[INFO] My Sensation experience so far.

[simacca]

Just been playing with my Sensation and the first thing I noticed was a couple of specs of dust under the screen Grrr!. They only show up outside under direct sunlight though.

Pros so far :

Screen is nice and clear, even outside (although reflective)

Feels lovely in the hand. Nowhere nears as big as I thought (also have iphone4).

Build quality seems good.

Cameras are nice and sharp.

Web browsing is quick.

Scrolling is smooth overall, although not up to iphone standards, but good enough.

GPS is quick and accurate.

Fingers glide effortlessly across the screen and fingerprints wipe off easily.

Am liking Sense so far.


Cons :

Viewing angles in portrait mode are pretty crap. Whites turn yellowy green when you tilt the screen slightly.

Movies do play with borders top and bottom.

Speaker is a bit tinny and low volume. Have set my ringtone to 'old phone'.

Screen is highly reflective.



Gonna carry on playing, so let me know if you want me to check anything on the phone.

Thanks.

 

[vegetaleb]

Again the ''crappy'' speaker!
Htc will never hear our compalints?
How is the video recording quality (image and sound)?

 

[dangerousp]

Do you have a lot of widgets? Does it speeds of in smoothness if you kill all of them except the clock?

I really notice on my cell, that's the main thing causing lag! And because the iPhone does not have any widgets but simple icons I'm wondering.

 

[madindehead]

About the speaker: For me, it seems a LOT better than my Desire HD speaker!

 

[umd]

Thanks a lot for the review. Though what I need to hear is not just "good" or "bad". I mean could you please rate using really bad, very bad, bad, average, good, very good, excellent or scoring like x/10? That would be more specific because most of present high-end phones are really close each other these days.

 

[DeezNotes]

That's funny. It makes me think "can you rate the phone by smiley face or frowney face ?" LOL

 

[Habbit]

Could you possibly test out playing back MKV and FLAC files? If this thing is going to be locked down for a while I'd like to at least be able to play high-quality media on the stock ROM.

 

[simacca]

Again the ''crappy'' speaker!
Htc will never hear our compalints?
How is the video recording quality (image and sound)?

Seems ok, but will need to transfer to pc for proper test.

 

[simacca]

Do you have a lot of widgets? Does it speeds of in smoothness if you kill all of them except the clock?

I really notice on my cell, that's the main thing causing lag! And because the iPhone does not have any widgets but simple icons I'm wondering.

Only the standard widgets so far, but not had any slowdown yet

 

[simacca]

About the speaker: For me, it seems a LOT better than my Desire HD speaker!

This is my first HTC device, so only have my iphone to compare.

 

[simacca]

Thanks a lot for the review. Though what I need to hear is not just "good" or "bad". I mean could you please rate using really bad, very bad, bad, average, good, very good, excellent or scoring like x/10? That would be more specific because most of present high-end phones are really close each other these days.

Ok. I will try to be more specific next time

 

[madindehead]

Could you possibly test out playing back MKV and FLAC files? If this thing is going to be locked down for a while I'd like to at least be able to play high-quality media on the stock ROM.

Even if it doesn't play MKV, you can convert them using DVD Video Soft software. Has a converter for HTC devices

 

[simacca]

Could you possibly test out playing back MKV and FLAC files? If this thing is going to be locked down for a while I'd like to at least be able to play high-quality media on the stock ROM.

Will do, but am still playing around with the phone. Need to get my head around all of the options.

So much different from the iphone, but in a good way.

 

[Habbit]

Even if it doesn't play MKV, you can convert them using DVD Video Soft software. Has a converter for HTC devices

I'd rather just not watch the movies if I have to convert them. In 2011, MKV support should be a standard.

 

[umd]

That's funny. It makes me think "can you rate the phone by smiley face or frowney face ?" LOL

lol. That's actually opposite to what I want.

Ok. I will try to be more specific next time

Thanks again for your understanding

 

[Bratag]

I'd rather just not watch the movies if I have to convert them. In 2011, MKV support should be a standard.

Agree. MKV should be playable by any new device coming out.

 

[daivik]

what's this business of videos/movies having borders?

Did a regular movie have these borders?


(wasn't that one of the "epic" things) that there are going to be no borders?
(on a sensation vid i've seen on slashgear - the Green HOrnet trailer had borders, now i think about it)

 

[Bratag]

what's this business of videos/movies having borders?

Did a regular movie have these borders?


(wasn't that one of the "epic" things) that there are going to be no borders?
(on a sensation vid i've seen on slashgear - the Green HOrnet trailer had borders, now i think about it)

It depends what res/ratio the movie was encoded in. The only thing the screen was designed to do in regards to this was enable viewing movies in true wide screen ratio.

 

[daivik]

It depends what res/ratio the movie was encoded in. The only thing the screen was designed to do in regards to this was enable viewing movies in true wide screen ratio.

Cheers, just found it a bit odd, that The Green Hornet, a big hollwood release wouldn't be in true widescreen.

 

[samnada]

what's this business of videos/movies having borders?

Did a regular movie have these borders?


(wasn't that one of the "epic" things) that there are going to be no borders?
(on a sensation vid i've seen on slashgear - the Green HOrnet trailer had borders, now i think about it)

Phone has HD (16:9) aspect ratio. Films are not shot in that format, so either cropping or bars are the result on HD displays. Same as on HD TV. HD video, or films re-formatted for HD, should play on the phone without bars.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Filmaspectratios_svg.svg