The HTC Sensation is finally here!! What do you all think? :D

bonerp · Apr 18, 2011

I bought the Desire when it came out and found limitations due to memory.

Desire HD fixed that and I've been ultimately impressed except for 2 things - battery life is shite to say the least and no front camera. No front cam not a major issue but my Nokia 2.5g of 5 yrs ago had this, so DHD really had no excuse not to have one. I like the front cam for video calls when sprog is away and for VOIP..

hopefully the Battery life will be better and the processors more efficient. Phone makers really need to improve on this over anything else. Features are all but useless when the phone dies before the end of the day is through!

Having said that I have just registered for the Sensation

Shocky · Apr 18, 2011

bonerp said:
hopefully the Battery life will be better and the processors more efficient. Phone makers really need to improve on this over anything else. Features are all but useless when the phone dies before the end of the day is through!

Having said that I have just registered for the Sensation

Funny that battery life is a concern for you yet you still keep buying HTC phones, I know new SoC's are more efficient but that's no use to the user when the manufacture puts in a worse battery.

dialtosave · Apr 18, 2011

I definitely agree that the Sensation is much more impressive than the trio of HTC phones from MWC 2011. I think this is going to be the first device that shows off the newer version of HTC Sense because it has the hardware to really support local maps and perhaps also some more serious games than Angry Birds.

Deleted User · Apr 18, 2011

I really dont like the battery life of my Desire - It normally won't last a full day but maybe i use it too much lol. Are you saying that Tegra 2 is better than the Dual Core snapdragon?

Shocky · Apr 18, 2011

ajh94 said:
Are you saying that Tegra 2 is better than the Dual Core snapdragon?

I'm not sure who this is targeting at but I'll reply.

We don't have enough benchmark results available to really say for certain which is faster overall, but I would say thanks to Adreno 220 the dual core snapdragon has the edge for games at least.

But it's not a huge advantage, not enough to be a difference, bascially if a game works on Adreno 220 it will work on Tegra 2 and vice versa.

Vicdude · Apr 18, 2011

I reckon the Sensation S should be about ready to be launched by the time I arrive at my upgrade window in December

Jaffar · Apr 18, 2011

Do you guys reckon we'll be getting these sort of specs in a smaller phone or is it just too much to squeeze in? I understand the appeal of having a larger screen, but I like my phone to be a little more pocketable. A lot of phones out recently are looking like mini tablets. I still think desire is an ideal size - but would be happier with smaller bezel and higher resolution. I don't know why it's taking android phones so long to catch up on that regard.

bonerp · Apr 18, 2011

Shocky said:
Funny that battery life is a concern for you yet you still keep buying HTC phones, I know new SoC's are more efficient but that's no use to the user when the manufacture puts in a worse battery.

maybe I like the functionality of the phone

IP4 and any other large screen phone suffers crap battery life if you use it as intended.

I will wait to see what battery life in for the first couple of weeks though before jumping in.

Also 2.3 might introduce further improvements as outlined in the version upgrade

bonerp · Apr 18, 2011

Jaffar said:
Do you guys reckon we'll be getting these sort of specs in a smaller phone or is it just too much to squeeze in? I understand the appeal of having a larger screen, but I like my phone to be a little more pocketable. A lot of phones out recently are looking like mini tablets. I still think desire is an ideal size - but would be happier with smaller bezel and higher resolution. I don't know why it's taking android phones so long to catch up on that regard.

I think the desire HD is the ideal size for me....

horses for courses I suppose. I struggled with the Desire as buttons too small for texting.

SupremeBeaver · Apr 18, 2011

Jaffar said:
Do you guys reckon we'll be getting these sort of specs in a smaller phone or is it just too much to squeeze in? I understand the appeal of having a larger screen, but I like my phone to be a little more pocketable. A lot of phones out recently are looking like mini tablets. I still think desire is an ideal size - but would be happier with smaller bezel and higher resolution. I don't know why it's taking android phones so long to catch up on that regard.

Of course. Just because the specs are much better than before doesnt mean chip is bigger in size physically. They could fit in a Desire sized phone. You'll just need to wait for HTC or any other manufacturer to release one

Deleted User · Apr 18, 2011

Shocky said:
I'm not sure who this is targeting at but I'll reply.

We don't have enough benchmark results available to really say for certain which is faster overall, but I would say thanks to Adreno 220 the dual core snapdragon has the edge for games at least.

But it's not a huge advantage, not enough to be a difference, bascially if a game works on Adreno 220 it will work on Tegra 2 and vice versa.

sorry about that lol, i was just generally asking what one is better

and yeah i agree with you.. Even the HDH has the Adreno 220 doesnt it

Shocky · Apr 18, 2011

ajh94 said:
sorry about that lol, i was just generally asking what one is better and yeah i agree with you.. Even the hdh has the adreno 220 doesnt it

hdh?

loony · Apr 18, 2011

tough choice between the two.

for me its something never really listed. the sound. i need to hear the thing ring, you know...the phone part of it? (lol)
a friend has the desire HD and im dissapointed with its volume. If HTC fix it up with this model, ill look at it...im not saying SGS2 will be better, but thats a key point for me over extra gigs or wieght etc....

Deleted User · Apr 19, 2011

Shocky said:
hdh?

Ahh damit lol I meand DHD :L

Shocky · Apr 19, 2011

ajh94 said:
Ahh damit lol I meand DHD :L

Naa, I'm pretty sure that uses Adreno 205 which isnt bad by any means, a little slower than SGX540/Tegra 2.

The more I look at this phone the more I'm considering it, it's definintely my second choice if Samsang manage to mess something up in the SGS2.

Deleted User · Apr 19, 2011

yeah it looks amazing. I keep seeing Tweets on Twitter about samsung promising a 2GHz dual-core phone in 2012 lol - follow me on twitter with the link in my sig if u have it

matttye · Apr 19, 2011

ajh94 said:
yeah it looks amazing. I keep seeing Tweets on Twitter about samsung promising a 2GHz dual-core phone in 2012 lol - follow me on twitter with the link in my sig if u have it

NVidia's Kal-El quad-core processor is due to be released this year.

Deleted User · Apr 19, 2011

wow that will be really awesome. Quad-core in a phone!! My brothers laptop isnt even quad core :L

volvo940seturbo · Apr 22, 2011

photon00 said:
Vodafone are pretty good. I know that up to the Desire all their Android phones are unlocked and unbranded. I expect the same for the Sensation. They once tried a Desire update with some Vodafone 360 bloatware on it and people went nuts. They quickly stopped. The good signal coverage, unlocked phones and lack of bloatware is what keeps me with Vodafone.

I can only assume you have never got a phone direct from vodafone then??? Although I got my DHD from them right at the start, so is unbranded sim free, all current DHD's from them are full of vodafone crap. The desire and the wildfire are full of crap unless like me you were lucky enough to get the update that removed all the crap off the desire. Lets just hope the first ones that come to vodafone are generic like the DHD was, and lets hope that someday the networks leave the phones as they are and stop forcing their crap on the end user, who most of the time never uses the crap anyway.

Deleted User · Apr 22, 2011

yeah i wont have a phone unless its generic. I always but from CarphoneWarehouse for that reason. I had a phone from Orange once and i hated all the shit that was on it, like the themes were all white and orange, the internet browser logo was a orange house, updates are slow cos they are not direct from HTC, its just horrible like that. Generic is the way to go

daivik · Apr 26, 2011

EddyOS said:
Reckon I'm gonna get one SIM-free in June - gotta sell my AMOLED Desire first, though

original AMOLED Desire ftw!

Deleted User · Apr 26, 2011

Yeah i do like AMOLED and i wish they didnt start using S-LCD

daivik · Apr 26, 2011

ajh94 said:
Yeah i do like AMOLED and i wish they didnt start using S-LCD

True that, but I've heard there are supposed to be some amazing deals for the HTC Desire (even when it was about a month old) with internet and everything, that made it really competitive to an iPhone.

Plus apparently there were manufacturing issues. :/

Loeken · Apr 26, 2011

Guys, have you tested out any of the newer SLCD:s from HTC? I tested Incredible S and sure, it has only got a SLCD but it's alot better than the ones that HTC made last year. A year ago I saw a AMOLED as a huge advantage, now I don't care, because the SLCD:s nowadays are awesome...

daivik · Apr 26, 2011

True. what are people's opinions on the SUPER AMOLED. Apparently they're supposed to be much better. Are they?

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