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I'm stumbled between these 2 device on T-Mobile.
Even though the Sensation has 768 MB ram, and the G2X has 512mb ram, from all the videos I seen on youtube, the G2X seems a lot faster than the Sensation.
From gaming point of view, which will get more support? the Geforce ULP or the Adreno?
There is already a good thread comparing the two phones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120184
An app called Tegra zone made by Nvidia list games designed for the Tegra 2 devices.
I think there are current about 10 games on the list. I have some games on the Xoom, and the visual quality is excellent. Not sure how much improvement you will see on a smaller screen.
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There is already a good thread comparing the two phones.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1120184
There is also an app called Tegra zone made by Nvidia list games designed for the Tegra 2 devices.
I think there are current about 10 games on the list. I have some games on the Xoom, and the visual quality is excellent. Not sure how much improvement you will see on a smaller screen.
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I wonder if a stock HTC Sensation will run faster than a G2X.
To test it, we will need to root our phone and use app like SystemApp Remover to disable Sense, install ADW luncher on both devices and try it out.
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To test it, we will need to root our phone and use app like SystemApp Remover to disable Sense, install ADW luncher on both devices and try it out.
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Ja ja ja, no root no nothing just out of the box.
If you want just call HTC ,cry and tell them that Sense sucks.
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I think you have misunderstood me, I was not complaining about Sense or lack of root. I was just point out a fair way to test the speed of both devices, which requires rooting our phone.
This is my 1st HTC android device, I'm currently enjoying the Sense overlay, and don't think it "sucks".
The fair is two units out of the box.
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I had the g2x for two weeks and that thing was noticeably faster than the sensation running sense or adw without root/vanilla android. But the battery life was terrible on the g2x and I prefer the screen, form factor, and camera on the sensation.
I am actually surprised how nice sense is compared to the last time I used it. Big fan if they can get some of the slowness out of it.
Either way both phones are sweet.
I owned the G2X before the Sensation and was disappointed. The battery life was terrible and I had problems syncing it with my car's BT. I think the fact that T-Mobile is still "out of stock" of the G2X on their website speaks volumes about the phone. It has issues.
I have no complaints about the Sensation.
I'll let you know tomorrow when my Sensation arrives. The G2x is a very fast phone, it's just chalk full of odd bugs that in the end, were driving me nuts. I'll put them head to head and see which one I like the most.
I own both, and because of the data issues I'd say the g2x. The Sensation has a better feel and look imo. Audio is better on the g2x.
I think once the bootloader is unlocked on the sensation, it'll be a beast.
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The Sensation by a country mile.
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I'll let you know tomorrow when my Sensation arrives. The G2x is a very fast phone, it's just chalk full of odd bugs that in the end, were driving me nuts. I'll put them head to head and see which one I like the most.
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I also own both and the sensation wins with me hands down. I hate the g2x a total waste of my money so far I have no complaints with my sensation I am using adw so I don't have to fool around with sense but I do miss the contacts/dialer app of vanilla android
I had the g2x and sent it back. Non of the Rome are particularly special. The screen is really nice, but the phone has bugs. I prefer the button layout on sensation, though its not stellar sensation at least has a notification led, and g2x GPS doesn't work. Like, at all.
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G2x was way faster. fastest android phone i've ever used. I didn't even think android was capable of being that speedy.
like someone else said, with the g2x i had to manually connect the bluetooth everytime i turned on the car.
Sensation connects immediately and hasn't given me any bluetooth hiccups. Only phone i've owned i can say that about.
I love sense, but i hate the overall slowness of the phone. Might be sense, or screen, or whatever, but g2x was blazing for me. sensation..... usable. not fast, and the lag isn't terrible but enough to notice.
The feel/form factor of the sensation is awesome. Feels like a true successor to the Nexus One. Unlike the Nexus S.
Hopefully once the sensation is rooted someone will make a ROM that makes it speedy while retaining Sense.
I dunno about this battery life thing though. Unplugged it (sensation) around 1230. It's 955 and power saver came on. I keep the screen brightness all the way down, all radios on except gps, gmail on push, yahoo/fb/twitter on refresh every 2 hours (update on screen unlock too).
The last Nexus one i had (ironically with the sense 3.0 rom), i unplugged it on a friday evening, monday morning it was around 30%. same radio/app setup as the sensation.
Oh, and for some reason the sense keyboard works much better than swype.
I was willing to trust LG with buying a phone (I use it for business also), and that was my biggest mistake.
The phone looks like someone just threw together a phone, without spending much time on testing. It has SO MANY issues that come right out of stock, that is unforgivable.
Ive had plenty of phones, and the only phone that was worst than the LG was the G1 - only because it was the first phone with android.
I just got the HTC and I must say im impressed with it, so far it seems really stable. Plus it feels better, it looks better and it acts better.
Forget about the LG, nobody should get that phone, because LG might think that their phone was a success, and they might make another one.
You are better off getting the MyTouch 4g instead of the G2x, but if you are wondering between the Sensation and the G2x - deff. get the Sensation.
I will be getting the Sensation on the 15th and I am currently using the G2X. After I play around with the Sensation, I will decide which one I am giving to my wife. I was one of the lucky ones who got a G2X with absolutely NO bugs and a great battery. There's no doubt that the G2X is faster and snappier than the Sensation so it all comes down to form. Hold both of them and see which one you like better. Also ask yourself if you want Sense or Vanilla. In my opinion the Sensation looks better but the G2X providing you get one with no bugs, performs better.
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I will be getting the Sensation on the 15th and I am currently using the G2X. After I play around with the Sensation, I will decide which one I am giving to my wife. I was one of the lucky ones who got a G2X with absolutely NO bugs and a great battery. There's no doubt that the G2X is faster and snappier than the Sensation so it all comes down to form. Hold both of them and see which one you like better. Also ask yourself if you want Sense or Vanilla. In my opinion the Sensation looks better but the G2X providing you get one with no bugs, performs better.
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Hopefully you'll get a sensation without any bugs or major issues. I had the g2x, it was great but I just didn't like stock vanilla.
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The Sensation by a country mile.
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I wouldn't call it a country mile. The only way I would call it a country mile was if the Sensation performed better than the G2X. The only phone I would call a country mile over the G2X would be the SGSII because it both looks better and performs better than the G2X. The Sensation only looks better.
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I wouldn't call it a country mile. The only way I would call it a country mile was if the Sensation performed better than the G2X. The only phone I would call a country mile over the G2X would be the SGSII because it both looks better and performs better than the G2X. The Sensation only looks better.
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You worry far too much about some things. It may not score as high in benchmarks but they are benchmarks, its a PHONE for god sake!
All I have seen you do is complain, I don't even know why you are bothering to get one if you think its so awful...
I know that Evo has more ram and 3D, but worse: build quality, 2D photos and ergonomics. Sensation in my country costs 1650pln while evo will be on market for 2500pln in 2 weeks. So the price difference is huge.
I think that i wont use 3d at all, but what i do is a lot of multitasking like web, gaming, video streaming, music playing, online purchases through apps, SIP and voice calls, 2g to WiFi connectivity so im affraid about lack of ram for smooth performance.. anyone can give me an advice what will be better for me?
RAM is not the reason E3D is smoother than Sensation (if it is, I don't have an E3D to compare right now). My Sensation has like 280 MB free right now (don't look in task manager, it's showing the wrong amount of RAM free). Based on what you said, I think you already decided.
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Besides, when we get custom ROMs, there will be more free RAM (Sense 3.0 takes up a lot)
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Nah i did not decided yet what i m going to buy, but yes im pretty close.
Thats good to know that this 130 ram free is incorrect, becouse it hurt my eyes everytime i saw it. xD
So as a sensation user can u tell me have u ever had problems with performance? As an old SGS2 user i can say i did not (its 1GB ram as we all know).
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Nah i did not decided yet what i m going to buy, but yes im pretty close.
Thats good to know that this 130 ram free is incorrect, becouse it hurt my eyes everytime i saw it. xD
So as a sensation user can u tell me have u ever had problems with performance? As an old SGS2 user i can say i did not (its 1GB ram as we all know).
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It doesn't feel like dual core. Sense 3.0 is making it slow. Are you planning to install Custom ROMs? If yes,i think you won't have problems. This and the death grip are the only problems I have (and creaking, but it's not a big deal to me)
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nope i dont want to use custom roms, sense is what for im buying htc. Guess i should go for evo, becouse ppl saying its faster..
I have now had both - as has my wife - We started with the 3D's and loved the phones but the Sprint Data Service was god aweful in my area (even within a 30 miles radius) - I was tired of Pandora/TuneIN/etc cutting out like crazy when I was driving around town.
So we are now on Sensations on TMobile and its quick around the same area - around 5000k down and 1000k up - depending on time of day, but never goes below 1800k - I never hit near that on sprint, speedtest were normally 100-200k on sprint.
Now, the phones - The sensation is a hair slower than my 3D, but I will also say the sensation feels better in my hands - It seems so much smaller even though its only slightly smaller than the 3D. The extra 256megs on the 3D Im sure helped, but Im not sure that does a ton for speed when you have free ram to start with.
I did have about 200 more on my 3D in Quadrant scores, which is odd - but still my Sensation is around 2300 on Quandrant now with the 1.5 overclock.
I think either phone is good ... I do miss the cool 3D for pictures, but that didnt outweigh being able to use my phone for data.
I have the sensation, and can tell you it is not slow. Previously I had a MT4G running sense 3.0 and it ran fine also, same ram, different processor. What is "dual core" supposed to feel like?
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I went from an Atrix (Tegra 2) to Sensation, both dualcore, although the Atrix has a full 1GB ram. The speed difference is unnoticeable. Both phones run smoothly for me, although Atrix's motoblur is a little bit more sluggish than sense 3.0. Quadrant scores on the atrix are around 2500 whereas I get around 2300 on the sensation. Day-to-Day usage the sensation feels snappier and browsing is faster too. Gaming is about the same although the tegra 2 games aren't playable on sensation unless you do some modding. I also don't notice any difference in performance with the 1GB vs 768MB. The atrix actually reserves close to 512mb RAM for webtop/laptop mode so in reality only half of the 1GB ram is used most of the time.
The amount of RAM isn't what's causing the Sensation to be sluggy, it's the bad memory management. It was fixed in an OTA update for international Sensation's.
i would buy the sensation just because its wayy better
It all depends on what you want from the phone & which service is best in your area. I chose the S4G because I take a lot of pictures & I could care less about 3D. I liked the 8mp camera and I loved my existing T-Mo service. And trust me- the sensation is NOT slow by any means. It would have been cheaper monthly to go with the Evo 3D cause I have a backup line on my mom's sprint plan, but sprint service really sucks where I live. I have a Galaxy Tab on her plan & the data is ridiculously slow & I'm lucky to get one or 2 bars in my house on a good day.
I'm obviously gonna recommend the sensation, for the reasons I mentioned & because it gets better battery life than the Evo. It seems like CDMA phones are notorious for bad battery life, almost every one I've ever had needed to be charged all the time.
Thanks for ur answers, im going to buy sensation.
I too would recommend the sensation as i have had both. Sprint data is terrible that i definitely agree on. Your phone is only as good as its data speed what's the point in having all of this power if you can only get 400kbps download speed max in a 3G area. 4g for sprint is very spotty. I live in a 4g area and its spotty one. Minute 3G next 4g but the kicker is when you switch from 4g to 3G or vice versa you temporarily loose your data connection. With sensation in do not have the data problem as tmobile data is very snappy average about 5 mbps down and 1.5 up. U won't go wrong with tmobile.
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Help deciding. If you're with Sprint then go with the 3D. Already with T-mo and have a grandfathered data plan then go with the sensation. I think the RAM difference is being overblown big time. I don't think the 3D responds faster due to it having more ram. I think it's due to the software that sprint has loaded on it, and the updates that it has pushed out. I mean, the sensation always has 120MB+ memory available, so wouldn't that be enough to handle a swipe on the home screen? The extra ram will allow the 3D to multitask a little faster/smoother but that's about it. Our Sensations are still yet to receive their first updates.
T-mobile is really bad when it comes to that.
EVO 3D has more RAM, but that doesn't matter, at least for now. There are enough free RAM all the time on the Sensation to run everything, adding more RAM alone won't improve its performance. The EVO 3D does feel a little smoother compared to the US version of the Sensation, but that's surely due to software problem which will be fixable by OTA or custom ROM. And that is only with Sense launcher. I don't notice any slowness outside Sense launcher. Right now the US version Sensation is running 1.28.xxx.x firmware, while the international version has just received an OTA to upgrade to 1.35.xxx.x. Users have reported that this OTA does make the phone run smoother.
EVO 3D has battery with bigger capacity, but EVO 3D's battery can be used in the Sensation.
EVO 3D has... well, 3D. Does that matter to you? 3D aside, EVO 3D camera is not as good as Sensation. I'm not just talking about pixel count, but color and image details. It does have a physical shutter button which is very handy though.
Basically both phones have almost identical spec, and if the spec of one phone satisfies you, the other also will. My suggestion is go to a tmobile and sprint store to play around with it. IMO, the design and build quality of the Sensation is just much superior, and that's why I got the Sensation after playing with both.
Have you actually seen the 3D on the EVO? Reminds me of those old mcdonalds hockey cards that were "holographic". Bleck.
Don't be a biatch,
If you're so into RAMs and speed buy a laptop, the sensation is already blazing fast!
That lite difference in clock power and RAM makes NO BIG difference at all!
Plus, to top it 3D is heavy, like A LOT. Where 250+ difference in MB doesn't make such a difference, a few grams in weight really makes it!! And the 3D is thicker, you won't be amazed at all by it. 3D is a new thing, now at it's present state you won't use it at all. I can't find a way in phone usage that would benefit a 3D glass or a stereoscopic camera. You have a 3D TV at home to view those 3D pictures? Is facebook in 3D?? (LOL)
The sensation is a real beauty of a phone, all of my friends were amazed by it's contures and "slim" (relatively) design..
I used to watch a lot news about upcoming phones before the sensation, but now that i got it, i care no more, i have all.that i need and not plan to buy a new one for a looooong time
I have a Desire and i do love the phone and i have no problems with it other than the internal memory being too small for apps but with a new rom this has not really been a issue and with the coming official 2.3 upgrade i didn't really see any reason to consign the phone to a dusty shelf just yet....
However, today Orange rang me and offered me 1400 minutes, unlimited text, unlimited internet, unlimited landline calls to U.K. numbers and the new HTC Sensation for £25 per month as my contract is up. (I get £15 credit as a long time customer hence £25 per month)
This offer is only for today and as i've not seen the Sensation in the flesh, i'm wondering is it worth getting or waiting until the next gen of phones comes out, as some review i've read put the Sensation behind the Galaxy S2 and there is no way i'm having one of those.... it looks too flimsy for me.
what do you guys think??
I have just (lunch time) received my Sensation from Orange as an upgrade to my Desire. So far? I love it. The SGSII may have a slight edge on speed, but the build quiality on this thing surpasses it by a country mile. The deal they have offered you is for how long? 2 years? whatever, i'm sure you'll be pleased by the difference. Makes my Desire seem like something ancient. The changes in the Sense interface are remarkable. I rooted my Desire some time ago, running CM7 & Open Home 6. Sense blows this away. I'm busy downloading app after app after app with no sign of running out of space (yet). Though I was disappointed to find only 1Gb onboard compared with 1.5Gb of the Desire HD. The Orange handset came with an 8Gb microSD card in, so i've just swapped it out with the 16Gb I had in my Desire. Now to fill it up.....
I made the same move and wouldn't go back. HOWEVER, do NOt get it direct from Orange as they pre-load it with more crap than any other Carrier. Get it from Carephone Warehouse as they do unbranded handsets. This also means you'll get updates quicker than Orange users
The handset is a definite step up from the Desire, the screen alone makes it worth it. You won't regret it
my upgrade was from Desire to Sensation...i loved my little Desire, never had problems with it, but the Sensation blows it out of the water...it's a beautiful phone and a pleasure to use
I agree with n7of9.
Desire was the perfect phone and I didn't sell it (my rescue phone) but Sensation is outstanding. I'm just wainting the free bootlaoder and instal custom ROM and hope sure you will never regret to own it
see ya
i personally don't give a **** about rooting...the only reason i rooted my Desire was for more app space (oh ok, and to get rid of twatface crap)
Coming from desire as well, 100% happiness here.
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my upgrade was from Desire to Sensation...i loved my little Desire, never had problems with it, but the Sensation blows it out of the water...it's a beautiful phone and a pleasure to use
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Nice use of solid words......cool "HE Said all in one line"
Gap between Desire and Sensation is incredible !
New Sense is huge !
Waiting Sensation will be rooted in order to uses Titanium Backup !
i come from the desire, too... it was the greatest step!
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i come from the desire, too... it was the greatest step!
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I came from the Hero, now THAT is a step up!
My Wife has a Desire and when I use that now, it actaully feels dated (bit like my Hero did when I used her Desire). Sensation's just on another level!
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Gap between Desire and Sensation is incredible !
New Sense is huge !
Waiting Sensation will be rooted in order to uses Titanium Backup !
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You can temp root now and use titanium. Look in the dev section
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Gap between Desire and Sensation is incredible !
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do you know that you just made a funny? Sensation > Incredible S > Desire
..the gap between...get it...get it?
i was a little disapointed, i have the oled version of the desire, and it's screen is way better than the sensation (except the resolution ofcourse) also the screen of the desire is more responsive then the sensation, after a few days i returned my sensation to my phone provider as faulty because i think the touchscreen is defective.
I have the latest AceSmod007 cm7 rom so i am already very pleased with the latest sense version on my desire.
To the OP: I presume you don't mean that Orange only offered this upgrade toyou for today only, and that the upgrade has been available from today onwards?
As to whether or not the Sensation is worth it, as I've said in another thread on here (HD2 vs Sensation), for basic use, there is going to be very little difference in terms of performance. So if you don't mind your currently smaller display, and only surf the web, check your email etc., don't bother with the upgrade; it simply won't make that much of a difference.
Otherwise, you have to ask yourself, is your current Desire really too little for your needs?
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i switched to the sensation from a desire to, realy great improvement, speed!
the only thing I miss is my AMOLED, the LCD is not as good as AMOLED, bad viewing angle, not as sharp
My upgrade was from Desire to Sensation.I loved my Desire I had no problems before with.I have a Sensation for Two weeks and I love her a little marvel!!
He has a big difference between the two and is worth changed.
just Wonderful!
thanks for the many reply's...
i nipped into my local carphone warehouse and had a quick play with the phone and i was impressed and i think i'm going tell orange send me the phone asap as i can't really see another phone coming from HTC before christmas which is going to be better??
if i'm factually incorrect here, please feel free to correct me!!
orange me gave a bit more time to think it over, as i told the woman in retentions i was not signing up to 18 more months without seeing the phone first. And after thinking about it i could wait forever for the next "great" phone coming soon and never get anything as i'm constantly waiting...
I just switched form the Desire to Sensation, for a week now. Here are some observations:
- I thought I would miss the hardware buttons on the Desire. I don't.
- It has a bigger screen, but size it's much bigger. Perhaps just as thin.
- Battery life is much better. In fact, you can put EVO 3D's battery (which has even larger capacity) on it to get even better battery life.
- Camera is a lot better.
- qHD resolution rules.
I do miss the super deep black, super wide view angle, and super quick response time of Desire's AMOLED screen however. Pentile never bothers me, although some people hate it. It takes a few days to adjust to going back to LCD screen, but qHD resolution is worth it. And Sensation's screen is pretty good to start with.
Don't expect everything to run much faster though. Both the Desire and the Sensation uses the same CPU core - Scorpion, although the one on Sensation is running at 1.2Ghz and it has two of them... What I mean is, on single threaded applications that are CPU bounded, you will see at most 20% speed improvement. The Scorpion is somewhere in between a Cortex A8 and Cortex A9 core, so on CPU power alone it is not as fast as other Cortex A9 equipped SoC like the Nvidia Tegra 2. If you constantly run a lot of apps and switch between them often, you will see significant speed improvement though. That's the virtue of being a dual core phone. However, the GPU on the Sensation is much faster, so if you game a lot you will see big improvement.
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i nipped into my local carphone warehouse and had a quick play with the phone and i was impressed and i think i'm going tell orange send me the phone asap as i can't really see another phone coming from HTC before christmas which is going to be better??
if i'm factually incorrect here, please feel free to correct me!!
orange me gave a bit more time to think it over, as i told the woman in retentions i was not signing up to 18 more months without seeing the phone first. And after thinking about it i could wait forever for the next "great" phone coming soon and never get anything as i'm constantly waiting...
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HTC seems to refresh their line up every 1-2 quarters. It is very likely that they will have something around Christmas time. Not sure whether it will be before Christmas or after though. Word is that Ice Cream Sandwich will launched before the end of the year, so the next high end HTC phone may well be a Ice Cream Sandwich phone (may or may not be Nexus branded). But that's half a year away... I wouldn't wait if I were you.
The sensation is a great phone, but there are some things that bother me about it. Sense 3.0 is just too much...uses too many resources. The screen is decent, but I still can't figure out why the g2x screen I saw in person looks better (maybe because the g2x is an IPS screen?), and the speaker on the sensation is terrible (how is the speaker on the g2x)?
I've been reading that the official gingerbread update has (so far) fixed some issues that the g2x had, which is why I'm thinking about making the switch.
Any opinions on this?
honestly as this recent leak is, cm7 is still better and more stable with alot of extra features, until t-mo releases the official ota with upgraded baseband and upgraded to a gingerbread kernel, this update is still inferior to cm7 imo
gingerbread is still far off, if this is the latest rom LG has, then i wouldnt say its close to being pushed to t-mo for review wich still leaves us a few months away from anything official, unless they really plan to make the final update run on a kernel that doesnt even fully support the tegra 2 chip.
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The sensation is a great phone, but there are some things that bother me about it. Sense 3.0 is just too much...uses too many resources. The screen is decent, but I still can't figure out why the g2x screen I saw in person looks better (maybe because the g2x is an IPS screen?), and the speaker on the sensation is terrible (how is the speaker on the g2x)?
I've been reading that the official gingerbread update has (so far) fixed some issues that the g2x had, which is why I'm thinking about making the switch.
Any opinions on this?
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if your looking to swap it for a g2x and t-mo doesnt allow the exchange i have my g2x ill trade to you for it ive been trying to get a sensation
G2x in my opinion with new update stock works great for me. In my opinion I think its the best phone out there right now.
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Came from Sensation. Haven't looked back.
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Came from Sensation. Haven't looked back.
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Wise man listen to him..
Faux123 for Dev!!!
brian85 said:
The sensation is a great phone, but there are some things that bother me about it. Sense 3.0 is just too much...uses too many resources. The screen is decent, but I still can't figure out why the g2x screen I saw in person looks better (maybe because the g2x is an IPS screen?), and the speaker on the sensation is terrible (how is the speaker on the g2x)?
I've been reading that the official gingerbread update has (so far) fixed some issues that the g2x had, which is why I'm thinking about making the switch.
Any opinions on this?
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if you still want to trade you sensation let me know... i have a g2x since its release never exchanged it and never have problems no reboots not frezzes no nothing...
one of my friends have the sensation and i loved it!! pm me if your interesting
I also have a g2x i am selling if your interested. I just got it as a replacement from tmobile so it looks completely brand new. Ill even throw in an 8gb microsd card with for free. Pm me if your interested
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Both phones are great. Had the G2x but switched it out for the sensation. I have no regrets because the G2x was very problematic. I guess I was one of those unlucky ones that got a bad g2x (reboots, freezes, shutdowns, etc).....and I had 2 G2x and both phones were bad and I didn't want to wait for the update lol. However, a working nondefective G2x is a beast phone nonetheless. It's faster than the sensation imo.
The sensation on the other hand is also a great phone. And im Lucky that I got a nondefective one from the start. I prefer the sensation over the G2x but it all comes down to the user itself.
Im not boasting or bragging or putting down any phone, just stating my personal experiances with these phones.
Hope you get the phone you want...
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Both phones are great. Had the G2x but switched it out for the sensation. I have no regrets because the G2x was very problematic. I guess I was one of those unlucky ones that got a bad g2x (reboots, freezes, shutdowns, etc).....and I had 2 G2x and both phones were bad and I didn't want to wait for the update lol. However, a working nondefective G2x is a beast phone nonetheless. It's faster than the sensation imo.
The sensation on the other hand is also a great phone. And im Lucky that I got a nondefective one from the start. I prefer the sensation over the G2x but it all comes down to the user itself.
Im not boasting or bragging or putting down any phone, just stating my personal experiances with these phones.
Hope you get the phone you want...
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The g2x is an awesome gaming phone with all the tegra games and stuff.
The sensation i feel is a little more boring but more reliable and professional looking. Also i noticed that by disabling sense and the bloatware that cane with the phone, ive been able to make it as fast if not faster than the g2x. Specially the browsing. I dont have the problem where it takes a while for the browser to open abd once it opens its seems to reopen the last website, which i belive was due to my g2x running low on memory.
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fcisco13 said:
Wise man listen to him..
Faux123 for Dev!!!
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I second.
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Wanna trade? I have a 25 day old G2x!
brian85 said:
The sensation is a great phone, but there are some things that bother me about it. Sense 3.0 is just too much...uses too many resources. The screen is decent, but I still can't figure out why the g2x screen I saw in person looks better (maybe because the g2x is an IPS screen?), and the speaker on the sensation is terrible (how is the speaker on the g2x)?
I've been reading that the official gingerbread update has (so far) fixed some issues that the g2x had, which is why I'm thinking about making the switch.
Any opinions on this?
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I traded my g2x for a sensation, them back to the g2x. The g2x is way better..
Sensation wifi was horrid..
Kept my G2X but use my Sensation as my daily driver. The only time I really pick the G2X up is to play Tegra games or flash ROMS. Like someone else said, if you keep Sense on the Sensation, your phone will be laggy. HTC did a horrible job of optimizing the new version of Sense. If you load ADW on the Sensation, the UI will become as fast, if not faster than the G2X. Loading apps, using Google maps and browsing the web has always been faster on the Sensation than on the G2X whether your running Sense or not. Getting rid of Sense and stopping it from running makes the UI as responsive as one could get.
Can't go wrong with either phone. I didn't have a bad experience with either of them (until I loaded GB onto my G2X). Some people had a bad experience with the G2X and went to the Sensation. Some people had a bad experience with the Sensation and came back to the G2X. To each his own.
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Well, looks like I'm keeping my sensation.
Installed launcherpro, and for some reason it even opens up apps quicker now (even though sense 3.0 is still there running in the background). I also love the fact that I can still use the sense 3.0 lockscreen with launcherpro. Phones feels like an entirely new beast now.
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Well, looks like I'm keeping my sensation.
Installed launcherpro, and for some reason it even opens up apps quicker now (even though sense 3.0 is still there running in the background). I also love the fact that I can still use the sense 3.0 lockscreen with launcherpro. Phones feels like an entirely new beast now.
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Yea man...Sense sucks anyway. The only things good about it is the lock screen, sms app, contacts and email. Everything else is just annoying eye candy. Good part about using a launcher is you get to keep all of that without the eye candy.
Check your available memory now. It should be somewhere around 300. Also, if you think LP is fast, check out ADW.
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If you are a developer then get the G2x, but if you are looking for a overall solid phone for day to day use, keep the Sensation. But if you don't etheir one, then can't go wrong with either phone. The Sensation is more powerful as it uses a better GPU.
The screen on the sensation is superior in some ways, just overall looks sharper and alot more more detail. But the G2x, colors look more vibrant.
WiFi issue I notice to, if you touch around the top area and when signal is fair, then drops, but with a stonger signal, not as bad. Notice it doesn't affect the other radio's inside.
But the G2x seem quicker, but battery last more longer on the sensation, I guess theirs tradeoff's ethier way you look at it.
Long term Sensation is a better choice, In quadrant test score lower due to screen resolution is higher and does affect the score, but CPU/GPU is better in the Sensation as it use a powerful 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor with Adreno 220 GPU, which is known to outpreform the Nvidia terga 2 chipset, only thing lacking is the ram which is 768MB LPDDR2, which is good, they sure have when to 1gb. Alot of people think the Samsung Galaxy s2 is going to be faster, it's not, it only use a Adreno 205 GPU, but the ddr II 1gb ram helps but screen resolution also make a big different, put the same screen in all and see who wins?
I didn't have any problems with my G2X to begin with, but updated to the GB update and it runs even quicker and the battery life is also better.
One thing that deterred me from getting the Sensation was the locked bootloader and only 1gb of internal memory. Not all apps can be moved to the SD card. Plus I think the G2X looks sexy with it's curved Gorilla glass edges and sleek body. stock Vanilla is a big plus, and the dual speakers at the bottom of the phone and not on the back that get's muffled was another deciding factor. HTC always has crappy sounding speakers.
Hello... I need your Sincere answer...
which set should I go for, should i buy HTC sensation or wait for EVO 3D???
... will be thankfull
Take away the gimmick of 3D and there's not much in it - bit more RAM though
Since Evo 3D is coming out on Rogers pretty soon, I would suggest waiting until you can man-handle a live demo unit at the store and see if you like the overall quality of the phone. On the other hand, the sensation from bell isn't gonna go anywhere any time soon so if you're patient, I would suggest playing with both at the store and see which one you like best. In terms of spec both are almost alike. Build materials, however, are contrasted by aluminum vs rubber/plastic.
imo:
Do you care for 3D camera+screen on a phone?
if not I would go for the sensation.
**Although I am not sure about this but I heard from various sources phones from Rogers will work on Fido without sim-unlock? so you could potentially save on the cost of unlocking though they are pretty cheap to unlock ($15+/-)
if you are into tweaking, flashing, etc, go for the Evo 3D
=> Most things we can use sa far for the Sensation (temp root, overclock) came first for the evo 3d and were ported, or already compatible, for the Sensation.
Look at the forum here, there's less development here as on Evo3d, even if both have a locked bootloader. Devs and chefs are not on the Sensation...........
If you are not into big tweaking, or can wait for a few days/week until everything is ported for the Sensation after the Evo3d, and if browsing the internet and photos/video are important for you, go on the Sensation: qHD screen, great 8MP photos and full HD video.
Id say go for the sensation. The 3d gimmick in my opinion is not worth the extra cash, especially on small screens. The battery life already sucks with dual core so imagine how bad battery life would be on a 3d screen.
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yasin12 said:
Id say go for the sensation. The 3d gimmick in my opinion is not worth the extra cash, especially on small screens. The battery life already sucks with dual core so imagine how bad battery life would be on a 3d screen.
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acctually im getting about 12 hours heavy use...some tethering and i still have 41% to be honest you will rarely use 3D sodont sweat it but if this is your first android phone id go where theres more deving cuz you might not b all into flashing and stuff but once you flash and do everything , more then likely you will get addicted lol like me...dont know much about the sensation so i aint going to dog on it like the guy above
I have Sensation but I would choose EVO
Why? More RAM
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I have Sensation but I would choose EVO
Why? More RAM
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i forgot all about ram ill b running crazy stuff like games mixed with music internet and ill always have atleast 200MB free
thanks to all but still confused...
I would go for the Sensation. You're not gaining much by waiting for the EVO 3D. You won't regret getting the Sensation at all.
spec wise there pretty similar minus ram increase in Evo 3D.
Go check one out look at some reviews and such, its whether or not you want 3D on your phone or what carrier offers you the better monthly price.
3D on a phone in this day n age is kind of dumb. Rapes battery and viewing range is severely limited, and unless you have a 3D TV, 3D computer monitor, etc. you wont really benefit from it greatly. Cool idea tho..
Evo 3d, easy.
My sister has a Evo 3D and to be honest the Sensation blows it away build quality wise. It just feels that much more premium in your hands and is nice and thin. Sensation also records in 1080P and Evo 3D only records in 720P. The Evo does have more RAM but I have not noticed any slowdown on my Sensation whatsoever so I'm a happy camper. Plus once we get S-Off...custom ROMs will make this thing fly even faster
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Take away the gimmick of 3D and there's not much in it - bit more RAM though
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Get the 3D its real mind blowing 3D don't let anyone that never used the phone tell you its a gimmick cause its not and most of them just wish the sensation could have 3D too.
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spec wise there pretty similar minus ram increase in Evo 3D.
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perfectly right
so differences are:
Sensation: qHD screen (only WVGA for Evo3D. A real plus for web browsing!), 1080p recording (in .3gp, this format sucks), better design. Can heat up, but less than the Evo3D it seems.
Evo3D: 3D display (that will kill battery, but you don't have to always use it!) more RAM, more devs working on it (every tweak and hack of the Sensation was made for the Evo first), less "death grip" for wifi and bluetooth than the Sensation
Ram doesn't really matter, as said above, it would matter if Sensation could get low ram, but it doesn't happen.
I have a Sensation, but would go for an Evo 3D I guess (or a galaxyS2...)
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if you are into tweaking, flashing, etc, go for the Evo 3D
=> Most things we can use sa far for the Sensation (temp root, overclock) came first for the evo 3d and were ported, or already compatible, for the Sensation.
Look at the forum here, there's less development here as on Evo3d, even if both have a locked bootloader. Devs and chefs are not on the Sensation...........
If you are not into big tweaking, or can wait for a few days/week until everything is ported for the Sensation after the Evo3d, and if browsing the internet and photos/video are important for you, go on the Sensation: qHD screen, great 8MP photos and full HD video.
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It seems that you forget CM7
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Me personally I like the Sensation due to it being a GSM phone, I can use it on any GSM network around this planet. Unlike the EVO 3d, you are stuck on CDMA network that the phone is intended and designed for, i'e Sprint only?. Just my two cents, hope.it helps.
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i900frenchaddict said:
perfectly right
so differences are:
Sensation: qHD screen (only WVGA for Evo3D. A real plus for web browsing!)
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evo3d has a qHD screen as well..
yeah.. why would you say it WVGA
http://www.htc.com/us/products/evo3d-sprint?view=1-1&sort=0#tech-specs
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i900frenchaddict said:
perfectly right
so differences are:
Sensation: qHD screen (only WVGA for Evo3D. A real plus for web browsing!), 1080p recording (in .3gp, this format sucks), better design. Can heat up, but less than the Evo3D it seems.
Evo3D: 3D display (that will kill battery, but you don't have to always use it!) more RAM, more devs working on it (every tweak and hack of the Sensation was made for the Evo first), less "death grip" for wifi and bluetooth than the Sensation
Ram doesn't really matter, as said above, it would matter if Sensation could get low ram, but it doesn't happen.
I have a Sensation, but would go for an Evo 3D I guess (or a galaxyS2...)
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Why are you lying to make the sensation seem like the better device. They both have qHD displays. I get 12hours of battey life. Evo 3D has a bigger battery than sensation. RAM dose matter a lot if your computer had 312MB of RAM and u added 200MB and made it 512MB you would see a nice difference. And yes the Evo 3D has over 200MB more RAM. Just putting the truth in the air to kill the lies.
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I like the idea of having more RAM but the Evo is god ugly with those dual camera's. I wouldn't br caught dead using one.
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