[INFO] Sensation unboxing video

[kgbkny]

Looks like the first one is in!

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-sensation-unboxing-first-impressions-video-20153278/

 

[beautyangel]

Great

Nice post dude.thx

 

[Axxess]

Thanx man .. nice one
I have been waiting for that video ..
Cheers!

 

[samnada]

Nice vid.

Phone seems quite responsive for normal use tasks. I don't give a whit about benchmark #'s, just usability, and in that vid it seems as good as I'd hoped. Time and user reports will tell if it's up to par all around, and where the inevitable weaknesses are.

Thanks.

 

[aoryx]

about the back cover
is there 2 versions one with black back cover and one with tri-colored back???

 

[umd]

Another video but shorter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xedJrRAvS-c

 

[daivik]

about the back cover
is there 2 versions one with black back cover and one with tri-colored back???

There is only one back cover.

it goes rubbery-plastic (feel very premium) then aluminium, then rubbery-plastic. it just depends on the light you look at it. It can look, monotone, 2-tone or tri-colour.

 

[aoryx]

There is only one back cover.

it goes rubbery-plastic (feel very premium) then aluminium, then rubbery-plastic. it just depends on the light you look at it. It can look, monotone, 2-tone or tri-colour.

sounds awesome
thanks

 

[twisted-pixel]

I notice that they say the rendering when viewing an inernet page isn't as good as the iphone and is still a bit choppy. I hated this on my HD2, on the iphone, it's like the whole page is there, and you are just moving the viewing area, on all HTCs I've seen it's like the phone only renders the bit you're looking at and each time you move it has to rebuild the page...it was very annoying and I hope it's improved a lot!!

 

[silverwolf0]

Things I noticed in the unboxing.

1. The screen seems to be very reflective and watery. They say it's "toughened" glass but dunno if that means thick glass. Even when the guy's hands are dim the phone itself is still reflecting a lot of light and glare.

2. Speed does look fast, but HTC screwed it up with those low frame animations. It's all about perception, so a super-slow but fully animated smooth transition will feel faster than a choppy but quick one.

 

[daivik]

Things I noticed in the unboxing.

1. The screen seems to be very reflective and watery. They say it's "toughened" glass but dunno if that means thick glass. Even when the guy's hands are dim the phone itself is still reflecting a lot of light and glare.

2. Speed does look fast, but HTC screwed it up with those low frame animations. It's all about perception, so a super-slow but fully animated smooth transition will feel faster than a choppy but quick one.

Agreed, on another unboxing, I believe it said that the S-LCD had a fair bit of glare.

Although one said viewing angels are good (i think slash gear) but another said it's really bad. Quite odd really.

 

[walk.away]

Things I noticed in the unboxing.

1. The screen seems to be very reflective and watery. They say it's "toughened" glass but dunno if that means thick glass. Even when the guy's hands are dim the phone itself is still reflecting a lot of light and glare.

2. Speed does look fast, but HTC screwed it up with those low frame animations. It's all about perception, so a super-slow but fully animated smooth transition will feel faster than a choppy but quick one.

I have thought the colours looked washed out also, from every video since launch, but looking at the users photos in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1088170
everything looks great.

 

[Trekest]

Was I the only one who noticed that it only had 558 MB RAM in total? That's even less than on the Desire HD. Did I misinterpret something or did HTC really screw up?

 

[daivik]

Was I the only one who noticed that it only had 558 MB RAM in total? That's even less than on the Desire HD. Did I misinterpret something or did HTC really screw up?

It has 768mb. But 210mb ram is used in sense/gpu/Android/etc. Only 558mb is usable by apps/the user. How much usable has the HD got??

Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App

 

[nirvana2506]

I think that some is reserved for the OS (its the same with the samsung galaxy s2 where ~800mb are shown instead of 1024mb)

 

[Bratag]

I notice that they say the rendering when viewing an inernet page isn't as good as the iphone and is still a bit choppy. I hated this on my HD2, on the iphone, it's like the whole page is there, and you are just moving the viewing area, on all HTCs I've seen it's like the phone only renders the bit you're looking at and each time you move it has to rebuild the page...it was very annoying and I hope it's improved a lot!!

Every time I hear this I laugh. iPhones don't do flash. Its always going to be faster/easier to render a page without that and almost every website has some flash content on it nowdays.

 

[Trekest]

On the Desire HD (according to a post on SlashGear, NOT personal experience) there is 633 MB of RAM available to the user.

Also note that without much running on the device in that video the memory usage was as high as 400 MB.

Should I feel worried? Well, probably not since Android has an excellent garbage collection management, and it knows to purge redundant open apps when additional memory is required.

The only thing that troubles me is that since the system takes a larger portion of the RAM without compensating by increasing it, that on a longer term, and with additional apps installed, it might start lagging.

 

[Bratag]

On the Desire HD (according to a post on SlashGear, NOT personal experience) there is 633 MB of RAM available to the user.

Also note that without much running on the device in that video the memory usage was as high as 400 MB.

Should I feel worried? Well, probably not since Android has an excellent garbage collection management, and it knows to purge redundant open apps when additional memory is required.

The only thing that troubles me is that since the system takes a larger portion of the RAM without compensating by increasing it, that on a longer term, and with additional apps installed, it might start lagging.

I will most likely ditch most the HTC eye candy in the first five minutes and keep just the lock screen etc if I get this phone. Sure its pretty but not practical.

 

[mouzaihem]

I notice that they say the rendering when viewing an inernet page isn't as good as the iphone and is still a bit choppy. I hated this on my HD2, on the iphone, it's like the whole page is there, and you are just moving the viewing area, on all HTCs I've seen it's like the phone only renders the bit you're looking at and each time you move it has to rebuild the page...it was very annoying and I hope it's improved a lot!!

From what I've seen and heard the rendering on an internet page is actually very, very good. Due to the high resolution you can view pages and read text without having to zoom in, etc.

 

[umd]

New one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRIna6CUUiY



How much free ram do you guys have after first boot and killed apps respectively?