[HTC U20 5G Questions & Answers] Magimix^:
Yesterday I received my Black U20 5G (2Q9F100) from a Taiwanese eBay seller. Fortunately I had a great experience from beginning to end as it was a lot of money to put through PayPal and with global shipping the way it currently is due to COVID, I was almost holding my breath until its arrival. It took about 2 weeks to arrive in the UK which surpassed my expectations so I am pleased. I ordered a standard gel protective case from Amazon in advance for 5 GBP.

I note when compared to the square white boxes the 10, U11 & U12+ had HTC are now aping the rectangular box iPhone packaging. That's not a criticism just an observation :) and the U20's packaging looks quite cool. For me, once I got the phone out most of the accessories will remain in their shrink-wrap.

The handset itself is thankfully precisely what I want it to be; a quality item that feels like logical continuation of the HTC lineage. I was coming from 2 years of owning a U12+ 64GB handset and I would agree with many observations of the first post here. My U12+ was a great phone but the haptic buttons and lack of software care from HTC put a slightly downer on the overall ownership experience. The camera however was one of the best I've ever used and the U20 5G certainly has big shoes to fill in that regard. Some of the shots I got with my U12+ over the years are worth framing, and indeed some have been :)

Upon setup, the U20 took my UK nano-SIM and 1TB Sandisk microSD card without issue... an important first step I think we can all agree. Then once I had my Google account registered their Backup feature sucked everything down from the cloud and installed my apps inside 20 minutes or so. So far, so good. I ran through any outstanding updates and numerous reboots of which there were about 4 in total. This brought Android 10 up to November 5, 2020 security patch level which was fantastic to see... given how neglected the U12+ Android 9 had been throughout the years.

One of the main uses of my phone is for me to listen to my extensive FLAC music collection on the move hence the large microSD card... so it took me an overnighter to transfer about 800GB of files which again was pretty quick. Using foobar2000 and once I'd tweaked the EQ it all sounded just as good as my U12+. Fantastic.

Basically, I'm pretty pleased so far. Running the handset in English (US) is no big deal as I can default Gboard to English (UK). I notice Android 10 has done away with the face unlock feature but again, not a huge deal... happy with the fingerprint.

I have yet to really put the camera through its paces as we're in the middle of a few grey and dark days here in the UK due to autumn. I am hoping for a sunny blue sky day when I will take it to the park and do some landscape + close up shots of trees. As mentioned, the U12+ was the best phone I ever had for camera shots so I am expecting great things of the U20. I can see it has a "48 MP" mode alongside the standard Photo mode.

Based on what I have seen I hope HTC give this handset a chance in other overseas markets. I'm sure I'll be a happy owner for a few years yet but it feels weird I can't buy it in my own country! :p