs at a modest level befitting its mid-range price tag, and it’s difficult to pick fault with that. But while the overall experience lacks the troughs of its big brother, it also lacks the peaks. It’s a slightly bland phone with mediocre performance and an unimpressive camera. Battery life is a strong point here, however.
If you have £300 to spend and stamina is more important than anything else, it may be the ideal phone for you. Verdict A phone with far more modest expectations than its big brother, but at least it meets them.
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