Samsung Galaxy S2 vs HTC Sensation

rapid64k · 23 May 2011 at 00:25

Any joy Khaaan? if not do you know of a better clock?

mrk · 23 May 2011 at 00:27

How do you mean the only thing is the camera in the GS IIs favour? The SAMOLED+ screen, slimness, lightweightness, higher specs and modding aren't worth mentioning?

rapid64k said:
What might that be Khaaan?
The world clock cant seem to find countries that the HTC model found, but what have you found out ?

Isn't that -4 hours time difference? in which case click the globe button which loads a 3D Globe like Google Earth and look for a neighbouring city as the clock lists most major cities by the looks of it just to cover the time zone regions?

As for the alarm, it has some advanced Snooze and Smart Alarm features with individual tones/timeouts and repeats. Something the Sense alarm clock doesn't have.

rapid64k · 23 May 2011 at 00:30

See HTC had all that covered but thats only one plus point. I ordered that case that you posted.

manoz · 23 May 2011 at 00:30

Khaaan! said:
As for the alarm, it has some advanced Snooze and Smart Alarm features with individual tones/timeouts and repeats. Something the Sense alarm clock doesn't have.

I like the feature in my orange san francisco that makes you draw a pattern of dots in order to snooze or dismiss. Wish the GS2 had it.

mrk · 23 May 2011 at 00:36

manoz said:
I like the feature in my orange san francisco that makes you draw a pattern of dots in order to snooze or dismiss. Wish the GS2 had it.

Kaloer Clock is a better clock/alarm than any other stock alarm clock still, IMO anyway. It has fade in, math problem snooze where you have to solve a math problem at a difficulty level you pre-set in order to snooze/dismiss the alarm and it looks sick.

Of course it looks sickest on an AMOLED

manoz · 23 May 2011 at 06:19

Khaaan! said:
Kaloer Clock is a better clock/alarm than any other stock alarm clock still, IMO anyway. It has fade in, math problem snooze where you have to solve a math problem at a difficulty level you pre-set in order to snooze/dismiss the alarm and it looks sick.

[imgi]http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/photos/stuff-room/htc_desire_oled-2.jpg[/img]

Of course it looks sickest on an AMOLED

Thanks das a cool clock. Makes me want to have my phone in view lol.

Can someone run the peacekeeper benchmark on the sensation's default browser?

http://clients.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/run.action

I get 991 points on my GS2 and 159 points on my Orange San Fran

kona786 · 23 May 2011 at 08:19

spudbynight said:
+ HTC Sense just blows touch wiz away as well as any other UI for Android

HTC Sense isn't all that. I like the sense 3.0 carousel feature on the home screen but thatS about it - the dock and app draw are fugly and it'd be replaced by a different launcher anyway.The features of sense are easily matched by TW4.

rG-tom · 23 May 2011 at 08:46

has there been any side by side comparisons yet? ie physically next to each other, given that they're both actually out in retail i find it strange that I can't find one!

kona786 · 23 May 2011 at 08:52

rG-tom said:
has there been any side by side comparisons yet? ie physically next to each other, given that they're both actually out in retail i find it strange that I can't find one!

Easy!

HTC Sensation vs Samsung Galaxy S II

rG-tom · 23 May 2011 at 09:13

brilliant, my google-fu has been week then!

krooton · 23 May 2011 at 09:26

It's all about the screen for me. I use my phone primarily as a music/video player and comic book reader, and SAMOLED+ makes videos and images looks amazing.

rG-tom · 23 May 2011 at 09:29

well, i'll be getting both, so I'm quite happy

SGS2 arrives tomorrow, Sensation as soon as Orange Business get them.

rapid64k · 23 May 2011 at 09:50

kona786 said:
Easy!

HTC Sensation vs Samsung Galaxy S II

Thanks for the link. They are both good phones really, both with their plus's and minus's. So in the end its down to fan club, if you fancy a change or aesthetics. At the end of the day there is not much between the two of them.

Jabbs · 23 May 2011 at 10:05

I would still take the Samsung if I was buying now, android is all about moding and with HTC locking the boot-loader they have seriously restricted the phone.

I wouldn't contemplate selling the GS2 to get a Sensation.

spudbynight · 23 May 2011 at 10:05

manoz said:
If you ask me, the Sense UI is overdone and gimmicky making it juddery. Plus it's probably eating the RAM up, of which there isn't that much. The lockscreen is very nice compared to Samsug, though I have modded mine with widgetlocker. After having AMOLED on my past 3 phones, I can't go back to anything else. Can't tell if I'm holding the phone in the dark! The blacks are that good! I think the camera is poor on the sensation too, tis what I heard. Don't know what people think of the sound (music) quality compared to GS2.

When I played with Sense in a Vodafone store it was very responsive on the Sensation.

spudbynight · 23 May 2011 at 10:26

Khaaan! said:
Of course it looks sickest on an AMOLED

If I had spent a lot of money on a new phone I would want it to look healthy.

:confused:

mrk · 23 May 2011 at 10:29

not sure if serious!

Paul11 · 23 May 2011 at 10:34

spudbynight said:
If I had spent a lot of money on a new phone I would want it to look healthy.

lol

gatekiller · 23 May 2011 at 10:37

I just want to chip in and say that I got the chance to have a look and play with both the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Sensation.

My verdict is that the S2 is miles better than the sensation. It's slimmer, feels lighter, has a proper Home button and - considering they have similar hardware - the Samsung just feel faster and more responsive.

Cheers
Ste

spudbynight · 23 May 2011 at 11:34

Khaaan! said:
not sure if serious!

Why would you want a sick phone? Surely bring it back to the place you bought it and get fixed under warranty?