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[MannyZ28]

http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-sensation-hands-and-initial-review

Nice initial review, good video.

I wonder what they mean by "The launcher is a little slow with live wallpapers, even with two Snapdragons powering it." This is one of the first videos I have seen where someone is using a live wallpaper, too bad he didn't flip through the home screens much with the live wallpaper enabled so you could see whether running the live wallpaper slows things down and makes the transitions stutter like on the Evo 4G or not. I am digging the weather live wallpaper though...very nice!

 

[INK]

That phone is ggoing to be. mine

 

[MannyZ28]

Well if rumors are true you won't have to wait much longer...June 8th, right? Unless you really live in Tokyo, then it's already available, or is that only in Europe?

 

[VickMackey#AC]

There are reports of some slowdown but if I recall correctly the sensation has 768mb of RAM and the 3D 1GB so I'm not worried about performance as long as it's unlocked.

 

[MannyZ28]

Yeah from the videos I have seen, it seems like the person playing with the phone is trying his best to make it go slow. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

 

[FocusFreak]

My Nexus S 4G is faster than that with its single core processor and less RAM LOL

 

[MannyZ28]

My Nexus S 4G is faster than that with its single core processor and less RAM LOL

It doesn't have to run Sense either... it also runs at a lower resolution, and the Evo 3d will kick the NS4G in the butt in all benchmark tests despite being anything but a benchmark king.

 

[INK]

I have a feeling Evo 3D owners and Sensation owners are going to be like neighbors. The phones aren't so different after all.

 

[FocusFreak]

It doesn't have to run Sense either... it also runs at a lower resolution, and the Evo 3d will kick the NS4G in the butt in all benchmark tests despite being anything but a benchmark king.

I dont give a flying crap about benchmark tests, thats not real world. Thats like magazine racing with car's 0-60 times, stupid. The videos I have seen of the Sensation running on wifi are crap and my Nexus S 4G loads pages faster.

 

[MannyZ28]

I dont give a flying crap about benchmark tests, thats not real world. Thats like magazine racing with car's 0-60 times, stupid. The videos I have seen of the Sensation running on wifi are crap and my Nexus S 4G loads pages faster.

Do you sit there while watching the videos and go to the same website and then convince yourself that your phone was faster? Of all the tests out there, measuring how fast a website comes up in a controlled environment is the hardest thing to do. If phones are on different carriers you can blame it on the carrier, not just the phone itself. Even if you have both phones on wifi, which ever phone gets ahold of the connection first will get faster speeds. There are some videos of a Galaxy S2 vs a Sensation both on wifi getting testing against each other using SpeedTest. The phone that got a small headstart had the much higher download numbers because it initially hogged all the bandwidth and the second phone got the leftovers. You would have to compare two different phones on the same carrier to get a good idea which phones browser is truly faster.

 

[FocusFreak]

Do you sit there while watching the videos and go to the same website and then convince yourself that your phone was faster? Of all the tests out there, measuring how fast a website comes up in a controlled environment is the hardest thing to do. If phones are on different carriers you can blame it on the carrier, not just the phone itself. Even if you have both phones on wifi, which ever phone gets ahold of the connection first will get faster speeds. There are some videos of a Galaxy S2 vs a Sensation both on wifi getting testing against each other using SpeedTest. The phone that got a small headstart had the much higher download numbers because it initially hogged all the bandwidth and the second phone got the leftovers. You would have to compare two different phones on the same carrier to get a good idea which phones browser is truly faster.

I am sorry, but if these new dual core processors are truly as magical as they are made out to be on these forums, it should easily be faster than my Nexus S on ANY wifi network or carrier...

 

[MannyZ28]

Uuuh....are you serious?

It doesn't matter what processor you have, if you are in a room where verizon has great signal, and sprint doesn't, it won't matter if you have some magical octacore processor, speedtest will only go as fast as the connection will let it. Internet speeds in speed tests have nothing to do with the processor. Rendering a website, now that's a different story, there will be a difference in speed if each phone is allowed the same amount of bandwidth which is rarely the case when two phones are on a wifi network and are asked to do the same thing at the same time. A fairer comparison would be if they are both on the same network, but instead of making them do the same thing at the same time to let them load the site individually and time it with a stop watch.

The Nexus S is a nice phone, but the way you are posting in this EVO3D forum, it seems like you want to justify your purchase of a phone containing last years technology.