HTC teases new Edge Sense features for its squeezable U11 smartphone

HTC U11 Logo

It’s time when all companies are launching many smartphone with many effective features. And people prefer many features and facility in smartphone. So, company apply maximum effort on making of smartphone and prepare new features.

We also thought and get few mobile manufactures just cannot win this race. For playing it safe they often criticized but when they venture off the beaten track, so the results are often derided as ‘gimmicky’. They are using a stick to try Moto Mods, also used LG’s modular G5.

Recently, Taiwanese Technology Company has launched HTC U11 smartphone. That provides fully latest new feature for users apps and also executes other actions by squeezing the device’s pressure sensitive frame.

HTC U11 Logo

Now, U11 has the features which supports only limited apps and that features is called Edge Sense. Recently company is working hard to develop that features for more apps. For the smartphone, Edge sense works another method of input that have to find you fed up with the terribly cumbersome touchscreen and buttons. Company provides an easy way feature of touted to do things such as open Google Assistant, Snap Photos, etc. This all can be handled by squeezing the pressure sensitive areas around the phone’s edges.

How to do Enable Edge Sense ?

Step – 1 :- Open the Setting in your mobile. And then click on the Edge Sense option in the Setting.

Edge Sense

Step – 2 :- Then open the new page and also click on the Customize short squeeze action or Customize squeeze & hold action.

Enable Edge Sense

Step – 3 :- Then you can also choose the Launch app. Now, you can do the squeeze.

Features :

  • U11 smartphones provide the features to zoom in to Google Maps and Google Photos by squeezing the size bezels.
  • It also provides the facility to change the Google Calendar switch between the week and the month view using squeeze gesture in the smartphone.
  • Edge sense will soon enable users to answer and hang up calls.
  • You can also dismiss alarm and you can easily pause or play YouTube videos using the same squeeze gesture.

When these features will be incorporated into the HTC U11 then there are no words available to describe. But the firm says they are all “on the roadmap”.

HTC U11 comes with 8 sensors on the size bezels to register the squeezes. These sensors are integrated with the ‘Edge Sense’. The feature can be customized inside the settings.

Edge Sense does have a distinctly gimmicky feeling when it comes to pints of difference for a mobile, which must be said. Don’t made more changes these newly feature but then again, are it may be something that could become intuitive and practical the more you squeeze? That can also check out through the video.

It will provide another features such as, 6GB RAM version of the mobile has 128GB storage. In US and UK the Company has launched the 4GB RAM. HTC U11 also supports microSD card up to 2TB.

Also the mobile has a 5.5 inch QHD (2560*1440 pixels), Super LED display with corning Gorilla Glass 5 coating. The phone powered by octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor along with 6GB RAM.

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