Should i, or shoul'nt i buy Sensation?

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Hi all

Can someone recommend me to buy this device?!
What is the ups and downs of it?
It's kinda new here in Sweden so i want as much input as possible before i buy it.

Batterytime? Good or bad?
Is the Sense 3 well done without to many flaws? If any, which one?!

Thanks in advanced!

Is it possible to root it? If so, how?

there are quite a few threads asking all of these same questions. I love my phone.

My suggestion is to go to your nearest wireless dealer & go play with one of their phones. No one here is gonna help convince you on whether you're gonna get the phone. You're doing yourself a disservice by asking, just go play with it for 10-30 minutes & you'll know by then whether you'll want it.

also no root

Originally Posted by xnifex

there are quite a few threads asking all of these same questions. I love my phone.

My suggestion is to go to your nearest wireless dealer & go play with one of their phones. No one here is gonna help convince you on whether you're gonna get the phone. You're doing yourself a disservice by asking, just go play with it for 10-30 minutes & you'll know by then whether you'll want it.

also no root

You're right... just a bit excited about the specs and now i'm using a semi-sense 3 ROM on my HD2 and i'm just loving it. I have ordered the device now and i'm realy looking forward to see it in a couple of days.

I think it's better to ask owners of a device before reading test and reviews.
And i'm sorry to say but we don't have ONE single store that have this device for sale where i live, so i had to order it from a net shopping site. The same when i bought my HD2, had no chance to play with it before i bought it.
It's kinda christmas all over again when buying a new device.

About root, it must be solved soon ... RIGHT?!

Thanks for your reply

Yup, test the phone out in person. I did and the decision was easy.

Originally Posted by xSDMx

Yup, test the phone out in person. I did and the decision was easy.

What was your decision? How can you leave us hanging like that???

Originally Posted by ToddeSwe

Hi all

Can someone recommend me to buy this device?!
What is the ups and downs of it?
It's kinda new here in Sweden so i want as much input as possible before i buy it.

Batterytime? Good or bad?
Is the Sense 3 well done without to many flaws? If any, which one?!

Thanks in advanced!

Is it possible to root it? If so, how?

I have to say this is my favorite device next to the iphone i owned.

Ups = Fastest processor in the market, 8mp Camera the best ive ever seen compared to other 8mp camera phones, HD video top notch. The phone feels very solid and a little hefty in my hand, the contours in it makes it feel very premium.

Downs= Sense 3.0 is great for about a week or so and gets rather boring with all those animations, i dont really care about them. In my Case the phone randomly restarts on occasion, and the lil LED light on the top right doesnt do too much work, the Front facing camera could have been a little better. That is all i can think of at the moment. The resolution isnt too awe striking compaired to the Retina Display of the iPhone 4. Sumer AMOLED Plus isnt too much of a big deal. Its not visible in the sun at all.

SENSE 3.0 in detail is a great OS. It is very graphically heavy which means it uses tons of resources on the dinky 558mb memory, it uses 457mb just for the OS which is rather alarming. The little features in the os makes it a winner though.

Battery life compaired to the G2x isnt too different. If it is overused it gets overheated on the bottom part of the phone which suggests that is the location of all the hardware. The Battery life in all isnt too great like a blackberry where it lasts days at a time but if you spend all day at work randomly checking messages and answering calls it will last on a good day all day, but if you are playing games and videoing for hours on end it wont last for more than half a day. If you use it on a normal basis it will last you about a whole day no questions asked.

Originally Posted by ToddeSwe

You're right... just a bit excited about the specs and now i'm using a semi-sense 3 ROM on my HD2 and i'm just loving it. I have ordered the device now and i'm realy looking forward to see it in a couple of days.

I think it's better to ask owners of a device before reading test and reviews.
And i'm sorry to say but we don't have ONE single store that have this device for sale where i live, so i had to order it from a net shopping site. The same when i bought my HD2, had no chance to play with it before i bought it.
It's kinda christmas all over again when buying a new device.

About root, it must be solved soon ... RIGHT?!

Thanks for your reply

I had a g2x and a g2. I was happy with my g2x, only had minimal screen bleeding, no reboots, starting to get decent battery life... etc.. and the G2 was my spare phone. I installed a sense 3.0 rom on that phone and fell in love with it.. after I saw how smooth it ran on that phone I HAD to have the sensation. Now mind you, I LOVE sense's eye candy but NEVER used it more than 10-15 minutes before I switched to Cyanogen Mod or another AOSP rom because of the bog. So when we can flash these suckers I will definitely try an AOSP rom on it but have to admit I'm really liking sense on this phone. Its got it's little bugs here and there but I think it just needs to be more polished. If I got to a AOSP rom I will miss the sense eye candy but I cant wait to see how this phone flies without sense on it

Originally Posted by graffixnyc

What was your decision? How can you leave us hanging like that???

Whoops! Sorry about that. :P

I tried out two HTC Sensation mobiles and one G2X; honestly, besides the vibrant IPS screen on the G2X, the Sensation is vastly superior to the G2X.

Time will tell how the true performance of the asynchronous dual core stacks up. But, I am impressed. Impressed enough that I paid full price!

To the OP.

If you like gorgeous 4.3" qHD displays with an awesome 16:9 aspect ratio, then this is phone.

Also keep in mind the Sensation records audio in stereo. G2X and the SGS2 only record audio in mono. Pretty big deal if you plan on using the HD camcorder very much.

Originally Posted by Hoggles

To the OP.

If you like gorgeous 4.3" qHD displays with an awesome 16:9 aspect ratio, then this is phone.

Also keep in mind the Sensation records audio in stereo. G2X and the SGS2 only record audio in mono. Pretty big deal if you plan on using the HD camcorder very much.

yea ive noticed a significant difference! i went to a concert and recorded a song usign the g2x and one using the sensation, the music was loud and the g2x muffled and distorted at the loud music. the sensations dual mic gave the sound a run for its money and only distorted on really loud parts but most of the time it held its weight in gold! I think as a multimedia device for music, movies, games, recording music movies and taking pics the sensation dominates!

Another bug just happened to me!
what happened was i took off the back and it did a soft restart, after it came back app caches from downloaded apps from the sd card ended up showing in the app drawer but quickly dissapeared after a firm system restart!