...and am wanting to upgrade.
I can't affoed the One-X etc....but am really really liking the specs of the HTC Sensation XE.
Anyone here used to have a Desire HD?
How does the Sensation XE compare in your opinions to the Desire HD?
What I'm looking for is:
HTC Sense
Better Screen Quality/resolution than the Desire HD
Faster Speed
Improved photo & Video as i'm always taking pics and vids.
Sold My Desire HD for £160 on Ebay, So VERY seriously thinking of getting the Sensation, as in today or tommorow.
So, any info, especially with regards to some experienced users who have owned the desire hd in the past and upgraded to the Sensation XE would be very much appreciated.
cheers,
Matt
Just get a regular sensation. They're cheaper and there is literally zero diference between it and the XE. The XE just ships with a higher cpu clock speed and beats audio, but all custom ROMs include beats and if you root you can change your clock speed to match the XE's. They use the same cpu chips.
The only differences are aesthetic. like red trim on the case and buttons. That's the ONLY difference. If you're not going to root your phone, the XE could pull out a lead but the regular sensation shouldn't be dissmissed. It too is a great phone. I love mine.
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Just get a regular sensation. They're cheaper and there is literally zero diference between it and the XE. The XE just ships with a higher cpu clock speed and beats audio, but all custom ROMs include beats and if you root you can change your clock speed to match the XE's. They use the same cpu chips.
The only differences are aesthetic. like red trim on the case and buttons. That's the ONLY difference. If you're not going to root your phone, the XE could pull out a lead but the regular sensation shouldn't be dissmissed. It too is a great phone. I love mine.
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Thanks for the reply and advice....much appreciated.
Anyone else?
Standard Senssation or Sensation XE?
Music quality aint important for me, but must be dual core, take better pics and video that desire HD and have ability to use HDMI.
cheers
Matt
+1 for standard Sensation over the XE. What icantthinkofaname said is correct. No differences between standard Sensation and Sensation XE. That is, unless you really want the red accents and those snazzy red and black earbuds.
Beats software EQ is overrated anyway. I'm using a free translated version of TTPod (before they went to the paid model) and it sounds ridiculously better than HTC Music with Beats if you know how to tune an EQ.
Thanks guys, I think i'll definitely go for the standar sensation and root it then.
Beats audio and the fancy red stuff does zero for me.
All I want is something faster than my Desire HD, but better video quality, 1080 recording and definitely hdmi output.
is there ANY difference between the recording quality and picture taking quality between the standard Sensation and the Sensation XE?
If not, then 100% going for a standard/stock Sensation, then root it like I did with my desire.
cheers
Matt
matthew33 said:
Thanks guys, I think i'll definitely go for the standar sensation and root it then.
Beats audio and the fancy red stuff does zero for me.
All I want is something faster than my Desire HD, but better video quality, 1080 recording and definitely hdmi output.
is there ANY difference between the recording quality and picture taking quality between the standard Sensation and the Sensation XE?
If not, then 100% going for a standard/stock Sensation, then root it like I did with my desire.
cheers
Matt
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nope, none at all. go ahead and grab one!:good:
My wife has desire hd. I think they are almost same. Between the two there is nothing ground breaking.
I would put my money to real update or get used normal sensation..
Even Google nexus with jb could be nice... 720p screen etc..
Sensation XE. Bricked kernel. ViperS ROM. Powered by Mugen battery.
Go for the sensation and be a happy camper!
I'm sticking with HTC....just coz I love HTC Sense.
Defo getting the Sensation and not the Sensation XE.
HDMI output, 1080p video, dual core processor and better screen quality does it for me compared to the Desire HD.
cheers
Matt
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Dear all,
Firstly, I was a HTC sensation user for quite few month. Then, I'm very happy cause I had bought this phone. But now the sensation xe have available in the market also. So, I'm wondering that should I go for it or just stay on it... Cause the beats audio performance had made me interesting...
And I had some question,
Is those custom Rom have beats audio function will perform the same sound quality like sensation xe??
Is very big difference processor's performance on sensation and sensation xe??
That is my question that always wondering me should stay or go...
Hei, waiting for your answer~~~
And thanks for helping to my consideration..
Stick with the Sensation and install an XE rom like ARHD 3.6.4, Saves you buying another phone and has all the functions of the Sensation XE, Like beats works very well and the CPU is clocked to it's proper 1.5GHZ. So they're pretty much identical if you install an XE rom, just minus the red paint
Hi
I have HTC Sensation and im satisfied like hell
I have an option to exchange my HTC Sensation with brand new HTC Sensation XE, with some cash over added by me.
Is HTC Sensation XE worth buying ? ( i mean changing it with HTC Sensation regular)?
Thanks in advance
Laynee1
Laynee1 said:
Hi
I have HTC Sensation and im satisfied like hell
I have an option to exchange my HTC Sensation with brand new HTC Sensation XE, with some cash over added by me.
Is HTC Sensation XE worth buying ? ( i mean changing it with HTC Sensation regular)?
Thanks in advance
Laynee1
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Hi,
If it ain't broke....
Stick with what you have if it's working well for you.
You will be buying exactly the same phone underneath, and you will have been taken in by an HTC marketing scam.
Spend your money on some good earphones.
if i never had bought Sensation then I would have bought the XE coz price difference between new XE and Normal Sensation is just 50$ in my country.
since I already own a Sensation then there is no reason to upgrade. it's the same thing but with some addons that I can add to me sensation even later to make it an XE.. except for the red led lights which I don't like anyway...
I have a suggestion, Don't get the Sensation XE, Stick with the Sensation and flash an XE rom, Like ARHD. And you will have virtually a Sensation XE (Just without the red paint and the overpriced headphones)
Don't get it man, you'd be throwing away your money. If you really like the XE's look then just buy the XE's housing off of Ebay their only around USD$35. If you're really up for it and know some things about hardware buy some red LEDs and swap out the white ones and put the red ones in. Overall you should spend about USD$40~$50 swapping out both the LED and the housing. Skip this upgrade mate and get a quad-core in 2012 or the Nexus Prime.
Thank you all really..
I realised also, that, my sensation is working flawlessly, and there is no reason to change it to almost same phone...
And ARHD rom is different from IC roms ?
Laynee1 said:
Thank you all really..
I realised also, that, my sensation is working flawlessly, and there is no reason to change it to almost same phone...
And ARHD rom is different from IC roms ?
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Hi,
Only way to find out is make a nandroid backup.
Flash ARHD,and if you don't like ,restore IC.
I wouldn't buy it, definitely not. I think the looks of the normal Sensation are better, the normal sensation is cheaper (even when you buy an Anker battery which is even better than the XE battery) and the hardware is basically the same. So just flash an XE rom on your standard Sensation is my suggestion
Does the XE's 4gig of internal memory (not all user accessible) have any benefit, other than greater rom space?
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Does the XE's 4gig of internal memory (not all user accessible) have any benefit, other than greater rom space?
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Hi,
It gives the user 1GB of space for apps.
Hi getting upgrade from my provider the difference is about 40 e. Would XE be worth than?
No need for flashing (for a moment ) + better headphones + overclocked from htc
Thanks
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Does my phone have to be rooted to flash the XE rom on the standard sensation?
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Yes, go ahead and root ........ you know you want to
Good thread! Thanks for opening it! Got all my questions answered here!
Low Ring Volume
Does the Sensation XE suffer also from the Low Ring Volume or does it have better speaker and lauder volume set?
Regards
Hi all!
I've preordered a Galaxy Nexus and currently I'm putting some serious thoughts into canceling it and get a Sensation XE instead for several reasons.
and I'm just curious if anyone knows if this
https://negrielectronics.com/htc-sensation-xe-unlocked.html
will work on T-Mobile?
And I wanna hear some thoughts about whether I should switch to Sensation XE or not? What do you guys love about the Sensation?
I personally looooove HTC products and Sense. But I wanna hear other opinions
it should work, as T-Mobile's bands are listed on the phone's info page. I really like that phone but I settled for the Sensation 4G
Simply because of htc sense!
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Im in love with the g nexus screen!
over there you guys on verizon got choice of rezound which is my choice of phone atm as it has 720P screen and 1GB RAM which senny lacks.
I dont like samsung build quality and lack of SD card slot is deal breaker for me so Im going for XE also.
i really like my sensation 4G im useing coredroid 2.6 xe and its awsome and from a factory stand point it was very nice and i love the feeel of the phone it feels solid to me i would recomend the sensation a big plus it takes great pics and vids plus the qhd screen is nice
I am absolutely in love with the Galaxy Nexus screen and a few other things, but I will be missing sense
Things like 720p Screen, ICS (which will be ported soon), NFC, thinness, and 4.65' are the main attraction of GNexus for me,
But Sensation XE will have a removable storage, higher MP camera (I know it doesn't necessarily mean better), Beats, Sense, TOUGH DECISION!
and @Nekromantik I will be importing it and using it with T-mobile actually. Rezound would be ideal if I were on verizon, but they don't have the gsm unlocked version
hiohokaybye said:
I am absolutely in love with the Galaxy Nexus screen and a few other things, but I will be missing sense
Things like 720p Screen, ICS (which will be ported soon), NFC, thinness, and 4.65' are the main attraction of GNexus for me,
But Sensation XE will have a removable storage, higher MP camera (I know it doesn't necessarily mean better), Beats, Sense, TOUGH DECISION!
and @Nekromantik I will be importing it and using it with T-mobile actually. Rezound would be ideal if I were on verizon, but they don't have the gsm unlocked version
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Gnex looks to have a better camera then Senny but I think the Amaze and Rezound should have similar performing cameras. Both Rezound and Amaze are similar apart from Rezound has 720P screen,
T-mobile has amaze so I would go for that over Senny.
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Gnex looks to have a better camera then Senny but I think the Amaze and Rezound should have similar performing cameras. Both Rezound and Amaze are similar apart from Rezound has 720P screen,
T-mobile has amaze so I would go for that over Senny.
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Rezound also has beats lol
Amaze is a little ugly tho, and fat. yes I'm picky
hiohokaybye said:
Rezound also has beats lol
Amaze is a little ugly tho, and fat. yes I'm picky
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Beats is a gimmick lol
the headphones aint really any good either! My pair of $50 meele M6s beat the $100 beats that come with the XE.
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Beats is a gimmick lol
the headphones aint really any good either! My pair of $50 meele M6s beat the $100 beats that come with the XE.
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Yeah thats true, and i don't really have a need for headphones stuff since i already got a pair of $400 sennheiser lolol
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Beats is a gimmick lol
the headphones aint really any good either! My pair of $50 meele M6s beat the $100 beats that come with the XE.
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I thought the same thing. You are better off saving your money if you are going to get a Sensation, and just getting the normal Sensation 4G and spending the money you saved on a better pair of earbuds.
Then you can just put a custom rom on with all the benefits of the XE.
NOOOOOO!
I bought the Sesation and a week later, BAMMMM, Sensation XE and XL are out. HTC are acting stupid. They constantlyrelease a new phone!
Wait for a while or just get the Google's Galaxy Nexus!
CalCi059 said:
I bought the Sesation and a week later, BAMMMM, Sensation XE and XL are out. HTC are acting stupid. They constantlyrelease a new phone!
Wait for a while or just get the Google's Galaxy Nexus!
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they are being stupid outside of the US.
they re release Sensation with gimmick beats, stock clocked cpu and bigger battery and call it a new phone. Then XL single core phone without sd card.
In the US they release 2 phones with dual core and 1GB RAM and then one with 720P display. Rest of world gets screwed while US gets new hardware.
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they are being stupid outside of the US.
they re release Sensation with gimmick beats, stock clocked cpu and bigger battery and call it a new phone. Then XL single core phone without sd card.
In the US they release 2 phones with dual core and 1GB RAM and then one with 720P display. Rest of world gets screwed while US gets new hardware.
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I personally wished they had released an unlocked version of rezound!
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first phone i had arrived dented , second was ok i decided to keep it untill i had a explosion of dust under screen. Returned it and canceled upgrade phone was ok to use however to be very honest it wasent much faster then my desire and i dident want to get caught in a endless loops with htc of swapping phones becouse of dust.
Differnce between my first and second phone was shocking second phone colours looked fine but bad viewing angles, first phone washed colours even worse viewing angle. Second phone started creaking becouse of back cover honestly id stick with galaxy nexus upgrade which is what im looking at next.
Hi guys,
Very soon I'll be upgrading my from my Xperia X10 and have been looking to get the Htc Sensation Xe.
But after some thorough research I noticed that they have very similiar specs and now I'm unsure over which one I should get.
I know that because they use the same CPU and GPU then if I were to get the Sensation I could overclock it to match the XE.
And the fact that the XE has 3GB more internal storage compared to the Sensation. If I get the Sensation can I expect to see the same amount of updates as the XE?
Anyways I'd mainly just like to request opinions from the rest of you on what I should do!
Thanks in advance
I'm assuming the HTC sensation is cheaper. Is go with the sensation. Yes we have roms and kernels to make it just as quick.I personally don't like storing things on my phone so the internal gb isn't that great to me. Ics is coming to sensation. Stick with the sensation. Xe seems like a rip off.
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when i got my xe senstation and xe were both the same price, if thats the case get an xe! It looks cool and you get £80 beats handsfree with them
If you get the XE for the same price take it and you will get ear phones which will cost probably more than 60 €. ON the other hand the beats "extension" is only different software and there are a lot of customer roms for the sensation which includes that piece of software.
I've chose the XE. It looks nice (all black) and here in the Netherlands u get some fancy ear buds who cost like 75€ without the phone
So, I am looking for a new phone. My wildfire is at the end of it's life, and with an Armv6 processor android 4.0 isn't something that's going to run smooth. add that up with a crappy screen and you should understand that I want a new one
I spoke to a salesman in the store today, and he told me that between HTC Sensation and Sensation XE hardly is a differance (if you replace the rom). The CPU's are the same, only the Sensation is underclocked.
There is a quite a price diffirence, and with the money I save from buying the HTC sensation instead of the XE I can easily buy a beats headset.
However, I do not always believe salesmen. Could one of XDA's finest shed some light on this?
I intend to strip off HTC sense ASAP and run custom roms, like CM7.1 (or CM9).
Thank you in advance,
Althestrasz.
It has software to optimize the beats too which really makes a difference. But yes, you will be happy with either. Not a big difference for the price.
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XEs battery is 1730mah
That sure makes a lot of difference. I get through one day of normal usage on the stock battery (XE) and that justified the extra price for me.
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That sure makes a lot of difference. I get through one day of normal usage on the stock battery (XE) and that justified the extra price for me.
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Buying a bigger battery at HTC.com would be cheaper than buying the XE Thanks for your view though.