HTC Sensation XL hands-on: First look

6 October 2011
Today HTC introduced the second member of its Beats droid family, making both geeks and audiophiles tremble with excitement. The HTC Sensation XL is one multimedia beast with its Dr. Dre-inspired audio, impressively spec'd...

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  • Anonymous
  • 04M
  • 07 Oct 2011

The Quadrant benchmarks in the last page are only synthetic, do not represent the true power of the cpu-gpu-platform combination. But still, gives a hint of what is the performance.

On my Desire HD, with MIUI Rom and stock kernel, i ran 1.7 GHz and i get Quardrant scores of 3.400 points, the same as SGS II.. And the phone is more that 1 year old and now is cheap to buy. If i raise the freq to 2GHz than i get 3900 score, but it is a battery drainer :)

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    • AnonD-9070
    • utb
    • 07 Oct 2011

    Too big .. still beautiful ..

    Wish HTC comes out with "Mini" of 4"

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      • AnonD-2806
      • 0Fe
      • 07 Oct 2011

      WVGA on a 4.7" display might sound low, but the screen is in fact incredibly clear, crisp and vibrant, it can roll with the best of them, no doubt.

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        • Anonymous
        • Mfx
        • 07 Oct 2011

        heiki, 06 Oct 2011do we need 4.7 screen? i like my iphone 3.5screen and gala... morei agree, today we have larger and larger phones.

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          • Anonymous
          • 3F{
          • 07 Oct 2011

          note to editor:
          on page 2, photos 12-16, it's not a Sensation in the photos as the caption says, it's clearly a WM phone.

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            • ilovewindowphone7
            • n5g
            • 07 Oct 2011

            mozart not sensation, thanks. no problem

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              • Elyotic
              • j$p
              • 06 Oct 2011

              I don't understand how you can make a premium audio oriented phone with only 13gigs of user accessible storage and no sd card slot. If you add some video files to take advantage of the large screen, you're going to be left with even less audio room.

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                • iulian
                • 3dg
                • 06 Oct 2011

                heiki, 06 Oct 2011do we need 4.7 screen? i like my iphone 3.5screen and gala... moreon S2 is a good display, I like to play and work on it. When i look at my iphone 4, it is like a toy :D

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                  • EskeRahn
                  • 0u3
                  • 06 Oct 2011

                  A huge almost tablet sized 4.7 inch screen with a mere WVGA? Hello HTC?
                  Look at this
                  http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4198&idPhone2=4161

                  The XL better be pretty cheap to stand a chance...

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                    • Moo3
                    • nCY
                    • 06 Oct 2011

                    I want to get this phone, I really do. But without a dual core CPU and 720p resolution, it's going to be difficult to choose over the Galaxy Note. Dual cores aside, couldn't they at least have made it qHD? It's a wicked looking phone though I must say.

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                      • heiki
                      • mE7
                      • 06 Oct 2011

                      do we need 4.7 screen?
                      i like my iphone 3.5screen and galaxy s2 with its 4.3 just collects dust on shelf

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                        • AnonD-24853
                        • 2@t
                        • 06 Oct 2011

                        Well having look at the Photos & Videos i'm quite Impressed but please tell me if compared with HTC AMAZE 4G...THE AMAZE 4G IS better by its specs
                        -please do repy
                        (in real terms & not in foul or abusive language)

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                          • tato
                          • fvS
                          • 06 Oct 2011

                          AnonD-24618, 06 Oct 2011I hope to see a great smart phone today! :)big screen like 4.2 is excellent .. so big screen like 4.5 and more is so bad cuz its make the phone so big and not comfortable to use with one hand and make the battery life lost quickly .. and i need to know why they always use s-lcd screens they didn't know about amoled screens or what ?!!

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                            • AnonD-24618
                            • La5
                            • 06 Oct 2011

                            I hope to see a great smart phone today! :)