HTC opens up the U11’s squeeze gimmick to user customizations
HTC’s U11 is one of our favorite phones of the year, owing to its fine balance of performance, battery life, design, and camera capabilities. The one truly unique thing that HTC added to it, though — the Edge Sense function that lets you do things with the phone by squeezing its sides — has never risen to be anything more than a gimmicky way to activate the camera. HTC is now hoping to rectify that by rolling out a beta update to Edge Sense, which will be distributed to users on Thursday night via the Play Store, and which I’ve been able to test in advance.
The primary thing that the expanded Edge Sense controls allow is for you to set up your own per-app squeeze actions. You go into the Edge Sense controls, select the option to add a...