Review HTC Sensation

HTC Sensation is HTC's third dual-core Android smartphone. The machine has an aluminum structure for a strong sense of grip.

> The first HTC Sensation about Vietnam costs 14.5 million

Sensastion is large in size so it will be difficult to use for women. It has designed simple connection ports, centered on the top and left edges, similar to some recent models like Desire S, Incredible S, Wildfire S. In general, such designs create many advantages. with users.

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Top angle with power key and 3.5mm headphone jack. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

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Machine designed with reasonable thickness. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

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Left edge with volume key and USB connection. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

The Sensation's back has a strong impression with a 3-block design on an aluminum alloy frame. Both upper and lower parts are made of plastic with different colors. Unlike Desire S, the two plastic parts are mounted dead on the metal shell frame and when needed, only open the entire shell but can not open each part like opening the battery cover on Desire S.

However, this is also uncomfortable, because the Sensation shell is very difficult to open. This metal cover extends its entire back, reaching to the front of the speaker and front camera. When removing the cover, users will easily see the original board, which is attached to the internal screen. Perhaps, this design also explains why the Sensation screen appears to be slightly curved at the four edges in contact with the casing.

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How to open the lid. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

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Back cover with 3-block design. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

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Inside the back cover. (Photo: Phongcachmobile).

Filtering sound when talking on Sensation is also handled well, especially in environments with lots of noise and noise.

Here is a detailed review (click on each section to see):

* Advantages:

- Qualcomm's latest 1.2GHz dual-core chip.
- Preset version of Android v2.3.3 with Sense 3.0 latest interface.
- High resolution S-LCD screen.
- High- end "dot " camera supports Full HD 1080p video recording.
- Rugged metal frame design

* Disadvantages :

- The design is difficult to remove when needed.
- The display is not beautiful.
- Lack of HDMI connection.
- It's hot.
- The battery is slightly poor compared to the common ground.

Detailed configuration

- Size: 126.1 x 65.4 x 11.3 mm. Weight: 148 grams.

- S-LCD multi-touch screen, size 4.3 inches, resolution of 960 x 540 pixels, using Gorilla anti-scratch, durable glass.

- Integrated motion sensor, light sensor, gyroscope.

- 1 GB of internal memory, 768 MB RAM.

- MicroSD memory card slot, support up to 32 GB.

- Qualcomm MSM 8260 dual-core processor, 1.2 GHz clock, Adreno 220 GPU graphics core.

- Pre-installed Android OS version 2.3.3.

- 8.0 MP main camera (3264 x 2448 pixels), autofocus, support Full HD 1080p / 30fps video recording. VGA secondary camera, video voice service.

- Connection ports: microUSB, 3.5mm headphone jack.

- Wireless connection: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, DLNA, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS.

- Li-Ion battery, capacity of 1520 mAh.

Screen, display

S-LCD Sensation screen, 4, 3 inch size, 960 x 540 pixels resolution, using durable, scratch-resistant Gorilla glass. This is one of the screen is highly appreciated in smartphones running Android.

However, through actual comparison in many different conditions, the Sensation screen is not really outstanding. Compared with Desire S (also using S-LCD screen but smaller size, lower resolution), the display of details on the screen of the Sensation is still not nice and bright. Sensation screen shows the black spot is not as deep as Desire S, and in the bright white areas, Sensation is more opaque than Desire S.

Although there are no experimental conditions to compare Sensation with LG Optimus 2X and Samsung Galaxy S II, but simply by comparing it to the same screen of a product with the same company, it is probably difficult to give a high score. with display quality of Sensation.

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HTC Sensation is equipped with scratch-resistant Gorilla display. (Photo: Phongcachmobile).

In addition, despite the high screen resolution, in fact there are very few images, the default icon on Android matches this screen resolution. If you look carefully at the default images and icons on Sensation, users will immediately see the "pitting" phenomenon and the lines are not really smooth. Particularly only HTC's own software and Sense 3.0 interface is suitable and gives good image quality on Sensation.

Camera, picture

HTC equipped the 8 Megapixel main camera Sensation (3,264 x 2,448 pixels), autofocus, supports 1080p HD video / 30 frames per second and VGA secondary camera, Internet video / voice telephony service.

In fact, the secondary camera on Android has not worked much for the majority of the Android user community in Vietnam. However, HTC has not equipped the image processor for this camera system, so the image quality of this camera is not really the highlight.

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8MP camera, Full HD 1080p video recording. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

The quality of images recorded from this camera is quite good, detailed and honest. But if used in low light conditions, image quality is significantly reduced, noise is high. In some details such as lightness or color fidelity of finished products, Sensation is slightly better.

Sensation's camera system supports 1080p full HD video recording at 30 frames per second. Compared to the video that Optimus 2X turns, the quality of video from Sensation is similar but the color fidelity and the ability to regulate light when moving between areas of light are better.

Connection and software overview

Sensation has wireless and wired connectivity. It has peripheral connection ports: microUSB, 3.5mm headphone jack. Wireless connections include: Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, DLNA, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS. Sensation lacks HDMI connector - the most advanced connection port on current smartphones.

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1.2GHz dual-core chip. (Photo: Phongcachmobile).

Sensation of Bluetooth with home speakers, Sensation shows fast and stable connectivity. And Wi-Fi links are more diverse, capable of catching very stable waves. At the moment, there is a lot of conflicting information about Sensation's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth transceiver capabilities in some cases, but through actual testing, some of the comments raised the device's errors. The part is not correct.

According to subjective evaluation, the connection on Sensation is very good, maybe the shortcomings in the comments that are due to errors in hardware and only occur in certain machines.

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Machine running Android v2.3.3. (Photo: Phongcachmobile).

Because of its rich connectivity, Sensation also offers a variety of entertainment capabilities, based on Android version 2.3.3. It also uses the exclusive interface Sense version 3.0. Details of the new interface will be discussed in more detail later.

Particularly with Android 2.3.3, Sensation allows users to use almost all software and utilities provided on Market application market. And since then, all communication, entertainment, learning and educational capabilities can be downloaded, updated and used.

Sense 3.0

Sensation is the first device built by HTC with Sense 3.0 interface. This interface works under 3-dimensional shapes so it is more intuitive than 2-way forms on the popular Sense 2.1 interface.

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Sense 3.0 interface set. (Photo: Phongcachmobile).

On Sense 3.0, in addition to improving images for better fit, more realistic and beautiful colors, HTC has also added the ability to change the way of unlocking. How to unlock on Sense 3.0 is how to pull the circle upwards (just like on the HTC Flyer) but completely different from the interface 2.1 (sliding the horizontal bar down).

In addition, this Sense 3.0 interface " consumes " huge RAM. Through experimentation, it has just started and has turned off some of the underground tasks of some unnecessary services that have lost more than 60% of RAM. If running a few other tasks, especially the tasks that require a lot of memory such as games, high graphics applications . then the capacity of 768 MB RAM of Sensation does not seem to meet the ability.

And perhaps also understand that, HTC has equipped a small application, which also belongs to Sense to cater for better RAM management, as well as help users to turn off running applications. implicit. However, this application has not shown many outstanding capabilities compared to some software being offered on Market.

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Sense 3.0 interface "consumes" huge RAM. (Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

However, the display of Vietnamese fonts on the screen lock interface of Sense 3.0 is in error.

Dual core chip, performance and battery

Using Qualcomm MSM 8260 chip with 1.2 GHz clock allows Sensation to work well. It demonstrates the power in running software as well as processing information.

Compared with the actual Incredible S and Desire HD, Sensation processing speed is about 1.5 times higher. The graphic ability of Sensation is also quite strong. However, the device still encounters some drawbacks when playing with flash and graphics-heavy games (in HD on Market).

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It heats up fast when performance is high. (Photo: Phongcachmobile).

One point to note is that Sensation is hot very fast. Probably the metal shell and part due to high performance. The device is mainly hot in the lower part, where the hardware, memory card slot, sim slot and microphone system, touch keys are concentrated. If the most common comment, the Sensation shows the true dual core power, somewhat better than Optimus 2X a bit.

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Multitasking, Sense 3.0 interface and screen are the main cause of battery drain.
(Photo: Phongcachmobile) .

HTC equips this dual-core mobile phone with a capacity of 1,520 mAh. In fact, with such performance, this battery capacity only meets the operation duration for about a day.

Specifically, the average test level in a day includes jobs such as 24/24 3G connection to push mail / news / Twitter / weather / positioning, listen to music for about 20 minutes, play games for 30 minutes, surf the web / download software from Market several times with a total time of about 30 minutes, listen to the average frequency call (20 calls, less than 40 minutes of voice). Basically, the battery " Sensors" of Sensation are the tasks that go along with Sense 3.0 interface and screen.