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[Q] sensation or evo 3d???

got myself the sensation on saturday after 18 months of owning my hd2. Been waiting for this phone for a long time to come out on my carrier (02) as i dont think any other phone has been anywhere near the hd2 untill this BUT.. i have just found out that the evo 3d will be coming out in the uk in july and to top it off my sensation has just got dust under the screen. im taking my phone back tommorrow and would like your opinions on what i should do next..... renew the sensation or wait for the evo to hit 02 in july? all opinions would be appreciated
Thanks

They are basically the same phone ,aside from 3d and a little more ram on Evo, I think the 3d thing is kinda gimmicky, really its a toss up ,both have s-on so its in same boat as sensation

ereader said:
got myself the sensation on saturday after 18 months of owning my hd2. Been waiting for this phone for a long time to come out on my carrier (02) as i dont think any other phone has been anywhere near the hd2 untill this BUT.. i have just found out that the evo 3d will be coming out in the uk in july and to top it off my sensation has just got dust under the screen. im taking my phone back tommorrow and would like your opinions on what i should do next..... renew the sensation or wait for the evo to hit 02 in july? all opinions would be appreciated
Thanks
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EVO 3D is a gimmick phone, how often will you use 3D? My brother has one and I played with his over the weekend and it's simply not my taste. The Sensation is a much sexier device as far as appearance goes, we all know that they have the same specs other than the camera. I say stick with the Sensation.

I have both devices sitting on fornt of me now. My 3VO will be going back tomorrow, but not due to the phone. Here in Tampa...Sprint is completely garbage. I cannot even check for facebook updates in under 5 minutes, and i get a buffer for pandora. Now device vs device, the 3VO is faster and more fluid, the OS is coded much better than the sensation. Once root is fully available for both devices i think it will be a toss up. 3VO 3D is not gimmiky at all to me, its pretty freaking awesome. If i could have the 3VO on any network but Sprint....i would have it.
my .02

tigerz0202 said:
They are basically the same phone ,aside from 3d and a little more ram on Evo, I think the 3d thing is kinda gimmicky, really its a toss up ,both have s-on so its in same boat as sensation
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will it have s-on when launched in the uk in july after htc's announcement?

nccu_eagles said:
EVO 3D is a gimmick phone, how often will you use 3D? My brother has one and I played with his over the weekend and it's simply not my taste. The Sensation is a much sexier device as far as appearance goes, we all know that they have the same specs other than the camera. I say stick with the Sensation.
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thought the evo had 1 gig of RAM?

ereader said:
thought the evo had 1 gig of RAM?
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It does have 1gb of ram but I doubt you will ever need more than the 700mb that the sensation has...unused ram is waisted ram
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really hard to say since it's your device...
if you like the whole 3D thing then there you go.
Sensation in the other hand is better looking device, 8mp camera that is capable of recording vids in 1080p, and reportedly have better battery life(according to Phonedog).
768 or 1gb... android OS, I don't think it would matter much. look at G2x.
only reason I think the Evo feels snappier is perhaps HTC optimized the Sense 3.0 abit... plus less bloatware.
both nice device though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrUAKFL3ZU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is about as unbiased as a comparison that I've seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrUAKFL3ZU&feature=youtube_gdata_player....
Here's a good unbiased comparison

Sorry for the double post

The 1 GB of ram is definitely used, my sensation runs down on RAM quite frequently. I notice they did a better job of tweaking min free and such on the 3d, and less of it's RAM is being held for system processes.

I played with one at a Best Buy this morning. I had my Sensation with me to compare. They are a lot alike . I must say the Evo3D does seem snappier or quicker and perhaps a little smoother. However I was not impressed with the 3D aspects of the phone. They both felt identical in my hands. I will stay with the Sensation, at least for a few more days until nearing the end of my remorse period.

tigerz0202 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msrUAKFL3ZU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This is about as unbiased as a comparison that I've seen
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thanks, one thing that i noticed in that video was that the screen seemed to have better colours and seemed sharper than the evo ( side by side) .. think im leaning back to my sensation

mastibeta said:
The 1 GB of ram is definitely used, my sensation runs down on RAM quite frequently. I notice they did a better job of tweaking min free and such on the 3d, and less of it's RAM is being held for system processes.
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ive noticed my sensation seems to use alot of ram... constantly shutting programs down

[Q] What to buy Sensation or Evo 3D?

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.
Swyped from my HTC Sensation

Besides, when we get custom ROMs, there will be more free RAM (Sense 3.0 takes up a lot)
Swyped from my HTC Sensation

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).

Dexter666 said:
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

Which phone? SG2, HTC Sensation or HTC Evo 3d

Hi all I'm in need of a new phone. I want to stick with android and I have it down to either the Samsung Galaxy S 2, the HTC sensation or the HTC evo 3D. In order of importance I'm looking for :
1- Battery life... I need the phone to last all day through emailing, texting and phone calls with Bluetooth. I have the Samsung captivate right now and I charge it 2 or 3 times a day and have tried almost every Rom put there to try and improve battery life.
2- ability to flash roms although I think they're all pretty easy
3- built quality
4- camera quality
As far as performance I'm guessing they're all great considering they're dual core.
Input is welcome. Thanks

I would like to write HTC sensation, but if you want better life of battery you should choose SGS2

SGS2 is good, HTC not too good!

savvacon said:
Hi all I'm in need of a new phone. I want to stick with android and I have it down to either the Samsung Galaxy S 2, the HTC sensation or the HTC evo 3D. In order of importance I'm looking for :
1- Battery life... I need the phone to last all day through emailing, texting and phone calls with Bluetooth. I have the Samsung captivate right now and I charge it 2 or 3 times a day and have tried almost every Rom put there to try and improve battery life.
2- ability to flash roms although I think they're all pretty easy
3- built quality
4- camera quality
As far as performance I'm guessing they're all great considering they're dual core.
Input is welcome. Thanks
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Wouldn't you want to decide which carrier to use first?

I will unlock and use on Rogers. The EVO 3D will be a Rogers phone out in 2 weeks.
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I have heard from peeps with the EVO 3D that the battery life isn't anything spectacular. On par with the EVO 4G which means it is just "OK".
Does Rogers have any kind of tryout policy like some others? I know on Sprint you have 30-40 days to try the phone and return for different one if you don't like it. This is what I would do. All good phones and there is good/bad with each.

Yes Rogers has a tryout for 30 minute talk time and I think 14 days. The evo is from Rogers so I might try that. The galaxy s2 and the sensation are from bell so I would have to unlock them which means I couldn't return them.
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Seeing that you're a Samsung user now, maybe you'd like to try out HTC. But the SGS has one thing over HTC phones: a sort of internal SD card that handles data like Data2SD--without needing to root or flash anything. That, plus longer battery life should make SGS II the winner. (it pains me to say that, being an HTC fanboy)

Easy choice. I don't care about 3D on a cellphone. To me it's a gimmick. Plus Sprint does not offer their lame 4G in San Diego while TMobile offers their HSPA+. Therefore I would go with the Sensation. It averaged 6.5 Mbps down and 1.75 upload using SpeedTest. I can live with that.

Easy choice. I don't care about 3D on a cellphone. To me it's a gimmick. Plus Sprint does not offer their lame 4G in San Diego while TMobile offers their HSPA+. Therefore I would go with the Sensation. It averaged 6.5 Mbps down and 1.75 upload using SpeedTest. I can live with that.
^Sounds like you know nothing and just want to shoot down Sprint, which has nothing to do with the OP's question. Hmmm...
Anyways.
I love my E3D, but if you're looking for battery life I'd say SGSII. AS far as build quality goes, the Sensation and E3D have a FANTASTIC build quality, especially the Sensation. The Sensation also looks the best out of the three as well if you ask me. The dedicated camera button and high(er) quality screen on the E3D make it good as well, and also the available RAM on the E3D sets it apart. Once it gets rooted the development will wayyyy take off for the E3D too. All the phones have their benefits and downsides though, like the fact that the E3D can't do 1080p recording. The SAMOLED+ screen on the SGSII is spectacular too, but unfortunately it isn't qHD res like the Sensation and EVO 3D.
What it really comes down to is what fits your needs within a phone but they're all solid phones to me.
I've handled all three as well, so I'm not just throwing **** out there.

SGSII
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Having tested each phone, first the sensation for a week and then the SGS2 I would recommend the SGS2.
The sensation has a nicer ui by far. Sense 3.0 has a lot of bells and whistles that just make using it so nice. But after using the SGS2 i feel the great ui is a bit of a mask for weaker hardware. Albeit a very beautifully crafted mask that I would commend them on.
The SGS2 does have better use but for heavy usage the SGS you'll be recharging at 8pm vs the sensation at 6pm. It's not earth shatteringly different. I found out of the box the SGS2 was set up to conserve batteries more than the sensation (quicker screen timeouts, lower screen brightness, etc) however the sensation can be adjusted to narrow the gap.
In terms of screen quality the higher resolution on the sensation get's blown away by the better quality of picture on the SGS2, i constantly have people commenting on how nice my screen looks [Super AMOLED plus >>> qHD]
In the end i'd summarize it as the Sensation wins the out of the box Software contest but the SGS2 wins the hardware contest.
FWIW: You can change software but you can't replace hardware.
just my opinion/review

Thanks for all the input. Bought the Galaxy S2. Rooted, unlocked with the martket galaxy s unlocker and have been using the villain rom for the last 24hrs. Very smooth so far and absolutely no FC's or any issues. Battery life on day 1 has been pretty good after surfing, texting, some light games and 2 hours talk time over bluetooth, gmail, exchange mail etc. I have 45% left after 14hrs which is way better than previous phones.
The phone does feel very "plasticy" compared to the Galaxy S which had a nice solid feel and that metal back cover and even compared to some of the other phones I've had the last little while (X10, Desire Z, Droid2 Global, etc.), it is very light though, oh and the screen is fantastic!

SGS2 for my future. Dualcore & super amoled support 64GB.
Also very thin, I really like this phone.
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EVO 3D or Sensation ?

I've been offered to choose between EVO 3D and Sensation as a graduation gift
So please tell me which is better
My $0.02 ..
Pros of Sensation over EVO 3D
Looks awesome and sophisticated and more pocketable
Great dev support and a very wide variety of roms which is a very important feat for me
Shoots 1080p
Very few glitches compared to too many in the EVO 3D
Pros of EVO 3D
Brilliant 3D LCD and photography and that is truly awesome and new to the mobile world
More solid and rugged build quality
Camera shutter key
More ram (1Gb vs 768mb)
Better processor (MSM8660 vs MSM8260)
better front cam (1.3 vs VGA)
Bigger battery
In terms if Hardware there is nothing special about the Sensation compared to the EVO3D but the 8mp cam and the slimmer size
But when talking about the software
The EVO stock and modded roms are very glitchy and lots of weird stuff happens
Meanwhile the sensations roms are very stable and almost glitch free
I had my mind set for a sensation for a long while but when I saw EVO 3D in action I got blown away by the awesomeness of the 3D technology
And I'm very confused now ..
So please help me with your useful opinions
Thanks
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same processor first off.
both have incredible dev support.
the 3d doesn't have as many problems as you are insinuating.
ask yourself which carrier you want to get stuck with?
I vote evo

If you want a 3D phone, go with the LG Thrill. It is quite brilliant.
Otherwise, I have played with the Sensation and EVO 3D and the Sensation is much more solid. Almost not competition. Plus, the EVO 3D totally sucks as far as the 3D aspect goes, so removing that makes it a good phone, but the Sensation is great. Everyone I know that has one loves it.

If 3D is a big deal to you, it's obvious.
But if I recall right, the Sensation has a better screen (or at least it's the same screen without a parallax barrier in front of it so it looks better.)
As long as the issue with the Sensation's touch screen dying after a few weeks has been fixed, I'd go for that.

NewZJ said:
same processor first off.
both have incredible dev support.
the 3d doesn't have as many problems as you are insinuating.
ask yourself which carrier you want to get stuck with?
I vote evo
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In egypt we don't have that carrier thingy almost all phones sold here are unlocked
And about the problems there is a whole thread about issues with evo .. it is pinned in the general section
And it really freaks me out
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Zygi Jables said:
If you want a 3D phone, go with the LG Thrill. It is quite brilliant.
Otherwise, I have played with the Sensation and EVO 3D and the Sensation is much more solid. Almost not competition. Plus, the EVO 3D totally sucks as far as the 3D aspect goes, so removing that makes it a good phone, but the Sensation is great. Everyone I know that has one loves it.
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No LG is only good in 3d while there phones generally suck in both quality and development and support
And I can't consider LG because there is no known retailer for them in egypt thus no warranty
The sensation is a great phone indeed and like I said I had my eyes set on it since the beginning but the 3d just made me confused
And btw the evo has a lot more than 3d to offer like the better front cam and more ram and I think it is more rugged and not prone to scratches like the sensation
Thanks for ur opinion
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Sjael said:
If 3D is a big deal to you, it's obvious.
But if I recall right, the Sensation has a better screen (or at least it's the same screen without a parallax barrier in front of it so it looks better.)
As long as the issue with the Sensation's touch screen dying after a few weeks has been fixed, I'd go for that.
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3D is a big deal but so is proper dev support and the wide variety of roms (owning an hd2 for so long made me a flashoholic)
I'm afraid of getting bored with the EVO while the sensation has weekly if not daily updates
I've kinda tried both I don't think you can feel there is a parallax barrier unless 3D is on
IDK but I haven't checked up closely
And I'm not worried about touch screen issues as it happened before in HD2 and got replaced with a much better one UNDER WARRANTY
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I vote evo, imo better iin every way.
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Is the processor comparable with nVidia tegra 2

I am currently using T-Mobile G2X.
I am planning to jump ship to different phone.
My choice are HTC SENSATION and Samsung Galaxy R.
Can anybody point me to some benchmark that compares g2x with GB and sensation?
most of the comparisons done so far only with froyo g2x and GB sensation and sensation wins.
Moreover do you people find the battery capacity reasonable?
For dual core, 4.3" qhd screen having phone, isn't 1520 mah battery too tiny?
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I had o2x.. I am more happy with sensa ton.. Maybe because of more ram.
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I finally found it by my self.
nvidia tegra 2 is way faster than HTC sensation's processor in terms of benchmark result.
Moreover HTC sensation is the slowest dual core android mobile phone in terns of benchmark results .
But I have jumpshipped to it anyway.
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raddy said:
I finally found it by my self.
nvidia tegra 2 is way faster than HTC sensation's processor in terms of benchmark result.
Moreover HTC sensation is the slowest dual core android mobile phone in terns of benchmark results .
But I have jumpshipped to it anyway.
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That is without Hardware acceleration and stock tests.

I am referring the phonedog comparison of G2X and sensation.
In which they ran 3d benchmark against g2x running 2.2 and sensation runnning 2.3
Sensation got a score of 1900 and g2x got a score of 2300, if hardware acceleration may not be taken into account then it wont be for g2x also no?
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The benchmarks don't take into consideration dual cores and the fact that the Sensation is running Asynchronous cores.
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I think that Sensation shows bad benchmark results because of that crap heavy Sense ui. Qualcomm's s3 processor is quite powerful.
T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5KEtA-soIk&feature=related
T-Mobile (qualcomm) vs original Galaxy s2 (exynos): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5q6UrN_4Jw&feature=related
Samsung Galaxy S 2 HD LTE (this phone has 720p screen): http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=N6ATGeXkUFI
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And benchmarks don't mean you-know-what.

Slowest dual core? lolno.
Ive only been here a couple of months. Ive gathered quite a bit reading all these forums. Ive read up on stuff like these elsewhere. Ive also played around with a LOT of phones. And by playing around I dont mean the 15 mins in a shop opening apps and checking camera of different phones before you buy them. My friends have pretty good phones (O2X, GS2, GS, Desire HD, O3D, Xperia arc, neo etc)
Ive done almost everything there is to do on those phones and always I end up glad I have my sensation. Looks - hands down winner. Sexiest phone ever, tied with the arc imo. Its no slouch. Benchmarks? I get **** high scores on custom ROMS. After I proved it, I uninstalled the apps from my phone cos they meant nothing. People are always gonna claim their phone is better and cos an app gave them a coloured bar with a nice big number, its way faster. Trust me, you're gonna be glad you got a senny. (Unless its defective of course) S2 feels like crap, runs at the same speed mine does if not seemingly slower and the screen is tough to work with. (SAMOLED? lol not as cool as it claims to be) and its less responsive than mine. Im happier with my sensation than I would have been with any other phone in almost EVERY aspect. The xperia Live's speaker volume has me a bit jealous but thats about it. I use earphones anyway. G2X feels awful. I cant work with it. Ever. And the camera on the senny blows the others outta the water. With the crap HTC drivers and the asynchronous system, the senny is bloody amazing and can easily easily keep up with any phone and beat the crap out of most. Wait till ICS. Proper ICS.
Ok end of rant. If anyone says your phone is the slowest dual core - laugh. Then walk away
Oh and all the websites that review phones.. I relied on them quite a bit myself. Trusted the pics of benchmarks they put up and read how they reviewed phones and took tiny little things like the 2MP FFC on the S2 and worshipped it, etc etc. 90% of those sites have no idea what theyre talking about. Any phone with the bigger MHz clock speed on the box is faster. .7MP more FFC is holyshishkebab. phone is .3mm slimmer! OH MY GOD! Thats the basic idea. Dont trust that. Do your own research.
Now - actual end of rant.

Thanks for your rant, as even I am now owning a sensation too.
I am an avid fan of Htc sense ui,
I didn't know any other strength of HTC sensation before reading your post.
Eventhough g2x is more slimmer than sensation, in look wise sensation is class apart from any android Mobile phone and can be comparable only with Sony Ericsson xperia arc and iPhone
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