HTC has introduced a lot of nice and impressive handsets this year including the likes of HTC Desire S, HTC Incredible S and the HTC Sensation models that we are reviewing here. Now, while the Sensation is a pretty decent handset, the battery of the phone doesn’t support it all that nicely and that’s what stops us to give it our recommendations. But keeping the deficient battery aside, we think that the HTC Sensation is a rather dazzling smartphone and if you don’t mind carrying the charger with you then you won’t be having any problems.
That said, the competition in the market is still rather stiff, and hence whether the HTC Sensation having refurbished interface and a dual-core processor survives in the market remains to be seen.
Control and Design:
The frontage of the HTC Sensation is pretty much like all the other dual-core Android handsets including the likes of LG Optimus 2X and Motorola Atrix. But turn it over hand the handset is a classic HTC, this time the handset comes with striking 3-tone aluminum rear end. The Sensation feels nicely constructed and solid in hand, and that’s typical what’s expected from a HTC and a premium product. The metal is hugely away from the affordable plastic rear end of the Samsung Galaxy S2.
The connectivity ports for the device include the likes of a 3.5mm jack and micro USB for charging. The handset also gives you DLNA for wireless streaming; Bluetooth 3.0 and you even could use your handset for tethering. The storage options for the HTC Sensation includes the likes of Vodafone bundled 8GB microSD card and a 1GB internal. In spite of having a dedicated HDMI, to fasten the handset up to HD TV you will have to invest in the HTC Sensation MHL Cable.
HTC Sense and Android:
The HTC Sensation runs Android 2.3.3, and pressing the button instantly launches the handset. But what’s enticing for the HTC fanatics here is the all new variant of HTC Sense V 3.0, which looks rather different. The home screens for the HTC Sensation are 3D now and finally, you will be able to scroll 360 degrees.
Although we like the HTC Sense, but there still are certain aspects which lags. Making a folder still is a lot harder than it use to be.
Display:
The HTC Sensation has a 4.3 in screen, which we think is rather impressive and the best thing here is that HTC has enhanced the resolution of the display screen to 960 x 540 pixels, which is equivalent to Motorola Atrix. The display screen here is sharp and bright and the movies appear pretty fantastic.
The overall design and appearance of the display is rather good and although it isn’t as impressive as the display ofiPhone
but we still liked it.
Performance:
The HTC Sensation is powered by a 1.2 Ghz dual-core processor having 768 MB RAM. The Sensation is the first dual-core handset from HTC to enter the UK market. The dual-core processor of the handset has made a huge boost to the performance of the phone.
The dual-core processor of the handset makes everything feel fast zooming in and out from the web pages, and even scrolling up and down on the web pages was rather impressive. You easily could play back HD movies and even could stream movies without having any problems; even the downloading is rather fast.
Just as with all the other HTC handset the text wraps routinely. The handset has Flash support as native application and hence you won’t have any problems in playing videos.
Verdict:
The HTC Sensation is an outstanding handset in more than one way. The metal body of the handset is precisely what we expected from a handset of this status. Even the performance is exceptionally well, the phone loads programs quickly and never felt slow. The HTC Sense is impressive as well; off course there are quite a number of things that we’d like to see included, but more competent User interface still is the best that you can get on an Android handset. The main problem that we have here is the display screen, which clearly is impressive, but not as impressive as the screen of Samsung Galaxy S II.
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