Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC announced the U-Play and the U-Ultra at the start of this year. However, unlike predicted earlier, the company didn’t use the Snapdragon 835 chipset underneath these devices and instead decided to go with a Snapdragon 821 and Helio P10 chipset on the U-Play and the U-Ultra respectively. Now, it is believed that HTC might launch the HTC U, which is codenamed Ocean, with the Snapdragon 835 processor and Sense 9 user interface on top of it. The smartphone is expected to launch somewhere between mid-to-late April.
The new Sense 9 UI will be based on Android 7.1 Nougat and will come with new customizations and tweaks. In addition to this, the phone will have frame-embedded sensors known as Edge Sense that will allow users to perform actions such as opening apps with simple gestures.
