HTC’s first 5G smartphone is packing a big 5,000mAh battery

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  The HTC U20 5G. [credit: HTC ]

HTC still exists! The company has somehow scraped together enough cash and resources to release two new smartphones. The HTC U20 5G and HTC Desire 20 Pro were announced today, with the U20 5G being the company's first 5G smartphone.

The U20 5G is the most interesting device, a Snapdragon 765G phone that runs NT$18,990 (~$640). If you can't tell from the currency, the phone is going up for pre-order in HTC's home country of Taiwan first, on July 1, with the company promising availability in "other markets" in the future.

On the front, we've got a generic-looking design with a hole-punch camera in the top-left corner, a 6.8-inch, 2400*1080 display, and a bit of a chin on the bottom of the phone. The display is actually an LCD, which means that instead of the usual in-screen fingerprint reader, you get an old-school capacitive reader on the back. In-screen fingerprint readers usually live under OLED displays, which are translucent. It's not impossible to put an in-screen fingerprint reader in an LCD, but there are no commercial solutions on the market yet. Also on the back are four cameras, a 48MP main camera, an 8MP wide-angle camera, a 2MP depth cam, and a 2MP macro lens.

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