HTC unveiled the HTC U Ultra flagship back in January. Well it’s March now and if you have placed a pre-order for the device then you’ll be happy to know that the HTC U Ultra is finally ready to ship out to consumers in the US.
On March 7, HTC announced on Twitter that shipments have already started going out to members of the HTC Elevate community. However, general shipments will kick start on March 10, 2017.
Happy to report that @HTCelevate U Ultra pre-orders are now shipping. General shipments begin this Thursday. Taking care of our fans first!
— HTC USA (@HTCUSA) March 7, 2017
Customers in the US can currently purchase the phone in three coloring options including Sapphire Blue, Brilliant Black and Ice White. Shipping is free if you agree to the standard option.
The HTC U Ultra is offered unlocked but is compatible with GSM/LITE providers such as T-Mobile and AT&T. However, subscribers of Verizon or Sprint won’t be able to use the unlocked model.
The phone is available for a pretty hefty $749 price tag. For this amount of money, you’ll be getting a device with a 5.7-inch display with QHD resolution plus a secondary 2.05-inch display with 160 x 1040 resolution.
The flagship is powered by a Snapdragon 821 processor which works hand in hand with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD card up to 256GB). The HTC U Ultra features the same 12MP camera that lives on the Google Pixel, although the software is quite different. It also has a 16MP secondary selfie camera.
The HTC U Ultra ships with HTC’s new Sense Companion digital assistant and Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box. You’ll also get a pair of free high-quality headphones plus HTC UH OH Protection which offers one-time replacement for broken screens or water damage.
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for adults, the allure of sitting down and quietly & simply filling in intricate drawings with a myriad of colored pencils is at an all-time high. No goal or objectives to hit, this form of informal art therapy is ringing true with thousands if not millions of over-worked, over-stressed adults.
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The overall experienced was mixed to disappointing for me, for several reasons. The first is that you don’t fully “color” like you would on paper. Instead you just tap each white space and the color fills in automatically. This takes away from the ‘focus’ feeling you can get with a more traditional pencil & paper (or with other apps that let you manually fill the colors in). It makes it rather easy to reduce the satisfaction of the app, I tended to start “mailing it in”.
take this as a good thing; I believe some kind of background music would just be distracting. The developer got this right; there are far too many “relaxing” apps that put such focus on intrusive zen-style background music.
The ZTE Blade V8 Mini and ZTE Blade V8 Lite are watered down versions of the ZTE Blade V8 Pro. They bring forth smaller displays but less impressive resolution. So if you’re looking for an upper mid-ranger, the Blade V8 Pro is certainly the model to consider. However, for regular use the screens of the Blade V8 Mini and Blade V8 Lite should be more than enough.
Naturally, the Blade V8 Pro is going to be the most responsive of the three, as it relies on a Snapdragon 625 – an octa-core 2.0GHz Cortex-A53 affair. As for the Blade V8 Mini it features a Snapdragon 435 which is a octa-core 1.4GHz Cortex-A53 chipset, while the MediaTek MT6750 inside the Blade V8 Lite is an octa-core 1.5GHz Cortex-A53 construct.
The Blade V8 Pro can be considered a remarkable device especially because it offers a dual camera setup on the cheap. But ZTE has just lowered the price bar for dual camera phones with the Blade V8 Mini.
The newest ZTE Blade V8 phones come with Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box, while the Blade V8 Pro ships out with Android 6.0 Marshmallow (a shame really, for a device launched in 2017). We don’t know whether the phone will get Android 7.0 Nougat in the future or not, but we certainly hope this will be the case.
The Blade V8 Pro is known for having a great battery life cycle and with Android 7.0 Nougat onboard, it might get even better in the future. As for the two new Blade V8 models, we expect them to last quite a lot, given that they feature low-res displays, less power hungry processors and the new Android onboard. All phones have non-removable batteries.
The Blade V8 Pro is currently available for $229 on 
The device also rocks a 13MP main camera with auto-focus plus a 5MP selfie snapper. Keeping the lights on is a 2,100 mAh battery. The phone ships out with Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.
We’ll also have to note that the FreedomPop V7 has a dual-SIM card slot which isn’t restricted to FreedomPop’s offerings. So you are free (Freedom right?) to use another SIM card with the phone.
According to the current source, the Nokia flagship will feature one camera sensor of 23MP variety and either 4GB or 6GB of RAM. There’s going to be two variants, one coming with a smaller display and one with a more spacious, accommodating one – kind of like the Pixel and Pixel XL or Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+. And the entry-level model might end up selling for approximately $580, while the more advanced version will bear a $650 price-tag.
The device comes equipped with a frontal (huge) and back 13MP wide-angle fisheye lenses. The device works by capturing images from both cameras and then stitching them together with 0.02 seconds for real-time viewing experience.
The Darling is also a pretty luxurious device – it’s apparently made of 3.09 grams of “pure gold” and features four diamonds on the front panel.
Anyway, the ProTruly Darling has a 5.5-inch display with 1920 x 1080 resolution. The phone is unusually tall due to the big fisheye sensors locates on the front and back, so it might feel quite awkward when you hold it in hand.
For those of you who are wondering, this strange device is more than a prototype. ProTruly plans to make the phone available in in China by the end of November. Although we don’t know if the Darling will be offered in other markets as well.
The Darling comes in two variants – the gold one with diamonds and a fingerprint sensor located on the back which should go on sale for approximately $1,300 (ouch) and a standard one without all the fancy attire which should carry a more “affordable” $600 price tag. Note, the lower-end version has a fingerprint scanner located in the physical Home button.
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