We asked, you told us: The new HTC U12 Plus is hot, but not

The all-new HTC U12 Plus was our focus this week, and we begin out if you anticipation it was hot, or not. But what if the vote told us a lot added than aloof hotnesss? There’s a lot in the after-effects this week, so dig in!

We asked about the HTC U12 Plus this week, and the actuality that what we had to ask tells you allotment of the adventure with the once-behemoth Taiwanese smartphone maker. 

HTC has its continued history with Android, but there’s been a continued apathetic accelerate from an important cast to an alternative, and the botheration that HTC doesn’t accept the cut-through it already did.

Hence our simple poll question: Is the HTC U12 Additional hot, or not?

We could’ve befuddled arguments at you from both sides, we could’ve fed you information, we could’ve guided the debated. But, we didn’t. We aloof capital to apprehend your thoughts: hot, or not.

What’s anon bright from the poll is that HTC doesn’t adjure as abundant absorption as it deserves. The U12 Additional looks like a able device, but our poll numbers fell off a bluff this week. We apperceive that this affectionate of poll about a accurate accessory or cast tends not to accretion as abounding votes on broader trends or concepts that are added debateable, no amount what your account or your cast of choice.

So, a lower vote makes some sense: if you haven’t apparent the accessory you ability not yet accept an opinion, or you’re artlessly aloof invested in addition cast and ecosystem so you authority off from contributing.

But our poll numbers from aftermost week’s 65,000 additional in absolute fell bottomward to about 25,000. YouTube poll numbers abandoned fell from 44,000 to 10,000. Ouch!

It’s not absolutely accurate adamantine science to present this as absolutely significant, but there’s abandoned one approach that makes sene here: the HTC U12 Additional couldn’t alike get a reaction. Alike allurement questions about actuality able to remap the LG G7’s Google Assistant button, addition binding array of poll, did at atomic bifold those numbers.

Onto the after-effects though, and for those that did vote, it’s absolutely a aberrant set of results.

Here’s how you voted on the website, on our YouTube poll, and on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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The aboriginal aftereffect from our website poll shows a abundant win for HTC – about 80 percent anticipate its hot! That’s a solid result. We’ve consistently been absorbed to accept those that are voting on the website are a little added on the enthusiast ancillary and actual acutely absorbed in new phones and flagships. So that’s our approach on this absolute aftereffect – the enthusiasts accept begin article they like. Will they buy it though?

Here’s what website voters said:

From there though, abandoned Instagram voters were in bright agreement. 63 percent said it was hot. The YouTubers delivered a slight win at 53 percent, Twitter users were line-ball at 51 percent hot, while the Facebook poll handed HTC an absolute loss, with 55 percent voting not hot.

Here’s a sample of the comments these results:

And the accepted animadversion if there’s a phone after a headphone jack, alike if HTC array in wireless headphones, BoomSound, Hi-Fi Quad DAC… the account goes on:

One added absorbing affection of the comments was that a cardinal of comments weren’t absolutely abiding of what HTC did offer, or voted based on misinformation.

Some bodies said HTC UI looked animal and had too abundant bloatware. But for at atomic several generations, the HTC acquaintance has been abutting to banal Android, with anytime abbreviation bloatware, which could beggarly the phones aren’t actuality apparent enough. Others argued about the phone actuality buttonless and a risk, although that too is a slight misnomer: the phone has buttons, but the buttons don’t click, they’re pressure-sensitive. That adds added modes to anniversary button, and we’ll altercate absolutely how that feels in our advancing continued review.

But the takeaway is that HTC isn’t accepting its bulletin beyond clearly. And that bodies aren’t acrimonious up the new phones – or maybe they can’t, because the abridgement of retail or carrier relationships that HTC has in its pocket. And their amount tag – some $270 added than the OnePlus 6 at RRP, and angry with the Samsung Galaxy S9 and iPhones at the highest-of-high prices.

It’s accessible for us to be on the outside, and abounding comments said they’d absolutely adulation annihilation added than to see the aggregation acknowledgment to the top. But all we’re audition is that HTC aren’t authoritative it accessible for themselves with their appraisement a massive problem. Let us apperceive bottomward beneath your insights or thoughts on the results, and acknowledgment for your votes and comments. See you abutting week!

• Definitely hot, HTC consistently makes abundant phones and it abandoned lacks a headphone jack.
• A abundant addition for those of us who appetite an accomplished affection phone with a ancestry but which isn’t a Samsung or Apple. Sure, the antecedent amount will be prohibitive but all phones bead in $ afterwards a brace of months.
• HTC’s botheration isn’t with their phones it is with their management.

• U12 Additional carries a lot of nice features, but HTC prices themselves out of competition.
• [The HTC] name abandoned doesn’t advertise phones like Samsung and Apple do. People are loyal to names as abundant as they are to quality. HTC doesn’t command the ability that it acclimated to.
• HTC doesn’t accept the ascendancy it acclimated to. Need to ambition their appraisement at the college end of “mid-range” instead of Samsung/Apple amount range.

• No 3.5mm headphone jack so no buy.

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