Yes, of course it was on a Sensation....
First thing I noticed is how pretty the screen looks. Just as I thought, none of those videos do it any justice at all! I held up my Evo 4G next to it and it looked dated and rather pathetic in comparison. While holding my Evo next to the Sensation I unfortunately noticed that we really will loose quite a bit of screen real estate. The Screen is only a tiny bit longer but quite a bit narrower on the Sensation, but that is something I am sure I'll get used to once my Evo 4G is long gone history. I am sure that my Evo 4G carrying friends that chose not to upgrade will probably complain about the smaller screen, but yes, the qHD definitely makes up for it.
I spent quite a bit of time just navigating around Sense, and yes, there is no lag, however, the motion of the panels when going from homescreen to homescreen is not perfectly smooth. Mind you, I am really nitpicking here, but with just a regular wallpaper installed it just missed a few fps to get that super slick movement we all were hoping for. The good news is, when I picked some of the pre loaded live wallpapers (Galaxy and Autumn leaves) the animation between homescreens didn't look any slower than when using just a static picture. However, as you move from screen to screen, the background picture does not move at all whether it is a live wallpaper or a static picture. Seems like static picture wallpapers should now be used in the phones native screen resolution, not the "picture stretched over 7 home screen resolution" which I forgot what it was... So that's a bit of a bummer and I wonder how certain 3d rendered wallpapers will look when installed on an Evo3d, if they work at all.
The weather live wallpaper which shows the fancy HTC animations for the weather is a bit of a disappointement too. Unless there are settings that I missed, by default, the weather live wallpaper stays animated for about 10 seconds or so, but then just stops. It becomes active again after locking and unlocking the screen again. Again, there might have been settings that keep it from stopping, but I had limited time with the phone so I didn't get a chance to check that out.
The browser looks great and is extremely smooth, especially once the page has finished loading, in both scrolling and pinch to zoom. If flash content is part of the webpage, and you zoom in or out, it takes the phone a split second to resize the flash content. This is a minor annoyance that most people probably won't even notice. I did notice that the Android Central website just sometimes decided to reload itself after it had finished loading completely already which caused a bit of a pause and delay, not sure why it did that, lets hope the Evo 3d won't have this bad habit.
Since the phone was stuck on a mount I only navigated it using one hand. At times it seemed like this particular unit has a mild issue with the grounding symptom that plagued the Evo 4G before it was fixed with a software update. It wasn't severe at all, and I can't really draw a good mental picture of what excatly was happening, so we'll have to see how the phone acts once we hold one in our own hands.
The two things that bugged me the most was the loss of real estate compared to the Evo 4G and the not 100% super smooth transition animations. The weather widget not constantly moving was disappointing as well. But again, I didn't have enough time with the phone, especially since I had to pretend to be interested in the plans the T-Mobile guy was trying to sell me.
All in all, while not 100% happy, I am still very anxiously looking forward to get my own Evo 3d. No longer will I have to watch every single video that comes out, I can just answer all my own questions instead.
Just thought I'd share my experience...if you're done watching all the review videos of the Evo 3d and are jonesing for some hands on time with a similar device, go to your next T-Mobile store. Hopefully you will have a cooperative and patient sales guy like I did.
First thing I noticed is how pretty the screen looks. Just as I thought, none of those videos do it any justice at all! I held up my Evo 4G next to it and it looked dated and rather pathetic in comparison. While holding my Evo next to the Sensation I unfortunately noticed that we really will loose quite a bit of screen real estate. The Screen is only a tiny bit longer but quite a bit narrower on the Sensation, but that is something I am sure I'll get used to once my Evo 4G is long gone history. I am sure that my Evo 4G carrying friends that chose not to upgrade will probably complain about the smaller screen, but yes, the qHD definitely makes up for it.
I spent quite a bit of time just navigating around Sense, and yes, there is no lag, however, the motion of the panels when going from homescreen to homescreen is not perfectly smooth. Mind you, I am really nitpicking here, but with just a regular wallpaper installed it just missed a few fps to get that super slick movement we all were hoping for. The good news is, when I picked some of the pre loaded live wallpapers (Galaxy and Autumn leaves) the animation between homescreens didn't look any slower than when using just a static picture. However, as you move from screen to screen, the background picture does not move at all whether it is a live wallpaper or a static picture. Seems like static picture wallpapers should now be used in the phones native screen resolution, not the "picture stretched over 7 home screen resolution" which I forgot what it was... So that's a bit of a bummer and I wonder how certain 3d rendered wallpapers will look when installed on an Evo3d, if they work at all.
The weather live wallpaper which shows the fancy HTC animations for the weather is a bit of a disappointement too. Unless there are settings that I missed, by default, the weather live wallpaper stays animated for about 10 seconds or so, but then just stops. It becomes active again after locking and unlocking the screen again. Again, there might have been settings that keep it from stopping, but I had limited time with the phone so I didn't get a chance to check that out.
The browser looks great and is extremely smooth, especially once the page has finished loading, in both scrolling and pinch to zoom. If flash content is part of the webpage, and you zoom in or out, it takes the phone a split second to resize the flash content. This is a minor annoyance that most people probably won't even notice. I did notice that the Android Central website just sometimes decided to reload itself after it had finished loading completely already which caused a bit of a pause and delay, not sure why it did that, lets hope the Evo 3d won't have this bad habit.
Since the phone was stuck on a mount I only navigated it using one hand. At times it seemed like this particular unit has a mild issue with the grounding symptom that plagued the Evo 4G before it was fixed with a software update. It wasn't severe at all, and I can't really draw a good mental picture of what excatly was happening, so we'll have to see how the phone acts once we hold one in our own hands.
The two things that bugged me the most was the loss of real estate compared to the Evo 4G and the not 100% super smooth transition animations. The weather widget not constantly moving was disappointing as well. But again, I didn't have enough time with the phone, especially since I had to pretend to be interested in the plans the T-Mobile guy was trying to sell me.
All in all, while not 100% happy, I am still very anxiously looking forward to get my own Evo 3d. No longer will I have to watch every single video that comes out, I can just answer all my own questions instead.
Just thought I'd share my experience...if you're done watching all the review videos of the Evo 3d and are jonesing for some hands on time with a similar device, go to your next T-Mobile store. Hopefully you will have a cooperative and patient sales guy like I did.
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