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Htc sensation or htc Sensatio XE?

Good afternoon,
I'm thinking about buying an Android device to try and walk since the beginning of the month to choose one ...
I had seen on vodafone HTC Sensation, but a few days ago I saw that HTC released new models sesantion, including HTC Sensation XE.
Like to have your opinion on what I choose, in terms of quality and price, preference the phone that last longer without needing to change. have more support.
I have the chance to vodafone HTC Sensation for 350€ and Sensation XE unlock for 550 €
sesantion specs: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation-3875.php
sesantion xe specs: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation_xe-4164.php
witch one i choose?
Thanlks

There the same phone the sensation is undrclocked to 1.2 where as the XE is clicked to 1.5 the XE looks slightly better in my opinion and has a bigger battery, the headphones are also rrp£79 with the XE
The hardware is exactly the same, if you plan to custom rom take the sensation if not take the XE
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I'm also still not sure if I should pick the Sensation XE or not, I sure like the red colors in the case
whynot66 said:
The hardware is exactly the same, if you plan to custom rom take the sensation if not take the XE
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You're suggesting to pick the normal Sensation if he plans to install custom ROMS, why do you have the XE then and install CM7?

Because its cheaper... duh.

Donny1987 said:
I'm also still not sure if I should pick the Sensation XE or not, I sure like the red colors in the case
You're suggesting to pick the normal Sensation if he plans to install custom ROMS, why do you have the XE then and install CM7?
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Better battery better headphones better looking phone
I wish I got the sensation now tho. My Mrs has stolen my headphones
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So for your experience for the diference of the price the Htc sensation is better choice than sensation xe? or the sensation xe is better and much preference of sensation?
Thanks

Get og sensation. With the money you save buy a bigger sd card and headphones of your choice then root and flash xe rom and bam you have beats edition for a lower price. However i prefer cm7 with dsp manager or power amp
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Sensation (1st model)
I got the HTC Sensation -
now there's a Sensation XL!! (White!!) Goodness, I think HTC got APPLE virus, "What comes in black, must turn white!"
I agree with some users here. Get the Sensation & root it. But my question:
1) XE model & XL model have bigger internal memory I think. But the RAM is at 768Mb... that's quite unfortunate.
2) Battery life - yes they are slightly larger = 1,620mA (Can't we buy that as a second battery ? - I would. But my battery life looks alright for the 1st month (after rooting, but I realise the charging to 100% is very slow.) I reckon it could be the voltage or the plug. I actually use the old plug with the new Micro USB cable.
Comments?

That will be your charger,
The xe and sensation are the same phone.
The xl gas 1gb of ram a singlecore processor 16gb internal and a bigger screen
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eps0r said:
I made myself the same question decided for the regular Sensation, flashed ARHD on it and got a XE literally..
so i saved like 160 bucks
very recommended this far..
greets
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So if i bought a regular sensation and put a custum rom, i have a sensation xe?
The normal sensation runs at 1.5ghz and got the beats audio? or just the speed processor?

You can have both, tbh the beats software is pants power amp is better
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whynot66 said:
That will be your charger,
The xe and sensation are the same phone.
The xl gas 1gb of ram a singlecore processor 16gb internal and a bigger screen
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1GB RAM and 16GB internal? You sure, im buying it next week, all speces show 4gb(1gb usable), and 768 RAM, even on HTC web, gsmarena..and so...
EIDT: Sorry didint notice you wrote XL, its all OK

XL only supports 720p video recording and lacks a card slot. I have just got the XE and I'm super impressed with it.

i like my sensation don't think the other models are worth it.. unless you like red and the headphones...

I was always a Sony Ericson man, then got the Desire - fabulous!
Next I upgraded to the Desire HD and now have the Sensation XE - brilliant, fast, good looking. Great sound & free headphones. Amazing phone... go for it

Are you guys using custom roms on your XE? I should be getting mine in the next few days.

abs_rio said:
Are you guys using custom roms on your XE? I should be getting mine in the next few days.
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Yep treat it as a sensation when it comes to modding
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I have a bit silly question : Is there any difference between the Sensation XE smart phones from UK version and US version? or they are the same ones.
Thank you.

cm7 for sensation xe
Is there any stable cm7 rom for sensation xe yet?
if there is, where do i find it? in the ordinary Sensation forum?
mvh
daniel

sensation XE
If they are built with the same specs sensation cm7 should in theory work with xe version

funny craigslist ad

Up for trade is a perfect condition unlocked, rooted, and modded HTC Sensation. The phone has been hacked to run HTC Sensation XE software ( the newest model ) which means that instead of having a 1.2 dual core it will have 1.5 dual core which means that the phone will be even faster. It also comes with beats audio technology which improves the music listening quality. The phone is in good condition . The phone comes with the usb cable, charger, case, and box.

I believe that for about a second.
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Does that mean it's over clocked?
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Well, technically it all true
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I don't see anything wrong with it. There are roms available that enable the beats audio, and you can also over clock to 1.5
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How is that funny its all completely normal?

randyschwimmer7 said:
I believe that for about a second.
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Why do you not believe that? Wtf?

All seems about right.
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Sounds like the majority of the phones here.

I think I'm missing the joke here.

hurrpancakes said:
I think I'm missing the joke here.
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You're not the only one.

wtf is this a joke?

Sorry for my dumb question.
Where is the funny joke?
And what is this thread is for?
>:/
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I believe everyone has the same thoughts on this...Why is this funny? Where is the hilarity in a statement like that which is a majority of phones on here? Plus he should have done the chrome mod to bang that in there too

I think the joke here is on the OP!

I think the joke lies in the statement "it now has a 1.5 processor" majority people that dont know root, or know the meaning of it will read it as he upgraded the processor to 1.5, not Over clock it, when you read it in that type of sense its kinda funny

ilostchild said:
I think the joke lies in the statement "it now has a 1.5 processor" majority people that dont know root, or know the meaning of it will read it as he upgraded the processor to 1.5, not Over clock it, when you read it in that type of sense its kinda funny
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Finally someone with some humor
He's essentially saying the Sensation magically turns into the Sensation XE, b/c of a ROM & CPU bump, when in reality the phone is still a Sensation as before. Such magical transformations are only possible on apple products adding to the irony of that listing.

Ace42 said:
Finally someone with some humor
He's essentially saying the Sensation magically turns into the Sensation XE, b/c of a ROM & CPU bump, when in reality the phone is still a Sensation as before. Such magical transformations are only possible on apple products adding to the irony of that listing.
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But the XE is basically a ROM and CPU bump, so that ad seems spot on.

Well considering that the CPU is actually underclocked out of the box. It actually is a dual 1.5 speed chip, so when we bump it up we are actually setting it to the speed it was made for. I see nothing wrong with the Craigslist post.
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nothing is funny about that ad at all. xe is basically the og sensation just not underclocked and includes that "beats" technology that they didnt include on the sensation

Is the HTC Sensation better for the money than the XE

Hey Guys
Thinking of coming from my old Galaxy S to a HTC Sensation. But there seems no forums for this device ! Can I use the ROMS here on the XE or not? I know it may be biased but there pretty much the same and I prefer the look of the XE plus those Earphones and sound! Is it worth the money to go for the XE model? and where can I find a forum to flash and root ect
Thanks
Kind Regards
Milpan

milpan said:
Hey Guys
Thinking of coming from my old Galaxy S to a HTC Sensation. But there seems no forums for this device ! Can I use the ROMS here on the XE or not? I know it may be biased but there pretty much the same and I prefer the look of the XE plus those Earphones and sound! Is it worth the money to go for the XE model? and where can I find a forum to flash and root ect
Thanks
Kind Regards
Milpan
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Hi,
The two phones are essentially the same in the hardware department.
You can get all the information in this forum.
You can flash the same ROMS . S-off and root is done the same way HERE.
Whether or not you should spend the extra on the XE,only you can decide to fall for HTC's outrageous marketing scam.

You get a larger battery and a excellent pair of headphones. Keep that in mind
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malybru said:
Hi,
The two phones are essentially the same in the hardware department.
You can get all the information in this forum.
You can flash the same ROMS . S-off and root is done the same way HERE.
Whether or not you should spend the extra on the XE,only you can decide to fall for HTC's outrageous marketing scam.
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Thanks Im your 800th Thanker
Thanks for your fast response, maybe after christmas price will lower and ill get one thanks
Matt

milpan said:
Thanks Im your 800th Thanker
Thanks for your fast response, maybe after christmas price will lower and ill get one thanks
Matt
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Hi,
LOL,
I'm your 8th.

I like sensation better
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malybru said:
Hi,
LOL,
I'm your 8th.
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811th now
Hope to join the community soon and get a HTC Sensation
the XE is overpriced and by the looks of things the normal
sensation can be overclocked and preform the same if better!

I got the xe and tbh no different now the the guru's can produce great Roms you.end up replacing the stock XE Rom anyway, and most people have the sensation on here.
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If you use your own headphones or have a separate music player and you are willing to buy the larger capacity battery (or anker) then yes go with the original sensation.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE Z710e using Tapatalk

I like the sleek black look of the original Sensation more, but like the XE's official beats implementation + headphones.
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IMHO the difference between the Sensation and Sensation XE is just the urBeats earbuds, ROM, battery and the battery cover - all swappable!
Where I am, the XE is now coming right down in price, to the level where it might be cheaper to buy the XE and sell off the urBeats earbuds, if money's really tight.
Otherwise, the regular Sensation is probably easier and cheaper to buy upfront and you can get the white Sensation XE with Beats battery cover if you like it, plus higher capacity battery etc when required.
These forums are great since we can get feedback on batteries, vendors etc and usually find the good upgrades.
I have the Sensation, white XE with Beats battery cover and am hoping to get it onto a reliable beta ICS ROM (once usable, HW accelerated and not crashy).
Let us know what you get!

I have a Sensation z710e - perfect condition/original box, flashed with ARHD rom to become an XE. Must admit the integrated music player is a bonus of the XE rom.
PM a price if your keen.

devzie said:
I have a Sensation z710e - perfect condition/original box, flashed with ARHD rom to become an XE. Must admit the integrated music player is a bonus of the XE rom.
PM a price if your keen.
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Sorry Im just looking first! Getting some x-mas money ;D and thinking of upgrading from a Samsung Galaxy S. I love the specs of the samsungs but a banana has better build quality than it xD

olyloh6696 said:
You get a larger battery and a excellent pair of headphones. Keep that in mind
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Agreed, the phones sound quality is pretty hot, and who can turn down a higher capacity battery with the voltage it's going to crank out...
XEbeats to be customised

[Q]Is the GSII faster?[Q]

If I'm correct in saying, HTC Sensation XE, the most powerful smartphone in the United Kingdom? However I keep having a blip when watching things on the internet and read certain reviews. I'm almost every single benchmarking test, the GSII gives the Sensation a run for its money.
Now I own a Sensation XE, and I'm a proud owner. However when using my friends GSII I must admit that the fluidity of the system seems much better than on the Sensation. I get the feeling that maybe HTC Sense 3.0 was built to a level that actually surpasses the ability of the Sensation's hardware. If you very very slowly switch from a home screen on a stock Sense Rom you will notice that the animation isn't actually that smooth.
Now it's all good saying 'go and install a custom ROM if you have performance complaints' and all that, but that isn't the point. I don't have a performance issue at all, I just want to know why a device with supposedly equal and less power than my phone, actually bets it in most places. If the GSII can do it on a stock ROM, why can't my Sensation do it?
I've been told that despite the GSII having 1GB of RAM and the Sensation only having 768MB that this should not make a difference.
In quadrant tests, the GSII gets around 6000-7000, the Sensation gets 2500 where as the Sensation XE gets anywhere from 2500-3000. There must be a reason for these numbers?
SENSATION IS BETTER THAN GSII THOUGH!
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the SGS2 is faster, thats the end of it, HTC SENSE kills the phone. By the way quadrant scores mean nothing, antutu and cf are the ones you should be using.
I've also HEARD the the sgs2's teltra processors are just better and that it is always using both processors wheras the Sensation (xe) doesnt always.
It's all HTC SENSE'S fault, if you look at touchwiz, youd easily be able to see why it runs so much quicker.

Benchmarks is lying. The sensation have twice as many pixels, a.k.a they require more power it run.
Sent from my beastly Sensation running PyroMod MIUI---recommended rom from me.

InfinityFTW said:
Benchmarks is lying. The sensation have twice as many pixels, a.k.a they require more power it run.
Sent from my beastly Sensation running PyroMod MIUI---recommended rom from me.
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The Sensation has 35% more Pixels actually.
The GPU in the SG2 is probably better, its not limited by single channel LPDDR2 like ours. But CPU wise they are very similar considering the architectural differences between the scorpion core and the custom A9 in the Exynos. I still like to think ours is the best

Thanks for all the replies. I love my Sensation anyway, and our aluminium uni-body design wee's all over their plastic grub
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Rationalization galore here.

As others users, il think that sensation is also perfectly than sgs2. Each other have advantages and unadvantage.
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Both handsets are really fast, it all boils down to personal choice really.. I played around with an SGS2 for a week and I just hate the way touchwiz or Stock Android roms display the information to me i.e dialer, widgets etc...
HTC sense on the other hand has a lot of eye candy and like I said (its personal choice) it just looks really sexy!!
No Sense = nonsense
If you like the Stock Android feel then SGS2 is the way to go .
If you like sense and want to have a stock Android rom on the sensation from time to time then Sensation it is...
Oh and the sensation running at 1.5ghz is da bomb!

I agree with this!
Thanks for the replies.
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TouchWiz looks Cheap and ugly compared to sense.

If you upgrade, you will lack build quallity. Size is too big. Bad camera. Lower resolution. In trade for speed
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TouchWiz is cheap and ugly? Just like the SGSII, I think the Sensation XE looks beautiful when it's in crisp light with IRS red lights at the bottom off, the curved glass causes a beautiful reflection around the edge of the device and it really is extremely beautiful!
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I tested both devices.
The thing that eventually decided which phone I went with was just how it felt in my hand.
The second I touched the SGSII it felt cheap and plasticy. That I had to be really careful not to break it. And it was not very durable at all.
Just felt like really really cheap material and also looked that way.
The sensation on the other hand feels a lot better - a lot more solid. It has some weight to it. The quality of the materials used just seems a lot nicer.

lol.nah.camera is about the same.resolution is higher,but pix look the same.
its like this.sensation and amaze are in the drawer,while im typing on my t989.
adw ex,themed,no more touchwiz,and bam.
love the sensation though.
but gs2 kills it.
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@sunlaw2
I was thinking about getting the sgs2. I had the at&t version and it was awesome but hated at&t so I switched to tmobile. Picked up the sensation cause it was cheap. Does the tmobile sgs2 have any seriously annoying problems that you've experienced?
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Whats faster ASOP GSII or ASOP Sensation? this way its fair to judge

At the moment, it would be SGSII I'm guessing, but that isn't a fair way to judge. TouchWiz ROM's are very close to AOSP anyway, Sense is completely modified. Most AOSP ROM's will still have bits of Sense left in because they simply cannot be removed.
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Im a proud owner HTC Sensation and have always bought HTC devices. But for a fact my next phone would be Galaxy S III.
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g1user101 said:
If you upgrade.
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I wouldn't even call it an upgrade to be fair, it's more of a sidestep.

What do you think about the sensation?

Hi all, I think the htc sensation have much time to be at the top or at least in the top half of Android devices. Having a good dual core processor at 1.2 gigahertz with a good GPU Adreno 220 make it one of the best middle-fa terminals. Even if we look we can see how ferrules brand like Sony xperia s use the same GPU and even the htc One s3 s has its version with the same processor. I think the sensation is at the height of xperia S, htc one s, galaxy s2, galaxy foolish, Optimus 3D ... etc. what do you think? a hug

In terms of power lg's optimus 3d destroys our sensation. I'd say we have the best unofficial support though the s2 is probably more popular, followed by the xperia s. HTC didn't do a very good job on this phone, which is why they released the HTC amaze soon after to correct their mistakes.
sent from my jingly bells

I totally dislike it.
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sy224048 said:
In terms of power lg's optimus 3d destroys our sensation. I'd say we have the best unofficial support though the s2 is probably more popular, followed by the xperia s. HTC didn't do a very good job on this phone, which is why they released the HTC amaze soon after to correct their mistakes.
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Are you sure? I had a Optimus 3d and lags...
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It does lag but its interface seems even more bloated than HTC sense. Also, the 3 d requires more power.
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I love my sensation. I have no issues with it and have never had. Development is amazing too! The only let down is the company itself and their support towards their phones...

oblikas said:
I totally dislike it.
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Dislike what?
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My Sensation XE
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oblikas said:
My Sensation XE
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Why you buy?
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I was thinking that 1.5 ghz CPU is good
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I think the phone is good. Though its pretty outdated with all the new phones being released with better stats. But with the custom roms we get here it still manages to keep in the fight.

oblikas said:
I was thinking that 1.5 ghz CPU is good
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I think is good, better than the galaxy s2
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Phone is good.would be better if jellybean update would be granted to us sensation owners
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I think my sensation xe was good, fast, and reliable with the original Rom it came with ,as soon as I updated to ics it became slow unresponsive , what Anoys me much is when you press menu and select settings ,the setting option remain highlighted for 2 seconds than you'll get setting menu ,where in gingerbread its instant ,for me gingerbrad was way faster than ics ,it still is .I downgraded to gingerbread ,I think HTC are amateurs when they update their phones not pros at all ,don't know how they manage to make a dual core phone with 750mb ram run slow..... On ics

I really love my Sensation XE... but only with custom ROM
Stock battery life is really great for me: about 20 hours with 1:30 hours screen on. I'm also satisfied about CPU performances.

Sensation is good phone..only the battery suck!!
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Phones update all the time. I remember when the GS2 just came out. Now we have S4. The point is, if you have a good phone, keep that good phone til it dies. Or, keep things fresh, flash new Roms and have it live forever.
I love my Sensation even after a year, and despite it's issues, (proximity sensor issues) I still use it daily.
Sent from Ty's ViperS Sensation. A beast of a phone.

The BAD:
*Dust under screen flaw
*CPU draws too much power/runs too hot (Bad impact on battery life)
*Screen draws too much power (Bad impact on battery life)
*Lack of official updates from HTC. (GS2 got JB, we should have at LEAST have Sense 4, ICS)
*Generally poor signal strength.
The GOOD:
*Everything else

raz0rf1sh said:
The BAD:
*Dust under screen flaw
*CPU draws too much power/runs too hot (Bad impact on battery life)
*Screen draws too much power (Bad impact on battery life)
*Lack of official updates from HTC. (GS2 got JB, we should have at LEAST have Sense 4, ICS)
*Generally poor signal strength.
The GOOD:
*Everything else
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Thinking about another phone
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EfrainTrejo said:
We did get sense 4 officially from htc
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No we didn't.