HTC 11 LEAKS!!!!

HTC 11

HTC 11 Design,Specs , Hardware and Price

A bunch of new leaks in April have revealed all kinds of new and tantalising information about HTC's next flagship. First and foremost is the handset's name; as it turns out it might not be called the HTC 11 at all, instead the HTC U brand the firm already established with the HTC U Ultra may reappear, with the flagship model now being rumoured as simply the HTC U. The word comes via Evan Blass, who has also revealed images of the device; official-looking press renders no less.

From the images we can see the phone is completely button-less and has no 3.5mm headphone jack, indicating that HTC is keen to streamline this handset into a sleek slab of metal. 

Specs have also leaked, revealing a 5.5in display with a 1440 x 2560 pixel resolution and covered in Gorilla Glass 5. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 CPU is still tipped together with an Adreno 540 GPU.

Likewise we're allegedly looking at variously 4GB/6GB of RAM and 64GB/128GB of storage. A 3,000mAh battery is mentioned, with Quick Charge, and  there's a fingerprint scanner in the Home key, which appears to be the only button. Although the 3.5mm headphone jack is gone, the phone has a Type-C USB port and there's HTC's signature dual-stereo speaker arrangement.

One really interesting thing is the phone's frame, which is allegedly pressure-sensitive and will allow users to activate certain features with either soft or hard squeezes at different points on the edges; things like opening the camera or activating Google Assistant. A couple of other tipped features include so-called USonic tech which enables a user to plug an analogue headphone into the Type-C USB port and create a customised audio profile tailored to their inner-ear. HTC Sense Link is also tipped to allow you to see mobile notifications on your PC.

Another leak for the HTC 11 has emerged, with a screenshot of the phone's display showing the device's "About Phone" screen in Android naming it as the HTC 11. The image show the handset has 6GB RAM and reiterates the earlier rumour of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835. The claim of 6GB RAM contradicts earlier rumours of 8GB RAM, though it's plausible, if somewhat unlikely, that there may be multiple RAM variants.

Other key specs are also revealed, including a new Sense 9.0 UI overlay on top of Android "7.12" Nougat, 128GB of onboard storage, and a slightly odd 1556x2550 pixel resolution on the display. Could the display resolution mean that, like Samsung and LG, HTC is adopting an 18:9 aspect ratio for 4K multimedia? We should point out that we've not heard of a 7.12 build for Nougat before, so that's a little suspicious.

Qualcomm Quick Charge 4.0 tech is also on-board, allegedly. For memory there is a massive 8GB of RAM tipped, alongside 256GB of storage, considering 128GB storage and 6GB of RAM is yet to become the norm across the Android space this is the one set of specs that smells slightly off, but then again it's not outside the realms of possibility either, so we'll give it a pass for now.

And Qualcomm's next-generation chipset, which will be built by Samsung, is shaping up to be quite the monster as well.

"Qualcomm sort of announced the Snapdragon 835 last month but without going into specifics - Samsung will manufacture it on a 10nm process and it'll feature QuickCharge 4.0, that's about it. Good thing there's GFXBench to shed some light on the insides of the SoC," reports GSM Arena.

It added: "For one, it packs an octa-core CPU, clocked at up to 2.2GHz. The current Snapdragon 821 has half the number of cores, 2 of them clocked at 2.35GHz, the other 2 capped at 2.2GHz. We can only imagine what a beast the future chip would be with 8 Kryo cores."

The imaging hardware is claimed to include a 12MP primary and an 8MP front-facing secondary, the render supplied with the specs seems to show the rear setup has a dual-lens, but this is not confirmed by the spec sheet, so we just don't know for sure at this stage, feasibly it could be a different type of sensor or module, but at the same time, dual-lenses are all the rage.

Lastly, we're supposedly looking at a 3,700mAh battery cell, which is pretty hefty to say the least.