Reviews for Sim Free HTC Sensation
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Very Pleased
HTC Sensation - is it a worthy flag-ship product?
HTC Sensational Flop?
1. Battery life after a week of charging/using/charging the battery is very poor and a long way behind the iPhone 4. Mid-afternoon its almost out and that's with Blue-Tooth off. Use the camera and MP3 listening and you better have a charger handy. Dual-Core maybe fast and trend setting but battery life gets a real spanking.
2. How do HTC keep producing phones with such POOR AUDIO? They need to employ some Nokia engineers (I understand there maybe a few on the market these days) and learn a thing or two about the basic requirement of making not only the earphone loud enough but the speaker too. Not only are they poor quality, unless you bury the phone in your ear in a noisy environment you will struggle to hear anything. The iPhone (any Nokia) blows it away.
3. Touch screen is a great size. Pity the accuracy of key entry/swipe gestures often imitates old technology resistive technology, not a modern capacitive screen. Again, ( I really am not an Apple fan boy), use an iPhone 2, 3 or 4 next to a Sensation and you will want to launch the latter out of the window. It can be that bad.
4. Receiver sensitivity is DREADFULL. Not only do I lose calls in low signal areas where my iPhone is perfectly usable (and they are not that great on sensitivity) but I often have to re-set the phone to find the carrier.
5. Bluetooth. What a drama. I don't think I have ever come across a device where the range is so short. Unless I have the phone right next to me (forget leaving it on a desk near you) it drops out - constantly. Dare I say, with the same THREE other Blue-Tooth devices linked to my iPhone I can get at least 10-15ft away.
6. The HTC Sense is great - why don't they allow more icons on the home screen instead of a dirty great clock? I know its HTC's trade mark face but it seems a pity I have to download ADW APP to get over the problem.
My Sensation isn't faulty, (two other of my friends have identical problems with theirs), it's just poor design. With regard to Audio and Receive sensitivity (Blue-Tooth included) these cannot generally be improved by a firmware upgrade. If you fit a poor quality speaker it will always sound bad however you try and fluff it up with upgrades. There are many plus points but yet again HTC are still spoiling a great phone with fundamental design issues.
Wish I could give it 5 stars but no way. "Okay" is as good as it gets. Wait for the iPhone 5 and don't be tempted playing with the Sensation in a quiet phone shop with dim lighting. Did I mention the screen is almost impossible to read outside? You can crank up the screen brightness to max but if you do, make sure you have a spare battery in your pocket. Okay. I'll stop....
awesome phone
Would recommed the casemate tough case for the phone tis uber good
HTC misses the spot once again...
After watching many YouTube video's, reading endless reviews by so called "Pro" review websites on the HTC you would think that primary requirements of any phone could not be missed. By the new HTC Sensation and expect:
1. Still poor low audio from the earpiece. The iPhone by comparison (and Nokia) blows any iPhone away for audio level and clarity.
2. Pathetic audio output and again definition from the phones speaker. You would not believe how poor it is. The level is so low it's doubtful you will ever hear a call or indeed a text notification. There is an APP to increase but all that does is distort the audio.
3. The phones receivers (both cellular & Bluetooth) are poor. The Bluetooth is so bad that unless you have the connected device within 1m max it will drop out.
4. The cell receiver is down over the iPhone 4 and constantly looses calls. Phone used with 02 & Orange Sims.
5. The screen once again is unresponsive in comparison to the iPhone. Whilst it is capacitive, it often feels like a resistive screen with several stabs at trying to get it to operate. Not nice. Even worse when it gets hot (and the Sensation really does get hot - Dual-core maybe fast but certainly not "cool"!!)
6. Battery life. After over a week of use and re-charging the battery fails to get to early evening without a charge. If you enable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi then be prepared for an even earlier shut down. As a business phone or if you like listening to MP3's and/or taking images - take a spare battery, not that you should have to.
Plus points - speed, screen size, compactness (very slim) HTC Sense.
Note HTC - keep practicing - you can get it right (the HTC Flyer is an example of how good you can be)and despite what critics say about the battery life, it is very very good.
Now when is the iPhone 5 coming out?
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