HTC Sensation is a powerful, advanced Android phone that looks great even when turned off. With a fast dual-core processor and HTC attractive software extensions considered is the choice of our new Editors' touch screen smartphone on T-Mobile, although it is not the only device available up by the carrier.
Physical Planning, telephone and internet services
In short, HTC Sensation is a class act. It is a great phone to 5 by 2.6 by 0.4 inches (DRC) and 5.2 ounces, the size of Verizon is famous bulky Motorola Droid X2 ($ 149 3.5 stars). However, a sensation feels a bit less because of its rounded edges and lack of relief. It is made of high quality, metal, glass and plastic, and feels very solid in your hand.
Physical Planning, telephone and internet services
In short, HTC Sensation is a class act. It is a great phone to 5 by 2.6 by 0.4 inches (DRC) and 5.2 ounces, the size of Verizon is famous bulky Motorola Droid X2 ($ 149 3.5 stars). However, a sensation feels a bit less because of its rounded edges and lack of relief. It is made of high quality, metal, glass and plastic, and feels very solid in your hand.
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| Sensation HTC 4G (T-Mobile) |
The feeling is 4.3 inch, 960-by-540 Super LCD, which keeps track of its main competitor, the T-Mobile G2X ($ 199, 4 stars), so the resolution and number of pixels. (G2X packs of 233 pixels per inch, the feeling, to get 256) screen is incredibly deep blacks, for example, Super Plus, Samsung AMOLED S Galaxy II ($ 799, 4 stars), but to develop LCD display, and the text is very readable because of its large size and high density.
Nothing strange Sensation, as the voice on the phone. It 'was only average results in my test reception. The sound is a bit 'hard to the higher number, and there was a slight wobble, and itching in the mail. The voice quality is good enough to walk, though, and clearly the focus elsewhere in this HTC phone. Feeling good in tandem with the aliphatic Jawbone our time (129 for $ 4.5 stars), and a phone music, video and audio, but will not allow you to use voice dialing from a Bluetooth headset. It 'a disappointment. The battery life of six hours of talk time, was good but not great.
The sense of T-Mobile supports Wi-Fi calling program, which works as well as phone calls over the cellular network, as long as you have a wireless signal. During the test, I had the opportunity to connect clear calls at Starbucks. As you move away from the signal, however, calls quickly and decompose.
T-Mobile announced it as a "4G" phones, but it is not even the T-Mobile standards. It's a phone HSPA 14.4. It's fast, to be sure, but not HSPA + 42, the fastest network T-Mobile, or HSPA + 21 is used by T-Mobile Sidekick 4G and 4G Galaxy S.
However, you will receive high-speed Internet on this phone with a good signal for the T-Mobile. In New York, where T-Mobile's HSPA network + 42, I have download speeds ranging from 4.3Mbps to 6.5Mbps and downloads in the range of 800-Kbps 1 Mbps, 7.2 Mbps, which pushes the expected in the real world limits from 14.4 HSPA. The phone works as a modem and access point Wi-Fi, with the right plan.
Processor and Applications
The feeling is the first U.S. phone dual-core chipset Qualcomm MSM8660 processor 1.2GHz with the new GPU Adreno 220. Like most dual-core mobile we've seen before with Nvidia Tegra 2 (except for the Galaxy II Samsung S), I reference this against a power of 2 Tegra G2X to find the differences.
The results are a little 'stunned. I met a lot of free points of comparison for the Android Market: BenchmarkPi, Softweg, CaffeineMark, Linpack, Neocore, Droidfish SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks and Nenamark and, GUIMark Flash and HTML 5 reference points, and the timing of the hand-set load web page.
The feeling was always faster than loading the desktop Web browser pages Dolphin HD Wi-Fi, a Flash site. E 'reference HTML5 was faster, too. But wait! G2X with Tegra 2 was much faster than Flash and Javascript a bit 'faster. Two processors share the synthetic tests. G2X has done better reference Neocore game, but have been put in almost exactly the same point of reference Nenamark graphics.
Chips on the fact that through its program of TegraZone, Nvidia is working to develop games with unique high-end phones Tegra. The result seems to be a little better for surfing the Internet, while the G2X is probably better for games.
Feel the experience of the browser is faster than the standard, but also for the feeling to use Android G2X 2.3.3 is still stuck in Android 2.2.
Android 2.3, the HTC brings throughful unusual sensation, Sense skin well designed. Sense adds many useful features attractive to Android. Comes with a way to remotely control the phone through a website. You can go directly to the most popular applications on the lock screen. The email client and address book at once more attractive and easier to use than the standard Android applications. Sense and does not seem to slow things down at all.
Together with the sense HTC includes a music store called "Listen" and store a movie called "Watch", none of them worked on my test phone. Free T-Mobile adds Nova HD shooter games Qik video chat, T-Mobile television program in streaming video and some other non-annoying bloatware, most-useful. And of course, you can download applications and 150 000 on the Android Market.
Multimedia
The feeling, as G2X comes with an 8 megapixel camera with video recording of 1080. And as the G2X does not correspond with the quality of a good video camera or laptop. Still images in good light were strong, but there were dark shadows. In low light, the images became very soft and tablet research, but at least they are not blurred.
Indoor video capture at 1080p, 720p or 960-540-the resolution was a bit uncomfortable from 20 to 22 frames per second. Outdoor I got a smooth 30 frames per second, with blown highlights, but overall a decent quality.
The phone also features a VGA camera poor at the front, which is constantly faced with my eyes orange, and could not reach more than 15 frames per second on the inside. It is for video, a case of touch-and-go on Android yet.
The phone has 1GB of onboard memory, and comes with an 8 GB MicroSD card under the back cover, you can replace the card up to 32GB.
Play music and video are excellent in the tests. The feeling that supports all standard music formats, and all video formats up to 1080p resolution, except WMV. The music and video transmission by cable and Bluetooth headphones very well.
Even these, Sensation G2X can reflect all of its operations for HDTV, you need the MMC adapter, which does not belong to him but would have to pay about $ 40. When connected to the Sensation, I was able to play 1080p video on your device, browse the web, play Angry Birds and hassle, and watch live TV streaming, T-Mobile, although the latter has become so pixels and blocks on the big screen, it was almost unwatchable. Netflix is not yet available in the sensation, but it is not G2X is available.
Conclusions
Last year, Verizon Wireless subscribers a choice between two was slightly different, but excellent Android, which were basically as good as the other, Droid X (4.5 stars), and the incredible HTC (4.5 stars ). This year, that the happy choice, but it seems difficult to fit in the T-Mobile customers.
HTC gets feeling of our editors choice for best touchscreen phone only, but barely. It has a little more attractive than the skin G2X with a screen slightly higher density, and the average user goes Android probably have more time on the web browsing (Sensation force) rather than play games (the specialty G2X ). But both are good phones, and two amazing choices for Android T-Mobile.
Nothing strange Sensation, as the voice on the phone. It 'was only average results in my test reception. The sound is a bit 'hard to the higher number, and there was a slight wobble, and itching in the mail. The voice quality is good enough to walk, though, and clearly the focus elsewhere in this HTC phone. Feeling good in tandem with the aliphatic Jawbone our time (129 for $ 4.5 stars), and a phone music, video and audio, but will not allow you to use voice dialing from a Bluetooth headset. It 'a disappointment. The battery life of six hours of talk time, was good but not great.
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| Sensation HTC 4G (T-Mobile) |
The sense of T-Mobile supports Wi-Fi calling program, which works as well as phone calls over the cellular network, as long as you have a wireless signal. During the test, I had the opportunity to connect clear calls at Starbucks. As you move away from the signal, however, calls quickly and decompose.
T-Mobile announced it as a "4G" phones, but it is not even the T-Mobile standards. It's a phone HSPA 14.4. It's fast, to be sure, but not HSPA + 42, the fastest network T-Mobile, or HSPA + 21 is used by T-Mobile Sidekick 4G and 4G Galaxy S.
However, you will receive high-speed Internet on this phone with a good signal for the T-Mobile. In New York, where T-Mobile's HSPA network + 42, I have download speeds ranging from 4.3Mbps to 6.5Mbps and downloads in the range of 800-Kbps 1 Mbps, 7.2 Mbps, which pushes the expected in the real world limits from 14.4 HSPA. The phone works as a modem and access point Wi-Fi, with the right plan.
Processor and Applications
The feeling is the first U.S. phone dual-core chipset Qualcomm MSM8660 processor 1.2GHz with the new GPU Adreno 220. Like most dual-core mobile we've seen before with Nvidia Tegra 2 (except for the Galaxy II Samsung S), I reference this against a power of 2 Tegra G2X to find the differences.
The results are a little 'stunned. I met a lot of free points of comparison for the Android Market: BenchmarkPi, Softweg, CaffeineMark, Linpack, Neocore, Droidfish SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks and Nenamark and, GUIMark Flash and HTML 5 reference points, and the timing of the hand-set load web page.
The feeling was always faster than loading the desktop Web browser pages Dolphin HD Wi-Fi, a Flash site. E 'reference HTML5 was faster, too. But wait! G2X with Tegra 2 was much faster than Flash and Javascript a bit 'faster. Two processors share the synthetic tests. G2X has done better reference Neocore game, but have been put in almost exactly the same point of reference Nenamark graphics.
Chips on the fact that through its program of TegraZone, Nvidia is working to develop games with unique high-end phones Tegra. The result seems to be a little better for surfing the Internet, while the G2X is probably better for games.
Feel the experience of the browser is faster than the standard, but also for the feeling to use Android G2X 2.3.3 is still stuck in Android 2.2.
Android 2.3, the HTC brings throughful unusual sensation, Sense skin well designed. Sense adds many useful features attractive to Android. Comes with a way to remotely control the phone through a website. You can go directly to the most popular applications on the lock screen. The email client and address book at once more attractive and easier to use than the standard Android applications. Sense and does not seem to slow things down at all.
Together with the sense HTC includes a music store called "Listen" and store a movie called "Watch", none of them worked on my test phone. Free T-Mobile adds Nova HD shooter games Qik video chat, T-Mobile television program in streaming video and some other non-annoying bloatware, most-useful. And of course, you can download applications and 150 000 on the Android Market.
Multimedia
The feeling, as G2X comes with an 8 megapixel camera with video recording of 1080. And as the G2X does not correspond with the quality of a good video camera or laptop. Still images in good light were strong, but there were dark shadows. In low light, the images became very soft and tablet research, but at least they are not blurred.
Indoor video capture at 1080p, 720p or 960-540-the resolution was a bit uncomfortable from 20 to 22 frames per second. Outdoor I got a smooth 30 frames per second, with blown highlights, but overall a decent quality.
The phone also features a VGA camera poor at the front, which is constantly faced with my eyes orange, and could not reach more than 15 frames per second on the inside. It is for video, a case of touch-and-go on Android yet.
The phone has 1GB of onboard memory, and comes with an 8 GB MicroSD card under the back cover, you can replace the card up to 32GB.
Play music and video are excellent in the tests. The feeling that supports all standard music formats, and all video formats up to 1080p resolution, except WMV. The music and video transmission by cable and Bluetooth headphones very well.
Even these, Sensation G2X can reflect all of its operations for HDTV, you need the MMC adapter, which does not belong to him but would have to pay about $ 40. When connected to the Sensation, I was able to play 1080p video on your device, browse the web, play Angry Birds and hassle, and watch live TV streaming, T-Mobile, although the latter has become so pixels and blocks on the big screen, it was almost unwatchable. Netflix is not yet available in the sensation, but it is not G2X is available.
Conclusions
Last year, Verizon Wireless subscribers a choice between two was slightly different, but excellent Android, which were basically as good as the other, Droid X (4.5 stars), and the incredible HTC (4.5 stars ). This year, that the happy choice, but it seems difficult to fit in the T-Mobile customers.
HTC gets feeling of our editors choice for best touchscreen phone only, but barely. It has a little more attractive than the skin G2X with a screen slightly higher density, and the average user goes Android probably have more time on the web browsing (Sensation force) rather than play games (the specialty G2X ). But both are good phones, and two amazing choices for Android T-Mobile.
