HTC U Ultra is now available in India for Rs 59,990; sports 5.7-inch display, Snapdragon 821 SoC

Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC launched the HTC U Ultra and HTC U Play smartphones last month. Today the company has made the U Ultra available in the Indian market for Rs 59,990.

The smartphone features a 5.7-inch Super LCD 5 screen with a QHD resolution. Above it is a second, 2-inch screen with a resolution of 160×1040, which will be used to show contacts, reminders, music controls, etc.

The internals are made up of a Snapdragon 821, 4GB of RAM and either 64GB or 128GB of onboard storage. MicroSD cards up to 2TB in size can be used to expand the storage.

The 64GB variant will come with Gorilla Glass 5 protection while the 128GB version will come with Sapphire glass. Sapphire glass is found over the fingerprint sensors on the iPhone and also on the Apple Watch. While it is more scratch resistant than normal glass, sapphire glass is also more brittle.

The rear camera is a 12MP UltraPixel 2 sensor that’s very similar to the one on HTC’s previous flagship, the HTC 10. The front camera, strangely enough, is a 16MP unit with a 4MP UltraPixel mode.

The rear camera can record slow-motion video up to 120fps at 720p. It can also record 4K video with “3D Audio” and “Hi-res audio”. The 3D Audio recording occurs via 4 microphones on the device while Hi-res audio is only limited to stereo recording.

The phone draws power from a rather underwhelming 3,000 mAh battery.

Connectivity comes in the form of USB 3.1 Gen 1 over a Type-C port, Bluetooth 4.2, dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac and NFC.