***The Official HTC Sensation thread***

sweet review mate. I like they way you've mentioned holding the Sensation feels better to the SGSII - I picked up on that difference straight away - The curves do it more justice than it being 'square'.

Don't listen to Khaaan! ;) - Software IS the heart of a phone (as thats what we use it for the most) hence why my heart was saying get the Sensation but my mind was saying get the SGSII (technical superiority).

As the SGSII is only JUST pipping the Sensation in terms of hardware specs, for me personally I'm glad I've gone for the Sensation - Little things in the software - like the standard keyboard where I can get a number with a long press of a key on the top row makes or breaks a phones useability.

In terms of ROMS - Theres no doubt about it - yes the SGSII has had a couple of months head start, BUT once that bootloader is unlocked - the developer community will pounce on this phone - XDA, HTCPedia etc have always had a much more loyal following for HTC's. Also bearing in mind its been an exclusive to Vodafone in the UK, sales are going to pickup bigtime once other networks start providing it.
 
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Good review Robbo its just a shame the hd recording isn't its strong point going by the vids I seen, it hasn't swayed me to get one though going to hold out for a 3d phone and see how they are.

With having the GS2 i can't see the gain in getting the Sensation it doesn't offer anything over what I have now I am not a big fan of sense and would just use launcher pro as I do now and have on all android phones I have owned.

HTC have a fight on there hands though as the GS2 has taken the No1 spot off the Iphone 4 and topped the UK sales for the month.
 
zoomee said:
sweet review mate. I like they way you've mentioned holding the Sensation feels better to the SGSII - I picked up on that difference straight away - The curves do it more justice than it being 'square'.

Don't listen to Khaaan! ;) - Software IS the heart of a phone (as thats what we use it for the most) hence why my heart was saying get the Sensation but my mind was saying get the SGSII (technical superiority).

As the SGSII is only JUST pipping the Sensation in terms of hardware specs, for me personally I'm glad I've gone for the Sensation - Little things in the software - like the standard keyboard where I can get a number with a long press of a key on the top row makes or breaks a phones useability.

In terms of ROMS - Theres no doubt about it - yes the SGSII has had a couple of months head start, BUT once that bootloader is unlocked - the developer community will pounce on this phone - XDA, HTCPedia etc have always had a much more loyal following for HTC's.
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My bit about the software is a valid question ;p

Also, you realise that all the keyboards have long press numbers on the top row?!

There are far far better keyboards on the market than the stock ones. HTC's keyboard is better than Samsung's but neither of them compare to the ones mentioned in the essential apps thread.

I agree with the HTC on XDA comment though but the game is completely changed now since Samsung are openly supporting XDA/Dev community and since the GSII launch have opened up dev channels/sites and resources among many other things to help devs so the battleground is now set completely.
 
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Just don't like the stock one - besides HTC sense is more than just a keyboard mate, I'm sure you'll agree - its more to do with complete phone integration and no-one can deny it's hands above the rest of the crop ;)
 
Nice review.

For me the biggest selling point is the screen and SAMOLED+ is just much better overall IMO, better for battery life, much nicer colours, easier to read in sunlight etc.

Plus I think the sensation screen looks a wee bit washed out, not as bad as the desire HD though, plus you will still have to zoom in a tiny bit in order to read web pages etc. comfortably.

I love the look of the sensation from the front though, but just prefer the plain, black sleek look of the GS 2.

Not bothered about sense at all as I would replace nearly all the stock stuff with apps anyway, with mainly all of the GO apps, which are much better over any stock UI IMO.

Be interesting to see how the battery life of the sensation is as with previous HTC mobiles it has always been shocking compared to other mobiles.

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As mentioned there are much better keyboards on the market than stock, HTC e.g. thumb keyboard, swype, swift key etc.

Sense is nice, but it is just so bloated with many features that I personally wouldn't use, IMO there are much better ROMs out there than sense e.g. CM 7
 
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Nexus18 said:
Nice review.

For me the biggest selling point is the screen and SAMOLED+ is just much better overall IMO, better for battery life, much nicer colours, easier to read in sunlight etc.

Plus I think the sensation screen looks a wee bit washed out, not as bad as the desire HD though, plus you will still have to zoom in a tiny bit in order to read web pages etc. comfortably.

I love the look of the sensation from the front though, but just prefer the plain, black sleek look of the GS 2.

Not bothered about sense at all as I would replace nearly all the stock stuff with apps anyway, with mainly all of the GO apps, which are much better over any stock UI IMO.

Be interesting to see how the battery life of the sensation is as with previous HTC mobiles it has always been shocking compared to other mobiles.

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As mentioned there are much better keyboards on the market than stock, HTC e.g. thumb keyboard, swype, swift key etc.
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The Desire h ad very good battery life! I would on average get 1.5 days out of it with usage! Although this was not using a stock ROM as I imagine SenseUI sucks quite a bit of juice.
 
zoomee said:
Software IS the heart of a phone (as thats what we use it for the most) hence why my heart was saying get the Sensation but my mind was saying get the SGSII (technical superiority).
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a lot of people like me will ditch the sense launcher thus ditching nearly all of what sense brings to android.

Sgs2 has gpu accelerated fluidity all around the OS which makes it super smooth all the time - plus the apple bounce everywhere which is a nice touch that htc have left out - plus super duper codec support in the vid player. All accessible outside the TW launcher. SGS2's core android functionality is very stable and fast and it has very good software optimization as shown in benchmarks and flash support - more so than sense.
 
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The Desire h ad very good battery life! I would on average get 1.5 days out of it with usage! Although this was not using a stock ROM as I imagine SenseUI sucks quite a bit of juice.
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My bro on stock can barely get a day with wifi (barely any usage) on and a friend who has CM 7 can barely get a day as well, with a lot of usage.

On my galaxy spica I could get 3 days max out of battery life, with wifi on 24/7 (3G kills my battery as I live in a poor reception area so it is constantly searching and changing from 3G to H etc.), weather syncing every hour, a few texts, phone calls, 20 min of music, couple of youtube videos, 30 mins of browsing, 15 min of emulator games, hotmail using stock email app syncing every hour, gmail push and other general messing about. This was rooted with a custom ROM/kernel.
 
ive never gotten more than a day out of my leedroid desire, most days it'd be dead by 7pm if i'd used it for spotify to work and back, push emails on all day with wifi and 45 minutes of web browsing.

The galaxy sits on about 50% by 7pm.
 
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My bro on stock can barely get a day with wifi (barely any usage) on and a friend who has CM 7 can barely get a day as well, with a lot of usage.

On my galaxy spica I could get 3 days max out of battery life, with wifi on 24/7 (3G kills my battery as I live in a poor reception area so it is constantly searching and changing from 3G to H etc.), weather syncing every hour, a few texts, phone calls, 20 min of music, couple of youtube videos, 30 mins of browsing, 15 min of emulator games, hotmail using stock email app syncing every hour, gmail push and other general messing about. This was rooted with a custom ROM/kernel.
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On the Desire? on CM7 I was easily getting over a day, as mentioned, average was 1.5 days before having to charge. What radio was he on? That might equate to such a difference as well. I did leave wifi on everywhere though as I always had an accesspoint. Using WiFi drains less battery than using 3G.
 
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On the Desire? on CM7 I was easily getting over a day, as mentioned, average was 1.5 days before having to charge. What radio was he on? That might equate to such a difference as well. I did leave wifi on everywhere though as I always had an accesspoint. Using WiFi drains less battery than using 3G.
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Yup on the desire. I was shocked as well, thought he would have got about 2 days.

No idea, but he has 1 in his dropbox, which says 32.54.00.32U_5.14.05.17, so I presume that is the one that he is using at the minute.
 
kona786 said:
a lot of people like me will ditch the sense launcher thus ditching nearly all of what sense brings to android.

Sgs2 has gpu accelerated fluidity all around the OS which makes it super smooth all the time - plus the apple bounce everywhere which is a nice touch that htc have left out - plus super duper codec support in the vid player. All accessible outside the TW launcher. SGS2's core android functionality is very stable and fast and it has very good software optimization as shown in benchmarks and flash support - more so than sense.
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80% of consumers will not customise as what we do - HTC sense will be what they will prefer not technical specs.

I've tried Launcher Pro - yes it 'looks' like sense with the widgets but its still not fully integrated (i.e. facebook into contacts lists etc). Trust me bro (I call u bro cus u got 786 in your name ;) ) if I did get the SGSII - I would just end up customising it to look like Sense as much as possible so it defeats the purpose for me.

Also - bear in mind HTC have now also launched the Sense SDK - This opens up all sorts of possibilities and will be interesting as we've never had it before!

Tis all good whichever device we choose. I'm just glad I didn't get impatient and go for the LG 2X! lol
My dislike for Samsung comes from the KEIS software, and also their lack of customer support from when I had a Samsung Galaxy (Not an S) - no official software updates that I could rely upon 100% unlike HTC who will update to the next version of Android as an when it appears (yes yes, I know about custom ROM's - but A)- it takes a while to get them fully working and B)- official updates are usually more stable ;) )
 
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zoomee said:
80% of consumers will not customise as what we do - HTC sense will be what they will prefer not technical specs.
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This is your opinion of course, the actual figures may well skew in either direction but the fact that the GS II has outsold the iPhone 4 tells you that such a large number of "normal" people don't give a damn about the software so much but rather want a spec and/or feature rich phone that does what they want when they want!
 
Thats because the sensation was a voda exclusive and still is at the mo! - lets see how it goes once its had time to settle ;)

80% of people are not 'geeks' like us especially when it comes to phones - That I would consider a generous estimate..... I've ONLY been working with smartphones as my particular IT speciality (amongst the general support work) for the past 15 years dude :P

Besides Mr Khaan - What you still doing in this thread, Still making the same points I see? I know its hard for you to accept someone can prefer something other than the phone you have mate, but come on.....
 
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I'm posting ligitimate questions and views about the Sensation and replied to your post with a valid point and you're telling me to sod off to another thread?

How nice.

You've mentioned bias quite a lot, seems you're the one who's biased here and not anyone else?
 
Iirc didn't the desire sell the most units last year and then when the original GS came out, it beat the sales of the desire and touchwiz was pretty poor back then, laggy etc.

Don't forget about marketing as well as Samsung are much better in that area than HTC, LG etc. which will have a massive impact on sales.

But apple take the lead in the marketing area with there simple ads etc :p
 
No mate I didn't say that - I'm merly pointing out that all you seem to see is the negatives of any phone other than the one you have :p

I'm willing to accept theirs negatives in the sensation over the SGSII, just like robbo has pointed out in his review. HOWEVER, the advantages far outweigh them for me....

At the end of day my bias is towards what suits me best, just like yours is towards you. The difference between me and you however is that I'm not in the other phones thread constantly trying to downgrade that phone....
 
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