HTC to unveil squeezable smartphone on May 16

NEW YORK: Taiwanese consumer electronics company HTC has announced that its next flagship squeezable smartphone called 'HTC U' will be officially unveiled on May 16.

The company has also tweeted on its official Twitter account that reads "Squeeze for the Brilliant U. 05.16.2017 http://www.htc.com/launch."

Squeeze for the Brilliant U. 05.16.2017 https://t.co/89OuHXbBlt pic.twitter.com/jLaeFD2wMW

— HTC (@htc) April 20, 2017

"The device is rumoured fo sport 'Edge Sense' technology that lets users control many features with gestures that users will perform on the device's metal frame," GSMArena.com reported on Friday. 

'HTC U' is expected to come with 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 display, a Snapdragon 835 processor, 12MP rear and 16MP front-facing cameras and Android Nougat 7.1.