***The Official HTC Sensation thread***

kona786 said:
HTC Sensation review - from trustedreviews
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Seems a very positive review.

Finally, a place that agrees with my view on the Android Market! -

However, we're growing more and more concerned, as the smartphone market continues to mature, that despite a huge volume of apps in the Android marketplace, the quality still pales in comparison to the Apple app store.

Moreover, those that are good are difficult to find. The vast majority of basics are accounted for but a quick browse for some online banking apps, and several of the most popular games came up with nothing – there's still no paid for version of Angry Birds for instance.
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But the battery still doesn't sound so good -

Unfortunately, because of this, its 1520mAh battery does dwindle rather rapidly. With everything on and with a not overly hefty dose of mobile browsing and gaming, you'll run it dry well within a day. As ever, you can temper things considerably by turning 3G on only when needed, reducing the frequency of notifications, and keeping the screen brightness down. With an average usage pattern, though, we found that an overnight charge was needed every night.
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Interesting.

All told, the HTC Sensation looks and feels smart, which really is all one can ask for in smartphone design. We're still not entirely convinced that all the metal actually makes HTC's devices any tougher than any rivals but they certainly give that impression.
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As I've said all along - in reality I doubt the HTC is built any better than the Samsung but it certainly FEELS like it is, and feel matters to some :)
 
It does still force you in, they didn't really change anything about the homescreen. I thought they would add Widgets and what have you but they haven't.

They've also stolen BBM and called it iMessage :p

They have made the volume-up button act as a shutter key for the camera, which is nice and I wish Samsung/HTC would do the same.

Still, it's not going to be out for a while and no mention of the iPhone 5 either, which is good for Android considering how strong their current line up is!
 
Are you any closer on deciding which one to get? Unless you have some very impressive electrical engineering skills I doubt that is going to happen!
 
[TW]Fox;19311291 said:
Interesting.



As I've said all along - in reality I doubt the HTC is built any better than the Samsung but it certainly FEELS like it is, and feel matters to some :)
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are these the same people that by a 4x4 to feel safer ;)
 
lol - now that'd be the PERFECT phone :)

With regards to battery life my mate mentioned there's a fix from HTC to help improve battery life. Something to do with installing some software, running it, charging the battery for 4 hours, then 2 hours, then 10minutes!!!

I found this quite funny of course LOL - I'm assuming thats just a form of conditioning the battery, but hey.....
 
HTC said the same thing as that to Desire HD owners zoomee, its their standard reply on how to 'sort the battery out'.

With light use do you think it would comfortably go 2-3 days? Have your friends tested it much?

The battery would be the main thing worrying me really at the moment, providing the antenna issue is a farce like it was with the iPhone.
 
Both said it only lasted them a day tbh mate (moderate use, but with moderate gaming). I charge my phone every night so not bothered about battery (in-car chargers aswell if need be and tons of power chargers at work) - compromises have to be made for power and displays like these! and tbh I don't use my phone as much as them! ;)

I was only slightly worried about performance as in the anadtech reviews the Sensation didn't score that high, but then I've forgot about the fact it has 1.35x more pixels to push with its qHD display.

Also that trusted review didn't really do justice to its display - Comparing it to the dazzling LG's IPS Panel it was more or less the same without getting super close, and tilting it etc didn't have anywhere near as bad as an effect shown on the Trusted review vid.
 
Well, people said the Desire HD was going flat in under 10 hours but I managed to get the best part of 25-35 out of mine with fairly light use, it has to be better than that, surely.
 
for sure better than the Desire HD (as one of them used to have one)- my mates havn't ever had it run out on them completely - and bear in mind they use it for moderate - high gaming aswell!. Plus I'd say their noobs with technology so don't do things like switch WIFI off etc. ;)
 
Oh, are you in the 'executives' department, where they all prance about while chatting on their iPhone and use iCal to constantly book pointless meetings that they bring their iPads to? :D
 
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