Engadget review
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My issue is not who got higher. My problem is the inconsistency with the review and the score card. If the phone is an 8/10 then so be it but the review says differently and they do this all the time though. I stopped paying attention to Engadget's scoring.
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Doesn't seem the phones about the same before anyone comes in and says engadget review is proper it mostly got a lower score for the screen they feel super amoled plus is better than super LCD the camera kept cropping the picture all sense phones do this to make it better on a lower resolution. They didn't like that you didn't get great headphones with the device for great sound Settings. The score is actually lower by opinion the bootloader should of never been mentioned truthfully they did that for the hell of it. I'll give both the phones a 9 simply cause they. Both succeed where other can not. If the iPhone 5 comes out. No one will mention that it's not able to be jailbroken.
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I'm still convinced HTC saw they didn't have THE hottest phone. This must have at least been a factor in bootloadergate. Also they were second to the dual core market, and really third when you add the Atrix. Sammy therefore (totally sloughing off the Atrix !!) got first blood: HTC had to try to knock it off the mountaintop. I honestly think that the bootloader is a serious/worth a point issue. Yes the average guy couldn't spell ROM, but if you're Engadget it's your job to point this out. The 8/10 is death by 1000 cuts plus the bootloader. The Slashgear review is a better head to head, but it also gets to pretty much the same place. I know they aren't real world things, but benchmarks are still showing significant differences in many tests. Colour aberrations in cameras and screens also have to be a factor against the Sensation. You can unquestionably see it in both the Slash and En reviews. At the end of the day, sure, we can see more emails in landscape mode, but we can also see 178 degree viewing angles and, oversaturated or not, colours that pop, with blacks seen only at the event horizon. I think we respond more to those intense experiences more.
Also, and this may be personal, but sorry 30 grams is 30 grams. The Senasation might feel better industrial design wise, but at the end of the day, an ounce over your head in bed, or at other times, you'll feel it. The iPad and new Sammy Tab are both lauded for their lightness.
Slash said sg2 2 day battery, Sensation a little over a day. Engadget seemed to also credit the SG2 with nearly 2 days average use, the Sensation a bit over one.
Engadget are not apple fanboys , you could even say Josh was/is a closet webOS guy, but c'mon, let's be fair...you put an iP4 in your hand and it is gorgeous. I know industrial design is a relatively small part of these complex devices, but credit where credit is due. From the reviews I've seen the Sensation is every bit as beautiful as an iP4. They want to make it a handset cool enough for the sheep to say nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah to iSheeple (and it IS lustworthy, in our most honest moments I think we'll all agree). But the SG2 is also quite handsome. I have a Taiwanese coworker here who I kept selling the SG2 to on it's merits, but deriding it's looks, but when he saw it, he thought it was stunning. So even though the HTC has a less plastic experience, it ain't "all that". The body design could wind up with the guts becoming loose from the shell after being ridden hard and put away wet?
As a conspiracist/apple hater/millenarian I'm convinced that the media oligarchs use every, and any, opportunity to foist apple upon the sheeple to maintain their iTunes grip on our throats. So that said if the locked bootloader cost the Sensation a point, so should iTunes....and En recently had an editorial decrying iTunes. Let's hope the the iP5 gets 8/10 for iTunes!
My next parallel apple/Sense vs. SG2 is every time I use an iPhone it bores me. I had a handspring 180 when most folks didn't even realise they had text messaging, so know that I like my phone to challenge and open up a world of customization to me. C'mon guys apple deserves significant praise, but not the cover of the NYT, People, and Proctology Today. HTC values industrial design as much as apple, and sees that Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson are popular with, shall we say, less than brilliant volk. So Sense is all eye candy but seems to wear off really fast. They want to make these incredibly complex units sexy and simple to all. Simple doesn't appeal to all people, but it definitely is low on the list of the target Engadget reader. But dang I do want Sense 3.0! I would love to have the (free?) Locations with it's offline maps, and that lock screen ultimately excuses the lack of a dedicated camera button.
Most of the few real world people so far say the Sensation just doesn't blow them away, but is great nonetheless. All I know is the reviewers at the "name" publications all seem to say the Sensation is not quite as good as the SG2. These guys do this for a living. They spend several days, which is long enough, using these phones as their main device. Yes they only use them in near NIB format, but that is the most objective way. But the key thing is then they go on to the next super, or just average phone, then they go home with their personal phone. The pile of phones Vlad had showed he has intimately seen more phones than you or I ever will. He's not some French word for shower like Pogue who seemingly only reviews apple products. He's seen 'em all.
Also, and this may be personal, but sorry 30 grams is 30 grams. The Senasation might feel better industrial design wise, but at the end of the day, an ounce over your head in bed, or at other times, you'll feel it. The iPad and new Sammy Tab are both lauded for their lightness.
Slash said sg2 2 day battery, Sensation a little over a day. Engadget seemed to also credit the SG2 with nearly 2 days average use, the Sensation a bit over one.
Engadget are not apple fanboys , you could even say Josh was/is a closet webOS guy, but c'mon, let's be fair...you put an iP4 in your hand and it is gorgeous. I know industrial design is a relatively small part of these complex devices, but credit where credit is due. From the reviews I've seen the Sensation is every bit as beautiful as an iP4. They want to make it a handset cool enough for the sheep to say nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah to iSheeple (and it IS lustworthy, in our most honest moments I think we'll all agree). But the SG2 is also quite handsome. I have a Taiwanese coworker here who I kept selling the SG2 to on it's merits, but deriding it's looks, but when he saw it, he thought it was stunning. So even though the HTC has a less plastic experience, it ain't "all that". The body design could wind up with the guts becoming loose from the shell after being ridden hard and put away wet?
As a conspiracist/apple hater/millenarian I'm convinced that the media oligarchs use every, and any, opportunity to foist apple upon the sheeple to maintain their iTunes grip on our throats. So that said if the locked bootloader cost the Sensation a point, so should iTunes....and En recently had an editorial decrying iTunes. Let's hope the the iP5 gets 8/10 for iTunes!
My next parallel apple/Sense vs. SG2 is every time I use an iPhone it bores me. I had a handspring 180 when most folks didn't even realise they had text messaging, so know that I like my phone to challenge and open up a world of customization to me. C'mon guys apple deserves significant praise, but not the cover of the NYT, People, and Proctology Today. HTC values industrial design as much as apple, and sees that Lady Gaga and Michael Jackson are popular with, shall we say, less than brilliant volk. So Sense is all eye candy but seems to wear off really fast. They want to make these incredibly complex units sexy and simple to all. Simple doesn't appeal to all people, but it definitely is low on the list of the target Engadget reader. But dang I do want Sense 3.0! I would love to have the (free?) Locations with it's offline maps, and that lock screen ultimately excuses the lack of a dedicated camera button.
Most of the few real world people so far say the Sensation just doesn't blow them away, but is great nonetheless. All I know is the reviewers at the "name" publications all seem to say the Sensation is not quite as good as the SG2. These guys do this for a living. They spend several days, which is long enough, using these phones as their main device. Yes they only use them in near NIB format, but that is the most objective way. But the key thing is then they go on to the next super, or just average phone, then they go home with their personal phone. The pile of phones Vlad had showed he has intimately seen more phones than you or I ever will. He's not some French word for shower like Pogue who seemingly only reviews apple products. He's seen 'em all.
By the same token, so do the SGSII owners. Otherwise, why would they be posting in HTC threads about how superior they think their phone is?
I am in the United States, where neither phone has been released yet. As such, I haven't purchased the Sensation yet. Yes, Sensation may not be perfect. However, my experience with HTC has been top-notch. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for Samsung. I am very comfortable with my decision to buy the Sensation once it is released.
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Yes those in the uk had a good exp with the first galaxy phone. But the USA didn't have that experience. The galaxy not saying every one but majority samsung kind made a mess with it USA release.
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Actually, Engadget said "...can buy the Sensation safe in the knowledge that it'll last for a good couple of days of casual use..." and that it seemed to use less power than the Galaxy S2 in idle. Contrasts with TechRadar which lends credence to the idea that the TechRadar review phone was faulty (or miss configured). Either way, I just need to know the phone will last a day of comfortable use as charging every night isn't an issue.
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