***The Official HTC Sensation thread***

Apparently HTC may not have bought the drivers for the GPU because they are tight, but they can maybe be put in with a custom rom. That is just a rumour but could be possible I suppose.

Either way, the micro-stutter can be slightly annoying but generally you won't really notice it, it has to count against the phone but its not a big issue by any means.

Oh, and you missed out the Apple app store in your ideal phone list... so much better on the whole :(
 
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Wicksta said:
I don't think this is correct at all. Sure, at forums like this people prefer stock Android, these are the same people that think a Quadrant score is more important than a phone's actual useability and who would get a semi because they got 1 more fps in a 3d test. For people who actually use their phones for more useful things Sense has many many advantages and I miss it at the moment.
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This is such a key point. Everyone obsesses over technical detail, benchmarks (Seriously? Benchmarks? What? It's a phone and you care about benchmarks?) what's what on paper and seems to completely ignore the most important factor - what its like to use, day in day out, for phoning people up, browsing the web and sending text messages which is of course the primary use for such a device.
 
I think I'm 95% Sensation now. Your review has clinched it for me - none of the perceived disadvantages, of which I appreciate, seem to bother me at all. And I just love the way it looks and feels both as a peice of hardware and also the software side.

Vodafone is looking tempting at £35 a month with £160 quidco cashback.

Edit: They seem to have changed all the prices to random figures a month all of a sudden. It's now £36 a month for 900 minutes, 750Mb of data and unlimited texts with 2gb a month of BT Openzone access.

Annoying I'd be happy with 250 minutes really.
 
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Yeah they are really both good phones to be fair its really just down to choice at the end of the day. I fancied a change from a HTC Desire so i went the other way.
 
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[TW]Fox;19357102 said:
This is such a key point. Everyone obsesses over technical detail, benchmarks (Seriously? Benchmarks? What? It's a phone and you care about benchmarks?) what's what on paper and seems to completely ignore the most important factor - what its like to use, day in day out, for phoning people up, browsing the web and sending text messages which is of course the primary use for such a device.
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This is my point, its considerring the phone as a package and in my opinion I think the hardware on the Sensation is plenty good enough whilst not being the best but the build quality and software make for a good all around experience.

As for third party applications and me being a Sense fan boy, I posted in here a while back about liking GO SMS but I've stopped using it after the developer forked the release into a basic and pro version. The application became unresponsive despite using the basic feature mode.

Also GO Launcher is nice and I links the agenda view widget but it doesn't open the meeting details if you click an entry.
 
Well the Sensation is packed up ready to go for repairs. SIM card is out to go back into the Magic. Hopefully that won't last for much longer than a week.

Kudos to Vodafone for giving me a box about 1.5cm too short to fit the Sensation into. :D
 
Mekrel said:
As for third party applications and me being a Sense fan boy, I posted in here a while back about liking GO SMS but I've stopped using it after the developer forked the release into a basic and pro version. The application became unresponsive despite using the basic feature mode.
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The Sense 3.0 messaging app is the best looking one I've ever seen. I really like it! :)

MarcLister said:
Well the Sensation is packed up ready to go for repairs. SIM card is out to go back into the Magic. Hopefully that won't last for much longer than a week.

Kudos to Vodafone for giving me a box about 1.5cm too short to fit the Sensation into. :D
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God, that is quite a come down. You have my condolences. :(
 
This is such a key point. Everyone obsesses over technical detail, benchmarks (Seriously? Benchmarks? What? It's a phone and you care about benchmarks?) what's what on paper and seems to completely ignore the most important factor - what its like to use, day in day out, for phoning people up, browsing the web and sending text messages which is of course the primary use for such a device.
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ALL of those functions quoted are done in exactly the same fashion via 3rd party apps or out of the box in the most part on both (or all similar classed) handsets. If we focus on out of the box though then some areas Samsung > HTC and other areas HTC > Samsung. Safe to say Motoblur/Timescape etc < both of the above mentioned giants though :p

So it only boils down to your own preference of what kind of physical device you prefer to hold in your hand and have on your person.

Something light and thin?

Or thick and heavy...etc.
 
Khaaan! said:
ALL of those functions quoted are done in exactly the same fashion via 3rd party apps or out of the box in the most part on both (or all similar classed) handsets. If we focus on out of the box though then some areas Samsung > HTC and other areas HTC > Samsung. Safe to say Motoblur/Timescape etc < both of the above mentioned giants though :p

So it only boils down to your own preference of what kind of physical device you prefer to hold in your hand and have on your person.

Something light and thin?

Or thick and heavy...etc.
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I'll agree with that. That's why I bought my Nexus in February, I knew all the dual core phones were coming but I wanted a pure stock android experience with no hassles so I chose that. It's all about the user experience baby!
 
Khaaan! said:
So it only boils down to your own preference of what kind of physical device you prefer to hold in your hand and have on your person.
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No, it doesn't. Unless Sense is available on the marketplace. Remember lots of us cannot be bothered to spend hours 'customising' our phones with custom roms.
 
[TW]Fox;19360929 said:
No, it doesn't. Unless Sense is available on the marketplace. Remember lots of us cannot be bothered to spend hours 'customising' our phones with custom roms.
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This is exactly the opposite of the point I was trying to get across.

I'll say it differently, only a handful of people seem so determined that they "need" Sense, or Touchblur or Motoblur for the Moto fans or whatever else from any other maker. Obviously Sense is way bigger but out of all the HTC owners I know or have met and talked about phones with, nobody has said they absolutely require Sense on their phone. They like the features it gives but it's not something they have to have to enjoy their phone.

And FYI, you don't have to root and install a custom ROM to customise your phone, maybe you were not aware of this.
 
[TW]Fox;19360929 said:
No, it doesn't. Unless Sense is available on the marketplace. Remember lots of us cannot be bothered to spend hours 'customising' our phones with custom roms.
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Isn't that the whole point of android ? its not locked down and is highly customisable, I always thought this is why people go for android phones because of what can be done with them not locked down like Iphones.
 
You don't need Sense, but it offers a package that even with lots of fiddling you can't quite match imo. In terms of functionality you can, but then all the stand alone apps don't have a common theme and lack bits of polish here and there in comparison.

Everyone I know with a HTC phone very much likes Sense and consider it a big selling point over the other phones. I imagine this is true for a lot of Android users, obviously on specific mobile phone forums like XDA etc, it isn't going to be the case but that is a fairly small representation of the phone market.

To be honest, I can't get my head around how Samsung think that TouchWiz looks good, they really need to give it a new name and change how it looks, then they'll compete better on that front.
 
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