HTC's newest phone is gorgeous, squeezable, and will have Amazon's Alexa assistant built in

• It’s also a fingerprint magnet. Seriously, the mere thought of touching this phone is likely to smudge it. It’s likely to be slippery, too.

• The phone is IP67 water-resistant. That’s table stakes today, but the HTC 10 didn't have it.

• If you’re wondering about the name: HTC recently switched its top-end phones to the “U” branding — seen with this year’s HTC U Ultra, for instance — but this phone is the successor to last year’s hero device, the HTC 10. So HTC mashed the two names together: U 11.

• There’s no headphone jack, which is still annoying. The U 11 isn't the thinnest phone around, so ditching the jack isn't saving that much space. And keeping it wouldn't preclude you from using Bluetooth or USB-C. The U Ultra didn’t have it either, though, so at least HTC is consistent. And there is a 3.5mm dongle in the box.