[Q] It's 19th now, does some lucky one get the sensation?

[bioheart]

waiting for your good news!

 

[Sofly999]

take a look at your calendar again

 

[kietua]

It's 19th on this side of the world. Guess we'll have to wait till they get some sun on their side.
Oh! the excitement is killing me.

 

[boostedb16b]

im dying to see this phone and what its really capable of and get some reviews... regardless tho im still buying 1 on june 8th

 

[DSensation]

SO its 9:02 at London, UK :O I am very interested in any information available ^_^

 

[Paten]

I am waiting for the first review/unboxing videos. I'd like to see a close up of the box to see the specifications on the device as shipped. If it supports the correct frequencies out of the box, I might import one from the UK instead of buying the Sensation 4G in the hopes of being able to continue using my t-zones data plan on T-mobile US.

 

[DSensation]

I am waiting for the first review/unboxing videos. I'd like to see a close up of the box to see the specifications on the device as shipped. If it supports the correct frequencies out of the box, I might import one from the UK instead of buying the Sensation 4G in the hopes of being able to continue using my t-zones data plan on T-mobile US.

Same here :O

 

[beautyangel]

france, sfr vodaphone not yet

still waiting to own one................ oooooooooh man where's our sensation. too hard to wait.

 

[craigio86]

I work in a Vodafone store, so I got to have a ten minute play with a Sensation this afternoon. It kills me to say it, because I was hoping to upgrade to one from a Desire, but I wasn't impressed.

Most notably, the screen is nowhere near the standard of the Galaxy SII. By comparison it appears a little dull. This, however, isn't hugely important to me. I'm far more interested in how the phone actually performs...

There's no doubt it's an impressive phone, but there was something jarring about the way the phone runs. It's not smooth, there's too much judder, it felt unpolished and it lacked the intuitive WOW! you felt the first time you handled a Desire. I don't know how to phrase it, but it just didn't feel snappy to the touch the way the Desire does.

First I noticed was when I entered the wallpaper gallery and began to cycle through the pre-loaded ones. It only displays thumbnails for the four that are initially in view (they're stacked and they rotate round) - go past those and you're left with a loading image for 2-4 seconds whilst it generates the thumbnails. Scroll back to the first four, it does the same thing again, even though it had already loaded those previews once. Exactly the same in the gallery. Plus, they whiz round so quickly that it's very irritating trying to pinpoint one.

The keyboard lacks the punch I've come to expect from the HTC range. Both the vibration and visual feedback (popups) seem out of kilter with what you're typing. I couldn't take my eyes off it and type blindly like I can with all the other HTC Android phones.

Bring up your apps home, there's no smooth slide like on the Desire. It leaps up in three noticeably juddery steps. Cycling round the homescreens, the animation isn't smooth. This could just be a case of getting used to the size of the thing though.

Went to the skins section - the ones loaded on the Desire HD and Desire S (the brushed metal etc) are missing. Odd. Maybe they're obtainable from the HTC Hub? The ones currently there are, strangely, the same one with different wallpapers.

OK, I know these things are petty and probably not much of a concern to users here. I didn't have a good chance to really get to grips with the phone and explore, and it's possible that some of the lag could be alleviated by playing with settings. It's just that it was so noticeable that it grated on me and stopped me enjoying exploring the phone for the first time.

The new lock screen is very impressive though. But I think, overall, I'll be holding off to see if my experiences are echoed by early adopters and the professional reviewers.

 

[dangerousp]

Was it the first time you started it up? Were there a lot of widgets and apps refreshing? I cant imagine that its that slow!

 

[epsix]

For 400 buck I ain't complaining

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[Bratag]

I work in a Vodafone store, so I got to have a ten minute play with a Sensation this afternoon. It kills me to say it, because I was hoping to upgrade to one from a Desire, but I wasn't impressed.

Most notably, the screen is nowhere near the standard of the Galaxy SII. By comparison it appears a little dull. This, however, isn't hugely important to me. I'm far more interested in how the phone actually performs...

There's no doubt it's an impressive phone, but there was something jarring about the way the phone runs. It's not smooth, there's too much judder, it felt unpolished and it lacked the intuitive WOW! you felt the first time you handled a Desire. I don't know how to phrase it, but it just didn't feel snappy to the touch the way the Desire does.

First I noticed was when I entered the wallpaper gallery and began to cycle through the pre-loaded ones. It only displays thumbnails for the four that are initially in view (they're stacked and they rotate round) - go past those and you're left with a loading image for 2-4 seconds whilst it generates the thumbnails. Scroll back to the first four, it does the same thing again, even though it had already loaded those previews once. Exactly the same in the gallery. Plus, they whiz round so quickly that it's very irritating trying to pinpoint one.

The keyboard lacks the punch I've come to expect from the HTC range. Both the vibration and visual feedback (popups) seem out of kilter with what you're typing. I couldn't take my eyes off it and type blindly like I can with all the other HTC Android phones.

Bring up your apps home, there's no smooth slide like on the Desire. It leaps up in three noticeably juddery steps. Cycling round the homescreens, the animation isn't smooth. This could just be a case of getting used to the size of the thing though.

Went to the skins section - the ones loaded on the Desire HD and Desire S (the brushed metal etc) are missing. Odd. Maybe they're obtainable from the HTC Hub? The ones currently there are, strangely, the same one with different wallpapers.

OK, I know these things are petty and probably not much of a concern to users here. I didn't have a good chance to really get to grips with the phone and explore, and it's possible that some of the lag could be alleviated by playing with settings. It's just that it was so noticeable that it grated on me and stopped me enjoying exploring the phone for the first time.

The new lock screen is very impressive though. But I think, overall, I'll be holding off to see if my experiences are echoed by early adopters and the professional reviewers.

Well that doesn't bode well. The thumbnail generation has always sucked on android but that sounds above and beyond sucky. Keyboard doesnt worry me because lets face it there are alternatives out the wingwang nowdays. The apps home thing is worrying but none of the other demos I saw have displayed this kind of judder. Was it possible you were syncing just a ****load of contacts etc from your gmail?

 

[Killbynature]

Probably the first time start up also 10 minutes is no where good enough. For an initial impression. The phone goes through a processes first usually. I hope your talking about a desire s cause you would think the original desire will be slower.

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[Scoop24]

Well it's a review. I do think it's possible the phone was still loading up or syncing.

So I'll wait on guys that own the phone and have had more 10 mins with it.

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[craigio86]

Well that doesn't bode well. The thumbnail generation has always sucked on android but that sounds above and beyond sucky. Keyboard doesnt worry me because lets face it there are alternatives out the wingwang nowdays. The apps home thing is worrying but none of the other demos I saw have displayed this kind of judder. Was it possible you were syncing just a ****load of contacts etc from your gmail?

Well, the first five minutes were a play without a SIM card inserted. Make of that what you will. After the store demo SIM was put in, performance didn't change. The thumbnail generation issue was the most noticeable flaw - just because the gallery is set up in such a way that you expect to be able to scroll smoothly through the images, but that just didn't happen.

Maybe it didn't come across in my original post, but I must emphasise, I came at this phone from the viewpoint of wanting to upgrade from my original Desire. I previously owned an HTC Hero, and when I first laid hands on a Desire, I was instantly wowed by the difference in terms of the overall slickness of the UI - bear in mind, the UI didn't look hugely different from the Hero to the Desire. I didn't get the same feeling of 'I must have this phone NOW!' with the Sensation. That's not to say that it doesn't do everything we've come to expect very well. It's just that my initial impressions were hampered by, what I felt to be, lack of polish.

Also, when entering the camera, there was a noticeable distortion of the image. A kind of white haze moving quickly across the screen in vertical bars. I don't know whether this is a screen issue, a camera issue, or something to be expected though.

Of course, it is possible that it was a duff unit. I have come across Desires, and all other models of phone for that matter, in my time at Vodafone that just don't perform properly.

 

[craigio86]

*perhaps distortion is the wrong word. It's just more of a subtle 'interference' with the picture that I haven't noticed before on HTC cameras.

 

[Bratag]

Well, the first five minutes were a play without a SIM card inserted. Make of that what you will. After the store demo SIM was put in, performance didn't change. The thumbnail generation issue was the most noticeable flaw - just because the gallery is set up in such a way that you expect to be able to scroll smoothly through the images, but that just didn't happen.

Maybe it didn't come across in my original post, but I must emphasise, I came at this phone from the viewpoint of wanting to upgrade from my original Desire. I previously owned an HTC Hero, and when I first laid hands on a Desire, I was instantly wowed by the difference in terms of the overall slickness of the UI - bear in mind, the UI didn't look hugely different from the Hero to the Desire. I didn't get the same feeling of 'I must have this phone NOW!' with the Sensation. That's not to say that it doesn't do everything we've come to expect very well. It's just that my initial impressions were hampered by, what I felt to be, lack of polish.

Also, when entering the camera, there was a noticeable distortion of the image. A kind of white haze moving quickly across the screen in vertical bars. I don't know whether this is a screen issue, a camera issue, or something to be expected though.

Of course, it is possible that it was a duff unit. I have come across Desires, and all other models of phone for that matter, in my time at Vodafone that just don't perform properly.

Wow ok none of that sounds right. I know the camera was something they were really trumpeting as a selling point and it was demoed many times for lots of different people. I sure don't remember a white haze and distortion.

Grab another unit eh

PS: Thanks for the info

 

[craigio86]

Wow ok none of that sounds right. I know the camera was something they were really trumpeting as a selling point and it was demoed many times for lots of different people. I sure don't remember a white haze and distortion.

Grab another unit eh

PS: Thanks for the info

I will be having a much closer play with it over the next few days to see if I warm to it. The camera thing, I did only look once and I know from owning a Desire, that sometimes I open the camera, it behaves strangely, so I exit and go back, fixed. I'll check it out further

 

[boostedb16b]

i have been hovering around the threads all day and i must say the 2 different reviews have me confused and then i had my cousin go to check out a demo version and they were none available so hmm... i really need a video review

 

[tidusuk123]

Hi Guys and Girls,

I'm a store manager at a Phones 4u store in Woolwich, London. Just to let you know that the HTC Sensation will be released tomorrow (20/05/2011) I will have limited stock availability tomorrow.

This will be available on a 24 month contract on Vodafone only at £35 per month and on 18 months at £45 per month, again only on Vodafone. There may be other tariffs but I will not know until tomorrow.

If anyone is local and is desperate to get your hands on this device please contact the store on 0208 316 2638.

Unfortunately as much as I am a huge fan of XDA Developers and love the support from everyone that posts I am unable to offer any special discount.

The only thing I will do is give a free case (An official HTC one worth £19.99) with your phone if you mention that you got this message from XDA Developers.

Thanks,

I'm not trying to post ads here but I'm sure there are people who are just as excited as I am to get this phone so I thought I'd give all you a heads up