June 29, 2011 at 06:23HTC Sensation. Sensation? Nothing like that
The post was not paid, and therefore I will flog the truth-uterus without brakes. The article turned out to be controversial, even in some places referring to "I am a villain." But still, the main theme is not indignation over the poor performance of the NTS company, but a review of the HTC Sensation phone without smoothing corners.
Who has prepared, but has not yet spent seven hundred US dollars on this pipe - do not rush, first read.
My first android was Desire. I exchanged HD2 for it, because I hesitated to butt with WinMo, and it was boring to return to the ranks of apple-phages.
Desire at the time of its appearance was good for almost everyone. There was only one thing that frankly annoyed me in it - the power button protruding from the end of the phone, because of which it constantly turned on in my pocket when changing the position of the body from a sedentary to a standing one, or even when moving up the stairs. With Desire, I passed a year, perverted over him as I could. And firmware, and batteries, and external gadgets. So I quite clearly imagine what the android is capable of.
In general, when I saw the first announcements of Pyramid, special attention was paid to the TTX of the phone. His dual-core and a large screen with a resolution almost like that of the 4th apple-tree, but on a larger diagonal, attracted me and I decided to upgrade to it as soon as possible.
The opportunity was realized via ebay in early June, and after almost two weeks of gambling with EMS, the phone was finally in my hands. I decided not to rush and devote at least a day to studying what HTC did with their Sense. “Suddenly I’ll like it and leave it?” Thoughtfully crawled over the interface quite a lot of time, “feeling” it.
I can honestly say - Sense 3.0 is the best shell in terms of visualization. A lot of all u-ty-tyuleyok that will equally please both geeks and ordinary users. The task manager “out of the box”, which is conveniently located in the top pull-out menu, was very pleased.
The new lockscreen is just a godsend. It is very convenient to run the application directly from it. I had four options available that run from the lock screen was enough.
Widgets like Friends Stream that have already become “native” have become much more convenient in the details. TweetDeck is still a long way off, but better than before.
The Mail app is probably the best email client for a phone I've seen. Simple, convenient, informative.
Locations also pleased, although not in everything. I was very pleased with the speed of finding myself on the ground. Launched for the first time in a moving auto Locations, it found itself in two minutes with an accuracy of 50m and then rebuilt for another minute to maximum accuracy. I am not a motorist, but I actively pedal. The program does not know how to use the “bicycle” mode, and it refused to lay the walking route from Novogireevo to Shchelkovskaya because it is far (!). I don’t know what distances go on foot in Taiwan, maybe 12 kilometers there - this is a serious hike for a week, but I simply just walk on. For this reason, I could not evaluate the quality of the built-in card. It leads confidently on the main roads, warns of turns, the route shifts quickly.
The camera is like a piece of iron - a complete and irrevocable sucks. Read more about the drawbacks in the sump. But the negative impressions in a substantial part are leveled out by a really very convenient camera application. There are quite a few customizable effects, which gives good scope in trying to pretend to be a hola or even a cool old film camera.
The screen does not seem huge after Desire, but it impresses with the amount of information that fits on it. In landscape mode, sites almost do not have to squeeze or stretch, and so everything is clearly visible. Now it became much more pleasant to browse any news site on the way to work. And how much easier it has become to work on the big screen in ConnectBot - I can’t even tell you.
Very pleased with the large amount of memory built into the phone. Still, after hemorrhoids with A2SD and moving applications back and forth, fighting for every megabyte, getting a gig is cool. After linking the phone to the account, I was distracted for 10 minutes, and when I turned it on, I found that all my software was already on the phone and I did not need to transfer anything anywhere.
First, Sense with all its wealth. I said this, I’m saying, and I’ll say it - HTC, tear out your hands and feet to your programmers and swap them. I don’t want the Stocks app to hang in my phone’s memory and eat my battery and my traffic. You should generally be more careful about user traffic. In Russia only in non-rubber there is a mobile anlim for more or less reasonable money. And in the USA, by the way, there are also tariffs with a limit of 200MB, and Sense eats by itself 4MB per day for all kinds of weather, location service and the godless Stocks (what’s it pumping out there?).
A battery is just a paragraph. HTC, my dear guys, the 1550mAh is the same battery as the Phillips Xenium x713. But he lives on it for a month. Read lips: me c. Sensation for 5 hours while I was sleeping, gobbled up 8% of the battery just lying on a table in the “4 sticks” zone. WiFi was turned off, cellular data was turned off, all applications were killed before the test began. Playing on the phone in the subway while you are driving to work is a sure way to provoke the generation of a bundle of bloody diarrhea towards HTC if you find a third battery that has run out in 40 minutes. I played the same games on Desire for the same amount of time and more than 10% of the charge did not go away during this time. Last night I saw that 29% of the battery was left. I turned on the video for recording. I managed to shoot 13 minutes exactly before the phone turned off. Those. the phone can shoot a maximum of 40 minutes of video, then either stick it in the cradle, or stick a new battery. What's the matter, gentlemen? And don't tell me about the gluttonous screen. They touted it as mega-thrifty.
Camera, again - rubbish. The fourth apple-tree, which is already a year old, gives the best quality pictures. And it doesn’t matter to me whether he does it with iron or post-processing. The hellish oversharp in photos and the world's most miserable noise control algorithm is what you get in photos from this handset. Added to this is the incredibly slow focus tracking algorithm. It is very difficult to shoot anything moving not in the transverse plane - the focus floats away. Let me remind you that the phone has two cameras, 8MP on the “back” and 0.3MP on the front side. So the front one is generally not worth mentioning - all the same, neither Skype nor Google shows a movie (at least to me).
The phone is warming up. With or without. Like the damned 270th atom. I honestly expected that dual-core would allow the phone to work under load in literally microseconds, so that it would not get warm quickly. Oh no. Carrying in the summer in the front pocket of your pants is a bad idea, you can get boiled “eggs in a pouch”. Watch YouTube, play 3D games, shoot on the camera - all this greatly warms up the phone. According to the battery monitor, the temperature can reach 51 degrees. I played Tower Raiders 2 for half an hour. It’s very uncomfortable to hold such a hot device in the palm of your hand. At least in the summer. But in winter, I feel, you can heat their pockets and not only.
Applications are not killed by a long “click on the button" Back. This is a natural setup. The same Skype can now be closed only using the Stop Skype application.
A back cover into which all antennas are displayed. Cool, cho. Goodbye dreams of an extended battery from Mugen Power. A bag of rock salt under the sheet to the engineer who invented it.
Holes all over the back cover. Holes for backlight LEDs, a hole in front of the camera module, a mesh of an external speaker, and as many as five some strange holes, the diameter of a needle, not counting the microphone below. What for? All the small debris from the pocket gathered in the phone case. To wipe the camera, you now need to remove the cover, blow it and the phone, and then crawl with a T-shirt right on the inside of the phone. Or is it such a feature - a vacuum cleaner phone?
The power button sticks out no worse than that of Desire. Moreover, given the increased size of the phone, now even when walking it spontaneously turns on, which I learn about by increasing the temperature in my pocket.
A loud soundtrack of the appearance of the main screen with the clock and weather after the lock-screen. What asshole did this come up with? At two in the morning he turned on the phone, and he began to voice the thunderstorm to me at full height! Yes, so that designer had children born in triples every year!
At the same time, the subscriber's audibility in a noisy street leaves much to be desired. It is not worse than that of Desire, but from such a shovel I expected more volume in my ear.
S-ON. It's just a tin what a bummer. The first thought after I realized that it would not be possible to alter the pipe until HTC was born an update, was to sell it to hell, while it was expensive, and buy some nexus, arch or something else that was normally sewn. Because everyone remembers how much time HTC feeds the “breakfasts” of Desire owners with 2.3+. The second thought was “I didn’t do this with EMS to just give up”. Nevertheless, if there is no unlock before August, then I will sell it. Because he does not intend to put up with battery lawlessness. The most disgusting thing is that everyone knows that in order to unlock sensation you just need to organize a “leak” from HTC to xda-developers, and there already interested parties will be taken around the world. And do not bother with any OTA. Those who are not interested will be happy with the stock locked firmware. Learn from Apple. And to me, please, give an open bootloader.
My feelings are very ambivalent. I bought this phone only for the screen. If Desire were put inside this case, and they would give the extra space under the battery, then I would be more happy than now. A lot of small and not very minuses significantly overshadow my life. On the plus side, I can say that I will most likely stop dragging the iPad with me, because now it’s also very comfortable to read from the phone.
In general, all the pluses are somehow related to the high resolution and screen size, but the minuses are a full body. My verdict after a week of use is not to buy if there is no really great need for a screen larger than 3.7 ”480 * 800.
Who has prepared, but has not yet spent seven hundred US dollars on this pipe - do not rush, first read.
Background
My first android was Desire. I exchanged HD2 for it, because I hesitated to butt with WinMo, and it was boring to return to the ranks of apple-phages.
Desire at the time of its appearance was good for almost everyone. There was only one thing that frankly annoyed me in it - the power button protruding from the end of the phone, because of which it constantly turned on in my pocket when changing the position of the body from a sedentary to a standing one, or even when moving up the stairs. With Desire, I passed a year, perverted over him as I could. And firmware, and batteries, and external gadgets. So I quite clearly imagine what the android is capable of.
In general, when I saw the first announcements of Pyramid, special attention was paid to the TTX of the phone. His dual-core and a large screen with a resolution almost like that of the 4th apple-tree, but on a larger diagonal, attracted me and I decided to upgrade to it as soon as possible.
The opportunity was realized via ebay in early June, and after almost two weeks of gambling with EMS, the phone was finally in my hands. I decided not to rush and devote at least a day to studying what HTC did with their Sense. “Suddenly I’ll like it and leave it?” Thoughtfully crawled over the interface quite a lot of time, “feeling” it.
Nishtyaki
I can honestly say - Sense 3.0 is the best shell in terms of visualization. A lot of all u-ty-tyuleyok that will equally please both geeks and ordinary users. The task manager “out of the box”, which is conveniently located in the top pull-out menu, was very pleased.
The new lockscreen is just a godsend. It is very convenient to run the application directly from it. I had four options available that run from the lock screen was enough.
Widgets like Friends Stream that have already become “native” have become much more convenient in the details. TweetDeck is still a long way off, but better than before.
The Mail app is probably the best email client for a phone I've seen. Simple, convenient, informative.
Locations also pleased, although not in everything. I was very pleased with the speed of finding myself on the ground. Launched for the first time in a moving auto Locations, it found itself in two minutes with an accuracy of 50m and then rebuilt for another minute to maximum accuracy. I am not a motorist, but I actively pedal. The program does not know how to use the “bicycle” mode, and it refused to lay the walking route from Novogireevo to Shchelkovskaya because it is far (!). I don’t know what distances go on foot in Taiwan, maybe 12 kilometers there - this is a serious hike for a week, but I simply just walk on. For this reason, I could not evaluate the quality of the built-in card. It leads confidently on the main roads, warns of turns, the route shifts quickly.
The camera is like a piece of iron - a complete and irrevocable sucks. Read more about the drawbacks in the sump. But the negative impressions in a substantial part are leveled out by a really very convenient camera application. There are quite a few customizable effects, which gives good scope in trying to pretend to be a hola or even a cool old film camera.
The screen does not seem huge after Desire, but it impresses with the amount of information that fits on it. In landscape mode, sites almost do not have to squeeze or stretch, and so everything is clearly visible. Now it became much more pleasant to browse any news site on the way to work. And how much easier it has become to work on the big screen in ConnectBot - I can’t even tell you.
Very pleased with the large amount of memory built into the phone. Still, after hemorrhoids with A2SD and moving applications back and forth, fighting for every megabyte, getting a gig is cool. After linking the phone to the account, I was distracted for 10 minutes, and when I turned it on, I found that all my software was already on the phone and I did not need to transfer anything anywhere.
Sedimentation tank
First, Sense with all its wealth. I said this, I’m saying, and I’ll say it - HTC, tear out your hands and feet to your programmers and swap them. I don’t want the Stocks app to hang in my phone’s memory and eat my battery and my traffic. You should generally be more careful about user traffic. In Russia only in non-rubber there is a mobile anlim for more or less reasonable money. And in the USA, by the way, there are also tariffs with a limit of 200MB, and Sense eats by itself 4MB per day for all kinds of weather, location service and the godless Stocks (what’s it pumping out there?).
A battery is just a paragraph. HTC, my dear guys, the 1550mAh is the same battery as the Phillips Xenium x713. But he lives on it for a month. Read lips: me c. Sensation for 5 hours while I was sleeping, gobbled up 8% of the battery just lying on a table in the “4 sticks” zone. WiFi was turned off, cellular data was turned off, all applications were killed before the test began. Playing on the phone in the subway while you are driving to work is a sure way to provoke the generation of a bundle of bloody diarrhea towards HTC if you find a third battery that has run out in 40 minutes. I played the same games on Desire for the same amount of time and more than 10% of the charge did not go away during this time. Last night I saw that 29% of the battery was left. I turned on the video for recording. I managed to shoot 13 minutes exactly before the phone turned off. Those. the phone can shoot a maximum of 40 minutes of video, then either stick it in the cradle, or stick a new battery. What's the matter, gentlemen? And don't tell me about the gluttonous screen. They touted it as mega-thrifty.
Camera, again - rubbish. The fourth apple-tree, which is already a year old, gives the best quality pictures. And it doesn’t matter to me whether he does it with iron or post-processing. The hellish oversharp in photos and the world's most miserable noise control algorithm is what you get in photos from this handset. Added to this is the incredibly slow focus tracking algorithm. It is very difficult to shoot anything moving not in the transverse plane - the focus floats away. Let me remind you that the phone has two cameras, 8MP on the “back” and 0.3MP on the front side. So the front one is generally not worth mentioning - all the same, neither Skype nor Google shows a movie (at least to me).
The phone is warming up. With or without. Like the damned 270th atom. I honestly expected that dual-core would allow the phone to work under load in literally microseconds, so that it would not get warm quickly. Oh no. Carrying in the summer in the front pocket of your pants is a bad idea, you can get boiled “eggs in a pouch”. Watch YouTube, play 3D games, shoot on the camera - all this greatly warms up the phone. According to the battery monitor, the temperature can reach 51 degrees. I played Tower Raiders 2 for half an hour. It’s very uncomfortable to hold such a hot device in the palm of your hand. At least in the summer. But in winter, I feel, you can heat their pockets and not only.
Applications are not killed by a long “click on the button" Back. This is a natural setup. The same Skype can now be closed only using the Stop Skype application.
A back cover into which all antennas are displayed. Cool, cho. Goodbye dreams of an extended battery from Mugen Power. A bag of rock salt under the sheet to the engineer who invented it.
Holes all over the back cover. Holes for backlight LEDs, a hole in front of the camera module, a mesh of an external speaker, and as many as five some strange holes, the diameter of a needle, not counting the microphone below. What for? All the small debris from the pocket gathered in the phone case. To wipe the camera, you now need to remove the cover, blow it and the phone, and then crawl with a T-shirt right on the inside of the phone. Or is it such a feature - a vacuum cleaner phone?
The power button sticks out no worse than that of Desire. Moreover, given the increased size of the phone, now even when walking it spontaneously turns on, which I learn about by increasing the temperature in my pocket.
A loud soundtrack of the appearance of the main screen with the clock and weather after the lock-screen. What asshole did this come up with? At two in the morning he turned on the phone, and he began to voice the thunderstorm to me at full height! Yes, so that designer had children born in triples every year!
At the same time, the subscriber's audibility in a noisy street leaves much to be desired. It is not worse than that of Desire, but from such a shovel I expected more volume in my ear.
S-ON. It's just a tin what a bummer. The first thought after I realized that it would not be possible to alter the pipe until HTC was born an update, was to sell it to hell, while it was expensive, and buy some nexus, arch or something else that was normally sewn. Because everyone remembers how much time HTC feeds the “breakfasts” of Desire owners with 2.3+. The second thought was “I didn’t do this with EMS to just give up”. Nevertheless, if there is no unlock before August, then I will sell it. Because he does not intend to put up with battery lawlessness. The most disgusting thing is that everyone knows that in order to unlock sensation you just need to organize a “leak” from HTC to xda-developers, and there already interested parties will be taken around the world. And do not bother with any OTA. Those who are not interested will be happy with the stock locked firmware. Learn from Apple. And to me, please, give an open bootloader.
Total
My feelings are very ambivalent. I bought this phone only for the screen. If Desire were put inside this case, and they would give the extra space under the battery, then I would be more happy than now. A lot of small and not very minuses significantly overshadow my life. On the plus side, I can say that I will most likely stop dragging the iPad with me, because now it’s also very comfortable to read from the phone.
In general, all the pluses are somehow related to the high resolution and screen size, but the minuses are a full body. My verdict after a week of use is not to buy if there is no really great need for a screen larger than 3.7 ”480 * 800.